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Preface

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1 Introduction

1.1 Latest Release Information

1.2 Purpose of this Document

1.3 Operating System Requirements

1.4 Certification Information

1.5 Licensing Information

1.6 Best Practices

Part I General Oracle9i Application Server Issues

2 Installation and Migration

2.1 Preinstallation Issues

2.2 Installation Issues

2.3 Postinstallation Issues

2.3.1 (UNIX only) Configure JServ After Installation

2.4 Deinstallation Issues

2.5 Reinstallation Issues

2.5.1 Reinstallation not Supported

2.6 Migration Issues

3 Configuration

3.1 Common Configurations

3.2 Configuration Limitations

3.3 Configuration Tasks and Issues

3.3.1 Attributes Containing Paths Break Cluster Model

3.4 Using Oracle9iAS with J2SE, Version 1.4

4 Management and Security

4.1 Deployment Issues

4.1.1 Deploying Applications to OC4J When Default User Manager is Principal

4.1.2 Using Port Option to Configure Loading Application

4.2 DCM Issues

4.2.1 Running dcmctl to Update Configuration for Manual Changes

4.2.2 Concurrent Administrative Operations on a Cluster Not Supported

4.3 OPMN Issues

4.3.1 OPMN Cannot Start OC4J Instance with Multibyte

4.3.2 opmnctl restart Command Displaying "Unavailable Hostname" Messages

4.3.3 opmnctl stopproc Command Hanging

4.4 Oracle Enterprise Manager Issues

4.4.1 Log in Problems with Secondary Instance

4.4.2 Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site Log Files Too Large

4.4.3 Metrics and Rollup Data Invisible on Oracle9iAS Home Page

4.4.4 Using emctl to Change the ias_admin Password

4.4.5 OC4J Metrics Not Displayed in the Home Page

4.4.6 Changing the ias_admin Password in Translated Versions of the Web Site

4.4.7 Oracle Enterprise Manager Not Supporting Multiple Locales

4.4.8 Deploying BC4J JSP, UIX JSP and UIX XML Applications

4.4.9 (UNIX only) Configuring JAAS with Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site

4.4.10 (UNIX only) Intelligent Agent May Not Work in Non-English Environment

4.4.11 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 and Oracle9iAS 9.0.2x Instances Incompatible for Clustering

4.5 Globalization Issues

4.5.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer Failing in Chinese Environment on DAS

4.5.2 Japanese Help Modules Displaying Incorrectly

4.5.3 Japanese Language Version Missing Graphic Files

4.5.4 Several Language Help Files Missing

4.6 Other Management Issues

4.6.1 Clock Synchronization

4.6.2 (Solaris 2.6 only) Localized Exception Messages Display Incorrectly

4.7 Security Issues

4.7.1 Disabling Demonstration Pages in Production Systems

4.7.2 IASOBF and Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On Wallet Support User-dependent

4.8 Directing Requests to OC4J Instances in Different Oracle Homes

4.8.1 Overview

4.8.2 Requirements

4.8.3 General Procedure

4.8.4 Non-Clustered Example

4.8.5 Clustered Example

4.8.6 Determining Oracle9iAS Instance Names

4.8.7 Determining OC4J Instance Names

4.8.8 Determining Cluster Names

4.8.9 Editing the mod_oc4j.conf File

Part II J2EE and Web Cache Install Type Issues

5 Oracle HTTP Server

5.1 General Issues and Workarounds

5.1.1 Manual Configuration to Access mod_osso Protected Pages from Netscape 4.7

5.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

5.2.1 Securing a Web Site Having OPMN/Oracle HTTP Server Infrastructure

5.2.2 Receiving Single Sign-On Errors When Accessing Protected Page

5.2.3 Configuring a Virtual Host Improperly Can Cause DADs to Break

5.2.4 Using a Full or Partial Host Name in Oc4jMount Syntax in mod_oc4j.conf File

5.3 Administration Issues and Workarounds

5.3.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer Reporting Incorrect Host Header

5.3.2 Microsoft Internet Explorer Reporting Errors

5.3.3 Stop and Start Oracle HTTP Server After Adding an SSL-Enabled Virtual Host

5.4 Documentation Errata

5.4.1 Correction for "Configuring the IIS Listener for Single Sign-On"

5.4.2 Login Server File Example Giving Incorrect Syntax

6 Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J)

6.1 Release Notes for CTS Compatibility Flag and Migration Issues

6.1.1 Master CTS Compatibility Flag

6.1.2 CTS Compatibility: Migration Considerations for OJMS

6.1.3 CTS Compatibility: Migration Considerations for JDBC

6.1.4 CTS Compatibility: Migration Considerations for JAXP/XDK XML Parser

6.2 Release Notes for JMS

6.2.1 Using Oracle JMS

6.2.2 OC4J/JMS Should Not Be Used in Oracle9iAS Releases 1.0.2.2, 9.0.2, and 9.0.3

6.2.3 Timeout Error with MDB

6.3 Release Notes for DataDirect Connect JDBC Driver

6.3.1 Use of the DataDirect Connect JDBC Driver

6.4 Release Notes for JDBC

6.4.1 Incorrect BatchUpdateException ORA-01013

6.5 Release Notes for JAXP/XDK XML Parser

6.5.1 Preservation of White Space

6.6 Release Notes for JSP, Tag Libraries, and Related Demos

6.6.1 JSP Application Security: Protection Against Cross-Site Script (XSS) Attacks

6.6.2 Miscellaneous JSP and ojspc Release Notes

6.6.3 Miscellaneous JSP, Tag Library, and Demo Release Notes

6.6.4 JSP Tag Library URIs

6.6.5 JSP Bug Fixes of Note

6.7 Release Notes for Data Sources

6.7.1 Connection Pooling

6.7.2 Client-Side Data Source Lookup Not Supported

6.8 Release Notes for EJB

6.8.1 General EJB Backward Compatibility Issues

6.8.2 Container-Managed Persistence

6.8.2.1 Dependent Objects

6.8.2.2 Self-Referencing

6.8.2.3 Association Table for One-to-Many Unidirectional Relationships

6.8.2.4 Association Table for One-to-One Unidirectional Relationships

6.8.3 Message-Driven Beans

6.8.3.1 Backward Compatibility for MDBs

6.8.3.2 Core Dump During Shutdown of OC4J Server

6.8.3.3 Modification for MDB Demos

6.8.4 Interoperability

6.8.4.1 CosNaming

6.8.4.2 Potential IIOP Port Conflicts

6.8.5 EJB Client Using an RMI Port

6.8.6 EJB QL Backward Compatibility for Finder Methods

6.8.7 OC4J Does Not Passivate Stateful EJBs when Server Runs out of Memory

6.8.8 EJB Security

6.8.9 EJB Clustering

6.9 Release Notes for RMI

6.9.1 RMI/IIOP Client Support

6.10 Release Notes for Servlets

6.10.1 NullPointerException when Invoking Remote EJB from Servlet or JSP

6.11 Release Notes for JAZN

6.11.1 Clustering Support for JAZN admintool

6.11.2 Miscellaneous JAZN Issues

6.11.3 Changing User Manager from JAZN LDAP to XML Has No Dynamic Effect

6.12 Release Notes for J2EE Connector Architecture

6.12.1 JSP Page Compilation Problem

6.13 Release Notes for Oracle9iAS TopLink

6.14 OC4J User's Guide Security Update

6.14.1 Specifying Login Modules

6.14.2 Configuring Login Modules

6.14.3 Example LoginModule

6.15 Documentation Errata

6.15.1 OC4J Services Guide Errata

6.15.1.1 Data Source Definition Syntax

6.15.1.2 HTTPClient Support for java.net.URL

6.15.2 OC4J Support for JavaServer Pages Developer's Guide Errata

6.15.2.1 Location of Generated Files

6.15.2.2 Default Well-Known Tag Library Location

7 Oracle9iAS Web Services

7.1 General Issues and Workarounds

7.1.1 UDDI Patches

7.1.2 Adding JMS Doc Service Tags

7.1.3 Adding JMS Doc Service Tags for Durable Topic Destinations

7.1.4 OC4J Server not Accepting RPC Requests when Part Names are Untyped

8 Oracle9iAS Web Cache

8.1 General Issues and Workarounds

8.1.1 Default Buffer Sizes

8.1.2 Insufficient Input Checking in Oracle9iAS Web Cache Manager

8.1.3 Oracle Application Server Limitations

8.1.3.1 Deployments

8.1.3.2 Entries for Network

8.1.3.3 Oracle9iAS Web Cache Behavior

8.1.3.4 What Restrictions Does This Imply?

8.1.4 TCP/IP Tuning

8.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

8.2.1 Oracle9iAS Web Cache Configuration Basics

8.2.2 Configuration File Upgrades

8.2.3 Oracle9iAS Web Cache Default Ports

8.2.4 Mismatched Oracle Home Definitions Causes Web Cache to Fail to Start

8.2.5 Peer-to Peer-Logging

8.2.6 Using Session Binding within a Cache Cluster

8.2.7 DAVOraWebCacheReadOnly Parameter Does Not Work

8.3 Security Issues and Workarounds

8.3.1 Single Sign-On

8.3.2 User Certificates

8.3.3 HTTP Authentication