All posts by Masroof Ahmad

Security in Oracle WebLogic : Realm, Security Provider, Authentication, Authorization, Users

Security Providers – are modules that provide security service to application to protect Weblogic resource. Types of security providers in WebLogic Server are Authentication Provider, Authorization Provider, Auditing Providers, Credential Mapping Provider, Identity Assertion Provider, Principal Validation Provider, Adjudication Providers, Role Mapping Providers, Certificate Lookup and Validation Providers, Keystore Providers and Realm Adapter providers. Security Provider […]

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Oracle 9i Multi Master Advance Replication setup, testing and troubleshooting

Objective: This paper is related to the Multi Master Replication setup, testing and troubleshooting. Introduction: In this Multi Master Replication testing two machines are being used. There will be two databases on the two different machines i.e. a) Master1 (Master definition Site) This site will be used for the administration of the Replication setup. b) […]

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SQL to monitor (check status) of Workflow Notification Mailer (Java)

 SQL> SELECT COMPONENT_STATUS from APPS.FND_SVC_COMPONENTS where COMPONENT_ID=10006;  

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JVM Tuning (Garbage Collection) in Oracle Apps 11i

There are some good notes on JVM tuning from Mike Shaw on Steven Chan’s blog  here , here and here and some good Metalink notes at end of this post.                      Important thing missing from all these notes (for some one like me who is new to Java) is basics of Garbage Collection, Generation and how to […]

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Oracle WebCenter Interaction / BEA AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI)

Oracle WebCenter Interaction earlier known as BEA Aqualogic User Interaction (ALUI) is now part of Oracle WebCenter Suite. 1) On 14th Nov 2008, Oracle released WebCenter Interaction 10gR3/10.3.0 (First Oracle branded AquaLogic Interaction product) . 2) Release prior to WebCenter Interaction 10gR3 is AquaLogic Interaction 6.5 MP1 (Maintenance Pack 1) 3) Oracle WebCenter 10g R3 (10.3.0) […]

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Starting Concurent Managers

While teaching in class students told me that they have posted journal entries and the transaction still remains pending even though i have run script ‘./adstrall.sh’ which by default start all the application tier. drilling down i notice that some concurent managers were not started. to solve this ask my student to Alternatively try the […]

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Patch Application Assistant (admsi.pl) in Oracle Apps R12

PAA (Patch Application Assistant) is tool/Perl script to generate customized installation instructions for a patch in Oracle Applications R12 which helps user to track and perform manual steps during patching.   1. admsi.pl is under $AD_TOP/bin 2. You can run admsi.pl (Patch Application Assistant) in two mode i) GUI (Graphical User Interface) ii) CLI (Command Line […]

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Oracle 12.0.6 R12 RUP6 is Out now

Oracle released 12.0.6 on Nov 7, 2008. Here is quick snapshot of 12.0.6 for DBA’s & System Administrators. . 1. Patch Number for 12.0.6 is 6728000 2. Prereq. patch for 12.0.6 (6728000) is R12.AD.A.delta.6 (7305220) & optional online help patch (7109200) 3. As with other ad patches, You CAN’T merge 12.0.6 (6728000) with R12.AD.A.delta.6 (7305220) […]

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WebLogic Server JDBC for Database connection : Step by Step

This is in continuation of my last post on Database Connectivity (JDBC) in WebLogic Server here , In today’s post I am going to cover step by step JDBC configuration using Administration Console. 1. Login to WebLogic Server Administration console (default port 7001) http://hostname:port/console 2. Select Data Sources under JDBC in Services section . . 3. Click on New […]

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JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity ) in Oracle WebLogic – Overview

This post covers overview of connecting WebLogic Server to Database using JDBC. How to connect to Database from Oracle WebLogic Server : You first create JDBC Datasource (or multi data sources) and then deploy this JDBC datasource (or multi datasource) to WebLogic Server (or cluster) in Domain. Datasource: contains pool of database connections that are […]

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