Preface

This guide describes the installation process for Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS).

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Organization

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

• Documentation Accessibility

Audience

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

Organization

This document contains:

Chapter 1, "Installation Concepts"

This chapter provides installation and configuring concepts for Oracle9iAS and provides feature information about each type of Oracle9iAS installation.

Chapter 2, "Getting Started"

This chapter provides information about hardware and software requirements, online documentation requirements, and preinstallation tasks for installation of Oracle9iAS.

Chapter 3, "Oracle9i Application Server"

This chapter guides you through the installation and postinstallation steps for Oracle9iAS.

Chapter 4, "Oracle9iAS Infrastructure"

This chapter guides you through the installation and postinstallation steps for Oracle9iAS Infrastructure.

Chapter 5, "Oracle9iAS Developer Kits"

This chapter guides you through the installation and postinstallation steps for Oracle9iAS Developer Kits.

Chapter 6, "Silent and Non-Interactive Installation"

This chapter guides you through Silent and Non-interactive installation steps for Oracle9iAS.

Chapter 7, "Coexistence"

This chapter provides information about the extra steps needed to insure coexistence of Oracle9i products on one computer.

Chapter 8, "Deinstallation and Reinstallation"

This chapter guides you through the deinstallation and reinstallation steps for Oracle9iAS.

Appendix A, "Java Access Bridge Installation"

This appendix guides you through the Java Access Bridge installation for use with assistive technologies.

Appendix B, "Oracle9iAS Client Installation"

This appendix guides you through the Oracle9i Database Client on the Oracle9iAS Client CD installation.

Appendix C, "Oracle9iAS InterConnect Installation and Configuration"

This appendix guides you through the Oracle9iAS Applications InterConnect installation and configuration.

Appendix D, "Information for Release 1 Users"

This appendix shows the compares Oracle9iAS Release 1 Version 1.0.2.2 to Release 2 Version 9.0.2.

Appendix E, "Components"

This appendix provides brief descriptions of all of the components that are available with Oracle9iAS.

Appendix F, "Default Port Numbers and Port Ranges"

This appendix lists the port numbers used by Oracle9iAS components.

Appendix G, "Installing the Documentation Library"

This appendix contains the contents of the Oracle9iAS Documentation Library CD-ROM, and provides instructions for installing and viewing the documentation.

Related Documentation

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle9iAS Documentation Library CD-ROM

• Oracle9iAS Platform Specific Documentation on Oracle9iAS Disk 1

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Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

• Conventions in Text

• Conventions in Code Examples

Conventions in Text

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
Bold	Bold typeface indicates terms that are defined in the text or terms that appear in a glossary, or both.	When you specify this clause, you create an index-organized table.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.	Oracle9i Concepts Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.
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.	You can specify this clause only for a NUMBER column. You can back up the database by using the BACKUP command. Query the TABLE_NAME column in the USER_TABLES data dictionary view. Use the DBMS_STATS.GENERATE_STATS procedure.
lowercase monospace (fixed-width font)	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, 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, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus. The password is specified in the orapwd file. Back up the datafiles and control files in the /disk1/oracle/dbs directory. The department_id, department_name, and location_id columns are in the hr.departments table. Set the QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED initialization parameter to true. Connect as oe user. The JRepUtil class implements these methods.
lowercase monospace (fixed-width font) italic	Lowercase monospace italic font represents placeholders or variables.	You can specify the parallel_clause. Run Uold_release.SQL where old_release refers to the release you installed prior to upgrading.

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
[ ]	Brackets enclose one or more optional items. Do not enter the brackets.	DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])
{ }	Braces enclose two or more items, one of which is required. Do not enter the braces.	{ENABLE | DISABLE}
|	A vertical bar represents a choice of two or more options within brackets or braces. Enter one of the options. Do not enter the vertical bar.	{ENABLE | DISABLE} [COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]
...	Horizontal ellipsis points indicate either: That we have omitted parts of the code that are not directly related to the example That you can repeat a portion of the code	CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery; SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points indicate that we have omitted several lines of code not directly related to the example.
Other notation	You must enter symbols other than brackets, braces, vertical bars, and ellipsis points as shown.	acctbal NUMBER(11,2); acct CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;
Italics	Italicized text indicates placeholders or variables for which you must supply particular values.	CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password DB_NAME = database_name
UPPERCASE	Uppercase typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. We show these terms in uppercase in order to distinguish them from terms you define. Unless terms appear in brackets, enter them in the order and with the spelling shown. However, because these terms are not case sensitive, you can enter them in lowercase.	SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES; DROP TABLE hr.employees;
lowercase	Lowercase typeface indicates programmatic elements that you supply. For example, lowercase indicates names of tables, columns, or files. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; sqlplus hr/hr CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;

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