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Installing Oracle XE database on 64-bit Ubuntu

After many years, I took a fresh look at Ubuntu, and I found it to be great!  So naturally, I wanted to install Oracle XE database to play around with.  But this comes as a 32-bit rpm.  What to do? … Continue reading

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Exposing PeopleSoft portlets through WebCenter with WS-Security

Note: This post is an updated and extended version of this older post. This post was produced jointly with Shawn Xin and Wellen Lau along with help and support from several other people. 1       Introduction Often customers wish to expose … Continue reading

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Installing WebLogic Server 10.3.3 on Ubuntu (64-bit)

Update:  This post describes a method for installing WebLogic Server 10.3.3 which involves first installing 10.3.2 and then patching up to 10.3.3.  It also now possible to just install 10.3.3 directly.  If you are an Oracle customer, you can download … Continue reading

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Rename all the files in a directory to add a prefix

This is a bit off topic, but it is something I frequently want to do! When I am producing a new post I usually end up with a number of images that I want to include.  I normally create these … Continue reading

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Exposing E-Business Suite services using the Integrated SOA Gateway

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 introduced a new “Integrated SOA Gateway” that makes it very easy to expose functionality from E-Business Suite as web services.  This allows much easier integration to and from E-Business Suite. In this post, we look … Continue reading

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Speeding up VMWare

I was working with a very large VMWare image today, containing Oracle E-Business Suite R12.  The image is located on an external USB drive, simply because it is too large to fit on the internal disk on the available host … Continue reading

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Upgrading WebCenter and SOA Suite from 11.1.1.2 to 11.1.1.3

If, like me, you have an existing WebCenter and SOA Suite 11.1.1.2 installation, that you need to upgrade to the new 11.1.1.3 release, you may find the task a little daunting, as I did.  However, a little bit of careful … Continue reading

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Configuring the Web Clipping portlet to use an HTTP Proxy

Today, I was setting up an internal (intranet) deployment of WebCenter and one of the things I needed to display was the company share price, pulled from the Internet.  In order to do this, I used the built in Web … Continue reading

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Installing Oracle Policy Automation on WebLogic Server

Today I needed to install Oracle Policy Automation into a WebLogic Server (11g) environment, for integration into a WebCenter Spaces portal (more on that later).   The documentation provides some hints on how to do this, but not all of … Continue reading

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Using the new AutoSuggest Behaviour in ADF

ADF 11.1.1.2 added a new Auto Suggest capability that allows you to provide automatic suggestions as a user types data in a field (just like Google do).  This post provides a quick demo of how to use this capability.  You … Continue reading

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