Acquiring Oracle Spatial Data through WFS

Hi,
I have been researching for awhile and am slightly confused.
I have Oracle Spatial 11g with geometry data and would like to be able to retrieve that data through a WFS to serve to a viewing application.
Here's where I am confused:
1) Spatial has a WFS service which needs to be configured. If I were configure that, would I be able to access the data through URL getFeature commands? The documentation I see for them has the getFeature requests in the form of XML files so I am not sure if I can do that. Also it seems like the service is returning .log files but I think I would want GML...
If this is the option I should take, the tutorial to setup OC4J and the Web Services are for a Linux machine (http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/11gr1_db/datamgmt/spatialws/spatialws.htm) -- Is there one for Windows 64bit?
2) Do I need another "application layer" to enable this URL support? I know MapServer can use URL requests.. can I just run this against the data in my DB and forget about the Oracle WFS?
3) MapViewer seems to work with WFS Themes and handle requests through Java and SQL.. is this another option?
I am basically confused as to where everything sits and what I should be focusing on to get my Spatial data out of the DB through a WFS. Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Any help debugging this issue would be greatly appreciated:
As per the documentation:
http://localhost:8888/SpatialWS-SpatialWS-context-root/wfsservlet?request=GetCapabilities&service=wfs&version=1.0.0
:this get request should return the capabilities info however I receive this error message instead in the browser:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <ogc:ServiceExceptionReport version="1.2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opengis.net/ogc http://localhost:8888/examples/servlets/xsds/OGC-exception.xsd" xmlns:ogc="http://www.opengis.net/ogc">
<ogc:ServiceException code="WFS-1042">Exception during processing request</ogc:ServiceException>
</ogc:ServiceExceptionReport>
The sytem out from the oc4j container provides this error message:
10/04/27 15:47:38 [oracle.spatial.ws.WSProperties, Tue Apr 27 15:47:38 MDT 2010,
INFO] No subject specified in request.
10/04/27 15:47:38 [oracle.spatial.ws.WSProperties, Tue Apr 27 15:47:38 MDT 2010,
ERROR] Oracle Spatial WS Server could not set up configuration parameters: jav
a.lang.RuntimeException: No subject specified in request.
10/04/27 15:47:38 [oracle.spatial.ws.servlet.WFSServlet, Tue Apr 27 15:47:38 MDT
2010, FATAL] java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: No subject
specified in request.
at oracle.spatial.ws.WSProperties.getProperties(WSProperties.java:705)
at oracle.spatial.ws.servlet.WFSServlet.doGet(WFSServlet.java:108)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletReque
stDispatcher.java:734)
at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(Ser
vletRequestDispatcher.java:391)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequ
estHandler.java:908)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpReques
tHandler.java:458)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.serveOneRequest(HttpReque
stHandler.java:226)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.ja
va:127)
at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.ja
va:116)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSo
cketReadHandler.java:260)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.procClientSocket(Server
SocketAcceptHandler.java:234)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.access$700(ServerSocket
AcceptHandler.java:29)
at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler$AcceptHandlerHorse.run(
ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:879)
at com.evermind.util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(Relea
sableResourcePooledExecutor.java:303)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: No subject specified in request.
at oracle.spatial.ws.WSProperties.getUser(WSProperties.java:574)
at oracle.spatial.ws.WSProperties.getProperties(WSProperties.java:695)
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