Weblogic Portal 10.3.2 Installation with Oracle Database.

This is a guide for installing Weblogic Portal 10.3.2 with Oracle Database and also configure a seperate Weblogic Portal domain with administration application.There is no good documentation on how this is done and I am sharing these steps here.

The Oracle Weblogic installation includes several steps and needs to follow in the exact order as given below. The further sections in the document describe in detail about these steps.



1. Install Weblogic.

2. Create Database for Weblogic users.

3. Configure Weblogic Portal Domain.

4. Verify the installation.

Alfresco Issue Log

"I am not a Alfresco Hater! I wish next version of Alfresco really address these issues"

The below observations are specific to the installation I have done and may vary in your case. I am  blogging some of the disadvantages I have observed while working with Alfresco content management.

Alfresco Enterprise Installation with Oracle Database

The below article is my experience with installing alfresco enterprise edition 3.3.1 with Oracle Database. The installation was not straight forward and lacking good documentation with Oracle configuration. The first impression about the installer is that it is not enterprise friendly. By default the installation supports only MySQL or Postgress configuration. The preferred database is MySQL. More over the installation wizard is totally confusing. The alfresco documentation says that it supports Oracle but in the wizard, you will get only two options. Either select in-built MySQL or configure an existing MySQL server!. What will you do if you want to select other database. I have struggled to figure out and have to do installation experiments to make it work with Oracle database. The below article is the step I have followed to install and configure alfresco enterprise with Oracle database.

SFDC Learning Series - Part 1

Welcome to my blogs on SFDC learning series. This is my learning experience with exploring SalesForce.com programming API. SFDC is providing a very elaborative and descriptive content for developing application using their API, but in my experience finding information from SFDC Developer WebSite is not straight forward. I have struggled to get information from the web site, did lot of searching and clicked on so many links in the web site to find out the information I am looking for. So I thought it will be useful to give information for people who will be looking for exploring SFDC API from their developer website.

Nitobi Excel Grid beaks in FireFox 3.6

Nitobi provides a JavaScript toolkit for a number of Web 2.0 solutions. One of them is a table Grid that supports "cut & paste" from Microsoft Excel sheet.
Basically, you can populate the table value by "cut & paste" from an excel sheet. It is a very useful feature, if you have a web form that needs to be filled in with data from an excel sheet.

Unfortunately, the functionality doesn't work in Firefox 3.6. The bad boy here is the proprietary API "document.getBoxObjectFor" provided by Firefox. This is not a standard API approved by industry and is available only in Firefox.
Firefox decided to scrap this API since version 3.6. The replaced API is "getBoundingClientRect", that is industry standard and is available in IE and Firefox previous versions as well.

Fixing the Issue
To fix the issue, replace the "document.getBoxObjectFor" with "getBoundingClientRect" carefully. It is not a straight forward replacement. The following code can help explaining how to do this replacement.

Old API:
var x = document.getBoxObjectFor(elem);//where elem is a sample DOM element

New API
var x = elem.getBoundingClientRect()

njoy
Sajith