WebDB and HTML DB

Hello ,everybody!
HTML DB seems to be a very attractive instrument but can we be sure about his future? We had before WebDB and where is it now? Is the oblivion of this kind is possible for HTML DB (ApEx) after two-three years?

Hi Vatasi,
I suggest you read these threads, which give you a bit of background on HTMLDB/Apex history etc.
HTML DB History
Re: Orbit vs. HTML DB
Orbit vs. HTML DB
As for guarantees about its future, I tend to thing of it this way - if Oracle decided to drop Apex tomorrow, completely stopped developing, promoting and supporting it, then I would still have (in my opinion) one of the best web development environments I've ever used. For me, the software I develop is for a purpose, it fulfills a business requirement, therefore the key decision for me is "will Apex let me achieve the goal of meeting that business requirement". The answer I've found so far is usually yes.
I know people who still develop systems in Turbopascal, they've resisted the temptation to move to things like .NET etc, because for them the end result is to design a working system, not to do it in the latest greatest tool.
To take a silly example, if I was was evaluating Apex against another tool (let's call it X), and X provided me with a cast iron guarantee that it would be supported for the next 10 years. However the trade off is that development in tool X took 3 times longer than using Apex, would I be wise to choose tool X? Personally I'd say no....I've go with the tool that was quicker to develop, implement and maintain right now.

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Comparison between Oracle Forms and HTML DB

Something that has always puzzled me...
What is the difference between Oracle Forms 10g and HTML DB from a functionality perspective?
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/index.html
The underlying architecture, technology used, etc might be different, but from the user's point of view, dont they both do pretty much the same thing?
Why did Oracle take the time & effort to invest in building HTML DB from the ground up (with its mod_plsql, webdb, etc earlier pedigree) instead of just investing in Oracle Forms which has a well-established history, customer base?
Thanks

This is purely a layman's perspective, but after using Developer Forms 10g intensively for about 9 months, and now just recently getting into HTML DB, my opinion is this:
HTML DB is really really great for 'quick and dirty' forms and reports deployment when there's not a lot of validation to be done. Not to say you can't do any kind of validation, I just personally don't find it intuitively easy to implement after using Developer forms so much. So far doing the layout has been hard for me, as I'm used to the 'drag and drop' aspect of Oracle Forms, but once you have your layout set, it pretty much takes care of resizing itself when your application is viewed on various screen sizes and resolutions.
Developer forms has been, for me, way easier to use to accomplish all the validations I need using PL/SQL (you can use java, too, but I haven't learned enough java yet to do that). However, it's more demanding to deploy. You have your application server to maintain, you have to copy over your forms modules, your menu modules, your library modules, make sure everything is compiled properly so your form doesn't crash when someone navigates from one field to another, etc. Also, from a dynamic layout perspective, it's a little harder to design for various screen sizes, resolutions, etc. The html in HTML DB takes care of that for you.
So basically I'm finding that each technology fills a certain niche better than the other. The fun is in trying which technology fits with which niche.

PDF output does not refresh data in BI Publisher, XML and HTML do refresh

I just upgraded to BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.0 and I noticed that the PDF format of the reports does not reflect recent changes in data, while XML data and HTML output do reflect changes in data immediately.
I'm using BI Publisher to print APEX applications reports. When I change some data in APEX forms, I click again in the Print button and the data remains unchanged. I made some testing inside Oracle BI Publisher, and noticed that XML data and HTML output do reflect changes, but PDF output remains with the old data for some unknown amount of time. I cannot identify a method to force the PDF to refresh, just un-log and log in again several times until the data appears updated. This is serious because when users change data and print again, they expect the changes to be reflected in the new printable report, and may not notice that the data is the old version.
OS is Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Any help on this will be very welcome.
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Open the report in Edit Mode Click on the reports and in the properties section Uncheck the
Enable Document Cache Property and your issue should be resolved.

EDGE and HTML dynamic text in a "box" with scroll bar

I'm new to EDGE, a win7pro master collection cs5.5 suite owner. I'm mainly in the Film/Video post production field (mostly AE, PPro, Pshop, IA) but have been branching into web design the last couple of years. I use Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash. While I'm a expert user with all the Film/video apps, I would say I only have intermediate ability with the web apps. While I understand a lot of programing logic bulding blocks I'm not a coder.
So since we're told "flash is dead", my interest in Edge is to try to do some of the things that I can currently do in flash in EDGE. I was excited when Edge first came out but lost interest when it became obvious that Adobe was not going to offer Edge and Muse to "suite owners" but only in their force feeding of the "Cloud". Better known as the "golden goose" for adobe stockholders and a never ending perpetual hole in the pocket for users. Anyway....
I spent the last couple of days doing some of the tuts and messing with the UI. It's matured a lot since I was here last.
I've been working on a flash site for a sports team where one of the pages is a player profile page where college recuriters and other interested parties can view recuriting relavent info/stats about players. This is how it works. While on the "Team" page a users clicks on a button labled "Player Profiles" . (Animation) A "page" flies in and unfurls from the upper right corner (3d page flips effect created in AE played by flash as a frame SEQ). Once it lands filling most of the center of the screen there is a bright flash. As the brightness fades we see the "page" is a bordered box with a BG image of a ball field(End). (Animation) from behind the border in fly small pictures (player head shots with name and jersey number). They stream in and form a circle like a wagon train and the team logo zooms up from infinity to the center of the circle(End). As the user mouses over a player's pic it zooms up a little and gets brighter (like mouseover image nav thumbs for a image slider). If the user clicks on a player's head shot it flips over and scales up to become a text box with a scrollbar. The content of the box is a mix of images, static and dynamic text fields populated from data in an "player info data base" XML file, and some hyperlinks. It's all kept updated dynamicaly with current stats, info and images from the XML file. There is also a "PDF" button that allows the user to open/save/print a PDF of the player's profile (the PDF's are static files for now but the choice of which pdf to retrive is dynamicaly supplied via the XML file.
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I thought I would approach this from the end (ie click on an image and display a box with dynamic TEXT fileds. ) since that is the most important part, ie displaying the dynamicaly updated profile info. Sooooo....
Can Edge display a scrolling text box with Images, static text, and html dynamic text in it??
Joel

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Re: [iPlanet-JATO] Tomcat 3.2 serving images and html?

First of all David you are faster responding to email than I am. Thanks.
We tried your scheme with no luck. You are using "ROOT" as your war file
name ROOT, correct? Are you sure the jsp would reference
"/images/MyProject/nppnback.gif"? Why is "MyProject" in there? Where is
the directory "images" defined to Tomcat? Is it a default?
Here's another try at explaining:
In my JSP I have;
<IMG SRC="/images/ef.gif" ALT=People Banner">
My application is in webapps/EformsAppWar
(jsps in EformsAppWar/EformsApp/eforms/*.jsp)
(classes in EformsAppWar/WEB-INF/classes)
so images are in webapps/EformsAppWar/images
and there is, indeed a ef.gif there.
However with no server.xml changes (everything default), Tomcat 3.2
gives a 404 in his log and states in the 404 message that context is
null (CTX < >) and ca't find /images/ef.gif + NULL.
By the way I just noticed that in Tomcat 3.1 I have the images directory
directly under webapps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David J.L. Martin" <<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=114166018056146134184102046176231239071179066034">dave@t...</a>>
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 3:35 pm
Subject: Re: [iPlanet-JATO] Tomcat 3.2 serving images and html?
This works:
If the doc root is webapps\ROOT --
Using defaults...jsp's would be put in
webapps\ROOT\MyProjectApp\MyProject\*.jsp
and images would be put in webapps\ROOT\images\*.gif
Then in your jsp...use the following reference:
"/images/MyProject/nppnback.gif">
That will work just using defaults and not playing with any of the
config files...
ie. webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF gets updated as well (with required
classes).
djm
TechPie
916 924-1832 (office)
916 730-4743 (mobile)
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<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=114232044112042209130232046248130100239179057215113109152006048067">dmushrush@e...</a> wrote:
Many of you are running Tomcat 3.2. Can anyone tell me how to get
images to be served by Tomcat. In 3.1 if I referenced /images/image.gif> in my JSP, I could just place the images
directory in the application
(context) directory.
The default docBase is webapp> that webapp> relative addressed as /images/image.gif but such is not the case.
I have put the images directory almost everyplace possible with no luck.
I have explicitly defined docBase in tomcat/conf/server.xml and still no
luck.
I currently have the following in conf/server.xml
<Context path="/EformsAppWar"
docBase="c:/tomcat/webapps/EformsAppWar"
crossContext="true"
debug="0"
reloadable="true" >
</Context>
I place images in that directory structure but still take 404's and in
the log it refers to context as /images ????
I'm probably doing something (or not doing something) foolish. Anybody> have a remedy.
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First of all David you are faster responding to email than I am. Thanks.
We tried your scheme with no luck. You are using "ROOT" as your war file
name ROOT, correct? Are you sure the jsp would reference
"/images/MyProject/nppnback.gif"? Why is "MyProject" in there? Where is
the directory "images" defined to Tomcat? Is it a default?
Here's another try at explaining:
In my JSP I have;
<IMG SRC="/images/ef.gif" ALT=People Banner">
My application is in webapps/EformsAppWar
(jsps in EformsAppWar/EformsApp/eforms/*.jsp)
(classes in EformsAppWar/WEB-INF/classes)
so images are in webapps/EformsAppWar/images
and there is, indeed a ef.gif there.
However with no server.xml changes (everything default), Tomcat 3.2
gives a 404 in his log and states in the 404 message that context is
null (CTX < >) and ca't find /images/ef.gif + NULL.
By the way I just noticed that in Tomcat 3.1 I have the images directory
directly under webapps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David J.L. Martin" <<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=114166018056146134184102046176231239071179066034">dave@t...</a>>
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 3:35 pm
Subject: Re: [iPlanet-JATO] Tomcat 3.2 serving images and html?
This works:
If the doc root is webapps\ROOT --
Using defaults...jsp's would be put in
webapps\ROOT\MyProjectApp\MyProject\*.jsp
and images would be put in webapps\ROOT\images\*.gif
Then in your jsp...use the following reference:
"/images/MyProject/nppnback.gif">
That will work just using defaults and not playing with any of the
config files...
ie. webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF gets updated as well (with required
classes).
djm
TechPie
916 924-1832 (office)
916 730-4743 (mobile)
916 313-3531 (fax)
<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=114232044112042209130232046248130100239179057215113109152006048067">dmushrush@e...</a> wrote:
Many of you are running Tomcat 3.2. Can anyone tell me how to get
images to be served by Tomcat. In 3.1 if I referenced /images/image.gif> in my JSP, I could just place the images
directory in the application
(context) directory.
The default docBase is webapp> that webapp> relative addressed as /images/image.gif but such is not the case.
I have put the images directory almost everyplace possible with no luck.
I have explicitly defined docBase in tomcat/conf/server.xml and still no
luck.
I currently have the following in conf/server.xml
<Context path="/EformsAppWar"
docBase="c:/tomcat/webapps/EformsAppWar"
crossContext="true"
debug="0"
reloadable="true" >
</Context>
I place images in that directory structure but still take 404's and in
the log it refers to context as /images ????
I'm probably doing something (or not doing something) foolish. Anybody> have a remedy.
<a href="/group/SunONE-JATO/post?protectID=210083235237078198050118178206047166215146166214017110250006230056039126077176105140127082088124241215002153">[email protected]</a>
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A working method to load local PDF and HTML files on iOS

I had a lot of trouble getting this to work, and I'm hoping this post saves someone time. Some of the information that's been posted in other locations is either wrong, incomplete, or might only work on Android. By the time you read this message the information here may no longer be accurate, so here's the testing environment:
Window 7
Flash CS 5.5.0
AIR 2.7.0.19530, which was compiled on June 28, 2011
iPad 1, version 4.3.5 of iOS
Let's get started.
On iOS, you load external PDF and HTML files using the StageWebView class.
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You can also load HTML files by reading in the file's text. The information in this post is only for loading external HTML files.
StageWebView will not load a file that's in File.applicationDirectory. All files bundled in your app are placed in File.applicationDirectory, which means you'll have to copy any external file you wish to load with StageWebView to another directory.
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            catch (err:Error) { }

I tried this with Flash CS5.5 and AIR 4.0 SDK. Any pdf loaded simply fills the viewPort with black. Also tested with a png version of the pdf and that displayed just fine.
What's the purpose of copying to a temp work file? I found that webView.loadURL( sourceFile.url ); gave me the exact same results.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

How to read text from PDF and HTML

I have got solution to read text form .txt file but did'nt get code for PDF and HTML.
I dont want to convert PDF to txt.
Please help me ...

reading from a file is always the same. using the same strategy used for a .txt will allow you to read a .pdf file.
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How to read data from PDF and HTML file

I have got solution to read text form .txt file but did'nt get code for PDF and HTML.
I dont want to convert PDF to txt.
Please help me ...

ah crap i could have guessed there would be a crosspost only the forum in where the crosspost is made is abit funny
To OP: DO NOT CROSSPOST
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5267875&tstart=0

I am in the process of expanding a database of chemistry journal articles. These materials are ideally acquired in two formats when both are available-- PDF and HTML. To oversimplify, PDFs are for the user to read, and derivatives of the HTML versions a

I am in the process of expanding a database of chemistry journal articles. These materials are ideally acquired in two formats when both are available-- PDF and HTML. To oversimplify, PDFs are for the user to read, and derivatives of the HTML versions are for the computer to read. Both formats are, of course, readily recognized and indexed by Spotlight. Journal articles have two essential components with regards to a database: the topical content of the article itself, and the cited references to other scientific literature. While a PDF merely lists these references, the HTML version has, in addition, links to the cited items. Each link URL contains the digital object identifier (doi) for the item it points to. A doi is a unique string that points to one and only one object, and can be quite useful if rendered in a manner that enables indexing by Spotlight. Embedded URL's are, of course, ignored by Spotlight. As a result, HTML-formatted articles must be processed so that URL's are openly displayed as readable text before Spotlight will recognize them. Conversion to DOC format using MS Word, followed by conversion to RTF using Text Edit accomplishes this, but is quite labor intensive.
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Hi,
With the project all done, i'm preparing for the presentation. Managed to get my hands on a HD beamer for the night (Epason TW2000) and planning to do the presentation in HD.
That of course managed to bring up some problems. I posted a thread which i'll repost here . Sorry for the repost, i normally do not intend to do this, but since this thread is actually about the same thing, i'd like to ask the same question to you. The end version is in AfterEffects, but that actually doesn't alter the question. It's about export:
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My C6180 printed multiple copies of any document from my Vista OS laptop ( wireless connection ), but not from my
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Pls Help--- URGENT... Combining XML file and HTML file Using java program.

Hi, I need to implemnt this for my project....
I need to combine XML and HTML file and generate a new HTML file
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toucansam wrote:
So you want us to write it for you? It's pretty straight forward, first parse the xml file with the *[best java xml parser|http://www.google.com/search?&q=parsing+xml+in+java]* and then go through the nodes and construct the html with strings and concatination. Then write the file using *[the best java file writer|http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=writing+to+a+file+in+java]*.
He would do better to use existing tools that make this easy [http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/kit/2004k/ctl257/JavaXSLT/Ch05.html|http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/kit/2004k/ctl257/JavaXSLT/Ch05.html]

Published swf and html file viewing issues.

Greetings,
I design web banners and used to, with Flash 8, sedn my
clients the published *.html and *.swf files to download onto their
desktops so they could view the banner. With Flash CS3 this doesn't
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click file/publish settings/formats, make sure the swf and html boxes are selected, and click the use default names button. then click file/publish. are the files in your directory with your fla?
if not, create a new directory (that has no subdirectories), save your fla to that new directory using a new name (ie, click file/save as). then click file/publish. check the new directory for your 3 files.

Oracle Apps and HTML DB Integration Problems

Hi,
I have integrated Oracle Apps and HTML DB, using custom authentication schema so that HTML DB looks for APPS username and password for validation.
Also, i have created menu, responsiblity, functions, custom application etc, so that user can login from Oracle Apps login screen and then select the responsibility which will redirect to HTML DB Applications page.
My problem is, once the user clicks on the Responsbility and the function(which is nothing but HTML DB Page), it is redirecting to login page and i need to re-enter the apps user name and password again to access HTML DB applications.
Is there any way, can i redirect the user directly into my HTML DB application page, without taking him to login page of HTML DB application and also uses the APPS user name and password which he had entered in the Oracle Apps login page.
I need your help on doing the same. Please respond.
Thanks
Ram

Hi Scott,
Thanks for the quick reply. I agree with you in terms of validating the session but I haven't been able to get that to work - one of my earlier posts describes the issues I have experienced:
Authentication and SSO (non-Oracle)
I suppose my question is - is there a simple way for the APEX app to validate that there is an active Apps session cookie?
In terms of the encrypted password, what I have been trying to do was make use of the FND_WEB_SEC.VALIDATE_LOGIN method which is described in other posts and the Scott Spendolini presentation on integrating apps.
Thanks,
Stuart

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