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I just got back from a week-long visit to the Middle East spending time with retailers in UAE and Kuwait.  It was the height of summer, with temperatures around 44C/111F and the holy month of Ramadan – a uniquely Middle Eastern experience.

Also uniquely Middle Eastern was the state of retail.  Wherever I turned, concierges, friends and well-wishers suggested I visit their country’s malls.  From the Dubai Mall, to the Emirates Mall, to the Avenues Mall in Kuwait.  Shopping is big here.  In 1996 Dubai established the 1-month “Shopping Festival”.  Even Ramadan has been intertwined with a shopping experience, with malls hanging greetings of “Ramadan Kareem” throughout the halls and certain malls running Ramadan Campaigns (‘ A Ramadan to Remember’http://www.tradearabia.com/news/RET_239438.html)

I had to see what they had in store.  Each mall is an architectural marvel.  The Burj Al Khalifa, at 829.8 m (2,722 ft) is the tallest building in the world and an anchor of the Dubai Mall.  The mall of the Emirates includes a ski slope, complete with real snow.  Each mall is marbled and cool, comparable to malls in the US (Natick Mall, Mall of America, Destiny USA) or Europe (Galleries Lafayette in Paris, Westfield mall in London, Colombo Centro Comercial in Lisbon) but for an over-the-top attraction, some Islamic-influenced architectural details and an advertising break for Ramadan prayers.  A great majority of the retailers are familiar- from the highest end Tiffany’s, Chopard, Rolex, Stella McCartney to the practical Nike, Gap, Starbucks. 

Each one of the retailers I visited during the business trip posed two questions:

• There is so much traffic in the mall – why should I go online?
• Who are your examples in the Middle East?
  

The questions were startling in their own rights.  The first question about going online was a surprising one coming from retailers who are actively engaged in an online initiative.  Data supports the fact that the ecommerce industry in the Middle East is growing:

“ The estimated number of internet users in the Middle East is 90 Million and only 15% of Middle East businesses have an online presence.  B2C eCommerce sales in MENA will reach an estimated $15 billion in 2015 (up from $9 billion in 2012) . The value of mCommerce in MENA could reach US $4.9 billion by 2015 .”http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/ecommerce-middle-east/

Over 10% of online users in the UAE, Saudi & Qatar purchase online at least 3 times a month.
http://www.slideshare.net/spotonpr/online-shopping-habits-of-mena-internet-users-survey

As with online traffic – conversion is the true measure of sales.  Although the malls attract traffic thanks to their sights and cool oasis, conversion seems low with few shops full and hands empty.  The Malls are such a feature of socializing and entertaining that shopping in these locales is a secondary priority to relaxing and connecting.

Visa has called the MENA region the “fastest region in the world for eCommerce,” citing “45% year-on-year increase to 15 billion USD in 2012”http://www.arabianbusiness.com/mideast-e-commerce-growth-fastest-in-world-says-visa-502465.html

The numbers in the two articles don’t quite add up – and is part of the problem another one of our observations?  Consumers in the MENA region certainly shop online today, but may be forced to shop outside of their region based on the availability of retailers operating online in MENA. 

The second question was surprising because the retailers with whom we were speaking have the first mover advantage in their markets.  Relatively few retailers in MENA operate online.  Though Dubai and other GCC countries may be at the forefront of a brick and mortar shopping experience, they lag behind in terms of mobile and online offerings.

Prospects and customers in other emerging regions, such as Russia and China ask for local partners but look for Best in Class examples in Europe and North America to set their charter.  These regions resemble the Middle East in many patterns and trends and are determined to seize the opportunity, realizing that as soon as the market matures, it might be too late to defend against the behemoths such as Amazon and eBay.  I would argue that the Middle East is better poised than Russia and China to seize opportunity thanks to stable transportation and infrastructure, large disposable income in its potential customer base, and historical tradition of trade.

Currently, the market lags behind.  The few retailers transacting online today fail to take advantage of the online and mobile commerce features that enable personalization and merchandizing to optimize the experience and prefer to take a more functional approach.   Are they leaving the door open to external retailers and the Amazon and eBays of the world to dominate their local markets?

There is such a strong opportunity in the Middle East for Mobile and Online Commerce.  The region also has a historical legacy as a re-export and trade hub.  Now is the time to take that experience online. 

When starting to develop extensions or customizations for Fusion Applications, one of the first decisions is the operating system platform.  This short post will offer some guidance.

Fusion Applications itself is certified for several Unix-based operating systems as well as the Windows platform.  JDeveloper, too, runs thanks to its Java-based implementation on many operating systems, including some like MacOS that are not supported by Fusion Applications themselves.

So which platform should you choose for your development environment?

The development teams at Oracle for the most part use Oracle Linux as the operating system for their development machines.  They run JDeveloper, WLS, and databases on it.  It’s very stable and efficient.  We in the Developer Relations team tend to use Windows for our work to match what is often the platform of choice for 3rd party developers and consultants for their laptops and desktops.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter which operating system you choose: JDeveloper is platform-independent and in our experience runs equally well on Windows and Unix/Linux.  If you install a standalone WebLogic Server on your development machine, you will need to download the version from eDelivery for your development OS, which can be different from the operating system that your test or production servers run on.  For instance, you could develop on Windows, have a standalone Windows WebLogic server and ultimately target a Linux or Solaris environment with your customization or extension.

If you have a team of developers, it probably makes sense to standardize on a common platform to ensure any scripts or other tools can be shared and you don’t have to worry about CR/LF issues for text files.

Whether you prefer Windows or Linux, you should use a 64-bit version.  The minimum usable memory configuration is 8 GB and a 64-bit JDK is required, so a 32-bit operating system is just not a viable option.

We may see different transaction timeout error in Agile (It also happens to other applications). There are two places where control the Timeout setting, JTA, EJB tier and Loadbalancer/Proxy. I will demonstrate three cases to show how to identify them. Though most of the timeout issues are caused by applications and we MUST find out the REAL root cause to fix them definitely, increase transaction-timeout still can resolve most of these cases as a temporary solution/workaround.

JTA Timeout

JTA Timeout is the system-wide setting for the weblogic domain, in Agile it is agileDomain. That is to say, all the transaction are controlled by JTA globally in the same domain. In Agile, all of database access timeout are detected by JTA setting. For example:

java.sql.SQLException: Transaction BEA1-03D472459EE07C52BE9E not active anymore. tx status = Marked rollback. [Reason=weblogic.transaction.internal.AppSetRollbackOnlyException]
	at weblogic.jdbc.jts.Driver.getTransaction(Driver.java:550)
	at weblogic.jdbc.jts.Driver.connect(Driver.java:112)
	at weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.RmiDataSource.getConnection(RmiDataSource.java:355)
	at com.agile.util.sql.DefaultConnectionFactory.getConnFromDS(DefaultConnectionFactory.java:84)
	at com.agile.util.sql.DefaultConnectionFactory.getJDBCConnection(DefaultConnectionFactory.java:48)
	at com.agile.util.sql.ConnectionFactory.getConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:37)
	at com.agile.util.sql.DebugConnectionFactory.getJDBCConnection(DebugConnectionFactory.java:59)
	at com.agile.util.sql.ConnectionFactory.getConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:37)

java.sql.SQLException: Transaction BEA1-14D07D02B16929FA01BC not active anymore. tx status = Rolled back. [Reason=weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after 7199 seconds BEA1-14D07D02B16929FA01BC]
	at weblogic.jdbc.jts.Driver.getTransaction(Driver.java:552)
	at weblogic.jdbc.jts.Driver.connect(Driver.java:112)
	at weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.RmiDataSource.getConnectionInternal(RmiDataSource.java:533)
	at weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.RmiDataSource.getConnection(RmiDataSource.java:498)
	at weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.RmiDataSource.getConnection(RmiDataSource.java:491)
	at com.agile.util.sql.DefaultConnectionFactory.getConnFromDS(DefaultConnectionFactory.java:84)
	at com.agile.util.sql.DefaultConnectionFactory.getJDBCConnection(DefaultConnectionFactory.java:48)
	at com.agile.util.sql.ConnectionFactory.getConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:37)

You can set it in agileDomain - Services - JTA category.

EJB Timeout

java.rmi.RemoteException: Transaction Rolledback.; nested exception is: 
weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after 300 seconds BEA1-50CB4EE5D0A2611D0A36
	at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.EJBRuntimeUtils.throwRemoteException(EJBRuntimeUtils.java:103)
	at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.BaseRemoteObject.postInvoke1(BaseRemoteObject.java:591)
	at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.StatelessRemoteObject.postInvoke1(StatelessRemoteObject.java:60)
	at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.BaseRemoteObject.postInvokeTxRetry(BaseRemoteObject.java:441)
	at com.agile.admin.server.AdminSessionBean_yg79hz_EOImpl.invokeAction(AdminSessionBean_yg79hz_EOImpl.java:10294)
	at com.agile.ipa.pc.CMHelper.invokeCustomProcessActions(CMHelper.java:386)
	at com.agile.ui.pcm.common.ObjectViewHandler.invokeCustomProcessActions(ObjectViewHandler.java:8150)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor333.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at com.agile.ui.web.action.ActionServlet.invokeMethod(ActionServlet.java:1067)

Please consult Oracle Agile Support for similar EJB timeout errors before you modify them.

WebTier Timeout

[Mon Jul 29 00:07:32 2013] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (OS 10060)A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.  : proxy: error reading status line from remote server xxxplm.company.com:80, referer: http://proxy.company.com/Agile/PLMServlet?module=LoginHandler&opcode=forwardToMainMenu
[Mon Jul 29 00:07:32 2013] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] proxy: Error reading from remote server returned by /Agile/PCMServlet, referer: http://proxy.company.com/Agile/PLMServlet?module=LoginHandler&opcode=forwardToMainMenu

For this WebTier timeout error, you may refer to its vendor/document.

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One of the greatest things about JDeveloper 12c is the significantly improved support for Apache Maven. By default, the POM files produced by my favorite IDE contain some absolute paths, such as the folder for the ojmake/ojdeploy executables and references to project (.jpr) and application (.jws) files. Here is a sample of such paths extracted from an application I created on a Windows machine.

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<plugin><groupId>com.oracle.adf.plugin</groupId><artifactId>ojmake</artifactId><version>12.1.2-0-0</version><configuration><ojmake>
            C:\Oracle\Middleware1212\jdeveloper\jdev\bin\ojmake.exe</ojmake><files>
            C:\OracleData\JDEV_USER_DIR\mywork\MavenTest\Model\Model.jpr</files><usemaven>
            true</usemaven></configuration><executions><execution><phase>compile</phase><goals><goal>compile</goal></goals></execution></executions></plugin>

This is perfectly fine if your development team uses workstations that are configured in a consistent way and run under the same operating system. It is often not the case in the real world. Fortunately, Maven provides features that make it very easy to use relative paths instead.

The first thing you should know is that Maven supports the use of variables in POM files. Those variables are always referenced using the following syntax:

${variable_name}

There are several built-in variables provided by Maven. One of them is ${basedir}, which points to the folder where the current POM is located. In addition, Maven can access any environment variable defined by the operating system. This is achieved though the following syntax:

${env.variable_name}

 Thus, it is possible to remove all absolute paths from the sample above by using ${basedir} and referencing an environment variable. Suppose I created such a variable named OJ_HOME, which points to  C:\Oracle\Middleware1212\jdeveloper\jdev\bin. Then, the POM would look like this:

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<plugin><groupId>com.oracle.adf.plugin</groupId><artifactId>ojmake</artifactId><version>12.1.2-0-0</version><configuration><ojmake>
            ${env.OJ_HOME}\ojmake.exe</ojmake><files>
            ${basedir}\ViewController.jpr</files><usemaven>
            true</usemaven></configuration><executions><execution><phase>compile</phase><goals><goal>compile</goal></goals></execution></executions></plugin>

This POM will run on any workstation, granted the OJ_HOME variable is set to a suitable value.

Dear SOA partner community members

Do you know how to position and sell Fusion Middleware SOA & BPM? What are the FY14 sales plays, including customer examples, discovery questions, competitive information and objective handling. You can find its answer at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) where we uploaded the latest presentations for Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Strategy FY14, SOA sales plays and BPM sales plays. Please use this information in the spirit of our partnership. We have also uploaded the Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet and Applications Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware references with hundreds of successful customer examples in our workspace, a great source to get new ideas for your customer!

What does Cloud Computing mean for your service business? The answer is more services! Learn in a demo how you can re-use a SOA integration platform to integrate SaaS solutions. Also the latest Oracle SalesForce, Microsoft and NetSuite announcements are all about middleware!

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As part of the Industrial SOA series we published two new articles SOA Maturity Alongside Contract Standardization& Enterprise Service Bus. Two new books have been published by the community Advanced OSB in 21 days and Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g (see our publications wiki!). Thanks to Michel Schildmeijer who published an article series about Oracle Service Bus 11g. API Management is one of the hottest topics within SOA, our product management team just published a new datasheets API Management Datasheet& Enterprise Repository for API Management.

Within BPM unstructured processes used to be a big challenge, due to the potential high number of process flows. Adaptive case management can address this to create ad-hoc processes without to model each variety. With PS6 the ACM backend functionality is available, want to try it, check out the Case Management Samples Released. Read also the ACM Articles by Ajay Khanna& The Oracle Case Management API.

What to position BPM in certain industries - increasing Efficiency and Responsiveness BPM in the Public Sector& BPM in Financial Services.

Thanks to the additional BPM arcticles Customized BPM 11g PS6 Workspace Application& Detect, Analyze, Act – Fast!& Functional Testing Business Processes In Oracle BPM Suite 11g
Want to learn BPM Suite hands-on – attend the BPM 11g PS6  Hands-on Workshop by PTS September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden. If you can not come to Sweden or to the Summer Camps you can learn online on-demand Business Process Management (BPM) 11g PS6 Awareness Course.

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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As of today the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page has 3,569 fans. Listed below are the Top 10 most popular items posted there for the week of July 21-27, 2013.

1. GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match - Part 3: Real-time ETL Challenge | Michael Rainey
   In the final post in his series Michael Rainey focuses on ODI Change Data Capture (CDC) and options to using change data in downstream ETL processes.
2. Supporting multiple ebMS service versions in Oracle B2B | Ronald van Luttikhuizen
   "Versioning is quite trivial for SOAP and RESTful Web Services using different namespaces, version indicators in endpoint locations, and so on, " says Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen. However, it is a bit different for ebMS-based services implemented in a B2B gateway.
3. JDeveloper 12.1.2 EJB & Java Service Facade Datacontrol | Edwin Biemond
   Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond's illustrated post examines the List of Values feature, newly added to JDeveloper 12.1.2.
4. Promoting Organizational Visibility for SOA and SOA Governance Initiatives - Part I | Manuel Rosa and André Sampaio
   Manuel Rosa and André Sampaio describe "how an organization can leverage from the existing best practices, and with the help of adequate exploration and communication tools, achieve and maintain the level of quality and visibility that is required for SOA and SOA governance initiatives". Part 1 of a 2-part series.
5. Calm the Data Storm | Sunil Ranka
   Click the link to read "Calm the Data Storm," a new article by Oracle ACE and business intelligence expert Sunil Ranka, as featured in the July edition of ITNEXT magazine.
6. Industrial SOA: Securing the SOA Landscape
   ecurity requirements become more complex in the distributed system landscape of a service oriented architecture. This article, part of the Industrial SOA series, presents tips on how to handle security responsibly, based on tried and true best practices.
7. Podcast Show Notes: Data Warehousing and Oracle Data Integrator
   The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features Oracle ACE Directors Gurcan Orhan and Cameron Lackpour sharing panelist duties with Uli Bethke and Michael Rainey in a discussion of data warehousing and Oracle Data Integrator. (Big thanks to guest producer Gurcan for picking the topic and panelists.) Part 1 of this three-part program is now available.
8. Fundamental Cloud Architectures | Thomas Erl
   This excerpt from the new book Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, by Thomas Erl et al, describes several common foundational cloud architectural models and explores the involvement and importance of different combinations of cloud computing mechanisms in relation to these architectures.
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   Author and expert Dr. Frank Munz shows you how in two easy steps.
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    Oracle ACE Director Ben Prusinski explores "software defined networks (SDN) in respect to Oracle and other database platforms."

Thought for the Day

"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."

—Peter Jennings
(July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005)

Source: brainyquote.com

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DAS Highlight des neuen Datenbank Release 12c ist die Möglichkeit, Datenbanken auch als "Pluggable Database" (PDB) innnerhalb sogenannter "Container Databases" zu verwalten. So eröffnet beispielsweise das schnelle "Ein- und Ausstecken" von PDBs viele neue Möglichkeiten in den Bereichen Konsolidierung und Datenbank Clouds. In dieser speziell von der Oracle BU DB zusammengestellten halbtägigen Veranstaltung lernen Sie alles Wissenswerte über Oracle Multitenant. Veranstaltungsbeginn ist dabei 11:30 Uhr. 

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What’s Going On in Digital Experience? The Latest in Key Trends

As with many consumer-facing markets, digital experience tends to move pretty fast.  Just as organizations begin to get a handle on how, where and when to best engage with their target audiences in the digital world, things begin to shift again as consumers change their online habits.  However, there have been a number of trends that have been more or less constant over the past few years; some have grown steadily over time, others have been slow out of the gate, and then quickly reached a critical mass, but they have always been cornerstones of web experience management.  While the following is far from representative of everything that’s going on in this dynamic market, let’s take a quick look and see what’s going on in a few key areas:

Mobile Gets Practical

Mobile is an example of a digital experience trend that went from ‘might do’ to ‘must do’ in the space of a year (hello, iPhone), and has continued to grow in importance ever since.  However, whereas a couple of years ago organizations were still wondering how to best tackle the mobile experience (mobile web, mobile apps, mobile first etc.), we’re now at a place where organizations have a better understanding of each approach, and how to apply them to drive specific business outcomes, whether that be engagement, self-service or commerce.

When it comes to mobile site management, most customers we speak with are now viewing this as an integrated part of managing their overall online experience, while acknowledging that it comes with a distinct set of requirements that may need to be met separately, depending upon specific objectives.  They want to maximize efficiencies by reusing content and integrating site authoring and publishing processes across web and mobile, and by leveraging responsive design to cut down on site development and speed time to market.  However, they also want the flexibility of a web experience management solution that can provide as much support as possible for mobile-specific requirements when needed, from ease of mobile template customization, to device management.

Multi-channel Gets Back the Brand Site

Managing content and experiences across multiple channels has continued to be a tricky problem to solve.  Basically, as more online channels have emerged – from brand sites, to micro and multi-lingual sites, to email campaigns, through to mobile and social– the more complex content management has become for online marketers.  Meanwhile, against this backdrop of channel proliferation, the value and function of the brand site itself began to get called into question (remember the trend of companies dropping their .coms and moving to Facebook?). 

What we’re seeing now is the reassertion of the importance of the brand site; the idea of the corporate .com as a center point of digital experience.  The content that drives activity on other online touch points (email offers, social promotions, microsite landing pages) ultimately points back to the brand site, where all of these channels converge, thereby centralizing marketing processes such as lead capture or facilitating deeper brand engagement.

As a part of this effort, web marketers are looking to be able to access the content that is originating from other channels (regardless of where it is stored), from within the web experience management system authoring environment, and incorporate it within brand sites to produce a more unified, cross-channel experience.

Personalization Comes of Age

The drive to personalize digital experiences has been an interesting trend to watch; it’s perhaps the one that has experienced the most hype over time, but it has also been the slowest to take hold, as it has taken a number of years for solutions to get up to where the market needs them to be.  Of course, personalization is a broad term, and it can encompass everything from targeting experiences to different customer segments, to making online search more relevant and intuitive through guided navigation, to providing tools that enable site visitors to tailor their own online experience.

One thing that is certain is that has finally reached the tipping point, where every organization we engage with has some sort of personalization initiative on their short list of digital experience priorities.  That said, not all organizations want to jump in with both feet, especially when it comes to areas like content targeting.  Some organizations are still choosing to start with smaller-scale experimentation, using specific pages or promotional sites as targeting test grounds.  Others are taking a more committed approach and are implementing content targeting throughout the web and mobile sites.  Meanwhile, a small, but  growing amount are investing in fully automated, predictive solutions.

This latter area is where we expect to see the most interest and growth in the coming year.  Web marketers are beginning to see the power of connecting the native targeting engines in web experience management systems to predictive solutions that can offset the labor associated with managing segmenting and targeting data through automation, while delivering higher success rates for metrics like click-throughs and conversions.

Mid July, two bundle patches were released for the commercial versions of GlassFish : Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1.2.6 and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1.1.21.

• 147912-09 windows-ml File Based (Full)
• 147913-09 unix-ml File Based (Full)
• 147915-09 unix-ml File Based (Web-profile)
• 147917-09 Windows-ml File Based (Web-profile)
• 147918-09 AIX-ml File Based (full)
• 147919-09 AIX-ml File Based (Web-profile)
• 147902-10 Solaris Sparc Closed n/w patch
• 147903-10 Solaris x86 Closed n/w patch
• 147904-10 Linux Closed n/w patch
• 147905-10 IBM-AIX Closed n/w patch
• 147906-10 Darwin-Universal Closed n/w patch
• 147907-10 Windows Closed n/w patch

• 12407787 GUI DOES NOT SHOW THE CORRECT THREAD POOL ID FOR A RESOURCE ADAPTER CONFIG
• 12537727 DESCRIPTION ATTR IS MISSING WHEN CREATING INSTANCE PROPERTIES THROUGH REST
• 12589202 DEPLOYMENT OF EJB BASED WEBSERVICE FAILS ON DOMAINS MIGRATED FROM GF2.1 TO GF3.1
• 12696007 GFV3 RFE INTERFACE TO INSTALL CUSTOM LIBRARIES FOR COMMON CLASS LOADER
• 12808993 ASADMIN MONITOR FAILS TO RUN AND REQUIRES X ENVIRONMENT
• 12810445 APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT FAILS ON GF 3.1 WITH JAVA.LANG.NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION
• 12846160 ECLIPSELINK BUG 347190 (HTTPS://BUGS.ECLIPSE.ORG/BUGS/SHOW_BUG.CGI?ID=347190)
• 12934835 THE CREATE-SERVICE CREATES AN XML FILE WITH THE PRIVILEGES COMMENTED OUT
• 12962355 Fix for Bug 12962355
• 12965893 DEPLOYMENT OF WAR FILES PACKAGED IN EAR IS VERY SLOW ON SOME PLATFORMS

• 128643-35 Solaris Sparc File Based (EE)
• 128644-35 Solaris x86 File Based (EE)
• 128645-35 Linux File Based (EE)
• 128646-36 Windows File Based (EE)
• 128647-35 Solaris Sparc File Based (PE)
• 128648-35 Solaris x86 File Based (PE)
• 128649-35 Linux File Based (PE)
• 128650-36 Windows File Based (PE)
• 137916-35 AIX File Based (PE)

• 12102801 SUNBT6197760 LOADBALANCER PLUGIN IN APACHE IS LOGGING AT WRONG LOGGING LEVEL.
• 12172928 SUNBT6453495 CREATE-PASSWORD-ALIAS DESCRIPTION IS NOT CLEAR
• 12173139 SUNBT6454493 MONITORING DOES NOT CAPTURE STATISTICS FOR SLSB CREATE/REMOVE CALLS
• 12173146 SUNBT6454515 EJB METHODS STATISTICS NOT UPDATED [MONITORING]
• 12176253 SUNBT6465849 LB:INSTALLER FAILED TO EXPORT, IMPORT AND ACTIVATE CERIFICATE FOR A
• 12179218 SUNBT6474736 NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION WHEN SETTING MONITORING TO OFF FOR CONNECTOR M
• 12182626 SUNBT6487014 LBPLUGIN LEAKS MEMORY WHEN IDEMPOTENT REQUEST IS CONFIGURED.
• 12183008 SUNBT6488376 TABLE BASED VALIDATION THE DEFAULT FOR ANY ORACLE DATASOURCE CONNEC
• 12184764 SUNBT6494180 LOADBALANCER PLUGIN NOT HANDLING CHUNKED DATA
• 12185055 SUNBT6495254 COLLAB:SOME COMMUNITY PORTLETS SHOWS CONTENT NOT AVAILABLE ON APPSE

Those Patches are available on My Oracle Support.

Working on a table? Maybe you need to investigate the stats while you also browse some data.

But this is a BIG table. You know how to do the ‘split document trick,’ but that’s not quite cutting it. You need more screen real estate. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could drag that table viewer off over to your 2nd or 3rd (or 4th!!!) monitor?

Well in Oracle SQL Developer v4, now you can!

Float Your Document

Your average database object editor.

Now throw in a right-click

Clone and Float – new for v4

If you do a ‘clone,’ you’ll get a second copy of the document, in this case a second BEER table editor.

If I ‘float’ it, it will let the editor ‘escape’ the main application. Freedom!

Drag your editor to wherever your heart desires.

In Windows, if I mouse over my application icon in the program bar, I’ll see I have more than one window now.

If you lose your window, don’t blame me!

And yes, you can clone your document as many times as you want. You can even clone your clones.

And when you’re ready to bring your floating document back ‘inside’ of SQL Developer proper, just right-click again and choose ‘Dock.’

 Author: Nick Wagner, Director of Product Management for Oracle GoldenGate

Oracle GoldenGate 11.2.1.0.7 cumulative patch release is now generally available and can be downloaded from the My Oracle Support website.  This patch includes support for MySQL NDB Cluster 7.1 and 7.2, as well as Sybase ASE 15.7 support.   There are number of fixes and stabilization enhancements in this release, especially for those using the Oracle GoldenGate Management Pack to monitor GoldenGate. 

The full list of fixed tickets in each release can be found in the release notes available here.