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It is complicated and if you use the product now, you'll just have to work
around the problems you encounter. Keep watching Oracle's ftp and patch
sites. Corrections and upgrades are being released. Things will probably
sort themselves out better over the next year.
Van
Gordo <gcoulman_at_ccinet.ab.ca> wrote in message
news:384df08f.0_at_198.161.96.27...
> Is it just me, or is Oracle Application Server waaaaay too complicated?
>
> First, you have to build an application server, then install OAS, then
> figure out the TNS business, then install the PL/SQL toolkit, then create
a
> DAD, then a cartridge, then write a PL/Sql procedure, oops forgot the
> Listener, then figure out what the URL is going to look like, try about
two
> dozen of them to figure it out.
>
> That's if everything goes right. If it goes wrong, the PL/sql toolkit
won't
> install because of some obscure Sqlnet error that Oracle Support can't
> figure out. Of course the database has to be upgraded, because versions
> under 7.3.4 don't support the web toolkit... On NT, don't forget service
> pak 5. And if you have Developer 6 installed, it has to go in first, in
the
> default Oracle home. But oh yes, OAS can't be in the same home as
> Developer. Dang, install OAS all over again... Uh oh, now the reports
> cartridge doesn't work, because it has to be in the default oracle
home....
>
> Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! There must be an easier way!!!!
>
> OAS on Sun?? Linux?? Perl maybe?? Microsoft Access?? MSql?? Sybase???
> Cold Fusion?? I'll take any and all advice at this point.
>
> Frustrated in the North
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 08 1999 - 19:13:03 CST
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