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John Topley is putting together a series
of articles that teach the basics of Jakarta Struts development, using
Oracle JDeveloper as the IDE. Entitled "Jakarta Struts De-Mystified",
John introduces the series as:

"There are now many good books on the framework and the online documentation is quite mature for an open-source project; but in spite of this, I have […]

Oracle Portal comes with a useful web interface for building pages out of
regions, items and portlets. If you’re familiar with Oracle Portal and the site
design is not too complicated, you can usually put something together that looks
good and fits within the Portal page structure. But what if you’ve been given a
design built in Dreamweaver or […]

There’s an interesting article currently running over on OTN entitled "Use
Location Information in Enterprise Reporting". According to the
introduction, the article helps you "Learn how to
create dynamic maps that make the relationships between attribute and
location-based information a lot more visible for business intelligence
analysis."
The article’s about two Oracle products that help you add GIS functionality
to your data […]

A problem that often seems to happen when Oracle 9iAS 9.0.2 crashes is that you can’t seem to restart OID using
OIDCTL.
For example, a situation might arise when a server is bounced without 9iAS
being shut down cleanly. When you reboot the PC, and use DCMCTL to check the
status of the OC4J instances prior to starting them, […]

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Whilst we’re on the subject of security, there’s a couple of useful papers available on OTN that detail how security on 9iAS works.
First up is a detailed technical paper giving best practises for security for Oracle 9iAS 1.0.2.x, which is worth taking a look through if you’re supporting this first release of 9iAS.
For 9iAS 9.0.2, there’s […]

I’ve just come across Pete Finnigan’s website, where’s he’s put together an excellent set of links through to Oracle security papers written by himself and other third parties. One particularly interesting paper is on Detecting SQL Injection In Oracle, a bit of a ‘hot topic’ these days summed as;

“SQL Injection is a way to attack […]