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Middleware is where applications meet infrastructure. Here our consultants write about WebLogic, JBoss EAP, WildFly and Tomcat in real production environments: installing and clustering them, patching, deploying applications and finding out why something stopped working.

Oracle Apex 4.2 now released

Oracle Apex 4.2 is now available on the Oracle Website. It is available since 12 october 2012. This new release comes with new features briefly described in this blog posting. First of all, here are the new features delivered by the Apex 4.2 release. HTML 5 and CSS 3 improvements: Relooking of all the administration workspace Html 5 charts Html… 

Overview of Microsoft Visual LightSwitch

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new application development tool wich allows to create fast and nice web and desktop applications. The development environment is the same as the other .NET development tools and creating a new application with LightSwitch works, at the beginning, exactly like with other .NET application: create a new project and choose your programmation’s language between… 

Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics: Starting/stopping JVMD manager

Although the managed server on which Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics (JVMD) manager is deployed is configured to use the the Node Manager like OMS and admin server, it is not started automatically with OMS. In this post, I will describe how to start JVMD manager automatically when the physical server boots. To implement the script, several steps have to be executed: Creation… 

Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore

The Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore and we have the following job status: The job object indicated the job was in progress. In this blog posting, I will describe how to analyze and solve this issue. Analysis The Index Agent does not start automatically when the repository is started although the option start_index_agents = T in server.ini is… 

Adding new tables to an existing Oracle GoldenGate replication

Once a replication environment is set up, it’s rarely forever. Adding tables to an Oracle GoldenGate replication group with minimal impact to the current replication is quite a difficult operation. This posting should help you with this task. In the example below, tables from schema G001 will be added to an existing replication setup from the database PROD1 to REP1. CFG_ADV_COND CFG_NARRATIVE_TEMPLATE… 

Connecting to the WebLogic Node Manager using WLST in a Production domain

In a WebLogic server domain set as a Production domain, when we try to connect to the Node Manager with WLST we get the following error: Cannot connect to Node Manager. : Access to domain ‘testcluster’ for user ‘weblogic’ denied This blog gives the solution to solve the issue. First of all, we observe that the Node Manager is working… 

SQL Server: Attunity connectors for data transfer to Oracle

Recently, at a customer site, I discovered the Attunity connector 1.1 for Oracle. The customer uses this connector to transfer data from Oracle to SQL Server using Integration Services (SSIS) and informed me that performances are greatly improved. So I decided to post a blog about this connector and perform a benchmark between Attunity connector and Microsoft OLE DB provider

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Upgrading your Oracle Internet Application Server license

With the appearance of WebLogic Server as Oracle application server and the emergence of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite, some may wonder what will be the support of their Oracle Internet Application server license, e. g. Oracle Forms and Reports services, Business Intelligence Edition, etc. As a consultant, I am often dealing with these kinds of problems and aiming to

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Oracle Application Express (APEX) 4.1: a migration guide

 

Oracle Application Express – APEX 4.1 Introduces many new features such as :

  • Improved error handling and user-defined exception processing

  • Application Express now supports the use of ROWID for updates, inserts and deletes as an alternative to specifying primary keys

  • Developers can now easily add the capability for end-users to load spreadsheet data into existing tables within an application

  • The

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