Test run of OFMW11g

I am sitting in my garden, enjoying the good weather (26 C/79 F) and build a new Virtual Machine in order to install the new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
For me this is a perfect afternoon ;-)

Fusion Middleware documentation

If you go to
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/index.htm
you will see the following:


So with the new version of the software a new look and feel of the documentation is available.
It takes a minute to find your way around, but it looks a little bit better than the old tabbed version of the documentation.

Fusion Middleware is released

Yesterday the new version of Fusion Middleware was released. Thomas Kurian and a group of senior Oracle people talked about the new version, showed some demos and included customers for some testimonials.

The software is already available for download at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/111110_fmw.html

I have downloaded almost everything already and will start to install this piece by piece on my machine. I am particularly interested in the IDM Analytics and the new features of the Web Center Suite. Also the integration of the Oracle Service Bus with BPEL and their management inside the Enterprise Manager seem to be more than worthwhile to investigate.

Vote for my presentations at Oracle Open World 2009

Could you do me a favor and vote for my sessions for the Oracle Open World 2009? Go to these URL's (short registration) and click on vote:

https://mix.oracle.com/oow/proposals/10412-combining-the-two-coolest-things-on-the-world-weblogic-and-lego-mindstorms

https://mix.oracle.com/oow/proposals/10471-the-big-esb-osb-bpel-cook-off

Thanks in advance!

cu
Andreas

Different servers in Content Server

I'm taking some steps to work on my ECM 2.0 skills.
One of the things to do was the tutorial which comes with the software.
At a certain point you are asked to use the "Administration Server".
Clicking on it revealed the following text:

Unable to retrieve root IdcAdmin page. Permission denied. Address '127.0.0.1' is not an allowable remote socket address.

Ok, I'm using VMWare and did this from the Windows host, while the Content Server runs on one of my Linux machines. I tried with a browser inside the VMWare itself.
Same result.

Searching the OTN forums I found a part of the solution. The posts say that you need to add the IP address of the machine to the config.cfg file. Then the apache.cfg file needs to be changed ("Allow from any" becomes "Allow from all"). The final step is the restart of the server.

Well - it took me a while to find out why it didn't work.
The content server has (at least) two servers:

• one in $UCM_HOME/etc
• and one in $UCM_HOME/admin/etc

My first attempts where in the first directory but never delivered the result I needed. After restarting the server in the $UCM_HOME/admin/etc I finally succeeded.

Are You The Smartest 2009

Oracle has a competition which is called "Are You The Smartest". This is for Oracle partners only. After five sessions with four multiple choice tests the results came in last week.

I won for Accenture.



Apparently I was the only one who prolongated his title from the 2008 competition. So I will be on a trip to see Oracle's HQ in Redwood Shores, enjoy Las Vegas and fly with a helicopter to the Grand Canyon.

Before you all think I'm bragging I need to tell you that I did not expect it, and the two runner ups were just trailing one and two points. So the competitors were very good and I will need to do my best to beat them again next year.

However the best is of course that I have again learned some things which I did not know before. This is the BEST PRICE EVER!

OOW2009

I found this on the Oracle OOW2009 blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/oracleopenworld/2009/05/come_fly_with_me.html#

I hope that the possibility to fly with Sean Tucker also applies to presenters - who register in a different way than the normal conference attendee.

BTW: I just showed the YouTube movie of Sean Tucker to my wife. She just said: "All Oracle people are crazy!". I just replied: "Yes - they are! And this is a good thing ;-) ".

Deleting a Weblogic domain

As I am setting my first baby steps into the world of Weblogic I have to deal with things that might seem very easy for the experienced Weblogic gurus out there, but nevertheless I put my ranting on this blog.

When you are faced with an issue in your Weblogic domain, there is apparently no tool to delete this domain.

The only solution seems to be to remove the directory in which you have created this domain.