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Add Maps to Your Java Applications – the Easy Way

Today i read shay shmeltzers post about a webinar he did with Dan Abugov a NAVTAQ Buiness Developer manager. In this webinar Shay Shmeltzer demonstrates how easy it is to integrate Oracle Spatial technology into a ADF Application. You can download the webinar 'Add Maps to Your Java Applications - the Easy...

BPEL checkpoint activity Part(II)

Today i was browsing my bpel instances of my blog post about checkpoint activity. I noticed directly the missing image of the checkpoint. To see if the image is deployed on the server i took al look in the following directory: I found a lot of images but not a file containing the name savepoint or something similar. It looks like oracle has implemented this feature but forgot (or didn't bother) to add the image in the enterprise...

Start Weblogic Domain without entering credentials

I wanted to start my weblogic soa_server without supplying each time the credentials of the weblogic account. It's my private development server so i altered the startManagedWeblogic.sh file in my weblogic domain soa_domain. In the startManagedWeblogic.sh you will see the following lines: I changed the value of WLS_USER to weblogic and supplied WLS_PW with the password. Now when i start a server in my soa domain the script doesn't ask for a username or...

Installation Steps Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.3

Today the virtual machine running my Oracle SOA Suite 11g didn't want to start anymore. So i installed a brand new Oracle SOA Suite 11g patched to the latest patch set available. Oracle Database XE Repository Creation Ulitilty Weblogic Server SOA Suite 11.1.1.3 JDeveloper SOA Extention of JDeveloper Just follow the step described on the website of 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0). Oracle Database XE Installing the Oracle Database 10g XE is a piece of cake. Download from...

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 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...