Preface

This guide describes the installation process for Oracle9i Developer Suite (formerly Oracle Internet Developer Suite) on Windows and UNIX. Unless otherwise differentiated, the UNIX instructions are for Sun Solaris, HP HP-UX, and Linux Intel systems only.

This preface contains these topics:

Audience

This installation guide is intended for developers, database administrators, and others responsible for installing Oracle products. You should be familiar with client/server architecture/relationships and database concepts.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle Corporation is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle Corporation does not own or control. Oracle Corporation neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Organization

This guide contains:

Chapter 1, "Installation Concepts"

This chapter provides an overview of the installation of Oracle9i Developer Suite and the installation options available.

Chapter 2, "Getting Started"

This chapter provides hardware and software requirements for the installation of Oracle9i Developer Suite. It also provides preinstallation tasks that you must perform before installing Oracle9i Developer Suite.

Chapter 3, "Installation"

This chapter guides you through the installation and postinstallation steps for Oracle9i Developer Suite.

Chapter 4, "Deinstallation and Reinstallation"

This chapter guides you through the deinstallation and reinstallation steps for Oracle9i Developer Suite.

Appendix A, "Migration Notes"

This appendix contains information about migrating or upgrading from earlier versions of Oracle9i Developer Suite components.

Appendix B, "Components"

This appendix provides brief descriptions of the Oracle9i Developer Suite components.

Appendix C, "Installing the Documentation Library"

This appendix describes the contents of the Oracle9i Developer Suite Documentation Library CD-ROM and provides instructions for installing and viewing the documentation.

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Meaning
Bold	Boldface type in text indicates a key or button that you press or click; it could also indicate labels and options that appear on installation dialogs.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.
`lowercase monospace (fixed-width font)`	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, file names, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, user names and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.
`UPPERCASE monospace (fixed-width font)`	Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles.
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.

Product Accessibility

To make the best use of the product's accessibility features, Oracle Corporation recommends the following software configuration:

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6) or Windows 2000
Sun Java Access Bridge 1.0.2
JAWS 3.70.87
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
JDK 1.3.1

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