Design Browser Client

Question

Hi,
We have started installing OWB at our site and I managed to install Design & runtime repos. I am trying to enable the Design browser client. But hitting problems.
While installing Design repos, I have not mentioned any Port number. We have Oracle 9.2 database running on Windows 2000.
My HTTP Server is running and so OC4J.
When I give this, http://localhost:7778:owb_mahesh/, it does nothing. while I replace 7778 with 7777 it immediately comes out with an error. I tried 7779 and i get the same error.
When I initiate Browser from OWB Program menu, it tries to open the browser client with address - http://127.0.0.1:8999/owbb/DBLogin.uix.
Any guidence is really helpful.
Many Thanks
mahesh

Answer 1

Hi Mahesh,
I'm guessing your port is 7778 (you can find that in the file: <Oracle_home_DB>\Apache\Apache\conf\httpd.conf. Look for "Port 777" using Find in the file).
Take a look at the configuration guide for OWB for more details but these are the highlights:
The first thing to do is going to http://locahost:7778
There you you click the MOD PL/SQL entry. Create a Database Access Descriptor, use the same name for this as the OWB Design repository schema.
Then start the OC4J and launch the design browser from the programs owb entry.
That should work.
For the Runtime browser there is no need to create a dad, just start the OC4J and use the menu entry.
Hope this helps,
Jean-Pierre