Is anyone using AOL client?

Question

Embarassed to ask that question. My primary email is on the AOL domain. The mail in that account is important. I am having a lot of weirdnesses with Mail. If anyone is using the AOL client succesfully please respond.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Vanbel Jean-Marc,
Yes, we have customers (including Oracle Applications) using BC4J to develop large scale applications.
It's realist to develop an inventory stock application with JDeveloper 3.0, Oracle 8.1.5
with Business Components for Java and JSP.
The configuration for this application is :
- 1 server Pentium III 500 Mhz 256 MB RAM : NT 4.0 SP5 + Oracle 8i (DB + Business
Components + JSP)
- 50 client stations : Pentium 100 Mhz 64 MB RAM : Windows 95/98 + Internet Explorer 4.0/5.0Yes, you can easily develop this kind of an application with BC4J. A point to note is that 8i does not yet provide a runtime environment for JavaServer Pages. You would need to host the JSPs in a webserver which supports JSPs and Servlets( like Apache, OAS etc). I'd recommend the following steps:
1. Implement all your business logic using Business Components for Java
2. Develop the JSP front end for your business logic in JDeveloper
3. a) Deploy the JSP pages to your middle-tier (say Apache + Tomcat)
b) Deploy the BC4J classes + XML files to the same middle-tier (say Apache + Tomcat).
Note in this scenario you are running BC4J in 'local' mode. The architecture looks like:
Browser ----- JavaServer Pages + BC4J classes on the middle-tier (say Apache + Tomcat) -------- Oracle8i database
If this does not scale, then without changing any business logic you can deploy the BC4J classes created in step 1 as Session Beans in 8.1.5 . Your client need not be changed either. You just need to change the application path.
FYI: With 8.1.7 you will have the option to move the JSPs to the database box.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Arun
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