Running AXIS with Oracle OC4J
AXIS 1.3 was released back in October, so I thought it was about time to test it out with Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0). Good news .. all went absolutely smoothly, no frigging about with jar files at all.
Since Axis is a simple web module, manually deploying to Standalone OC4J is straightforward. After putting the web application files in place, register the module in application.xml and the web app root in http-web-site.xml:
- copy the axis webapp directory into $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/applications/axis
- edit $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/config/application.xml to add <
web-module id="axis" path="../applications/axis"/> - edit $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/config/http-web-site.xml
to add <web-app application="default" name="axis" root="/axis"/>
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Time to test out AJAX?
I see AJAX popping up in discussions ever more frequently these days, an apparent groundswell around the next great thing for solving the perennial issue of delivering a rich client experience over the web. So far I've just been reading and listening. As with all new acronyms, it takes a while to figure out just exacly what the hell its all about. My "Ahah!" moment came after reading an article at AdaptivePath.
I must admit it seems AJAX is more a pattern than a specification, and its by no means clear that AJAX is anything more that a fad. It's not hard to find some interesting and contrary points of view on the web - QuirksBlog for example.
Anyway, after all that reading, I'm itching to at least go for a test drive. Have to have some playtime soon ... and after listening to this webdevradio podcast, I think I may start out with a look at phAtJAX.
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Ocfs Is Making It Into Linux Kernel
OCFS is making it into the Linux kernel according to the interview with Andrew Morton on kernel development in Linux Format. There's an interesting discussion of this activity with Oracle's Wim Coekaerts in the Inside Oracle's Linux Projects podcast.
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Oracle Instant Client 10.1.0.2
I have a PC that is primarily a Linux box, but it also has a small Windows 2000 partition to allow dual boot for some specific apps. The limited disk space available was all the encouragement I needed to test out the Oracle Instant Client in order to provide Oracle Database connectivity when running under Windows.
The installation is straight-forward: just download and unzip the freely available kit. The FAQ provides some basic guidance, and I must admit that's all the documentation I referred to. However that's also one of my minor gripes .. its not easy to find any documentation beyond the few blurbs you get when downloading (I didn't search very hard though!).
Nevertheless, I'm up and running 15 minutes later. Once downloaded, all I needed to do was this:
- Add the Instant client directory to the PATH
- I put a tnsnames.ora file on the machine to help with naming, and set TNS_ADMIN environment variable to point to this file
- Set the NLS_LANG environment variable (e.g. "set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8"). A must, else you will get an ORA-12705 error.
Refs:
Download Instant Client
Instant Client FAQ
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