Problem in UTL_DBWS - Any gurus available!

Question

Hi all,
Solicit your help in the below-mentioned scenario.
I am trying to access some published web services from 9.2.0.1.0 RDBMS using UTL_DBMS API. I have accomplished the same using UTL_HTTP. I have followed the instructions specified in:
'http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/jsp/callout_users_guide.htm#Web_Service_Callout_Utility_Download_'
to prepare the database, download Callout Utility for pre-10g RDBMS (ZIP, 5.68MB), JPub 9.2.0.1.0 Production and OC4J Release 10.1.2 (standalone) and set the environment variables.
loadjava ran successfully for:
%ORACLE_DB_HOME%/BIN/loadjava -user scott/tiger@ORACLE -r -v -f -grant public -genmissing %ORACLE_HOME%/OC4J/j2ee/home/lib/servlet.jar
%ORACLE_DB_HOME%/BIN/loadjava -user scott/tiger@ORACLE -r -v -f -grant public -genmissing %ORACLE_HOME%/OC4J/j2ee/home/lib/ejb.jar
%ORACLE_DB_HOME%/BIN/loadjava -user scott/tiger@ORACLE -r -v -f -grant public -genmissing %ORACLE_HOME%/jlib/jssl-1_2.jar
%ORACLE_DB_HOME%/BIN/loadjava -user scott/tiger@ORACLE -r -v -f -grant public -genmissing %ORACLE_HOME%/soap/webapps\soap\WEB-INF\lib\soap.jar
But it gave error for:
%ORACLE_DB_HOME%/BIN/loadjava -user scott/tiger@ORACLE -r -v -f -grant public -genmissing %ORACLE_HOME%/OC4J/j2ee/home/lib/mail.jar
%ORACLE_DB_HOME%/BIN/loadjava -user scott/tiger@ORACLE -r -v -f -grant public -genmissing %ORACLE_HOME%/OC4J/lib/dms.jar
ORA-29534: referenced object SCOTT.oracle/core/odjl/logMessage could not be resolved.
ORA-29545: badly formed class.
And while trying to run JPub using:
jpub -user=scott/tiger -sysuser sys/change_on_install -httpproxy=www-proxy.us.oracle.com:80 -proxywsdl=http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?wsdl -endpoint=http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx -proxyopts=soap,tabfun -dir=Stock -plsqlpackage=soap_callout_wrapper
I get error:
J2T-120, ERROR: Illegal option "-proxywsdl=http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?wsdl" ignored
J2T-120, ERROR: Illegal option "-endpoint=http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx" ignored
J2T-120, ERROR: Illegal option "-proxyopts=soap,tabfun" ignored
Any help in resolving these issues will be appreciated. Kindly also advise which api – UTL_HTTP or UTL_DBWS I should go for and why.
Regards,
Leslie

Answer 1

jaggyam wrote:
To add to karthik's post, that directory should be configured in your parameter file(UTL_FILE_DIR=<your directory> or *).And to correct Jaggyam..
The UTL_FILE_DIR parameter has been deprecated by oracle (i.e. they recommend you don't use it) in favour of direcory objects because of it's security problems.
The correct thing to do is to create a directory object e.g.:
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY mydir AS 'c:\myfiles';Note: This does not create the directory on the file system. You have to do that yourself and ensure that oracle has permission to read/write to that file system directory.
Then, grant permission to the users who require access e.g....
GRANT READ,WRITE ON DIRECTORY mydir TO myuser;Then use that directory object inside your FOPEN statement e.g.
fh := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('MYDIR', 'myfile.txt', 'r');Note: You MUST specify the directory object name in quotes and in UPPER case for this to work as it is a string that is referring to a database object name which will have been stored in uppercase by default.
As others have said, the file must be located on a file system directory that the oracle database server has access to i.e. the file typically should be on the database server. UTL_FILE cannot access files on the client computer.