Among their many characteristics, all too often SOA projects have been labeled in their worst moments as:
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I have just had a heck of a time with installing BPA (Architect) Evaluation on a Windows Server 2003 machine. There were no inherent issues with the product itself, but some gotchas that I thought I might point out. For the following, I assumed you are installing on a single machine for testing/evaluation purposes like I was.
For one, if you were familiar with BPA 10.1.3.3, there is no longer an auto-installable olite database option. You must use Oracle XE Universal (or better) and you should have it installed locally prior to installing BPA. Note: You should use XE Universal specifically so you get the AL32UTF8 character set that is expected by the BPA install.
After I got the character set squared away, I continued to receive a database connection error
Oracle recommends that the password for the Oracle APEX administrator be changed on new installations, or on migrations from runtime to developers mode. They state that in an upgrade scenario the existing password is preserved. That being said, there are times you need to change the password outside of these situations, and the process is fairly simple.
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One of the main functions of APEX is to be able to easily build applications and perform basic database administration tasks.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Client (11.2.0.1.0) for Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
win32_11gR2_client.zip (684,581,290 bytes)
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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Client (11.2.0.1.0) for Microsoft Windows (x64)
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It’s a well known and established fact that one of the only constants in life is change
It wasn’t that long ago (it seems) that I was asked to look at Oracle APEX and Oracle XE for work, and devise a tutorial for it’s installation and beginner use. It has been almost a year since then, and I find myself revisiting it after my last project. In that short amount of time there have been a few rather large changes. While Oracle XE is still at 10g, where it was originally, the APEX system itself has undergone 2 fairly large updates, going from the 3.0.1 version I orginally was working with to, 3.1, and now 3.2 being the current version.
Upgrading from 3.0.1 to 3.2 is supposed to be smooth, but we shall test and see for ourselves.
After all, if I can’t change with the times, the times won’t stop changing for me.
Oracle APEX 3.2, the latest of the APEX downloads, is available on oracle.com as of February 27, 2009. This is the first point release since 3.1, which was on February 29, 2008.
apex_3.2.zip (102,055,191 bytes)
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