Contents

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Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure of This Guide

Related Documents

Conventions

1 Introduction to Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services

1.1 Restrictions with This Installation Type

1.2 Available Features with This Installation Type

1.2.1 OracleAS Forms Services

1.2.2 Oracle Application Server Reports Services

1.2.3 Oracle HTTP Server

1.2.4 Oracle Application Server Web Cache

1.2.5 Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J)

1.2.6 Oracle Enterprise Manager

1.2.7 Oracle Process and Management Notification (OPMN)

1.2.8 Distributed Configuration Management (DCM)

2 Installation Overview

3 What’s New in the Installation

3.1 Custom Port Numbers

3.1.1 Ports

3.1.2 Using Default Port Numbers

3.1.3 Using Custom Port Numbers (the "Static Ports" Feature)

3.1.3.1 Ports for Oracle HTTP Server and OracleAS Web Cache

3.1.3.2 Examples

3.1.3.3 Notes on Using staticports.ini

3.1.4 Default Port Numbers

3.2 Configuration Assistant Enhancements

4 Compatibility with Earlier Versions

4.1 Compatibility with Release 2 (9.0.2), Release 2 (9.0.3) and Release 10g (9.0.4)

5 Requirements

5.1 System Requirements

5.1.1 Tips for Reducing Memory Usage

5.2 Operating System Patches

5.3 Operating System Packages

5.4 Operating System User

5.5 Environment Variables

5.5.1 DISPLAY Environment Variable

6 Post-Installation Tasks

6.1 Testing your Forms and Reports Services Installation

6.2 NLS_LANG Environment Variable

6.3 Deployment of Forms and Reports Application

Index