Oracle® Application Server

Upgrade and Compatibility Guide

10g Release 2 (10.1.2) for UNIX

Part No. B14090-05

January 2006

Oracle Application Server Upgrade and Compatibility Guide, 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) for UNIX

Part No. B14090-05

Primary Author: Peter LaQuerre

Contributing Authors: Ashfaque Ahammad, Satheesh Amilineni, John Bellemore, Jane Bielawa, Kamalendu Biswas, Fermin Castro, Jaya Chaudhary, Chung Cheng, Will Chin, Eric Deslauriers, Saheli Dey, Paul Dickson, Bob Donat, Chenggang Duan, Jay Feenan, Joe Garcia, Mark Gizejewski, Nick Greenhalgh, Elizabeth Hanks, Susan Highmoor, Clara Jaeckel, Maneesh Joshi, Mark Kennedy, Sam Lee, Shaun Lin, Jeremy Lizt, Peter Lubbers, Sunil Marya, Shashi Mohan, Valarie Moore, Oscar Naim, Bill Norcott, Lei Oh, Vinodkumar Panurangan, Julia Pond, Shane Potter, Tony Quan, Mike Rubino, Pavi Sandhu, Charlie Shapiro, Jianping Shi, Cheryl Smith, Debbie Steiner, Naseer Syed, Jeff Tang, Parthiban Thilagar, Deepak Thomas, Amit Tripathi, Olaf van der Geest, Satishkumar Venkatasamy, Manoj Verma, Richard Wang, David Ward, Liujin Yu

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