Hands-on experience with WebLogic

I have been told to learn WebLogic. However, we do not have it installed on our system. I can read blogs and tutorials, but I was wondering if there is some way I can get some hands-on experience with WebLogic.
A few months ago, I was told to learn about Application Express (apex), without it being installed on our system. I got an online account with oracle.com where I could practice apex. Is there a similar thing where I can learn WebLogic without it being installed on our system?
Thanks, Wayne

I hope going thru blogs, parallel practice various things in Oracle Weblogic will give you hands-on experience. Go thru following links it might help you to gain rough cuts for your destiny....
1. http://bhavanishekhar.googlepages.com/weblogic
2. http://sites.google.com/site/weblogicadminsite/
3. http://wlstbyexamples.blogspot.com/
Enjoy !! Learning Oracle WebLogic
Regards
Pavan

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How to get hands-on experience with WebLogic

I am a developer for a governmental agency. I have been told to become familiar with Oracle WebLogic. I am looking for a way to get hands-on experience.
We do not as of yet have WebLogic Server installed, so Workshop for WebLogic is not an option. What do you suggest for a way to get hands on experience with this whole area?
Thanks, Wayne

I hope going thru blogs, parallel practice various things in Oracle Weblogic will give you hands-on experience. Go thru following links it might help you to gain rough cuts for your destiny....
1. http://bhavanishekhar.googlepages.com/weblogic
2. http://sites.google.com/site/weblogicadminsite/
3. http://wlstbyexamples.blogspot.com/
Enjoy !! Learning Oracle WebLogic
Regards
Pavan

Any kind of integration experience with Weblogic JMS and Oracle AQ?

Hi,
In my company I work with java developers who believe in some kind of "holly" database independence I don't understand and as a result my life as a database developer is hell on earth.. Yesterday we again started to discuss, this time where to log, they believe database is slow and prefer logging to filesystem, after some hours finally I could convince them for some operational and reporting needs to use the database and will do this in an asyncronous way whiich they won't get slow. After all I believe the reason for a database is data, this is the place where data lives, and with the correct desing and implementation logging to database would perform better.
I love Oracle features, and know that we paid a lot for this software, so today I started investigating this promised solution. And quickly I found AQ and JMS topics in the documentation :)
After this introduction here is my problem; my company use BEA Weblogic as application server and the java guys want AQ to automatically (but of course with some delay) take their JMS log requests into database tables. Does any one have similar application experience, or any kind of integration experience with Weblogic JMS and Oracle AQ?
Any comments, references, documentation, sample code, url will be most welcomed :)
Thank you very much!
Tonguc
[email protected]
References I found upto now;
Oracle® Streams Advanced Queuing Java API Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14291/toc.htm
(Packages; javax.jms & oracle.jms)
Oracle® Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14257/toc.htm
Part IV
Using Oracle JMS and Oracle Streams AQPart V describes how to use Oracle JMS and Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing (AQ).
Chapter 11, "Introducing Oracle JMS"
Chapter 12, "Oracle JMS Basic Operations"
Chapter 13, "Oracle JMS Point-to-Point"
Chapter 14, "Oracle JMS Publish/Subscribe"
Chapter 15, "Oracle JMS Shared Interfaces"
Chapter 16, "Oracle JMS Types Examples"
A Sample Code from Otn
http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/web_services/jmsws/NewsQueueEJB.java.html

I wouldn't go as far to say Oracle AQ is out-dated today. However, it is indeed a proprietary technology that did not found much main-stream adoption in the earlier years after its introduction. The advent of JMS made it somewhat more useful (or should I say intriguing, because more people are trying to tie it together with other J2EE technologies), but the Oracle's JMS wrapper classes in aqapi.jar were not feature complete for a long while, so using it outside Oracle's application server was painful, if not impossible. I do agree that the info at the dev2dev's JMS newsgroup or in this forum is highly fragmented, as neither Oracle nor BEA provides an official solution to integrate AQ with WebLogic, so people like us have to learn the technology through experimentation and in a piecemeal fashion.
3 years ago I was literally "playing around" - we had a polling mechanism set up to use triggers to write Oracle data changes into an event table, and had a Java-based daemon to scan that table and publish events as JMS messages to the WebLogic JMS server. This continues to work reliably till today, but I was looking for a solution that has few parts - I wanted to hook up my WebLogic MDB directly to AQ as a foreign JMS provider. Although I was able to get it to work (including XA), there were a few hoops I had to jump through, such as decompiling the Oracle AQjms classes to make them bind to the WebLogic JNDI tree.
One year after that Diptanshu Parui took what I did a giant step further - he extended the Oracle AQjms classes to allow them to be bound to the WebLogic JNDI tree naturally, and he figured out how to use WebLogic JMS messging bridge to re-send single-threaded AQ JMS messages to clustered JMS queues, which allow concurrent message assumption by multiple instances of MDB's. My impression is that he is using that setup in a production environment.
I am sure you are aware of it but I would like to make it clear - in order to use AQ as a foreign JMS provider to WebLogic-hosted MDB's, you don't need to update your database to Oracle 10g - Oracle 8i is good enough (although I recommend at least 9i Release 2). It is not the database engine, but rather the aqapi.jar JMS wrapper on top of AQ that matters. I do recommend that you use aqapi.jar from Oracle Application Server 10.0.3 or up for better XA support, among other things. Again, you don't have to replace WebLogic with Oracle AS - you only need a single jar file from it and put it in your WebLogic's classpath. However, I don't know what this means from a licensing point of view if you ever go to production - do you have to pay the full price of OracleAS or OC4J just to use the aqapi.jar?
In the coming days I will test the latest aqapi.jar to see how much progress Oracle has made in terms of making their J2EE products more spec-compliant :-).
Hope the above gives you a different perspective.
Eric

15 minutes hands on experience with the 3G :D

Yesterday I got an iPhone 3G, synced it and played around with it for 15 minutes.
Then I got the message "needs repair", it shut down and ever since was stuck on the boot screen.
Restore ends reliably in a "error 1002".
I'm open to ideas
Also: Is this an indicator of the reliability lying ahead? Just because I should need to get an extra bag to bring my die hard Sony Ericsson along...just in case.
thx

Pipe down guys and curb the fanboyism. I didn't try to hack my phone. I encourage people who really want to help to read my post.
I synced it, played with it, it gave me a message that it needs repair and died.
This is a T-mobile phone, from the t-mobile shop with a t-mobile contract and insurance covering everything. I'm not worried about the phone per se, I'll just return it no problem.
I'm just thinking that, given all the other problems that people post, the iPhone might not be the solid reliable tool that I'm looking for.
And for the record: I hereby confirm that "Error 1002" has nothing to do with trying to hack the iPhone.
So you can all safely go to bed now.
Since I didn't get any worthwhile advice other than "take it back", I'll do just that.
Thx

Please share experience with Report Designer in BI7

I am looking for people to share their hands on experience with Report Designer in BI 7.0.
I have seen the video, blogs, sap documentation, and the marketing materials. I have also test driven it myself. I have found not found it very useful for complex formatting. While I know there will be lots of opinions, I am looking for real life, hands on experiences you have had with the tool and if some of the complex things you have been able to do with it.
Here are some of challenges we are faced with:
1. Need ability to combine data from multiple queries into a single report. For example, one query has statistics and the other has amounts. We need to be able to create averages combining the data from both queries into a SINGLE result area.
2. We have need to be able to create a report where GL Accounts with activity over threshold amount are shown with a line for each account. Any accounts with amounts less than threshold, should be grouped on a line called 'other'. Again, this needs to be combined into a single result area.
When I say, single result area, I mean to be able to calculate amounts using data from both queries into a single result area. Displaying each query separately side by side is not an issue.

Have been playing around with Report Designer and I found it useful for basic formatting but not for the one's you had mentioned in your post.
SAPs suggests you do all the data manipulation in the Query Designer or Infocube and use Report Designer for just formatting the data. In the past we had issues where we could not certain calculation in query designer and have used Crystal Reports along with BI data for similar kind of things which you had mentioned in your post (using sub reports and report level data manipulation). Report Designer unfortunately does not provide any of these functionalities.
I have seen comments from SAP saying Report Designer will be developed further, not sure of any specific functionality whichis coming in. I think it is SAPs first step in the formatted reporting area and may be in the future we will have a tool which can handle much more complex scenarios!
Thanks.

Using URL alias with Weblogic - How do you do it?

Bear with me I have zero experience with Weblogic.
We use Weblogic as a component of Hyperion Planning, meaning for Hyperion Planning weblogic is installed and acts as the java application AND webserver.
Currently our Hyperion Planning URL is http://servername:port as per security audit we need to use an alias so that users do not have straight access to the direct URL link.
Therefore we created on the DNS a URL alias BFS.companyname.com. Now I need to associate this alias with the Planning URL which is in weblogic.
I have logged into the weblogic admin console and see 'Virtual Hosts', I enter in the host name BFS.companyname.com and select the target which is the Hyperion Planning workspace (http://servername:port) apply changes yet nothing occurs.
If anyone has done a URL direction could you please post the instructions on how to do so...thanks
JTS

Just to share this will all. The URL alias redirection is done within Apache webserver and not the Weblogic program.
Edit the httpd.conf file with this information below:
1. Configure Apache to listen on port 80:
a. Back up the configuration file, e:\Hyperion\common\httpServers\Apache\2.0.52\conf\ht tpd.conf
b. Add "Listen 80" to the Listen section.
c. In the Virtual Hosts section, (around line 955), uncomment the line, "NameVirtualHost *:19000"
d. Add "NameVirtualHost *:80"
e. Uncomment the "<VirtualHost *:19000>" code block, down to "</VirtualHost>"
f. Edit and add the following block to Virtual Hosts
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.myserver.com
DocumentRoot e:/Hyperion/common/httpServers/Apache/2.0.52/htdocs
</VirtualHost>
g. Restart Apache.
2. Redirect Web Page
a. Create a page in the virtual web directory, index.html that contains the following html code:
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://myserver:19000/workspace/index.jsp">
</head><body>
</body></html>
b. Have someone in NSE alter or create a DNS entry that redirects "hyperion" to the appropriate IP address. The default page (index.html) on the default port (80) will execute the redirect in the html document above, launching the workspace login screen.
JTS

Miserable experience with replacement LG Fathom, that replaced defective TP2

Freezes
It does freeze.
Alarms don't work right
I use the alarms & those didn't work right. I had set 1 for 9:30 pm & 1 for 10 pm, The 10 pm one got up to 12 alarms--even though only 1 was set. Tech support wanted me to do a hard reboot but wasn't very thrilled about that as I would then have to reinstall software & re-set up linking & set up email all over again.
After awhile I turned off the alarms. But they still went off. I did check--they were turned off. & then it got so the 9:30 one would freeze the whole phone. I couldn't activate the buttons to make it stop or snooze---they didn't respond & the whole phone was frozen so I would have to reset.
Finally I deleted both alarms & set them up again. Working better, but again the 9:30 one has about 6 alarms that go off so I have to stop each one. I think one time I stopped all & the 10 pm one didn't go off. They are supposed to help remind me to start windiing down--the 9:30 one & then to seriously shut down the computer & get ready for bed.
Sometimes they don't seem to go off or accidentally get turned off.
Volume buttons can get bumped & turn to silen so calls missed
Another issue is that the volume up down buttons can get bumped. A while ago I was trying to set up a drs appt I think it was & was waiting for a call back. I finally called them back when I hadn't heard. I think they said they had tried to call. Later I saw that they had--4x but I discovered the volume was turned off so I missed those important calls. Not good.
The keyboard is not very nice.
Downgrade replacement for defective TP2
This was a replacement for my defective Touch Pro 2. I had paid for that top of the line phone, & in CA we have to pay sales tax on the full list price! Someone (obviously going by the specs, not actual usage) raved about how this phone was supposed to be so super. NOT. The list price was about half that of the TP2. It doesn't have the digital voice recorder the TP2 did, nor a lot of the HTC features that I liked & used like the automatic vibrate for appts that were listed as busy. & I really miss the way that I was able to set several cities up in world clock & then I could easily see what time it was & what the weather was. Nice when friends were in those ciities.
The keyboard on this is smaller & I keep getting periods in the middle of the sentence when typing emails which then makes the next letter a capital &makes it hard to read. It has 1 less row in the keyboard. The phone is smaller than the TP2, so easier to carry, but harder to see.
Someone called me on Thanksgiving & I didn't recognize the area code, but I was trying to answer & must have accidentally used the wrong slider so the call disappeared. Then there was some icon at the top, but it was so small I couldn't really tell that it was a voice mail indicator, so I didn't check until way late at night.
Verizon called this an upgrade--even though it was actually a replacement for a top of the line phone (the TP2 was a cool phone, if only it had worked well but it got so that it would randomly change orientation while I was trying to read an email, & it got so the backlight wouldn't always come on & sometimes even after pressing it multiple times) but I would call this a downgrade. While the processor is about 2x as fast as the TP2, it doesn't really work noticeably faster. I guess that's the winmob OS.
Win mobile issues
& of course then Microsoft did a # on users of WinMob 6.5 when they came out with Windows phone 7 which is totally incompatible. So phones that ran 6.5 can't run 7 & the software is incompatible. I had gotten it for busines where we had aps that needed 6.5.
It has been a miserable experience with both of these phones, when I bought the TP2 I went for the premium phone, planning to keep it for over 2 years. Instead it had multiple issues its 1st year which I put up with for months. Finally got the replacement Fathom, which again, Verizon kept calling an upgrade but its really a downgrade. I had paid for a top of the line phone, & got an inferior phone, smaller keyboard, & screen, less features & it doesn't work so well.
Are smart phones less reliable than regular cell phones?
I don't know if smart phones in general are less relaible than regular cell phones or what, but my experience has been very frustrating all the way. These are supposed to be productivity enhancers. Instead I've had way too many issues, & often tech support, while usually nice & trying to help, they didn't always know what they were talking about.
Want a reliable smart phone that does what it is supposed to do--feel ripped off
So I'm frustrated with this not very reliable phone & want to get a reliable phone. But I sure wasn't planning to have to buy a new phone this soon. My previous phone was a basic LG flip phone with speaker & no camera & that thing just worked so I kept it for about 5 years until I needed the win mob phone for biz. I no longer need it for that, & it isn't working very well, but I don't really want to spend the $ for a new phone right now.
Really frustrated with the bad experiences with both phones. I feel like I didn't get what I paid for & again I went for a top of the line phone, intending to keep it for several years, not expecting all the problems I've had with both phones. btw, the Fathom retail price was about half that of the TP2, even though the 2 yr agreement price was the same. but in CA we pay sales tax on the full retail.
I would like to be able to get another smart phone that is really reliable like an iPhone, but really wasn't planning on buying a new phone this soon.

Greetings caatkins4,
When your phone is the lifeline to your job, it would be most frustrating to experience issues such as the ones you've described, especially if you do not have a back up in place for when things go wrong. All of our phones are tested to make sure they meet the manufacturer’s specifications before being sent out. It is regretful to hear that the refurbished Samsung Galaxy Note 3 you received may not have met these specifications once it was in your hands.
I was able to review your services when I located your Geek Squad Protection plan with the email address you registered with the forum. Unfortunately, at this time we would only be able to provide you with another replacement. It appears we've already created the service order necessary, and presently, it appears that a tracking number has been created for your replacement phone. It should ship soon if it hasn't already, as it sometimes takes up to 24 hours for UPS to update their shipping information.
I apologize if this is of any inconvenience to you. If you should have any questions, please feel welcome to reach out to me.
Respectfully,
Tasha|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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My experience with iPhone 4

Hey ,
Thought it may be useful for some on my own personal experience with the new iPhone 4.
Bought the iPhone 4 last Friday , was please upon my purchase, excited to upgrade from my iPhone 3G to all the nice new features.
Firstly I was quite pleased with the new sleek design and the feeling of a quality product in the grasp of my hand. I proceeded to turn on the phone and was greeted by a new display with nice clarity and detail. The first thing in my mind to do was to check out the new camera and video capabilities, I was quite impressed... That is until I took a photo with a White background which then revealed orange spots.
As soon as I seen the orange spots on the screen my first reaction was to search the Internet to see what the he'll they were, upon my search I disciscovered it was the bonding agent and that it should disappear within a couple of days. Not being too happy with paying a premium price for a premium product and receiving sub standard quality my intention was to bring the phone back to the apple store for a replacement the following day.
Before I made a return to the apple store I thought I would see what other users were experiencing if anything , as always with new products introduced on the market there could be some teething problems. I wasn't disappointed, I found that there is a major issue with the antena and dropped calls as well as the proximity sensor issue, both of which I had been experincing.
The antena issue was only a concern when I indeed held the phone in my left hand and not the right, however like many I wasn't satisfied that the phone could only be held in a certain way so that it was useable, this disappointed me further and made my mind up that bringing the phone back was the correct decision.
The proximity señor issue might I add was quite frankly irritating as my face would end calls.
Upon my arrival (Sunday) I was met by quite an arrogant sales rep who I explained my issues to, he insisted that he couldn't help and that I would need to make a genius bar appointment to see one of the many highly trained , military style technical wizards. All I wanted was a replacement but no an appointment need to be made and the only slot available was the following Thursday. Now usually my experience with faulty products is bring it back and get it replace there and then, not through appointment, however I appreciated the fact that the phone was in much demand and there wasn't much I could do until my appointment.
On the Thursday I arrived at my appointment at the genius bar and explained my issues to the technical guy who was much more helpful than the previous sales rep. He replaced my iPhone 4 merely for the fact of the proximity sensor and not orange blobs or antena issues. As a result of the replacement the orange blobs and proximity sensor issues have been resolved, however the antena issue still remains.
My situation at the moment is quite confusing, do I bring the phone back and get a full refund in mind of maybe having the phone on a lengthy contract while it actually can't make calls or drops calls if held in a certain way, or do I wait and see if the apple software fix resolves the problems. Idealy the software fix will come within the time frame were I have the ability to bring the phone back for a refund. I think many are in the same :position as myself.
Posted from my iphone

i am having sort of the same issue. as of now, i already have to send my phone back after one day of usage because i can hardly hear the other person on the other end of the phone. when i make or receive calls, have to turn up the volume to it's highest to hear anything at all. And from what i hear, it sounds like the person is a 100 yards away. my hands don't even touch the outside black line. and i still can hardly hear them. are you having this same issue?

My experience with the N97 - "my last Nokia"

Hi everyone,
I know this is a user-to-user support forum but I believe a complaint to be some sort helps users to decide whether the N97 is for them or not. Before you read on, this post will contain comparisons to competitors, so if you hate apples, feel free to ignore me! (Also I don't think users should stop harassing Nokia for what they have done to us - the more complaints the better. Igoring customers is not a very good corporate strategy. Eventually it will take them down - people buy Nokia for quality, otherwise they could buy a rip-off from ebay).
Just skimming over the posts shows me that I am not alone. So let me share my experience with Nokia and the N97. I am too tired complaining about this phone, at least I think my experience has made sure that no-one of my friends and relatives is ever going to buy a Nokia again.
When I bought the phone for then 500 pounds at the Nokia flagship store in London it seemed nice enough. Good camera, decent keyboard and features competitors could only dream of. Unfortunately, that's paperwork. For a start, the much advertised facebook application was completely disfunctional and taking into account that Nokia clearly tried to compete with the iphone (my apologies again for mentioning a competitor) frankly a lame joke. I know a firmware update has somewhat relieved the situation now, but I will come to that later.
Okay, so I have disabled the facebook application. Not a drama, surely the rest will work okay. But then after a week some of the pictures I took with the built-in camera weren't accessible anymore (broken image displayed). Again, I have another camera and I was hoping for a firmware update so I ignored it. I had now started using the joikuspot app to browse the internet on my linux box. Very nice. I started using email a lot on my phone but again was disappointed. I have a £165 ipod touch here. Without kinetic scrolling and an extremely bad UI design, by which I mean the icons and menus (ignoring the graphics flaws all the time) it is no match for the ipod, so what i did was to use joiku spot with my ipod touch. Before that firmware update the N97s browser was also still buggy so I used joikuspot for that too. I was now down to using my £500 smartphone as a wireless modem. What a shame. But I was still hoping for some kind of magic update.
Then finally, I found out about the firmware update. I had to open my phone, check the serial and visit the Nokia website. Unfortunately, the Ovi software and drivers supplied with the phone did not recognize my N97 properly. Something which I think was fixed with the firmware update (anyone seeing a circular dependency here? ) Furthermore, the built-in firmware update over 3G seemed to be disabled. So I made the journey back to the flagship store in London, explaining the problem. I was greeted by an extremly rude employee. Well, I think that's not really his fault, I guess he was just sick of all the complaints. Anyways, I told him that the 3G update was not working and he started to be really patronizing telling me that I wouldn't listen to him (he said it was "working" but "disabled"). Maybe I should have told him that I am a software engineer and that in 99.9% of the cases in which we disable a feature, the reason is that it is "not working". Anyways, he kindly allowed me to use one of their machines to update the firmware "at my own risk", which worked. At no point I have received an apology for the fact that I have paid Nokia £500 to beta-test their products.
Now of course, the firmware update has succeeded, but is all fine? Far from it.... As many report on this forum the N97s battery meter is faulty. Countless times, my phone has just literally died overnight. It even forgets time and date! This is more than bad - every phone I have had so far complained about a draining battery well in advance. I had to dig out my old phone to serve as an alarm clock again - the fact that the alarm clock itself is unreliable is a alltogether different matter... One time the battery died during the day - after doing nothing for 4 hours in my sports bag (started with 1 bar down). When I had to make a call that day, for the first time in I don't know how many years I had to use a telephone box. Progress?!
The firmware update has also barely improved the email client - just a few ui glitches solved. However, the biggest issue at the moment seems to be the weird memory organization. When I buy a phone I don't want to deal with something like the c drive problem. Reinstalling applications on the 32gb partition helps somewhat but why didn't Nokia do that in the first place? Has this phone never been tested?The phone is still way too slow.
I can't comment on the iplayer app - says it needs wlan to work. But the youtube player has crashed every time i used it. And by crashing I mean it took down the whole phone with it. I admit that my ipod crashed a few times too - in just under a year (~3 times). But the reset was straightforward every time. With the N97, the only thing that seems to help is to take the battery out!
Before I forget, the N97 doesn't even work as a phone. In a 30 minute conversation, the call got dropped 4 times. I don't know whether it was because of a calibration issue with the proximity sensor or a more serious problem, all I know is that this is unacceptable!
I am sick of the phone and Nokia's service. The joikuspot app ran out and asks me to pay... I have paid £500 pounds for the bloody phone already. The adobe reader asks me to pay... (somehow it ran out without me even using it). Maybe you see why I am getting angry now - the only use case that actually put the N97 on top of my old phone was gone. What infuriated me even more, is that Nokia bundles this software with the phone. It cannot actually be deinstalled! It just sits there merrily and takes up my hard drive space.
Last but not least, I have written to Nokia already, but not received a response! This is a Nokia forum with Nokia employees following the posts. I would be very, very, very grateful if Nokia could give me a refund. However, with them not even acknowledging the various problems I somehow don't see that coming. I'll probably have to sell it with a massive loss on ebay.
Cheers,
Will
P.s.: I have all the same small issues as the other guys here - slider lock at the side not working etc. You are not alone... Has anyone complained about the music player? I have 16gb of music on the phone and scrolling is impossible! The Symbian OS is so obviously not built for a touch screen that it hurts. Of course they don't put much music on the phones in the Nokia store so people only find out when they get home...
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hi ! the nokia n97 is a really an amazing device. It keeps up to the promise of live online 24 x 7. I discovered it and wanted to share. Still there are some unanswered questions and if any vetran could help would really appreciate.
i am an user from India. and have the n97 for about 3-4 weeks now. Practically I have been living online 24 x 7 as The list of unexpected issues that a nokia n97 offers seems unending, some of which i am narrating have made me scout on the web to try n search answers.Not that i will be able to action information you provide instantly. My new phone has gone for reparis(sic), so once its back can do that & will acknowledge your replies.
My Quests:
1. First things first! How to request for & get refunds for a Nokia Phone in India.
2. Is there a touch querty as an input method? like windows mobile ? Request Know How. I now seem to agree to the feedback on one of the blogs.. that nokia designers feel that the average size of user hands would be that of big people & fingers like a japaneese teen. The physical keyboard does not seem to offer any additional functions other than text input !
3. Predictive text where in the touch screen menu, the words dont get auto completed. This increases the number of taps/input strokes. Is the n97 intelligent & learn words from sms, contacts, emails. my blackberry does so. Request Know How & any options to edit custom dictionary. Auto Punctuation ? Am i expecting too much already ?
4. Single hand use of phone impractical using touch pad t9. Entering alphanumerics on the physical querty is a nightmare... Request Know how on tips & tricks.
5. Green tick yes or v button on top left of the text input screen. friendly again only for big handed people. Could this have been at bottom right. Is alternate screen for text input touch t9 available? Requested Know how.
6. Unnecessary taps additional taps alomost in all menus...for eg.. sending a biz card from n97 requires 5 taps... in the other mobile phone systems it can be done in 3 taps. Requested Knowhow for shortcuts.
7. Can In a nokia we get a view of the entire events as single thread.... No Provision for search display against keywords upon I can get call logs, messages - Here in Nokia, no search filters / advanced search and all searches results plotted to applications vs person/events. Requested Know How if it can be done like blackberry / windows mobile.
8. Copy & Paste across applications. eg. Select text from web page copy n paste on message application.... possible on Nokia...? Requested Know How
9. Call& Event Logs e.g Missed calls. If there are 5 missed calls the log will show the last called time only. In most other mobile systems Blackberry, windows each event is logged against a user. Requested know how on how this is handled in Nokia.
10. Lag in picture display upon call. Number displays first and after few seconds lag the pic pops up. Is this normal & acceptable ? Other windows / rim devices show it instantly.
11. When will Nokia enable usage of Native clients like google talk, yahoo like blackberry, iphone ? Any know how on possibility of release. Any equal alternatives suggested for n97. Tried Nimbuzz, Fring, Ebuddy. Miss the chat message notification icon on home screen, notification on the chat messaging icon, sound, breathing lights.
12. Is there any planning for better email client? Likely Release dates?
13. The Java App for GMAIL on blackberry shows an indicator on icon in addition to customised alert setting tone & breathing light for new messages. Retreiving Emails is consistent & auto on other devices. The Nokia Does not seem to auto refresh + No Notification. How is it handled on Nokia ?
14. Can user friendliness be something where we can do actions with a contact or on contacts screen single view... e.g see contact on google map, Help on contacts screen/n97 help, lookup contact on server, filter by category. new address, new group, view, edit, delete, activity log (incl sms, mms, email, calls), call, sms, mms, email, send as attachment, send as im, add a custom ring tone, add picture, options - sort by, separators, sync settings, actions, switch
applications, exit. We have seen it on inexpensive phones. is it possible to be done on Nokia?
SOME OF MY STILL UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS Post upgrade to ver 12. Did you also face similar bugs/issues?
15. Contacts inaccessible – “Memory Full Error”. No other applications were active at the time of the error. Just unable to reach any of my 3500 contacts through the contacts options & do anything.
16. Pbk2 error upon selecting contacts in the messaging application.
17. Audio Delay upon receiving a call. No Sound upon connection of incoming call. Especially if picked up too fast.
18. Shows as searching for network constantly many times a day. We have 2 n97s & observed that both n97 almost have similar timing of network loss. Whereas, our other devices like blackberry do not show any weak signal signs.
19. GPS Lock. Keeps searching for GPS locks constantly i.e Drops connection to GPS network frequently.
20. Unpredictive battery talk time, standby & required Charge time.
21. Voice inaudible at other end, when using loudspeaker & especially during calls from moving vehicle.
22. Camera:
a. Picture clarity issues. Secondary camera highly pixelated. Primary camera shows light flooding on pictures. Clarity Missing.
b. Erroneous Time stamp on images.
c.Lens Cover Started to show minor scratch pressure.
23. Ovi Suite recommends erroneous updates for E.g Maps 3
24. Text Input touch t9 screen freezes / Hangs, especially when entering special characters like period(.), comma(,), exclamation (!) etc
25. Selectively & at random contact Name not displayed on Caller ID (sometimes)
26. Selectively Message & Message delivery display number, instead of stored contact names.
27. Sync Issue, All contacts not synced always.
How to sync "categories" field as stored in outlook or how to map custom fields to Nokia.
28. Format Mass Memory error, Unable to format. Unable to delete specific files.
29. The auto lock... When attempted to unlock with querty out .. it still opens in portrait mode ?
30. SMS Logs Not updated. e.g any sms sent before storing a contact.... after storing or adding
contact the number does not get automatically updated to the name. It reflects the number still in the logs.
31. Picture caller... The face is half cut ..Looks weird on most images... as the number is not transparent. In landscape mode there is enough space on the screen to put up the answer or reject buttons and displaying the numbers.
32. Browser will close on its own & return to menu or home screen.
thanks in advance for your time to stop & read. Pls do send any information that you think will be useful to me for making the n97 do some work.
NEW additions:
(tested on another n97)
33. Predictive Text :
Usage for auto word completion only on physical keyboard, when the Dpad down key is used it throws up options but the way the scroll is designed you can see the full word and one makes mistakes.
34. another strange behaviour is on the text input... this was on an email i was trying to reply. the stylus touch will paste the last keyed in word !! we wonder why.
35. and while showing off the second n97 we have (again 3-4 weeks old) - we were asked how much did we pay for this second hand unit - 50% off .. apparently the comment as the surface has got scratched very badly.
i hope the info is good use to others who want to take the risk of buying this device

Hibernate OR EclipseLink...Which is best with Weblogic and Oracle DB?

Hi All,
In my company, we are using Oracle DB and Weblogic application server. So in the process to upgrade or switch to new ORM, we shortlisted two options - Hibernate and EclipseLink.
I gathered following summary regarding both ORMs -
Hibernate:
1.     When you need to train people, like we are going to do next week – most of the companies have Hibernate experts.
2.     When you hire new developers, most of them come with specific Hibernate experience.
3.     When you need to consult with experts, both in the internet or consultants, you have LOTS of options. Endless forums and communities all regarding Hibernate.
4.     Hibernate is an open source which has a huge community. This means that it will be improved all the time and will push the ORM market forward.
5.     Hibernate is an open source which means you have the code to handle, and in case needed, fit it to your needs.
6.     There are lots of plugins to Hibernate, such as validations tool, audit tools, etc. These becomes standard as well and dismiss you from impl. things yourself.
7.     One most important thing with ORM tool, is to configure it according to your application’s needs. Usually the default setting doesn’t fit to your needs.
For that sake, when the market has a huge experience with the tool’s configuration, and lots of experts (see point 1 and 3) – most of chances you will find similar cases and
lots of knowledge about how to configure the tool and thus – your application.
EclipseLink:
1. Fully supported by Oracle. Hibernate no. In case of pb, it could be cumbersome to prove that it is a pure Weblogic one. Concretely, we will have to prove it (waste of time and complexity).
2. Eclipse link is developed by Oracle and the preferred ORM in the Weblogic /Oracle DB world.
3. Even if at a certain time EclipseLink was a bit late compared to Hibernate (feature), EclipseLink evolved very fast and we can consider now that they close the gap.
4. No additional fee as soon as you have Weblogic license. You will need to pays additional fee if you want some professional support on Hibernate.
5. We are currently relying on Hibernate for our legacy offer and are facing pb in second level cache (JGroups). Today, we are riding off this part!. Consequences are limitation in clustering approach (perf)
6. On EclipseLink side we do succeed to manage first and second level cache in a clustering approach.
7. Indeed Hibernate is open source, so you can imagine handling it. In reality, the code is so complex that it is nearly impossible to modify it. Moreover as it is LGPL, you need to feedback all the modified sources to the community systematically.
8. All tests performed by Oracle concerning Weblogic are using EclipseLink. Moreover, Oracle says that some specific optimizations are done to manage Oracle DB.
9. Hibernate comes from JBoss community.
Right now we are preferring Hibernate but there are concerns/reasons like EclipseLink developed by Oracle and preferred ORM in Webogic/ Oracle DB world (compatibility of ORM with DB and App. server), support comparison with both ORM, which are preventing to finalize the decision.
Please help me with you views and opinions and share you experience with us so that we can make a perfect decision.
If you want you can also reply to me @ [email protected].
Thanks.

The way the ORMs are designed, integration with application servers are relatively simple, and all provides the same features. Also since WebLogic have been around for a while, all ORMs are all well tested in this configuration.
Hibernate has lot more users, and is likely very often used with Oracle DB, so you can expect not much bug against Oracle DB, maybe even less bug than EclipseLink, which is not much used. EclipseLink does provide support for some esoteric Oracle DB features like hierarchical and flashback queries.
OpenJPA and DataNucleus are also JPA compliant. It’s likely that Open JPA has a higher user base than EclipseLink, so less unknown bugs.
Oracle paying support is well known to be a bad joke. It’s a negative return to use this channel, even if they would be free. So in reality, you end up to use the open (free) forum to get support.
What’s was lacking with Hibernate before is Dynamic Fetch Planning, but they now have some support, see http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3414. OpenJPA was the first to implement this must have.
EclipseLink has query in memory, which can be used, but the API do not help to leverage it, and EclipseLink’s leadership made it clear that they are not going to make it better, instead they want to push Coherence cache.
Hibernate has an open API for second level cache, which mean you can get out of problem by using another implementation, for example, EHCache seems to be professionally tested, so I would be surprise you find obvious bugs.
I cannot comment on Hibernate source code quality, but I can tell you that locking mechanism in EclipseLink is used to be very fragile, and many concepts are dispersed over the code base.
The runtime monitoring of Hibernate have always been great due to the fact that JBoss have always been strong on JMX, EclipseLink has not much usable features on this.
If I would be you, I would consider OpenJPA or Hibernate instead of EclipseLink, the main reason is that because EclipseLink has a so low user base, I have found lot of obvious bugs in production, like if I was the only user of it. Then, when I submitted bugs to the small development team, which do not encourage user base contribution, they were too busy trying to keep up adding the JPA interfaces on top of their existing proprietary APIs.

HT1577 how do a get a refund on a ridiculously slow downloading rented movie for my apple tv dispite a 5mb/sec down load speed? my first experience with appletv movie rental. no good. rented at 4:30pm. still waiting for standard def movie to finish at 8:1

how do a get a refund on a ridiculously slow downloading rented movie for my apple tv dispite a >5mb/sec down load speed? my first experience with appletv movie rental. no good. rented at 4:30pm. still waiting for standard def movie to finish at 8:10pm. Not good enough.

Thanks for the pointers folks. Yeah, 1.5GB is pretty poor isn't it? There are other suppliers, but you have to get a their phone line installed to access the internet so it's an £85 setup fee plus a day off work for a guy to come round and drill a hole in your wall before you even get to the monthly costs.
Don't get me wrong though - I'm certainly not an Apple basher, but am equally frustrated with both them and the ISP.
Virgin Media spend all kinds of money advertising their broadband as the fastest in the UK, but don't tell you (up front anyway) that you'll be cut off if you actually try and use it.
Apple on the other hand carry on with their 'it just works' mantra, but with Apple TV this only applies if you meet certain criteria (again, not mentioned up front).
I guess it aint a biggie, as i was gifted my Apple TV, and love all the other stuff it does, but from the number of posts on this forum can see that there's a lot of angry customers out there who want explanations as to why they're having similar problems to me.
Will be very interesting to see if Apple release any kind of software update that turns the flash drive from a buffer to permanent storage, to at least ease some of the pain...
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MY BAD EXPERIENCE WITH CHAT AND VISION

In my personal e-mail I received publicity inviting me to purchase a Skype credit gift card. I thought it was a nice offer and I happened to have a friend that had the need and could use such a gift. I procedeed to purchase a $10 dollar gift card, I did the transaction from Colombia and sent it to my friend in the US. Shortly after the purchase I received a message warning me that my order was being under security scrutiny. I found it unexpected and unjustified (Is my $10 dollar order a security risk of some sort?), but I thought that maybe it was because it was an international order, and I understand the need for security in online transactions, so I decided to not worry, trusting in the spotless service that I have had from Skype up to that point. At that moment I noticed that the one providing the service was no Skype but Chat And Vision (whose website, by the way, looks far less friendly than Skype's).
Then I received an Email telling me that the order has been rejected. No justification, no explanation. Just a politely worded but most unhelpful and uninformative e-mail. It made a point of telling me that they didn't retain the payment, yet my card was charged and no refund has been made so far. I replied the e-mail asking for a reason, and how to get a refund. I received the automated reply telling me that somebody would contact me the next day. It's been a day and no reply so far.
Searching online I found mine was only one in a long list of blunders and poor service from Chat And Vision. The complains on forums and online outnumber the claims of good service. Mine is a very small case compared to other complains I have read about. It was a small purchase for a smal amount, but it turned into an unexpectedly unpleasant experience for something that should have been a simple purchase ( Am I really such a security risk that I can't be allowed to place an order for a gift card?)
In the end I feel that I was snared into a trap with that offer. I trusted, I paid, didn't receive the goods, haven't yet received the refund, my friend really needed that gift and had to do without, which caused him inconvenience, my high regard from Skype has been tarnished, and I'll hesitate to make new purchases of Skype services in the future, if they keep being powered by Chat And Vision.

Some updates: I received two e-mails from Chat And Vision, regarding my two questions as to why my order was rejected and how to get my money back. These are the answers:
The first one (Ticket ID: PBF-650-80186), says: "Thank you for your email. Firstly, apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused to you. Unfortunately, due to security reasons I am unable to divulge this information. However, should you wish to make another purchase with us again, we will try to process your new order instead".
Polite but uninformative. Notice that beyond an unfocused general apology it does not acknowledge any problem nor does pledge any improvement, just a vague statement that they may allow me to use it's service again if I choose to try (not exactly reasuring).
A second answer to a second e-mail says: (Ticket ID: SVN-701-71147) "Thank you for your email, please be assured the money will be refunded back to you."
That's all. Again polite but no useful information, just a vague assurance of refund, somehow, someday into the indefinite future. If it happens I'll post it here but I'm not holding my breath.
Reading other answers from Chat and Vision posted online here and on other forums dealing with their service, there appears to be a pattern of politeness, vageness, refusal to acknowledge problems and absence of a pledge to improve. Their costumer care seems designed to placate the user without promising to get better, and is so devoid of helpul attitude that it makes me believe that their messages are redacted by a software program, and consumer complains never reach any administrative person. I might be wrong but the doubt has been sown which is a shame. Up until now I was very vocal on my praise for skype, recomending it to family and friends as a very useful and good service, but this experience with Chat and Vision, and my discovery of their costumer service history online, has set me thinking about looking for alternatives to Skype, and certainly has dissuaded me to recomend Skype to anyone ever again,or at least while their sales are still managed by Chat And Vision, or at least while Chat and Vision continues its customer service attitude, polite on the surface but haughty and unhelpful underneath.
If there are new updates I might post them here, but for now I will not pursue the matter further since the amount involved was small and I see no point in sending more e-mails to Chat and Vision. I just feel bitter that the great service that I felt was Skype has ben tarnished by this experience. Just some final thoughts:
I do not complain that my order was scrutinized by security reasons, I understand the risk of illegal activity on online transactions, and the need of online companies to be careful, but the process Chat and Vision used seemed overly unconcerned for the confort of the consumer. It took around a full day for my order to be scrutinized and then rejected, which did let me for a long time in the dark not knowing if my gift would reach the friend I wanted to give it to. This is 2014, does Chat and Vision not have the tecnology to do a better and faster process? Do they scrutinize online orders by hand? I have read more cases similar to mine here on this forum, which to me implies that Chat and Vision are overly and unnecessary zealous on their security procesess. ( Also it is jarring that they seem to consider their clients to be criminals, for no reason at all and with no opportunity to contest the charge.)
If they are going to reject a transaction on security reasons, why not do it before the payment is processed, not after, which can be stressful to the consumer that gave the money and didn't receive what was advertised, for no real reason. Seems to me there is a mistake in the way the system is set, or there is a clear disdain of what the client might think or feel.
I think that's all. Thank you if you went all the way thru this overly long rant. If you are a consummer beware that when you buy services from Skype, you are not buying from Skype but from somebody else and that somebody else does not have a spotless record. If you are an administrative person from Skype or Chat and vision, I hope you eventually prove me wrong about your unconcern for the welfare of the consumer. My experience so far is not encouraging but that may change.
Have a good one.

Request for Comments and Experiences with Streams Advanced Queuing

Hi,
I would like to get some feedback about what your experiences with Streams Advanced Queuing. What do you like about it? What don't you like? How do you use it? What features would you love to see in it? Please post to the forums. Thanks!

I love the new homeless Instant Client! I wish we had it years ago. Some comments:
1) The MS ODBC administrator GPF's (blows up) when trying to configure a new data source using the new Oracle IC drivers. Have to hand-edit the registry.
2) I heartily agree with the request that the new client install without requiring the normal Oracle installer. It's just too bloated for easy deployment. I'd rather hand install the files than to have to use that. Also, .zip not .jar please.
3) Need better documentation on the connection string options. It took me 3 weeks to figure out that what used to be scott/tiger@mydb is now scott/[email protected]:1524/mydb.xxx.yyy (it's looking for the GLOBAL_NAME, not the SID and TNSPING won't show you that! Doh!)
4) Please let us specify a range of ports (e.g. :1521-1524) and let it figure out where the SID is on that machine. We move ours around and don't want to update hundreds of clients with hardcoded command lines.
5) Maximum backward compatibility, please! It's not easy moving all those Oracle apps to 8.1.7.4+ databases, yet, but my old OCI client programs should not have to care. I don't want to have 2 SQL*net driver stacks on my PC's.
Thanks -- I'll be watching for new features.

Optimistic Locking - Possible bug with Weblogic

After extensive testing of a j2ee application Im involved with, it would appear their exists a problem with using Weblogic's Optimistic Concurrency (OL) mechanism.
The exact problem is as follows:
The ejbCreate and ejbRemove methods of a particular entity bean are as follows:
public abstract class ProductBean implements javax.ejb.EntityBean {
ejbCreate(){
FolderEntityHome folderEH = FolderComponent.getFolderEntityHome();
folderEH.create(getId());
ejbRemove(){
FolderEntityHome folderEH = FolderComponent.getFolderEntityHome();
try {
FolderBean folderEH.findByProductId(getId());
catch(InvalidAccessRightsException iare)
throw new RemoveException();
Previously before OL was added when a RemoveException was thrown, this would cause the ejbRemove exception to fail, thus both the product and folder would still exist.
After adding OL, when an InvalidAccessRightsException occurs giving rise to a RemoveException being thrown, weblogic simply ignores the RemoveException and deletes the Product even though the Folder could not be deleted. This causes system errors when users try to access the folder which contains a link to a product which no longer exists!
Is anyone aware of this particular problem? Is it indeed a bug with Weblogic? For clarity, I believe I am using version 8.1 and the way in which I have implemented OL is to use an additional version column in the underlying tables for all entity beans.

In case anyone's interested, it appears from further testing that the problem I've been having in the way the RemoveException behaves is down to the difference in which version 6.0 treats this exception compared to version 8.1!
In version 6.0, if you threw a RemoteException at any point in the ejbRemove(), the entity would not be removed!
In version 8.1, something wierd happens. If a RemoteException() is thrown in the ejbRemove() and sometime during the same transaction at the point of commit, the entity on which the exception is thrown is attempted to be accessed (through a finder), then the entity continues to be deleted! If on the other hand, a RemoveException is thrown and no access/modification is attempted on that entity within the same transaction, then at the point of commit, the entity is not removed!
Seems this is indeed a problem which needs to be addressed in future releases.
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Issue while integrating external LDAP with weblogic

Hi,
i am trying integrating external LDAP (OpenLdap) with weblogic 10.3. I created a provider and provided required credentials and able to see users and group of the LDAP into the weblogic console. I am also able to login in the weblogic console with the users available in the LDAP after assigning the admin role to the ldap group. But i when i see the user's property (by clicking on the user in the admin console) it only shows the tabs for General, Password and Group only. on the other hand if i see the users from DefaultAuthenticator, it shows the Attribute tab apart from the General, Password and Group.
Can anyone let me knwo how can we get the Attribute tab for the Ldap users.
thx,
Ajay

Hi Ajay
By default Weblogic has READ ONLY adapters for any External Security Providers that are configured like any AD Providers. READ ONLY means, you can only read the data from the ldap but not modify it, hence may be its not showing the Attributes tag. For Default Authenticator, see the first paragraph note in Attributes tab, that says the same thing. NOW, may be WLS can atleast show Attributes in READ only format, but it needs some sort of mappings to be defined. Say on Weblogic side, we have like firstName, lastName which on any typical AD will be like sn (surname = lastname), givenname (firstname) etc etc. This mapping is tough to generalize.
One thing for sure is, from Weblogic you cannot modify or edit any attributes for any user in external AD. If you really want to get those attributes, you may need to use some javax.ldap apis or some 3rd party ready to use tools/apis. I remember Weblogic Portal has a facility to configure a xml file that defines attributes mapping and get all attributes for any user. But again thats in Weblogic Portal product and not part of weblogic server.
If you have any SOA Software, they have some utilities for the same.
Thanks
Ravi Jegga

Hands-on experience with WebLogic

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