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Issue with JDK 1.6.0_18 under WebCenter

I was talking to an architect at a new WebCenter installation over the last few days, they were having a lot of strange issues with pages not rendering correctly, parts of the page missing and the layout getting all messed … Continue reading

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Note: This post was written using Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.1.3, running in 64-bit mode on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but will work with JDeveloper 11.x on any platform. This post is part of a series on Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).  This … Continue reading

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Additional configuration to allow SOA managed server to be started from Node Manager

I usually don’t start my managed servers from the Node Manager, as I like to have easy access to the console while I am developing and debugging.  But today, I needed to get it working as a prerequisite for another … Continue reading

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Creating rules in Oracle Policy Automation

As a follow up to this earlier post, we will now explore how to create a basic rulebase using Oracle Policy Automation. This post was created using Oracle Policy Modeling 10.1.0.27 on Windows 2008 Server R2. Unlike other rules engines, … Continue reading

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Adding location-based search to URM (or UCM) using Google Maps

Recently I was working with an organisation that manages a large collection of physical assets and wanted to add a location-based search capability to Oracle Universal Records Management. In order to carry out a ‘proof of concept’ we built some … Continue reading

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Recovering an Oracle database after doing something bad to your SPFILE

Well it has been over a year since the last time I broke my database, but I did it again today!  This time I increased the sga size without also increasing some other parameter, and the database would not start, … Continue reading

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WebCenter Spaces for iPhone released in AppStore

Reposting from Peter Moskovits: If you have a WebCenter Spaces deployment (or are thinking about getting one), you should definitely check out the free WebCenter Spaces iPhone App, that allows you to access your activity stream, your contacts, all  your Spaces … Continue reading

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ADF Faces Hello World!

Note: This post was written using Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.1.3, running in 64-bit mode on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but will work with JDeveloper 11.x on any platform. This is the first in a series of posts on Oracle Application Development … Continue reading

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What you need to use ADF

This blog contains many articles about Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).  In order to develop and run applications using ADF, you will need to install Oracle JDeveloper, which you can download from the Oracle Technology Network (here). Each post will … Continue reading

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How to make Chrome on OS X trust a self-signed certificate

When setting up Subversion recently to use with my various JDeveloper and NetBeans installations here, there and everywhere, I wanted to browse my repositories from Chrome (my main day to day browser) on Mac OS X (my main day to … Continue reading

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