New MVC with Standard Tags and DB sample

Question

I have posted initial build of a new learning application on
          SourceForge "basicPortal" under CVS
          http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/basicportal/basicportal
          It is using Struts with Standard Tags and X: Transform from DB, Realm
          base security, CURD, etc. etc. I have big plans for this, to be 20% of
          code that gets used 80% of time and "faces" and expression language
          compliant.
          (Err.. this build is not for newbies, but I will update it .... a lot
          and often.)
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          Hope you like,
          Vic C.
          

Answer 1

Looking at the XFILES.5.xml file and Install.vbs files of the XFILES installer, it appears that the XDBPM_SUPPORT and XFILES_DBA_TASKS actions will only be run if you enter a SYSDBA user in the "DBA User" field of the installer. However, for some reason, Oracle seems to have commented out the command that checks to ensure that the DBA user you entered is a SYSDBA user, and the "DBA User" field defaults to SYSTEM, which is not a SYSDBA user. Since I got things working I haven't tried rerunning the installer with a SYSDBA user, but maybe it will work better. The installation documentation and/or the installation scripts need to be updated to reflect the need for a SYSDBA user.
Regarding the APEX version of XFILES, this has not installation instructions whatsoever, and there are prerequisite steps to get this to install correctly as well. I tried importing the f102.sql file into APEX and it failed on the prereq validation because an "XFILES/Apex" folder wasn't found in XML DB. I went looking for anything that creates this directory and I found that there is another XFILES_DBA_TASKS.sql script specifically for the APEX version. It is included in the f102.sql file. So I cut and paste the contents into SQL*Plus and ran it as SYS. I was then able to install the f102 application.