A little while back, Chet (@oraclenerd) asked the Oracle WebCenter account (@oraclewebcenter) over Twitter, “What is WebCenter?” Makes sense since Chet, and many others out there, are general Oracle practitioners, meaning they may specialize in a specific product, but are always curious and eager to expand their knowledge to other Oracle products, which is very… Read More

So, after failing to bring this project home before Christmas, I picked it up again yesterday, unfortunately with the same results. I reached out to some people on the WebCenter team who could help, and the consensus was that I don’t have enough system resources to run the full stack on a single VM. Further… Read More

I really, really, really wanted to bring this whole project home with a triumphant ending today, erm late last night. It started out as a lark and has been a great learning experience, but it’s been hanging over my head since before Thanksgiving. I’ve got other, more important work to do, and I’m sure you’re… Read More

So, I’m in the home stretch installing WebCenter. Here’s the installation guide, if you’re following along at home. Yesterday, I got through the “Preparing to Install” steps, which consist mostly of running RCU to create the WebCenter schemas. I’m skipping the installation of JDeveloper for the time being. If I were using the VM in… Read More

So, I’m back on track after yesterday’s detour to configure 11g and get it ready for the WebCenter schemas. I’m working off the WebCenter installation guide, by the way, Section 2.1.3 Create Schemas for Oracle WebCenter. Next step is to download and run Repository Creation Utility (RCU) which handily creates all the Fusion Middleware schemas… Read More

First, let me start off with a hearty thanks to John (@jpiwowar) for his help with my n00bism, a.k.a. Part 6 in this series. Also, thanks to those of you with DBA skills out there for not flaming me for my lack thereof. Part 6 was a bit of a disaster, but thanks to John and… Read More

Today, I hit a roadblock in my ongoing project to create a WebCenter VM. I was all ready to get started with the WebCenter install. I found the installation guide and ran the installer. Then, I hit the prerequisites. Looks like I need to create the schemas first with the Repository Creation Utility (RCU), available… Read More

Ready or not, here comes another installment in my gripping series on how to create a WebCenter 11g R1 Patch Set 1 VM. In the last part, I went over the last few steps of the 11g install. This part focuses on WebLogic, which is the preferred application server for WebCenter. I don’t know if… Read More

While finishing yesterday’s Part 3, I decided to investigate how to add a swap file to my OEL 5 VM to accomodate at least one of 11g’s resource requirements. I may eventually have to bump up the physical memory allocated to the VM, which will completely cripple the host OS, but I’m bending the rules… Read More

Having been out a few days with the flu, I’m feeling a bit behind on my geeky project (see Parts 1 and 2 for background), so last night, I decided to tackle the next big step, installing Oracle 11gR2. Obviously, WebCenter needs a database, and I haven’t installed Oracle for a few years. So, this… Read More

Right after I posted yesterday’s Part 1, I decided to try out the Oracle public yum server over at public-yum.oracle.com. I had pinged Justin over the weekend and his contact had pointed me there, and it turns out the same suggestion was also kindly added to comments shortly after I published. After following the instructions there,… Read More

I’ve managed to collect a handful of geeky projects lately. First, my move to Ubuntu 9.10 got fast-tracked. After the rocky move from 8.10 to 9.04, I figured I’d wait a bit on Karmic. But, last week, my drive filled up due to my backup package erroneously writing backups locally instead of to my backup… Read More

Here’s another installment in the “we’re-a-for-reals-product-team” series. If you’re interested in WebCenter, but don’t have the time or resources to download, install and configure it on your own to kick the tires, you should sign up for a WebCenter Test Drive. Basically, the test drive will give you a hosted sandbox environment where you’ll have… Read More

From the “we’re-a-for-reals-product-team” department, comes an announcement: WebCenter 11g Patch Set 1 has just been released. Peter Moskovits has a rundown of all the new features over on his blog, and there are plenty, including the introduction of the People Connection service, which adds the social networking layer to WebCenter. This service was at least… Read More

A few weeks ago, I announced that our team was moving to WebCenter development. Since then, several people have asked what our role would be specifically, many of you in person at OpenWorld. Now, I can tell you, since I finally know for sure. We’ve been charged with the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, which,… Read More

If you read here, you’ll know we got our start as a team focused on innovation within the development organization responsible for Oracle’s enterprise application product families. Well, today we’re moving. We are joining the WebCenter product development team, who have been a busy bunch this year, releasing Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g in July. To… Read More

Yesterday, I talked, in part, about how we can, if we choose, work all the time, from the moment we open our eyes, until we close them for sleep. So today’s as good a Friday as any to remind you to balance all that work with some fun. We here at the AppsLab are big… Read More

Noel (@noelportugal), Raymond (@yuhuaxie), Mark (@mvilrokx) and I traveled to sunny Hollywood, Florida last week to attend Kscope15 (#kscope15), the annual conference of the Oracle Development Tools User Group (@odtug). Check out some highlights of our week. If you read here, you probably know that this year, Noel had cooked up something new and different… Read More

Editor’s note: If you read here, you know we heart Twilio, especially Noel (@noelportugal). Remember the Rock ’em Sock ’em robot build? This week, Twilio (@twilio) held its first Signal conference and Raymond and I were there to see what’s new in the world of web enabled communications and the likes. For those of you not… Read More