Before I start, what’s this all about you might be thinking? Well, Tim Hall recently floated the idea of an unofficial “OTN Appreciation Day” so everyone could create a short post about their favourite Oracle features. So I figured I’d join in…and he thought it would help me “get back on the horse” with my
The Oracle Reports Services handle incoming client requests to run reports using a job queue mechanism, which are then submitted to the report engines. This Report Server job queue information is stored on disk, in binary format, in the Report Server instance’s persistence file .i.e. $ORACLE_INSTANCE/reports/server/<reports server name>.dat Now querying this information can easily be
At the time of writing this post, Oracle Forms 11g installations are configured by default to work with a specific JPI (Java Plug-In) version: 1.6.0_12. You can verify this by checking your formsweb.cfg file: grep jpi-version formsweb.cfg #jpi_mimetype=application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_12 Unfortunately, it seems Firefox is very particular when it comes to JPI versions, and it will only run with the
Having modified our formsweb.cfg file recently to configure WebUtil in our Forms 11g installation, we started hitting issues when trying to access various form-based application URLs. When the security warning window appears (below), usually you would tick the check-box and run the application: In this instance however, the window turned completely unresponsive and just hung, resulting in the Java
First of all, you need to install WebLogic 11g if you haven’t already done so. Both WebLogic 10.3.5 and 10.3.6 versions are supported against Forms and Reports 11gR2, using either Java 6 or 7 JDKs. Once WebLogic has been installed, ensure all of the requirements specific to your OS have been met, and that any missing packages are