Beta Refresh Release Now Available! Sun Cluster 3.2 Beta Program

The Sun Cluster 3.2 Release team is pleased to announce a Beta Refresh release. This release is based on our latest and greatest build of Sun Cluster 3.2, build 70, which is close to the final Revenue Release build of the product.
To apply for the Sun Cluster 3.2 Beta program, please visit:
https://feedbackprograms.sun.com/callout/default.html?callid=%7B11B4E37C-D608-433B-AF69-07F6CD714AA1%7D
or contact Eric Redmond <[email protected]>.
New Features in Sun Cluster 3.2
Ease of use
* New Sun Cluster Object Oriented Command Set
* Oracle RAC 10g improved integration and administration
* Agent configuration wizards
* Resources monitoring suspend
* Flexible private interconnect IP address scheme
Availability
* Extended flexibility for fencing protocol
* Disk path failure handling
* Quorum Server
* Cluster support for SMF services
Flexibility
* Solaris Container expanded support
* HA ZFS
* HDS TrueCopy campus cluster
* Veritas Flashsnap Fast Mirror Resynchronization 4.1 and 5.0 option support
* Multi-terabyte disk and EFI label support
* Veritas Volume Replicator 5.0 support
* Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 support on x86 platform
* Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 File System and Volume Manager
OAMP
* Live upgrade
* Dual partition software swap (aka quantum leap)
* Optional GUI installation
* SNMP event MIB
* Command logging
* Workload system resource monitoring
Note: Veritas 5.0 features are not supported with SC 3.2 Beta.
Sun Cluster 3.2 beta supports the following Data Services
* Apache (shipped with the Solaris OS)
* DNS
* NFS V3
* Java Enterprise System 2005Q4: Application Server, Web Server, Message Queue, HADB

Without speculating on the release date of Sun Cluster 3.x or even its feature list, I would like to understand what risk Sun would take when Sun Cluster would support ZFS as a failover filesystem? Once ZFS is part of Solaris 10, I am sure customers will want to use it in clustered environments.
BTW: this means that even Veritas will have to do something about ZFS!!!
If VCS is a much better option, it would be interesting to understand what features are missing from Sun Cluster to make it really competitive.
Thanks
Hartmut

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I am pleased to announce that Sun ONE Application Server 7, Plugin for JBuilder 8 is now available for public download. This technology integrates JBuilder 8 with the Sun ONE Application Server runtime environment to provide a fully-automated development experience. The Plugin enables J2EE developers to take full advantage of productivity enhancements provided by JBuilder. The Plugin is a technology provided by Sun for developer convenience. Sun will provide limited support on this technology.
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AMS Amazon Release now available for Sydney Region

Adobe Media Server availability on Amazon Web Services has been expanded. Amazon Machine image is now also available for Sydney Region
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Great news Mike! I've got my copy pre-ordered already ;-)
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Configurator 4 - final release now available

This is our shipping release of Configurator 4. It includes various bug fixes and introduces Hi-DPI support. It was just posted yesterday. Also look for the HMTL Sample Panel and the forthcoming Photoshop CC Features on Adobe Exchange.
Don't forget to submit the panels you create to Adobe Exchange. Sign up for a free producer account now and you can distribute your panels, whether you want them to be free, privately shared or even sell them.
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Hi,
Where can I find more info on the Hi-DPI support? Is there a way to include hi-res image assets to be used on retina displays?
Thanks.

Adobe Lens Profile Creator 1.0.1 Release Now Available

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Hi,
See Data Miner forum announcement: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/ann.jspa?annID=1854
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Thanks, Mark

You can use the 32 or the 64 bit versions.
But if you want to use the OCI/thick stuff, the bit level will have to match, 32 bit SQLDev with 32 bit Oracle Client with 32 bit JDK. Same goes with 64.
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Is oracle 9.2.0.8 compatible with Sun Cluster 3.3 5/11 and 3.3 3/13?

Is oracle 9.2.0.8 compatible with Sun Cluster 3.3 5/11 and 3.3 3/13?
Where can I check compatibility matrix?

matthew_morris wrote:
This forum is about Oracle professional certifications (i.e. "Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Professional"), not about certifying product compatibility.
I concur with Matthew. The release notes for sun cluster and oracle for solaris might tell you. oracle 9.2.0.8 is out of support on solaris and I recall needing a number of patches to get it to a fit state ... and that is without considering sun cluster. Extended support for 9.2.0.8 ended about 4 years ago ... this is not a combination I would currently be touching with a bargepole! You are best to seek on MOS.

Sun Ray Software release updates now available

The following maintenance release updates are now available from My Oracle Support:
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I'm getting bugged by my gf.. she has an unbranded 5800, a CV but it's stuck on v21.. problem is, her phone is hanging at the start of, during, and at the end of calls.. locking up hard. Thing is, we've never installed anything new on the phone with the exception of the maps update.. She does use it as an alarm clock, so I guess she'd be particularly miffed at it being inaccurate (like I was with my N97.. I now use a real alarm clock instead.. pittyful, I know!)
Introducing timing issues.. I think she can cope with.. She's not using it to read/access email she really just wants a working phone.. I didn't realise how bad it had got until I observed its performance first hand over a day.. 2 crashes! ouch!
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The Sun Update Connection System client, version 1.0.8 is now available as
software update 121118-08 (SPARC) or 121119-08 (x86). Version 1.0.8
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Connection and includes the following enhancements:
o Sun Update Manager has a brand new user interface which includes a new
look and icons, numerous usability improvements such as better progress
reporting and the ability to print/save installed and available patch lists and
patch README files.
o Support for Solaris Live Upgrade so patches can be added to an inactive
alternate boot environment.
o The Solaris 10 SMF configuration framework is now used to trigger the
installation of patches with special handling requirements (single user mode
or restart-after required) which will improve compatibility and reliability.
o The version 1.0.8 client uses a new Sun-hosted patch server that outsources
content delivery to Akamai. This enables us to provide superior download
performance to our customers worldwide.
For a complete list of the defects corrected in this release please
refer to the patch README file for this patch. Note also that this
update includes fixes that were delivered in prior releases of the
Sun Update Connection client software patch. By installing this update
you may be getting fixes that were previously available but not present
on your system.
Sun Update Connection Hosted application has been refreshed to include
numerous user interface adjustments and fixes that have been suggested by a
customer focus group usability study. Although there are no new features,
the usability of the product is substantially improved.
Thank You,
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On the SunStudio Patches - I dont believe that this will be fully fixed since part of the problem is the patches themselves. I however do not have access to a SunStudio installed test system at present so I'd be interested to hear feedback from someone who has tried installing these through the SunUC 1.0.8 toolset
Fonts - I believe that greater flexibility will be coming in future releases. Work on the Update Manager gui is still ongoing
Patch server - Yes the SunUC proxy will use the new servers providing it has been upgarded to 1.0.8
Sun4u patch - This is an issue with the patch metadata being incorrect and not the toolset.

Availability of Sun Cluster 3.2

Has anyone some news about the release date and the new features of Sun Cluster 3.2. It was once announced by end of 2006.
Fritz

Hi Tim
I more or less expected this answer from you ;-)
We are planing to use the Sun Cluster to switch Zones / Containers as GDS between nodes. We have currently some installations with Sun Cluster 3.1, but we are now in the process of evaluating a framework to deploy Solaris Zones in a large scale. This would also include containers in a clustered environment. There Sun Cluster 3.2 seems to have some interesting new features.
Unfortunately I had not the resources to paritipizate in the beta program.
Regards
Fritz

Sun Java 3D looking glass now available - Package ?

Hi,
justread the following:
https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3ddevelopersguide.html
Project Looking Glass Open Source
Sun Microsystems is contributing Project Looking Glass, based on Java(tm) technology, to the open source community. Project Looking Glass is an exploration project to bring innovative 3D features to the desktop environment. The desktop interface will offer an intuitive, new 3D environment to interact with desktop applications featuring window transparency, rotation, zoom, multiple desktop workspaces and miniaturization.Project Looking Glass offers a platform to realize far richer and more entertaining user experience for existing and new applications in 2D or 3D. The technology enables developers to build highly visual 3D desktops and applications that will run on Linux systems such as Sun's Java Desktop System. The Solaris(tm) environment will be supported in near future.
What does this mean to you?
If you're a software developer, please go to http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=63058 … 8531213971 and download this early version of the code and join the community in developing the 3D desktop.
Interested in using the Project Looking Glass? The project is in very early stages and a commercial version is not available yet. Please go to http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=63058 … 8531213990 to keep up to date on our progress.
Why Open Source?
Project Looking Glass is in its infancy, and we'd like to explore lots of ideas and possibilities. We're releasing the Project Looking Glass code to the whole community to explore every aspect of the technology rather than restricting access to a privileged few. We believe this open development is an excellent model to pursue this exciting and vast opportunity. So, your involvement is eagerly anticipated. We believe new dimension of developer innovation by making Sun's cutting edge technology available at Sun's 3D Desktop Technology Open Source Project on java.net.
We have been working for several months on cleaning the software up, providing basic features and functionality key to 3D window management. A key focus was looking at the existing 2D desktop applications, ensuring minimal compatibility and performance problems. The next step is to look what else we can do to foster real world 3D interactivity. We decided to open source this at a very early stage to ensure that we got good feedback from the community.
What's in the Open Source Project?
The following features are now available in the Project Looking Glass open source release:
3D Window Manager Platform - Java 3D based highly scalable 3D platform with client-server model support.
3D Window Manager and Application Development API - Java API to develop new 3D desktop applications and 3D desktop Window Manager features.
Native Application Integration Module - Allows developers to run conventional X11 applications in the 3D environment.
Sample 3D Window Manager - provides a simple sample implementation for testing and demonstration purposes
3D Environment Lite - Enables developers to run a simplified 3D environment as an application on a Java 3D enabled platform including Linux and Solaris environments. This serves as a development tool to test implementations.
This is all available at: http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=63058 … 8531213971
What's the licensing model?
There are three license choices for developers interested in creating applications using Project Looking Glass.
For developers who are interested in reviewing, revising, and redistributing the source code as part of their own application, Project Looking Glass has been submitted as an Open Source project on java.net under the GNU Public License, or GPL.
For developers who are interested in developing an application on top of the existing Project Looking Glass platform without reviewing and/or altering the code base, there is a binary version of the current state of the project available for download under a traditional Binary Code License. This is also available on java.net.
Finally, for developers or organizations interested in other uses or revising the source code but wish to keep their implementation and related application proprietary, please contact Sun at [email protected].
Project Looking Glass Community Meeting
Wednesday June 30, 2004
4:30pm to 6:00pm
The Argent Hotel, City Room
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.argenthotel.com/location.htm
4:00-4:30 Registration
4:30-4:45 Welcome, Introductions, and 3D Desktop Project Demo
4:45-5:30 Technology Overview, Possible Sub Projects, How to Get Started
5:30-6:00 Q&A and Networking
Please join the conversation with the Project Looking Glass developers from Sun Microsystems. This meeting will be technically focused introducing developers to the project and letting them know how to get involved.
You can meet the team from "Project Looking Glass" and other developers while enjoying food and refreshments. There is open admission. You do not need a JavaOne Conference Pass to attend.
There will be no webcast available, but we will post the information available at the meeting on the website. We'll also have several presentations and Project Looking Glass at JavaOne, and we'll post as many as we can on the web.
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Hi i found something like suns..loking glasses....
METISSE
http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/index.html
PKGBUILD:
pkgname=metisse
pkgver=0.3.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A real 3D-Desktop"
url=""
license="GPL"
depends=('xfree86' 'nucleo')
source=(http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/software/metisse/metisse-0.3.1.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
PKGBUILD of nucleo
pkgname=nucleo
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Nucleo library (needed by metisse)"
url=""
license="GPL"
depends=('xfree86')
source=(http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/software/metisse/nucleo-0.1-20040705.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
btw. you need gcc 3.4 not 3.4.1
and if metisse don´t want to compile ..like
ametista.cxx: In function `int main(int, char**)':
ametista.cxx:88: error: array bound forbidden after parenthesized type-id
ametista.cxx:88: note: try removing the parentheses around the type-id
make: *** [ametista.o] Error 1"
you should patch the file src/metisse-0.3.1/FvwmAmetista/main/ametista.cxx:88
before: char **user_arg char **user_argv = new (char *) [user_argc] ;
after : char **user_argv = new char * [user_argc] ;
sorry but i dont know howto create patch files ...feel free to make a patch
hoppe you find this software as funny as i do
mattux

Oracle Database 11g Express Edition (11.2) Beta is now available!

[url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1378]Forum Home » Database » Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Beta ばかりじゃなんなので、
Forum Home » コミュニティ » OTNカフェに [url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2201589]Thread: Oracle Database 11g Express Edition (11.2) Beta is now available! を作ったのですが、この Japanese Discussion Forums にも、めでたくこの [url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1380]Forum Home » データベース » Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Beta ができましたので、OTNカフェの Thread をこの Threadへ引越しました。
既に OTN Japan の [url http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/jp/database/express-edition/overview/index.html]Oracle Technology Network > Database Database > Express Edition > Overview にも載っていますが、[url http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/11gxe-beta-download-302519.html]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/11gxe-beta-download-302519.html から " Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Beta "がダウンロードできます。
[url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1378]Forum Home » Database » Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Beta を見てみたり、コメントしてフィードバックするのを楽しんでます。
【補足】
現行リリース Oracle Database 10g Express Edition ( 俗称 Oracle Database XE や Oracle XE や OracleXE )関連 Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Japan - 掲示板 » コミュニティ » OTNカフェのスレッドなど：
[url http://otn.oracle.co.jp/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=5001436]Oracle 10g Express Editionに興味深々
[url http://otn.oracle.co.jp/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=5001550]Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Beta 3
[url http://otn.oracle.co.jp/forum/thread.jspa?threadID=35004868]OracleXEに関する座談会
"Project XE" (Oracle Database XE in Japan) - S/N Ratio (by SATO Naoki) [url http://d.hatena.ne.jp/satonaoki/20081202/p1]http://d.hatena.ne.jp/satonaoki/20081202/p1
Edited by: wmo6hash on Apr 24, 2011 3:45 AM Blogosphere は別の Message へ

そうですね。Oracle Database 11g Express Edition BetaフォーラムなのでBetaのことだけ書いていました。

Kodo 3.0.0 beta now available

All,
Kodo JDO 3.0.0 beta 1 is now available at:
http://solarmetric.com/Software/beta/3.0.0/
Kodo JDO 3.0.0 is a major release, and contains significant changes to
properties, mapping information, and Kodo-specific APIs. To read more about
these, and to read about how to convert a Kodo 2 project to Kodo 3, see the
migration documentation at:
http://solarmetric.com/Software/beta/3.0.0/b1-docs/docs/kodo2.html
NOTE: the conversion is non-trivial, so we have provided a number of tools
to automate most of the process. So please read and obey the migration
documentation, which will guide you through the migration tool process.
For details about some of the major new features in this release, please
read the release notes at:
http://solarmetric.com/Software/beta/3.0.0/b1-docs/docs/relnotes.html
The full documentation is available online at:
http://solarmetric.com/Software/beta/3.0.0/b1-docs/docs/index.html
Some of the major new features include:
* New mapping system, providing more powerful and flexible mapping options.
* More configuration options for connection pooling.
* Configurable eager fetching of 1-1, 1-many and many-many relations.
Potentially reduces the number of database queries required when iterating
through an extent or query result and accessing relation fields of each
instance.
* More optimized SQL batching.
* Simplified package structure for Kodo-specific APIs.
Known issues:
* DB2, Informix, and Sybase do not fully pass our internal tests yet. Sybase
is close to passing, and DB2 and Informix probably work in many situations
as well, but they are not yet officially supported by this release.
* We have done only limited integration testing with application servers.
* Our IDE integration components are not included in this release.
As usual, please discuss any issues, desires, etc. on the beta newsgroup:
news://news.solarmetric.com/solarmetric.kodo.beta
Enjoy,
- Greg
Greg Campbell
SolarMetric, Inc.

1. I can't see any standalone GUI tool to do mapping tasks, as you have
ever announced.The GUI will have its own beta program and release schedule.
2. the file : <kodo3.0>/samples/jsp/build.xml has a line wrong:
<fileset dir="../../../lib/">
should be:
<fileset dir="../../lib/">Thanks!

Camera Profiles and DNG Profile Editor beta 2 now available

Hi everyone,
Beta 2 of the camera profiles and DNG Profile Editor are now available. Please visit here and enjoy:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Profiles
I hope to have more detailed release notes/changes for you soon. You are welcome to ask questions, but please note that it may take a while for me to respond.
Eric

Eric,
I followed very carefully your instructions for installing the new beta2 profiles and deleting the beta1 profiles, but have the same problems as many others. I'd like to provide a bit more information. I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium and have installed Photoshop CS4, updated with ACR5.1 and Lightroom 2.1 final release. As others have described, the default for all of my images was set to one of the Camera profiles (Canon faithful beta1), but now the profile name in Lightroom is blank. I tried looking at the other profiles and it does indeed appear that the beta2 profile is being used, but if I then reset the image it now shows ACR4.4, whereas the image had been imported with the camera profile as default. Also, if I open an image in ACR5.1 that was specified to use the same camera profile, it now shows ACR4.4 and it is not using the beta2 profile of what I had been using, I can see this by selecting the other profiles. Going back to Lightoom, I guess I could select all my images and select the Canon faithful beta2 profile, but then the mark shows up bottom right of the image showing that they have all been edited/modified, is there anyway to get all my images using the profile I was using but the beta2 version, without this happening and how about new imports?
Thanks, David.

Production release of ODT now available

I'm happy to announce that the production release of ODT is now available for download here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/tools/index.html
There have been alot of enhancements over the beta. A few of the more interesting ones include:
* support for generating typed datasets
* ad hoc SQL Query Window with script support
* enhanced PL/SQL editing
* integrated error manual
Keep the feedback coming!
Christian Shay
Oracle

Here are some first impressions of the "Query window". This is just a list of the problems, so it seems quite negative. Some of the problems are small and some are larger. The thing that I think will annoy me most from day-to-day is the lack of a hotkey for execute and that bind-variables are not supported (but we all have our pet-bugs/problems):
- In the context menu for the connection move the "Query Window" up under open (I quite sure the query window is more used than both "Delete" and "Close").
- You shouldn't call the feature "Query Window" in the context menu and "Query Editor" in the title of the window. Be consistent.
- You might want to rename the "Query Window" to "Query Analyser" (for compatibility with sql server)
- A explain window (or rather a explain tab) should be added (like every other query tool).
- Sql-statements should be timed, the time should be shown in milisecounds(!) and rounded/truncated (it might not be that percise but it invaluble as a quick guage when rewriting a sql to see if you a going in the right direction). For extra points show any "long ops" messages/status at regular intervals. Maybe it would be very interesting (powerfull) to see "buffer gets" next to the elapsed time.
- "Execute" really need a hotkey. I would suggest either "Ctrl+Enter" (for compatibility with Toad), "Ctrl+E (for compatibility with Sql Server) or F5 (for compatibility with Sql Server and Visual Studio). The hot key sould be shown in a tooltip when hovering the execute button.
- I overlooked the execute button at first. Move it to a toolbar and make it a green "Play"-button (for compatibility with Toad, Tora and Sql Server).
- When having 2 sql-statements in a query window you seem to execute the last one. Please execute the one under the cursor. Sql statements should be seperated by empty lines (ie. containing only white space) or a semicolon.
- The "Toggle Query Output" is non-descriptive. Change it to "Hide Query Output" (and "Show Query Output" respectively) and add the little black cross that e.g. the "Task List" have.
- When having e.g. "select * from dual;" the Query Window and going to the line before that statement and typing "/*test" the whole window turns green (so far, so good), but when adding the closing "*/" after "test" the select-statement stays green.
- Line and collumn-numbers in the error messages would be really usefull.
- It seems that you don't provide help to the keywords? it thought that was one of the "selling points"?
- Intellisense would be nice (but maybe mostly a "cool"/"demoware" feature). But maybe a hotkey for opening the "Oracle Explorer" with the active (eg. where the cursor is on or a the right of) table/view/function/package/... expaned would be more usefull. If the cursor is at the right of the keyword "FROM" a list of tables should be shown but if it is on "FROM" the help with the syntax should be shown. Escape should return focus to the query.
- Ctrl+L should make the selection lowercase and Ctrl+U make it uppercase (or Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Shift+U for compatibility with the rest of VS.NET). I find that the code, I use the editors "change case"-feature most on is sql sinse I really like sql keywords upper case and identifiers lower case (and oracle ofthe make everything uppercase).
- Now I see that there is a execute button on the toolbar, but (a) you have made it a strange brownish green (please make it greener) (b) you have placed it in the far left (or that is where it showed for me) in the top toolbar, where I had expected it to the left of the text "Query Editor" (inside the "ORACLE://<shema>.<datasource>/Query" pane).
- Move the title "Query Editor" to the Tab (that says "ORACLE://<shema>.<datasource>/Query"). This will save some vertical space and make space for the toolbar. The title "Query Output" might be remove altogether.
- Bind variables doesn't seem to be supported. I think that this is really a problem since *you should make it easy for developers to do the right think* and bind variables certainly is the right thing. You should bring up a window with the binds that are used in the query and enable me to set their type (if you can't figure it out from context (eg. emp.id=:emp_id would probably mean that :emp_id is a number) and their value. Also please persist the type/value for each variable name so I don't need to figure out the id of that employee I usally test with.
A few non-query window notes:
- In the spirit of "make it easy to do the right thing", what would be the easy way to call (and get intellisense on) a package function in a the cs-file?
- In the context menu for a procedure "Run" should be "Run..." sinse it just brings up a window. And you probably want to "Delete" at the bottom (above the line).
- In the context menu for a view "Retrive Data..." should be "Retrive Data" sinse it doesn't bring up a dialog. I accidentally selected it for a rather large/slow view and really wanted a "Stop" button (thanks for the option to stop after 30 seconds). I think you shouldn't retrive more than, say, 50 rows without the user explicitly saying so (and never blob/long raw columns or more than eg. 100 chars from a clob/long column).
- The default action when dobbelt clicking a table shouldn't be "Retrive Data..."(!), it should be "Design...".
- Choosing "Generate Create Script..." (which might just be called "Generate Script") on a produce, funciton or package, should bring up a preview window with a save-button.
- When opening a function in the "Oracle Explorer", setting the cursor on eg. the keyword FUNCTION and hitting F1, the help index opens searching for "Oracle.ODT.SQL.CREATE FUNCTION", but there is (of cause?) no such topic. If I select the any part of the text in the help index search box and hit delete, I am asked "Oracle Explorer, Are you sure that you want to permanently delete '<shema>.<datasource>.<function name>' from the database ?" which is definetly not was I want to do!
With regards to the rest of the add-in, what is was really hoping for was Visual Source Safe integration and easy procedure calling, but that doesn't seem to be implemented. But then I don't know what the problem statement for this add-in was.

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