Re: ORDS documentation feedback submitted

found this, ignoring all the references to i.war (again)...

http://robinbuitenhuis.blogspot.ca/2014/08/how-to-install-oracle-rest-data.html

but has a fix for the missing config.dir entry

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Patrice sur GMail <patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com
> wrote:

> Ideally we would have an ohs with mod_plsql, like before, which worked
> wonderfully. Just lie we used to be able to run PHP with ohs, but not
> that's been scuttled.
>
> After folloiwng the documentation, at 1.5.7 to verify that it works
> (wasn't, ords appeared as Prepared not Active), I see this:
>
> weblogic.application.ModuleException: oracle.dbtools.common.config.dir.NotSpecifiedException:
> No value for the config.dir setting was found. Before deploying ords please
> configure the config.dir setting using the configdir command, for example:
> java -jar Oracle REST Data Services configdir /path/to/configuration/folder:
> oracle.dbtools.common.config.dir.NotSpecifiedException:No value for the
> config.dir setting was found. Before deploying ords please configure the
> config.dir setting using the configdir command, for example: java -jar
> Oracle REST Data Services configdir /path/to/configuration/folder
>
> ​1.5.5 starts (again!) with
> ​Tip: The Oracle REST Data Services files, ords.war and i.war, must be
> available before you start this task.
>
> Higher up they say you don't need i.war if not using APEX:
> 1.5.3 [...] if you are not using Oracle Application Express, you may skip
> the rest of this section about configuring Oracle Application Express
> images.
>
> I wonder who reviewed the documentation, it seems to have been thrown
> together for a previous version, but not reorganized since. I know
> documentation is a bit of a pain though. Maybe it ought to be broken up
> into separate sections or chapters: stripped down mod_plsql / webDB / HTML
> DB functionality, REST services for the savvy people who are up-to-date,
> and finally APEX environment for environments running useful APEX apps.
>
> Pat.
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >> If you are using Oracle Application Express
>>
>> That sounds about right to me. IF. Most folks installing ORDS today
>> probaby are using it with APEX. I’m taking tons of calls from customers
>> wanting it for pure REST development though, so I feel the percentage
>> breakdown on that changing almost every day.
>>
>>
>>
>> Otherwise, are you asking for a WLS dist that includes ORDs?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Patrice sur GMail [mailto:patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 11, 2017 10:20 AM
>> *To:* ORACLE-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>> *Subject:* ORDS documentation feedback submitted
>>
>>
>>
>> I left feedback, they updated REST services but the documentation still
>> pretends or assumes people want to deploy APEX. check out 1.5.3:
>>
>> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E56351_01/doc.30/e56293/installing
>> -REST-data-services.htm#AELIG7184
>>
>>
>>
>> Here we only use APEX on one server, we don't intend or want to deploy it
>> on every middleware server. We only want mod_plsql functionality from one
>> of our FM12c FR servers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Besides, why would there even be an "Administration Server" for something
>> deployed in WLS which has its own interface (EM and WLS Console) when REST
>> and ORDS are made by Oracle which owns WLS as well. Why wouldn't these two
>> products work together "out of the box"? We could tick a checkbox during
>> installation, and it could be installed flawlessly to work with ohs and WLS.
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe that seems simpler to me than it is in real life though. I'm just
>> a customer.
>>
>>
>>
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