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Oracle® Developer Suite Release Notes
10g (9.0.4) for Windows and UNIX
Part No. B10668-01
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Part I Product Release Notes

1 Product Naming

1.1 Windows Components
1.2 UNIX Components

2 Certification Information

2.1 Certification Information

3 Known Issues

3.1 Preinstallation Issues
3.1.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Beans
3.1.2 Oracle9i Warehouse Builder
3.2 Installation Issues
3.3 Postinstallation Issues
3.3.1 Java Versions
3.4 Deinstallation Issues
3.5 Platform-specific Issues
3.6 Configuration Issues
3.7 Administration Issues
3.8 Documentation Errata
3.8.1 Oracle Developer Suite 10g Installation Guide

Part II Component Release Notes

4 Oracle9i JDeveloper

4.1 General Issues and Workarounds
4.1.1 Introduction
4.1.1.1 Support for Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2)
4.1.2 Deploying to OC4J
4.1.2.1 OC4J Version Shipped with Oracle JDeveloper 9.0.4
4.1.2.2 OC4J Memory Requirements
4.1.3 Deploying to Other Application Servers
4.1.3.1 Problems Running UIX Web Applications (including the BC4J JSP Admin Page) Deployed to Non-Oracle Application Servers (2577293)
4.1.3.2 Deploying Web Applications to Apache Tomcat 4.1
4.1.3.3 Problems in JSP Applications Deployed to Tomcat (2615358)
4.1.3.4 XSQL Page Processor Cannot Read Pages from Unexpanded Servlet 2.2 WAR File (1552039)
4.1.3.5 Type Incompatibilities when Deploying to WebLogic
4.1.3.6 WebLogic6.1 Fails to Understand Windows-1252 Encoding in XML Files
4.1.3.7 CORBA Requires JDK 1.3 at Runtime (2685103)
4.1.4 Miscellaneous Deployment Issues
4.1.4.1 ejb-ref in web.xml not Updated if the Bean Type is Changed from Remote to Local (2589997)
4.1.5 BC4J Issues
4.1.5.1 Available Tables not Visible Under Java Type Map and SQL92 SQL Flavor (2693168)
4.1.5.2 902 Projects with VO or Attribute Names Containing $ do not Migrate (2701773)
4.1.5.3 JDeveloper 9.0.4 *.jpr File Format Not Backward Compatible with 9.0.3 (2682921)
4.1.5.4 Migrated Project: Export Interface is Removed but Still Implemented in IMPL Class (2676186)
4.1.5.5 Bean Name in <EJB-LOCAL-REF> not Updated when Underlying Entity is Renamed (2587916)
4.1.5.6 Setting Current Database Time Using Entity Facades (2525437)
4.1.5.7 Replace qView with getRowSet in Migration Documentation (2723075)
4.1.5.8 Documentation Refers to BC4J "Wizards"
4.1.5.9 Unable to Run a BC4J JSP in OC4J in VB Bind Mode (2594776)
4.1.5.10 Problem Running Struts Actions in 9.0.3 Project After Upgrade (2756440)
4.1.5.11 Help Sometimes Not Available for Business Component Browser
4.1.5.12 jbo.debugoutput Property can Take Value of "file"
4.1.6 EJB Issues
4.1.6.1 Cannot Run EJB in Embedded OC4J Server if Workspace Has Two Projects (2096700, 2591173)
4.1.7 JClient Issues
4.1.7.1 JTree Binding is not Editable (2061405)
4.1.7.2 Cannot Run JClient Applications in EJB Mode Running in Webstart 1.2 (2699458)
4.1.7.3 Webstart not Launched in IE 5.5 Due to Mimetype Problems (2573655)
4.1.7.4 SpinnerNumberModel for JSpinner Control does not Work for oracle.jbo.domain.Number (2738858)
4.1.8 Source Control Support Issues
4.1.8.1 Oracle SCM: JDeveloper Does Not Share Folder Mappings with the Oracle SCM RON
4.1.8.2 Oracle SCM: Using JDeveloper and the Oracle SCM VHV
4.1.8.3 Oracle SCM: Connecting to Oracle Software Configuration Manager 6i Release 4.1.1 or Above
4.1.9 Modeling Issues: General
4.1.9.1 Performing Source Control Operations On Model Element and Diagram Files (2211605)
4.1.9.2 Exceptions on Startup if Install Directory Has a Space in Name (2709528)
4.1.10 Modeling Issues: Modeling Java Classes, BC4J or EJB Components
4.1.10.1 Deleting Modeled Java Classes (2706800)
4.1.11 Modeling Issues: Modeling Activities for E-Business Integration
4.1.11.1 E-Business Integration Generator Generates Propagations Using Public Database Links (2063917)
4.1.11.2 Using HTTP Propagation on a 9.0.1 Database
4.1.12 Web Services Issues
4.1.12.1 Renaming a Method on a Modeled Web Service Fails to Expose It (2702659)
4.1.12.2 SOAP Web Service Does Not Start New Session (2218102)
4.1.12.3 Using JMS Web Services with OC4J
4.1.12.4 Creating JMS Web Services that Use Both Send and Receive Operations
4.1.12.5 Running the PL/SQL Web Service Generator with JDK 1.4
4.1.12.6 Runtime Error Calling a Web Service from a Generated Stub (2389203)
4.1.12.7 Cannot Model Web Services Based on PL/SQL Packages (2466833)
4.1.12.8 Creating a Stub with Overloaded Methods to a .NET Web Service (2689939)
4.1.12.9 Web Service Stub if Generated from JDeveloper Install Path has Space (3068701)
4.1.12.10 Generating Stubs for WSDL Files That Refer to Other WSDL Files (2627242)
4.1.13 Using WebDAV Connections in JDeveloper
4.1.14 Miscellaneous Issues
4.1.14.1 PL/SQL Compilation Errors Not Displayed (2688533)
4.1.14.2 Allowable Values for Columns Must be Given a Display Sequence (2717508)
4.1.14.3 Toystore Demo Contains Obsolete bc4jstruts.jar File
4.1.14.4 Right Mouse Menu "Go to Source" no Longer Working (3146584)
4.1.14.5 Passivation/Activation of interMedia Domain Objects with Media Content to Upload does not Work in 3 Tier Environment (2887647)
4.2 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
4.2.1 Windows Platform Issues and Workarounds
4.2.1.1 Updated JDK Required for Windows Preview Oracle9i JDeveloper
4.2.2 UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
4.2.2.1 General UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
4.2.2.2 Solaris-specific Issues and Workarounds
4.2.2.3 Linux-specific Issues and Workarounds
4.2.2.4 HP-UX Issues and Workarounds
4.3 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
4.4 Administration Issues and Workarounds
4.5 Documentation Errata
4.5.1 Replace qView with getRowSet in Migration Documentation (2723075)
4.5.2 Documentation Refers to BC4J "Wizards"

5 Oracle Business Intelligence Beans

5.1 Introduction
5.2 General Issues and Workarounds
5.2.1 Tutorials and samples
5.2.2 QueryBuilder and queries
5.2.3 Presentations
5.2.4 BI Beans Catalog
5.2.5 General deployment issues
5.2.6 Configuration steps for deploying HTML-client applications
5.2.6.1 Deploying to OC4J
5.2.6.2 Migrating Applications Deployed to OC4J
5.2.6.3 Deploying to Tomcat
5.2.6.4 Deploying to JBoss
5.2.7 Deploying to Java Web Start
5.2.8 Internationalization issues
5.2.9 Accessibility limitations
5.3 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
5.4 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
5.4.1 JDBC Drivers
5.4.1.1 Upgrading the drivers automatically
5.4.1.2 Upgrading the drivers manually
5.4.1.3 Restoring the original drivers
5.4.2 Changing from the thin to the thick drivers
5.4.3 BI Beans configuration diagnostic utility
5.4.4 Connections
5.5 Administration Issues and Workarounds
5.6 Documentation Errata

6 Oracle Discoverer Administrator

6.1 General Issues and Workarounds
6.1.1 "Cannot find a required file : dcmresus.msb.Ó When Trying to Launch Oracle Discoverer 9.0.2 after Installing 9.0.4
6.1.2 ORA-3113 Errors when Using Heterogeneous Data Services with Oracle Discoverer Administrator
6.1.3 JOB_QUEUE_INTERVAL Settings and Oracle Applications Users
6.1.4 Recommended Update for Batch Repository Created with Oracle Discoverer 9.0.2
6.2 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
6.3 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
6.4 Administration Issues and Workarounds
6.5 Useful Information
6.5.1 Upgrading from Oracle Discoverer 3.1
6.5.2 Manually Editing the End User Layer Tables
6.5.3 Availability of HWOnline files
6.5.4 Setting Oracle Discoverer Registry Variables for Use by Oracle Discoverer EUL Command Line for Java Commands
6.5.5 Additional Oracle Discoverer Registry Variables
6.5.6 Required Privileges For the Scheduled Workbook Results Schema
6.5.6.1 How to grant the SELECT privilege on the synonym v$parameter to enable you to run scheduled workbooks
6.5.7 Running the Oracle Discoverer EUL Command Line for Java (UNIX only)
6.5.8 Oracle Discoverer and Real Application Clusters (RAC)/Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
6.6 Documentation Errata
6.6.1 Item Class Wizard: Choose Attributes dialog description
6.6.2 Correction to /export (EUL Objects) Example
6.6.3 Missing ‘-jar’ in Example Syntax given for Running Oracle Discoverer EUL Command Line for Java commands
6.6.4 About Scheduled Workbooks and Compatibility Between the Current Version of Oracle Discoverer and Previous Releases

7 Oracle Discoverer Desktop

7.1 General Issues and Workarounds
7.1.1 "Cannot find a required file : dcmresus.msb." When Trying to Run Oracle Discoverer 9.0.2 after Installing 9.0.4
7.2 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
7.3 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
7.4 Administration Issues and Workarounds
7.5 Useful Information
7.5.1 Manually Editing the End User Layer Tables
7.5.2 Refresh Query For Users Only Able to Run Scheduled Workbooks
7.5.3 Availability of HWOnline files
7.5.4 Additional Oracle Discoverer Registry variables
7.5.5 Oracle Discoverer and Real Application Clusters (RAC)/Transparent Application Failover (TAF)
7.6 Documentation Errata

8 Oracle Forms Developer

8.1 General Issues and Workarounds
8.1.1 No Need To Recompile Forms When Upgrading To Oracle Forms 10g (9.0.4)
8.1.2 Forms Cannot Handle Multibyte CLOB Data Correctly
8.1.3 Embedded Fonts in Forms Developer
8.1.4 Iconic Push Buttons
8.1.5 Restriction For Data Block Wizard
8.1.6 When-Mouse-Click Doesn’t Fire For Right Mouse Click
8.2 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
8.2.1 Windows Platform Issues and Workarounds
8.2.1.1 FRM-18113 Error When Clicking On Design Capture
8.2.1.2 Location of JAWS Scripts
8.2.1.3 Java Related Dialogs And Windows Are Not Read By Jaws
8.2.1.4 Graphics Fails Against Database 9.0.1.4.0 (64bit)
8.2.2 UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
8.2.2.1 General UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
8.2.2.2 Using TK90_UNKNOWN
8.2.3 HP-UX Issues and Workarounds
8.3 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
8.3.1 SSO Dynamic Resource Creation Fails When 904 BI-Forms Uses 902 Infrastructure on the Same Machine
8.3.2 Forms and Reports Integration
8.3.2.1 Cannot Invoke Reports Builder from Form Builder
8.3.2.2 Restarting OPMN In-process Reports Server Raises Error
8.3.2.3 Forms Migration Assistant: RUN_PRODUCT(Reports) rp2rro Reports Object Is Not Created in Object Library
8.4 Documentation Errata
8.4.1 Oracle Forms Services Deployment Guide

9 Oracle Reports

9.1 General Issues and Workarounds
9.1.1 FTP and WebDaV Destinations Not Supported from Reports Builder
9.1.2 Oracle9i JDeveloper Integration
9.1.2.1 Deadlock When Debugging JSP Reports in Oracle9i JDeveloper
9.1.2.2 Graph Not Appearing in Oracle9i JDeveloper
9.1.2.3 Reports in-process server
9.2 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
9.2.1 Windows Platform Issues and Workarounds
9.2.1.1 Using osfind with JDK 1.4
9.2.1.2 Invoking the Getting Started Page From Reports Builder
9.2.1.3 Printing Reports Without Hardware-based Left Margins
9.2.2 UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
9.2.2.1 General UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
9.2.2.2 Solaris Issues and Workarounds
9.2.2.3 Linux Issues and Workarounds
9.2.2.4 HP-UX Issues and Workarounds
9.3 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
9.3.1 Repairing Fonts Not Appearing Correctly in Web Source View
9.3.2 Optimizing the Deployment of Reports
9.3.3 Improving Image Resolution of Graphs Displayed in a PDF File or on a Printer
9.3.4 Specifying the Values for Oracle Reports' Java Virtual Machine
9.3.5 Resolving Reports-Portal Integration Error When Attempting OID Create Resource
9.3.6 Running to Web Layout on Reports Builder
9.4 Administration Issues and Workarounds
9.4.1 Authenticating EM Access to Reports Server Information
9.4.2 Running Reports on OracleAS Portal as an Item Link
9.5 Documentation Errata

10 Oracle Designer

10.1 General Issues and Workarounds
10.1.1 Installation
10.1.1.1 Oracle Designer patchsets to 9.0.4
10.1.1.2 Oracle Designer/SCM Patchset 9.0.4.3: immediate installation may be required
10.1.1.3 Japanese in the multi-language environment
10.1.1.4 Setting up the repository for NLS operation
10.1.1.5 Enabling repository support for Oracle Designer Objects when the repository only supports core objects
10.1.1.6 Migration from Oracle Designer Web Assistant (ODWA) to Repository Object Browser (ROB)
10.1.2 System Modeling and Design Tools
10.1.3 Database Design Transformer
10.1.4 Form Generator
10.1.5 Web PL/SQL Generator
10.1.6 Report Generator, Design Capture and Application Logic Capture
10.1.7 Server Generator
10.1.8 Repository Reports
10.1.9 Matrix Diagrammer
10.1.10 Accessibility
10.1.11 Other problems and restrictions
10.2 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
10.3 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
10.4 Administration Issues and Workarounds
10.5 Documentation Errata

11 Oracle Software Configuration Manager

11.1 General Issues and Workarounds
11.1.1 Patchsets
11.1.2 Oracle Forms Developer and Oracle Reports Developer Users
11.1.3 Certification against Oracle RDBMS
11.1.4 Upgrading from Oracle Designer Release 1.3.2
11.1.5 Multi-Language Environment
11.1.6 Compatibility of Oracle SCM and Oracle Repository 6i Repositories
11.1.7 Changes from the Previous Release (iDS 9.0.2 maintenance release 9.0.2.5)
11.1.8 Fixed Bugs
11.1.9 API and Model Reference Guide
11.2 Known Problems and Restrictions
11.2.1 Migration
11.2.2 SCM Java Tools
11.2.3 Repository Administration Utility (RAU)
11.2.4 Repository Object Navigator
11.2.5 Compare Utility
11.2.6 Merge
11.2.7 Version History Viewer
11.2.8 Version Event Viewer
11.2.9 Importing and Exporting
11.2.10 Dependency Manager
11.2.11 Command Line Tool
11.2.12 Other Known Problems and Restrictions
11.3 Known Restrictions to Keyboard Controls
11.3.1 General Keyboard Control Restrictions
11.3.2 Non-Standard Keyboard Controls
11.3.2.1 Dependency Manager
11.3.2.2 Repository Administration Utility
11.3.2.3 Repository Object Navigator
11.3.2.4 General Restrictions for Java Tools
11.3.3 Known Problems and Workarounds
11.3.3.1 Merge Window
11.3.3.2 Repository Object Navigator
11.3.3.3 Other Known Problems and Restrictions
11.3.4 Command Line Tool Accessibility
11.4 Platform-specific Issues and Workarounds
11.4.1 Windows Platform Issues and Workarounds
11.4.2 UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
11.4.2.1 General UNIX Platform Issues and Workarounds
11.4.2.2 Solaris Issues and Workarounds
11.4.2.3 Linux Issues and Workarounds
11.4.2.4 HP-UX Issues and Workarounds
11.5 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
11.6 Administration Issues and Workarounds
11.7 Documentation Errata

Part III Other Release Notes

12 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J)

12.1 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
12.1.1 OPMN Does Not Properly Assign CORBA SSL Client Ports for Default
12.1.2 Sharing and Using Libraries
12.1.3 Invalid or Unneeded Library Elements Degrade Performance
12.1.4 Custom User Managers Deployed Within EJB JAR Files
12.1.5 Considerations for Startup and Shutdown
12.1.6 Supported JDK Versions
12.1.7 Migrating Source Code from JDK 1.4 to JDK 1.3
12.1.8 Migrating Source Code from JDK 1.3 to JDK 1.4
12.1.9 OC4J Demo Downloads
12.2 Release Notes for JSP, Tag Libraries, and Related Demos
12.2.1 Cannot Invoke Classes That Are Not in Packages
12.2.2 Set the SAX Driver When Starting OC4J
12.2.3 JSP ojspc Issues
12.2.3.1 Debug Option Has No Effect on ojspc Output
12.2.3.2 The /WEB-INF/lib or /WEB-INF/classes Directories Should Not Contain .java Files
12.2.4 JESI Tag Release Notes
12.2.4.1 JESI Tags No Longer Require Conditional Treatment
12.2.4.2 JESI personalize Tag Now Adds Single Quotes
12.2.4.3 A fragment Tag Can Be Inside an Included Page
12.2.4.4 Multiple control or template Tags Can Be Used
12.2.4.5 No Response Output Outside the Tags of a template Tag
12.2.4.6 Do Not Use Explicit ESI Markup With JESI Tags
12.2.5 Tag Library Descriptors Must Be Under WEB-INF
12.2.6 Adding Tag Library JAR Files to /WEB-INF/lib While OC4J Is Running
12.2.7 Search Local Classes First
12.2.8 java.lang.ClassFormatError: (Truncated Class File)
12.3 Release Notes for Servlets
12.3.1 Cannot Invoke Classes Not in Packages
12.3.2 Servlet Invocation by Class Name Is Available During Development
12.3.3 Do Not Use Certain <orion-web-app> Attributes
12.4 Release Notes for EJB
12.4.1 Client Requests Must Include a Port Number
12.4.2 MDB Transaction Timeout
12.4.3 Create and Release JMS Connections for JMS in the MDB onMessage() Method
12.4.4 Considerations When Modifying Your orion-ejb-jar.xml File
12.4.5 Static Block in an EJB
12.4.6 OC4J Instances Terminating Due To ping Timeout
12.4.7 Miscellaneous EJB Release Notes
12.5 Release Notes for OC4J Services
12.5.1 Release Notes for Java Object Cache (JOC)
12.5.1.1 Use javacache.xml for JOC Configuration
12.6 Release Notes for DataDirect Connect for JDBC
12.6.1 Considerations When Using DataDirect Connect for JDBC
12.6.2 Installing DataDirect Connect for JDBC
12.7 Documentation Errata
12.7.1 Servlet Developer's Guide Errata
12.7.1.1 The OC4J 9.0.4 JSP Container Supports the persistence-path Flag
12.7.2 Support for JavaServer Pages Developer’s Guide Errata
12.7.2.1 mod_oc4j Does Not Restart OC4J Processes
12.7.3 OC4J User’s Guide Errata
12.7.3.1 End to End Test Results for Metrics Load Balancing

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