Recently, we had a project to modernize a little bit a pretty old Documentum installation. As part of this project, there were a refresh of the Application Server hosting a WebTop 6.8. In this blog, I will be talking about an issue that we faced in encryption & decryption of passwords in the refresh environment. This new environment was using…
It has already been a few months that we are testing the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2019. I already blogged about a previous version of SQL Server supporting R and Python. With the new version of SQL Server 2019, Java will also be integrated. The Java runtime used is Zulu Open JRE and can be tested from…
Eclipse setup In order to test Java JDK12 you will have to download Eclipse 4.11 at least. Then download JDK12 from Oracle’s web site. And configure Eclipse to use this JDK for the project. Also download the JDK12 support with the following repository link: https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.11-P-builds Edit the projects properties to use the “Java Compiler” compliance 12. And “Enable preview features”…
If you are used to Java, you probably know that there are really important security fixes published every quarter in the Java Critical Patch Update (CPU) and it’s really important to keep it up to date. It’s always easy to upgrade your Java installation, you just have to deploy the new version entirely. In most cases, it’s also pretty easy…
Everybody knows Java but not everybody loves Java. With everything Oracle is currently doing regarding Java, I can’t say I’m blaming them… But that’s not the topic of this blog! hurrah. Well actually I’m not sure the topic of this blog is much better since I will talk about the management of the JAVA_HOME environment variable with WebLogic and more…
I recently wrote a couple of sql-scripts which had to run on all of my customer’s DBs. The sql-scripts had to be started from a Linux-client, which does not have any Oracle client software installed. So I thought of using sqlcl (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sqlcl/downloads/index.html), because there is no need to “install” something then. All I needed was an installed JRE on…
In order to start index agents, you have several ways, depending on how you need to start them. 1. Use the documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot. If you setup start_index_agents=T in the server.ini, the job will be called when the docbases are started. 2. Use the web interface: Login to http://server:9200/IndexAgent/ with docbase credentials and select “Start in normal mode” 3. Login…
In this blog, I will talk about an issue with the IDS 7.3 which is installed on a Content Server 7.3. The IDS is the Interactive Delivery Services. It is a product provided by OpenText that needs to be installed on a Content Server (for the “Source” part) and on a Target Server (for the “Target” part). The IDS can…
WebLogicServer takes a long time (e.g. over 15 minutes) to startup. Can the performance be improved? Using /dev/urandom option in the Weblogic Java Virtual Machine parameters from startup script, can be the solution. In fact, /dev/random is a blocking device and during times of low entropy (when there is not enough random bits left in it), /dev/random will block any…
You may once went into the struggle to delete a file in java? So do I… I went so mad when I figured out that my files were still present even after a file.delete() or file.deleteOnExit(). It always returned False. So what’s the reason for it not to be deleted? In fact it’s logical… When dealing with files you are…
By Franck Pachot . I like to come upon new monitoring software that help to go quickly from user response time to root cause. And I love applications that can be installed easily and at which I can give a try without reading pages of manual. At DOAG 3rd floor I’ve visited the AppDynamics booth and immediately wanted to install…
Tuesday the 10th of November I attended a public lecture at Swiss Java User Group in Zürich. Topic of the pretension was to describe and address challenges any project manager can encounter, when reflexion switches from perspective of software architecture to real coding implementation. Presentation was essentially based on Java language, but in fact applicable to any other language. So…
