How to attend the UKOUG User Group?

The UKOUG is one of my favorite conferences of the year: good size, GREAT presentations.
All you have to do is submit a paper and get accepted!
UKOUG Call for Papers
At the UKOUG, a lot of presentations about Application Express.
So take the opportunity and submit your paper today. ( Deadline end of May )
I also like to encourage female speakers!

Application Express Certification: Application Express Certified Expert

The APEX Certification Exam has undergone a large upgrade, with much of the content being rewritten.
The new exam is currently running a BETA program until the 10th of May 2014.
You will be given 3.5 hours to complete.

Take the opportunity to certify yourself for Application Express.
Application Express Certification Website

Featured Speaker UKOUG Conference

Extremely honored to be a featured speaker for the UKOUG event.
The first featured speaker from the event was my Rdbms colleague Joel Goodman.
Check the UKOUG website for the Featured Speaker of the week.

Announcements

I am invited to speak at the UKOUG Technology Conference 2013, at Manchester Central in December 2013.
This is an excellent forum, having the mission ”to serve the Oracle Community”, a medium for exchange of information,
knowledge and skills about the products of the ORACLE Corporation.


My presentation selected for inclusion within the program is about “How to avoid struggling with the APEX Listener”.
The APEX listener is the newest method for connectivity to APEX applications.
This talk will explain what it is, what it can do, why it is better than other alternative methods and how it is administered.
The new Oracle APEX Listener is a J2EE based alternative for Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) and mod_plsql.
This J2EE implementation offers improved functionality including a web-based configuration, enhanced security, and file caching.
This session will explain how to install and configure the APEX Listener against GlassFish and WebLogic.
It will also show how to troubleshoot the listener and where to find diagnostic information when the APEX Listener doesn’t work as expected.


OAK Table member

I am very honored to tell that I am member from the OAK table.
For more information see: http://www.oaktable.net/

How to Configure the APEX Listener against WebLogic

Step 1:
Installation from JDK

Step 2:
Setting up my environment
Set JAVA_HOME=c:\program files\java\jdkxxxx
Set PATH= c:\program files\java\jdkxxxx\bin;%PATH%

Step 3:
Installation from WebLogic
Java –Xmx1024m –jar wlsxxxxx

Step 4:
In my particular case, I have created a separate domain for APEX
C:\oracle\middleware\user_projects\domains

Step5:
Start WLS
Navigate to c:\oracle\middleware\user_projects\domains\apex_domain\bin
SetDomainEnv.cmd

StartWeblogic.cmd

Step 6:
C:\oracle\middleware\wlserver_103\server\bin
setWLSEnv.cmd
startNodemanager

Step 7:
I need to configure first, before I can deploy against a web server.
In this example WebLogic

Step 8:
Only an example from my environment

At this point I define my APEX configuation directory.
In this example, my configuration directory is c:\apexconfig

java -jar apex.war configdir C:\apexconfig

Now I start my configuration

java -jar apex.war
PM oracle.dbtools.common.config.file.ConfigurationFolder log ConfigFolder
INFO: Using configuration folder: C:\apexconfig\apex

Enter the name of the database server [localhost]:
Enter the database listen port [1521]:
Enter 1 to specify the database service name, or 2 to specify the database SID [1]:2
Enter the database SID [xe]:orcl11
Enter the database user name [APEX_PUBLIC_USER]:
Enter the database password for APEX_PUBLIC_USER:
Confirm password:

Enter 1 to enter passwords for the RESTful Services database users (APEX_LISTENER,APEX_REST_PUBLIC_USER),
2 to use the same password as used for APEX_PUBLIC_USER
or, 3 to skip this step [1]:2
Enter the database password for APEX_LISTENER:
Confirm password:
may 08, 2013 3:44:17 PM oracle.dbtools.common.config.file.ConfigurationFiles update
INFO: Updated configurations: defaults, apex, apex_al, apex_rt

Enter 1 if you wish to start in standalone mode or 2 to exit [1]:2

Step 9:
Creating images

user_projects\domains\apex_domain

Copied the apex.war to the user_projects\domains\apex_domain directory location


Step 10:
Running in Non-SSL mode
edited defaults.xml file

Added
entry key="security.verifySSL">false


Step 11:
Logging in to WebLogic



Step 11:
Deployment from i and apex.war









Step 12:
Credentials




Step 13:
restart WLS is necessary to make changes active
Log in to the APEX environment

Oracle User Group Norway

The spring seminar was held from the 17th of April until the 19th of April. It was for me the first time, attending this conference.

Beside of a perfect organization, a high quality of content and extremely good and experienced speakers. I was very honored to be a speaker at this conference.

Some reasons why you should attend this conference
1.
No marketing presentations but high quality of technical content
2.
Learn new things and having the possibility to improve your knowledge in another area of expertise
3.
A good atmosphere
4.
Beautiful environment
5.
A great possibility to network
6.
A lot of entertainment to relax and to learn people


Of course, much more than this list.

My presentation was dealing about the Oracle Database Services Cloud.
The latency from the network was too big and therefore I have provided my demonstrations by video.
This week, I will write a document about what I presented and send to the board of the User Group.

Hope to meet you next year again at this brilliant organized event!

I like to take the opportunity to thank the board from the Oracle User Group Norway. I have to say that I was impressed!

FOP in APEX Listener Version 2

APEX Listener version 2, contains the internal FOP.

Here an example, how I configured to use the internal FOP printing functionality.