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Downloading files from Oracle use edelivery instead of OTN

I was today downloading the installation files of Oracle's 11g SOA Suite. When downloading from OTN I got a download of 240 kb/s. A little slow because i don't want to wait hours!. Trying to download the from edelivery saved me some time because now i got a download speed of 1200 kb/s. To next time when i will download from oracle i will start with edeliveryEric thanks for the...

Oracle ADF 11g Line Graphs

Working with the integrated weblogic server accelerates development. When you add new items to your jspx page you don't need to redeploy your application. In most cases it works perfectly but i was working with the ADF graph component and there i had to redeploy the application before it worked. I will start explaining my situation. I have a simple master detail tables containing customers with their invoices. I want to present the invoices of one customer in a graph to show the amount of...

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 Patch Set 2

Yesterday oracle released also Patch Set #2 for the Oracle SOA Suite into the world. There are some new features i would love to checkout for example: Resequencer Default routing rule SOA Partitions And many more check out the links below for the full details. Let's hope i can find some time to checkout the new features. Information Download Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 Patch Set 2 Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.3.0 New...

Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0)

Today Oracle announced patch set 2 released for JDeveloper 11g Release 1. They have squashed 172 known bugs. If you want to read about the new features and download the latest JDeveloper release go to the JDeveloper website. new features and bugs download JDeveloper...

Oracle 11g xdb allow anonymous access

In preparation of the Oracle spatial workshop that i will give in the near feature i tried quickly to run my example i wrote a while ago about including Oracle Mapviewer in apex. With the fresh installation of 11g i encountered the problem that apex needed credentials for xdb. Because of the demo purpose i allowed anonymous access by running the following script with sys...

New version of GeoRaptor released (20100110)

I have been using a while GeoRaptor, it's a great plugin to visualize the geo_data in the database. De plugin is developed for sqldeveloper but i have used is also succesfully in JDeveloper. Today i discovered that they have release a new version of this plugin earlier this year. They have squashed some bugs to let it work nicely in sqldeveloper 2.1. On the website of GeoRaptor is explained how to install this plugin. The uses of the plugin is the same as installing it, no trouble at...

Oracle Locator vs Oracle Spatial license troubles

Today i have been reading about the licencing of Oracle Spatial. Oracle supplies Locator as a feature of the Oracle database, it can be seen as a scaled down version of Spatial. During the years more features from Spatial have become available in Locator, making it every release worthwhile to check what has crossed the border from Spatial to Locator. A great way to promote spatial use in the database. With the introduction of 11g the licencing (as usual) is complex and interpreting...

Converting word files to wiki format

Today i had a task to convert content from Confluence into MediaWiki. I just needed to transfer important pages so i decided to export the pages from Confulence into Word format. This enabled me to use macro's that convert word document layout into a wiki format. The scripts generate different wiki format's. It's quite easy to change the script to print an other wiki format. Word2Trac Word2MediaWiki Just import the bas files into the word Visual Basic editor and you can run them...

Sending display from server to your client

Working on a unix server on ssh can be comforting for most unix fan's. Some times you would like to run an application on the server but have the display send to your own client. This can be done by preforming just two steps: Configure the server to send the display to your client Run a X server on your client to accept the x display Configure display This is the easy step simply open a ssh connection to the server and set the display variable to [ip]:0.0 Configure X server To...