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  • May 2010 Chicago Architects Group Meeting

    - by Tim Murphy
    The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on May 18th.  Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Scott Seely  Topic: Azure For Architects       Location: TechNexus 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Room A/B Chicago, IL 60606 Time: 5:30 - Doors open at 5:00 del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Architects Group,Azure,Scott Seely

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  • Mass bulk add domains to web hosting service (possible?)

    - by Scott
    I was wondering if anyone does bulk adding of domains to your web hosting provider (Amazon, Linode, Rackspace, etc). I am thinking of creating a product that allows user to host their site on top of my web hosting and want something that can allow me to bulk add domains (and point DNS to my web hosting DNS) with as little manual work as possible. I am thinking of getting a VPS to do this. Is this possible even? Thanks Scott

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  • Visual Studio Extension: Web Essentials

    - by BizTalk Visionary
    To quote Scott Hanselman…. Visual Studio 2010 is really extensible and that's allowed many folks on the team to try out new features for Web Development without having to rebuild Visual Studio itself. One of those "playground" extensions is called "Web Essentials" by Mads Kristensen. Mads handles HTML5 and CSS3 tools for our team. You might remember Mads from when we released the Web Standards Update a few months back. Get it here: Scott Nanselman blog...

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  • Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

    In this article, Scott provides a detailed overview of the features included with ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate. He examines some of the key features such as Razor Intellisense within Visual Studio, NuGet Package Manager, Partial Page Output Caching, Unobtrusive JavaScript and Validation, Remote Validator and Granular Request Validation. He also provides the links to the PDC Talk rendered by Scott Hanselman regarding ASP.NET MVC 3 including new improvements shipped with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate.

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  • TeamSpeak3 libraries

    - by Scott
    I've downloaded the TeamSpeak 3 server from their official website (it's 64 bit, as my dedicated server is 64 bit too). This is what I get,when I'm trying to run the server: Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: scott# /lib/libiconv.so.3: unsupported file layout Whats wrong? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 exists, same as the second one, is there any solution for that?

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  • TeamSpeak3 libraries

    - by Scott
    I've downloaded the TeamSpeak 3 server from their official website (it's 64 bit, as my dedicated server is 64 bit too). This is what I get,when I'm trying to run the server: Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: scott# /lib/libiconv.so.3: unsupported file layout Whats wrong? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 exists, same as the second one, is there any solution for that?

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  • Oracle Text????~????????????????????????

    - by Yuichi Hayashi
    Oracle Text?? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? Oracle Text ????????????????? ????? Oracle Text ??Oracle Database ????????????????????? Oracle Text ????????????????·?????????????? ???Edition???????? - Oracle Database Enterprise Edition(EE) - Oracle Database Standard Edition(SE) - Oracle Database Standard Edition One - Oracle Database Express Edition(XE) ?????? Oracle ??????? Database Configuration Assistant(DBCA)?????????????Oracle Text ?????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? ???????????????????(?????)????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????? (1) ~ (4)???????????????????? (1) ????? Oracle Text???????(ctxsys)???????????????(????? SCOTT)???? CTXAPP?????????? SQL connect ctxsys/ SQL grant ctxapp to scott; (2) ???? ? ?????? SQL connect scott/tiger SQL create table test ( 2 id number primary key, 3 text varchar2(80) ); SQL insert into test ( id, text ) values ( 1, 'The cat sat on the mat' ); SQL insert into test ( id, text ) values ( 2, 'The dog barked like a dog' ); SQL insert into test ( id, text ) values ( 3, '??????????' ); SQL commit; (3) ???????(??) ??????????????????? ?????????: test_lexer ???????? JAPANESE_VGRAM_LEXER????????? SQL connect scott/tiger SQL execute ctx_ddl.create_preference('test_lexer','JAPANESE_VGRAM_LEXER'); ???? ???? OracleText???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????? ??????? - JAPANESE_VGRAM_LEXER:????2???????????????????? - JAPANESE_LEXER (Oracle Text 9.0.1???????):???????????????????????????? ??????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? (4) ????????? TEST?????????????????? SQL create index test_idx on test ( text ) 2 indextype is ctxsys.context 3 parameters ('lexer test_lexer'); (5) ????????? "??"?????????????????? SQL col text for a30 SQL select id, text from test 2 where contains ( text, '??') 0; ID TEXT ---------- ------------------------------ 3 ?????????? ¦???? ???????/???Oracle Text ?? ????????Oracle Text ????

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  • AJAX Return Problem from data sent via jQuery.ajax

    - by Anthony Garand
    I am trying to receive a json object back from php after sending data to the php file from the js file. All I get is undefined. Here are the contents of the php and js file. data.php <?php $action = $_GET['user']; $data = array( "first_name" = "Anthony", "last_name" = "Garand", "email" = "[email protected]", "password" = "changeme"); switch ($action) { case '[email protected]': echo $_GET['callback'] . '('. json_encode($data) . ');'; break; } ? core.js $(document).ready(function(){ $.ajax({ url: "data.php", data: {"user":"[email protected]"}, context: document.body, data: "jsonp", success: function(data){renderData(data);} }); }); function renderData(data) { document.write(data.first_name); }

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  • Why can't I input the integers from a file?

    - by Anthony Glyadchenko
    I'm trying to get this C++ code to input a series of numbers from a text file: int x = 0; cin >> x; ifstream iffer; int numbers[12]; iffer.open("input.txt"); for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++){ iffer >> numbers[i]; } This doesn't seem to work on the Mac. Every cell will equal to 0 regardless of the values in the text file. In other words, the ifstream isn't assigning the numbers. How can I make this work? Is it a Mac issue and if so, how can I get it to work? Thanks! Anthony Glyadchenko

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  • How to check a SQL database table to see if a record exists

    - by Anthony
    I have a SQL database that creates a record for every document uploaded by the user to the server. I want to check this table before a user uploads a document to ensure they don't upload a file with name that already exists. I know how to make the connection and make the SqlCommand to query the table for an existing record. But I don't know how to check the record count from the sqlCommand I made. Does that make sense? Using myConnectionCheck As New SqlConnection(myConnectionStringCheck) Dim myCommandCheck As New SqlCommand() myCommandCheck.Connection = myConnectionCheck myCommandCheck.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Req_Docs WHERE Doc_Name =" & DocName myConnectionCheck.Open() myCommandCheck.ExecuteNonQuery() End Using Thanks in advance, Anthony

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  • asp.net: Is it possible to have multiple login forms to access different subfolders?

    - by Anthony
    Hi, Is it possible to have multiple login pages for different folders within an asp.net application? Say I have this structure: /admin /customer /login-admin.aspx /login-customer.aspx I have 2 different login forms. One for the admin people and one for the customers (the forms are different as the customers need to provide extra information on their login page). In the authentication section of the webconfig file (which is at the root of the web app), I can only specify one Login page. So how can I make sure thaf if anyone tries to access a webpage in /admin they will be redirected to /login-admin.aspx and if they try to access a webpage in /customer they will be redirected to /login-customer.aspx ? Thanks, Anthony

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  • Flex Mobile : How to skin view?

    - by Anthony
    I would like to know if it's possible to skin view for my Flex mobile application : My ActivityView.as public class ActivityView extends View My ActivityViewSkin.mxml (It skin associated) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:Skin xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"> <fx:Metadata> [HostComponent("com.corp.views.activity.ActivityView")] ... It's a good way for mobile development ? And how can I use this in this skin : <s:navigationContent> Thank you very much ! Anthony

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  • App crashes after a few seconds

    - by Declan Scott
    when i launch my app, on trying to do something, it will crash after a couple of seconds. I have warnings of warning: incorrect implementation of "downloadTextViewCOntroller. I also have "method definiton for -timerFinished not found and"method definiton for -timerFinished not found" this is my .m plese help me. the .h is also t the bottom // // downloadTextViewController.m // downloadText // // Created by Declan Scott on 18/03/10. // Copyright MyCompanyName 2010. All rights reserved. // #import "downloadTextViewController.h" @implementation downloadTextViewController @synthesize start; -(IBAction)tapit { start.hidden = YES; } -(void)accelerometer:(UIAccelerometer *)accelerometer didAccelerate:(UIAcceleration *)acceleration { if (fabsf(acceleration.x) 2.0 || fabsf(acceleration.y) 2.0 || fabsf(acceleration.z) 2.0) { UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:nil message:@"This app was developed by Declan Scott and demonstrates NSURLConnection and NSMutableData" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [alert show]; [alert release]; } } (NSString *) saveFilePath { NSArray *pathArray = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); return [[pathArray objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"savedddata.plist"]; } (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application { NSArray *values = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:textView.text,nil]; [values writeToFile:[self saveFilePath] atomically:YES]; [values release]; } (void)viewDidLoad { UIAccelerometer *accelerometer = [UIAccelerometer sharedAccelerometer]; accelerometer.delegate = self; accelerometer.updateInterval = 1.0f/60.0f; NSString *myPath = [self saveFilePath]; NSLog(myPath); BOOL fileExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:myPath]; if (fileExists) { NSArray *values = [[NSArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:myPath]; textView.text = [values objectAtIndex:0]; [values release]; } // notification UIApplication *myApp = [UIApplication sharedApplication]; // add yourself to the dispatch table [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(applicationWillTerminate:) name:UIApplicationWillTerminateNotification object:myApp]; [super viewDidLoad]; } // Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. - (IBAction)fetchData { loadingAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Loading…\n\n\n\n" message:nil delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel Timer" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [loadingAlert show]; UIActivityIndicatorView *activityView = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite]; activityView.frame = CGRectMake(139.0f-18.0f, 60.0f, 37.0f, 37.0f); [loadingAlert addSubview:activityView]; [activityView startAnimating]; timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:10.0f target:self selector:@selector(timerFinished) userInfo:nil repeats:NO]; NSURLRequest *downloadRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://simpsonatyapps.com/exampletext.txt"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData timeoutInterval:1.0]; NSURLConnection *downloadConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:downloadRequest delegate:self]; if (downloadConnection) downloadedData = [[NSMutableData data] retain]; else { // Error } } (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)downloadConnection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data { [downloadedData appendData:data]; NSString *file = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:downloadedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; textView.text = file; // get rid of alert [loadingAlert dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:-1 animated:YES]; [loadingAlert release]; /// add badge [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:1]; } (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { // Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview. [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use. } (void)viewDidUnload { // Release any retained subviews of the main view. // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil; } (void)dealloc { [super dealloc]; } (NSCachedURLResponse *)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection willCacheResponse:(NSCachedURLResponse *)cachedResponse { return nil; } @end // // downloadTextViewController.h // downloadText // // Created by Declan Scott on 18/03/10. // Copyright MyCompanyName 2010. All rights reserved. // import @interface downloadTextViewController : UIViewController { IBOutlet UITextView *textView; NSMutableData *downloadedData; UIAlertView *loadingAlert; NSTimer *timer; IBOutlet UIButton *start; } - (IBAction)fetchData; - (IBAction)tapIt; - (void)timerFinished; @property (nonatomic, retain) UIButton *start; @end

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  • Is there an IDE that can simplify the process of creating a game matchmaking website?

    - by Scott
    Yes, I'm an old guy. And I'm well versed in "C" and have written several games which I have been selling on the web for a number of years. And now, I would like to adapt one of my games to be "online". Sounds simple. I'm sure I can use the thousands of lines of "C" code that I've already written. Right? So my initial investigation begins. First, I think I'll need a server program that lives on a dedicated server (or a VPS probably) that talks to a bunch of client applications that live on individual devices around the world. I can certainly handle that! (I think to myself). I'll break up my existing game into two pieces, a client piece that is just the game displays and buttons, and a server piece that does everything else. Piece of cake, right? But that means that the "server piece" must be executed on a remote machine somewhere and run 24/7. Can I do that? [apparently, that question is so basic, so uneducated, and so lame, that nobody has ever posed it before. Because hours of Googling does not yield an answer. Fine. I'll assume I can do that and move on.] I'll need a "game room", which to me means a website where you log in and then go to a lobby of some kind where you can setup your preferences, see if any of your friends are connected, and create or join games. Should be easy, but it's not. No way. Can I do all this with my local website builder? (which happens to be 90 Second Website Builder, a nice product, btw). It turns out, I can not. I can start with that, but must modify each page, so I can interact with my sql database. So I begin making each page a "PHP" page and dynamically modifying the HTML code with PHP code. I'm already starting to get a headache. Because the resulting web pages looked terrible, I began looking at using JQuery. I want to user a JQuery dialog on my website to display a list of friends and allow the user to select one to invite to the game. [google search for "how to populate a JQuery dialog from a sql database" yields nothing but more confusion.] Javascript? Java? HTML? XML? HTML5? PHP? JQuery? Flash? Sockets? Forms? CSS? Learning about each one of these, and how they interact with each other and/or depend on each other is too much for my feeble old brain. Can anyone simplify this process for me? Is there an IDE that will help me do all this without having to go back to college for a few years? Thanks, Scott

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  • Login to website using PHP and get text from page

    - by Anthony Garand
    I am trying to login to a website and grab content from a page you must be authenticated to see. I have done some research and have seen some examples using both cURL and stream_context_create but I cannot get either way to work. I have the url for the page to login to, and the page that contains the data I need to get. Your help is much appreciated! Here's what I'm working with: <?php $pages = array('home' => 'https://www.53.com/wps/portal/personal', 'login' => 'https://www.53.com/wps/portal/personal', 'data' => 'https://www.53.com/servlet/efsonline/index.html?Messages.SortedBy=DATE,REVERSE'); $ch = curl_init(); //Set options for curl session $options = array(CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)', CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2, CURLOPT_HEADER => TRUE, //CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => 'cookie.txt', CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => 'cookies.txt'); //Hit home page for session cookie $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $pages['home']; curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); curl_exec($ch); //Login $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $pages['login']; $options[CURLOPT_POST] = TRUE; $options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = 'uid-input=xxx&pw=xxx'; $options[CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION] = FALSE; curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); curl_exec($ch); //Hit data page $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $pages['data']; curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); $data = curl_exec($ch); //Output data echo $data; //Close curl session curl_close($ch); ?> Cheers, Anthony

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  • Having problems with sqlDataReader

    - by Anthony
    I am using a sqlDataReader to get data and set it to session variables. The problem is it doesn't want to work with expressions. I can reference any other column in the table, but not the expressions. The SQL does work. The code is below. Thanks in advance, Anthony Using myConnectionCheck As New SqlConnection(myConnectionString) Dim myCommandCheck As New SqlCommand() myCommandCheck.Connection = myConnectionCheck myCommandCheck.CommandText = "SELECT Projects.Pro_Ver, Projects.Pro_Name, Projects.TL_Num, Projects.LP_Num, Projects.Dev_Num, Projects.Val_Num, Projects.Completed, Flow.Initiate_Date, Flow.Requirements, Flow.Req_Date, Flow.Dev_Review, Flow.Dev_Review_Date, Flow.Interface, Flow.Interface_Date, Flow.Approval, Flow.Approval_Date, Flow.Test_Plan, Flow.Test_Plan_Date, Flow.Dev_Start, Flow.Dev_Start_Date, Flow.Val_Start, Flow.Val_Start_Date, Flow.Val_Complete, Flow.Val_Complete_Date, Flow.Stage_Production, Flow.Stage_Production_Date, Flow.MKS, Flow.MKS_Date, Flow.DIET, Flow.DIET_Date, Flow.Closed, Flow.Closed_Date, Flow.Dev_End, Flow.Dev_End_Date, Users_1.Email AS Expr1, Users_2.Email AS Expr2, Users_3.Email AS Expr3, Users_4.Email AS Expr4, Users_4.FNAME, Users_3.FNAME AS Expr5, Users_2.FNAME AS Expr6, Users_1.FNAME AS Expr7 FROM Projects INNER JOIN Users AS Users_1 ON Projects.TL_Num = Users_1.PIN INNER JOIN Users AS Users_2 ON Projects.LP_Num = Users_2.PIN INNER JOIN Users AS Users_3 ON Projects.Dev_Num = Users_3.PIN INNER JOIN Users AS Users_4 ON Projects.Val_Num = Users_4.PIN INNER JOIN Flow ON Projects.id = Flow.Flow_Pro_Num WHERE id = " myCommandCheck.CommandText += QSid myConnectionCheck.Open() myCommandCheck.ExecuteNonQuery() Dim count As Int16 = myCommandCheck.ExecuteScalar If count = 1 Then Dim myDataReader As SqlDataReader myDataReader = myCommandCheck.ExecuteReader() While myDataReader.Read() Session("TL_email") = myDataReader("Expr1").ToString() Session("PE_email") = myDataReader("Expr2").ToString() Session("DEV_email") = myDataReader("Expr3").ToString() Session("VAL_email") = myDataReader("Expr4").ToString() Session("Project_Name") = myDataReader("Pro_Name").ToString() End While myDataReader.Close() End If End Using

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  • How to add share menu item to Gallery by code

    - by Anthony
    I know how to implement this issue by Menuifest.xml, see also: Google Android Developer Group related issue But my question is how to add share menu of Gallery by java code not Menuifest.xml. My code is as below: public class MyActivity extends Activity { private static final String TAG = "MyActivity"; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter(); intentFilter.addAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); intentFilter.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT); try { intentFilter.addDataType("image/*"); } catch (MalformedMimeTypeException e) { Log.e(TAG, e.toString()); } Intent x = registerReceiver(new BroadcastReceiver() { public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { Log.d(TAG, "Received intent "+intent); intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(context, Uploader.class)); startActivity(intent); } }, intentFilter); if (x==null) Log.i(TAG, "failed to regist a receiver"); else Log.i(TAG, "registed a receiver successfully"); // ... But registerReceiver always return null, and there is no menu added to Gallery's Share. Thank you. Anthony Xu

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  • SQL80001: Incorrect syntax near ':'

    - by Anthony Trudeau
    When you add SQLCMD statements to a pre-deployment or post-deployment file in a database project in Visual Studio 2010.  You might see the error "SQL80001: Incorrect syntax near ':'".  This is not a real error assuming you have the correct SQLCMD syntax. To clear the errors temporarily right click on the document and select SQLCMD mode.

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  • What is the Oracle Utilities Application Framework?

    - by Anthony Shorten
    The Oracle Utilities Application Framework is a reusable, scalable and flexible java based framework which allows other products to be built, configured and implemented in a standard way. Note: Even though the Framework is built in java it can be integrated with COBOL based extensions for backward compatibility. When Oracle Utilities Customer Care & Billing was migrated from V1 to V2, it was decided that the technical aspects of that product be separated to allow for reuse and independence from technical issues. The idea was that all the technical aspects would be concentrated in this separate product (i.e. a framework) and allow all products using the framework to concentrate on delivering superior functionality. The product was named the Oracle Utilities Application Framework (oufw is the product code). The technical components are contained in the Oracle Utilities Application Framework which can be summarized as follows: Metadata - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework is responsible for defining and using the metadata to define the runtime behavior of the product. All the metadata definition and management is contained within the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. UI Management - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework is responsible for defining and rendering the pages and responsible for ensuring the pages are in the appropriate format for the locale. Integration - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework is responsible for providing the integration points to the architecture. Refer to the Oracle Utilities Application Framework Integration Overview for more details Tools - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework provides a common set of facilities and tools that can be used across all products. Technology - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework is responsible for all technology standards compliance, platform support and integration. There are a number of products from the Tax and Utilities Global Business Unit as well as from the Financial Services Global Business Unit that are built upon the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. These products require the Oracle Utilities Application Framework to be installed first and then the product itself installed onto the framework to complete the installation process. There are a number of key benefits that the Oracle Utilities Application Framework provides to these products: Common facilities - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework provides a standard set of technical facilities that mean that products can concentrate in the unique aspects of their markets rather than making technical decisions. Common methods of configuration - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework standardizes the technical configuration process for a product. Customers can effectively reuse the configuration process across products. Multi-lingual and Multi-platform - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework allows the products to be offered in more markets and across multiple platforms for maximized flexibility. Common methods of implementation - The Oracle Utilities Application Framework standardizes the technical aspects of a product implementation. Customers can effectively reuse the technical implementation process across products. Quicker adoption of new technologies - As new technologies and standards are identified as being important for the product line, they can be integrated centrally benefiting multiple products. Cross product reuse - As enhancements to the Oracle Utilities Application Framework are identified by a particular product, all products can potentially benefit from the enhancement. Note: Use of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework does not preclude the introduction of product specific technologies or facilities to satisfy market needs. The framework minimizes the need and assists in the quick integration of a new product specific piece of technology (if necessary). The Framework is not available as a product itself and is bundled with Tax and Utilities Global Business Unit prodicts. At the present time the following products are on the Framework: Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing (V2 and above) Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management (V2 and above) Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence (V2 and above) Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforice Management (V2 and above)

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  • Framework 4 Features: Summary of Security enhancements

    - by Anthony Shorten
    In the last log entry I mentioned one of the new security features in Oracle Utilities Application Framework 4.0.1. Security is one of the major "tent poles" (to borrow a phrase from Steve Jobs) in this release of the framework. There are a number of security related enhancements requested by customers and as a result of internal reviews that we have introduced. Here is a summary of some of the security enchancements we have added in this release: Security Cache Changes - Security authorization information is automatically cached on the server for performance reasons (security is checked for every single call the product makes for all modes of access). Prior to this release the cache auto-refreshed every 30 minutes (or so). This has beem made more nimble by supporting a cache refresh every minute (or so). This means authorization changes are reflected quicker than before. Business Level security - Business Services are configurable services that are based upon Application Services. Typically, the business service inherited its security profile from its parent service. Whilst this is sufficient for most needs, it is now required to further specify security on the Business Service definition itself. This will allow granular security and allow the same application service to be exposed as different Business Services with their own security. This is particularly useful when you base a Business Service on a query zone. User Propogation - As with other client server applications, the database connections are pooled and shared as needed. This means that a common database user is used to access the database from the pool to allow sharing. Unfortunently, this means that tracability at the database level is that much harder. In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4 the end userid is now propogated to the database using the CLIENT_IDENTIFIER as part of the Oracle JDBC connection API. This not only means that the common database userid is still used but the end user is indentifiable for the duration of the database call. This can be used for monitoring or to hook into Oracle's database security products. This enhancement is only available to Oracle Database customers. Enhanced Security Definitions - Security Administrators use the product browser front end to control access rights of defined users. While this is sufficient for most sites, a new security portal has been introduced to speed up the maintenance of security information. Oracle Identity Manager Integration - With the popularity of Oracle's Identity Management Suite, the Framework now provides an integration adapter and Identity Manager Generic Transport Connector (GTC) to allow users and group membership to be provisioned to any Oracle Utilities Application Framework based product from Oracle's Identity Manager. This is also available for Oracle Utilties Application Framework V2.2 customers. Refer to My Oracle Support KBid 970785.1 - Oracle Identity Manager Integration Overview. Audit On Inquiry - Typically the configurable audit facility in the Oracle Utilities Application Framework is used to audit changes to records. In Oracle Utilities Application Framework the Business Services and Service Scripts could be configured to audit inquiries as well. Now it is possible to attach auditing capabilities to zones on the product (including base package ones). Time Zone Support - In some of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products, the timezone of the end user is a factor in the processing. The user object has been extended to allow the recording of time zone information for use in product functionality. JAAS Suport - Internally the Oracle Utilities Application Framework uses a number of techniques to validate and transmit security information across the architecture. These various methods have been reconciled into using Java Authentication and Authorization Services for standardized security. This is strictly an internal change with no direct on how security operates externally. JMX Based Cache Management - In the last bullet point, I mentioned extra security applied to cache management from the browser. Alternatively a JMX based interface is now provided to allow IT operations to control the cache without the browser interface. This JMX capability can be initiated from a JSR120 compliant JMX console or JMX browser. I will be writing another more detailed blog entry on the JMX enhancements as it is quite a change and an exciting direction for the product line. Data Patch Permissions - The database installer provided with the product required lower levels of security for some operations. At some sites they wanted the ability for non-DBA's to execute the utilities in a controlled fashion. The framework now allows feature configuration to allow delegation for patch execution. User Enable Support - At some sites, the use of temporary staff such as contractors is commonplace. In this scenario, temporary security setups were required and used. A potential issue has arisen when the contractor left the company. Typically the IT group would remove the contractor from the security repository to prevent login using that contractors userid but the userid could NOT be removed from the authorization model becuase of audit requirements (if any user in the product updates financials or key data their userid is recorded for audit purposes). It is now possible to effectively diable the user from the security model to prevent any use of the useridwhilst retaining audit information. These are a subset of the security changes in Oracle Utilities Application Framework. More details about the security capabilities of the product is contained in My Oracle Support KB Id 773473.1 - Oracle Utilities Application Framework Security Overview.

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  • Database users in the Oracle Utilities Application Framework

    - by Anthony Shorten
    I mentioned the product database users fleetingly in the last blog post and they deserve a better mention. This applies to all versions of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. The Oracle Utilities Application Framework uses up to three users initially as part of the base operations of the product. The type of database supported (the framework supports Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server) dictates the number of users used and their permissions. For publishing brevity I will outline what is available for the Oracle database and, in summary, mention where it differs for the other database supported. For Oracle database customers we ship three distinct database users: Administration User (SPLADM or CISADM by default) - This is the database user that actually owns the schema. This user is not used by the product to do any DML (Data Manipulation Language) SQL other than that is necessary for maintenance of the database. This database user performs all the DCL (Data Control Language) and DDL (Data Definition Language) against the database. It is typically reserved for Database Administration use only. Product Read Write User (SPLUSER or CISUSER by default) - This is the database user used by the product itself to execute DML (Data Manipulation Language) statements against the schema owned by the Administration user. This user has the appropriate read and write permission to objects within the schema owned by the Administration user. For databases such as DB2 and SQL Server we may not create this user but use other DCL (Data Control Language) statements and facilities to simulate this user. Product Read User (SPLREAD or CISREAD by default) - This is the database that has read only permission to the schema owned by the Administration user. It is used for reporting or any part of the product or interface that requires read permissions to the database (for example, products that have ConfigLab and Archiving use this user for remote access). For databases such as DB2 and SQL Server we may not create this user but use other DCL (Data Control Language) statements and facilities to simulate this user. You may notice the words by default in the list above. The values supplied with the installer are the default and can be changed to what the site standard or implementation wants to use (as long as they conform to the standards supported by the underlying database). You can even create multiples of each within the same database and pointing to same schema. To manage the permissions for the users, there is a utility provided with the installation (oragensec (Oracle), db2gensec (DB2) or msqlgensec (SQL Server)) that generates the security definitions for the above users. That can be executed a number of times for each schema to give users appropriate permissions. For example, it is possible to define more than one read/write User to access the database. This is a common technique used by implementations to have a different user per access mode (to separate online and batch). In fact you can also allocate additional security (such as resource profiles in Oracle) to limit the impact of specific users at the database. To facilitate users and permissions, in Oracle for example, we create a CISREAD role (read only role) and a CISUSER role (read write role) that can be allocated to the appropriate database user. When the security permissions utility, oragensec in this case, is executed it uses the role to determine the permissions. To give you a case study, my underpowered laptop has multiple installations on it of multiple products but I have one database. I create a different schema for each product and each version (with my own naming convention to help me manage the databases). I create individual users on each schema and run oragensec to maintain the permissions for each appropriately. It works fine as long I have setup the userids appropriately. This means: Creating the users with the appropriate roles. I use the common CISUSER and CISREAD role across versions and across Oracle Utilities Application Framework products. Just remember to associate the CISUSER role with the database user you want to use for read/write operations and the CISREAD role with the user you wish to use for the read only operations. The role is treated as a tag to indicate the oragensec utility which appropriate permissions to assign to the user. The utilities for the other database types essentially do the same, obviously using the technology available within those databases. Run oragensec against the read write user and read only user against the appropriate administration user (I will abbreviate the user to ADM user). This ensures the right permissions are allocated to the right users for the right products. To help me there, I use the same prefix on the user name for the same product. For example, my Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4 environment has the administration user set to FW4ADM and the associated FW4USER and FW4READ as the users for the product to use. For my MWM environment I used MWMADM for the administration user and MWMUSER and MWMREAD for my associated users. You get the picture. When I run oragensec (once for each ADM user), I know what other users to associate with it. Remember to rerun oragensec against the users if I run upgrades, service packs or database based single fixes. This assures that the users are in synchronization with the ADM user. As a side note, for those who do not understand the difference between DML, DCL and DDL: DDL (Data Definition Language) - These are SQL statements that define the database schema and the structures within. SQL Statements such as CREATE and DROP are examples of DDL SQL statements. DCL (Data Control Language) - These are the SQL statements that define the database level permissions to DDL maintained objects within the database. SQL Statements such as GRANT and REVOKE are examples of DCL SQL statements. DML (Database Manipulation Language) - These are SQL statements that alter the data within the tables. SQL Statements such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE are examples of DML SQL statements. Hope this has clarified the database user support. Remember in Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4 we enhanced this by also supporting CLIENT_IDENTIFIER to allow the database to still use the administration user for the main processing but make the database session more traceable.

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  • Top web-hosting sites with jQuery support?

    - by Anthony Forloney
    I am looking to start building a website and I am looking for some good web hosting companies that gives the best bang for the buck. I had been reading on some websites in regards to some web hosting companies having the inability to run scripts on their servers (jQuery) which causes a big problem since the website I am in the process of making is very jQuery driven. Can anyone recommend some good web hosting companies that they had good experience with? As of now, I checked out Google's web-hosting service and read up on a few companies from Top 10 Web Hosting List but would like a few recommendations.

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  • KB Articles on My Oracle Support

    - by Anthony Shorten
    My Oracle Support is a valuable resource for product information and how to's. It is not just about bug fixes and service packs. To find articles pertaining to any Oracle Utilities product you logon to My Oracle Support (your DBA shoud have access at least) and use the following path to Navigate to the articles: Knowledge - More Applications - Industry Solutions - Utilities You are then presented with a list of products, just select the one that you are interested in. You are then pressented with a list of articles available (25 per page). You can also search on keywords for articles. Here is a list of ones I find useful (with KB ID in []): Customer Care and Billing V2.2.0 Unix Installation Questions [ID 844645.1] Known Framework (FW) Errors [ID 783823.1] Weblogic 10 MP2 CCB Support Question [ID 1119383.1] CCB v2.2.0 Performance Problem Under Heavy Concurrent User Load [ID 808233.1] - This is a description of a patch for performance What Is The Meaning Of The TRUE And FALSE Setting For REL_CBL_THREAD_MEM Within OUAF For Oracle Utilities CCB, BI & ETM [ID 783444.1] Oracle Utilities Framework Support Utility [ID 1079640.1] How to customize XAI error messages? [ID 1061394.1] Oracle Utilities Application Framework - Patch Installation [ID 974985.1] Action Plan for Creating a Weblogic Custom Authentication Provider [ID 954417.1] How to set up XAI service on multiple servers to provide redundancy? [ID 854215.1] The first one is very useful and answer lots of how to questions for installation.

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  • JMX Based Monitoring - Part Three - Web App Server Monitoring

    - by Anthony Shorten
    In the last blog entry I showed a technique for integrating a JMX console with Oracle WebLogic which is a standard feature of Oracle WebLogic 11g. Customers on other Web Application servers and other versions of Oracle WebLogic can refer to the documentation provided with the server to do a similar thing. In this blog entry I am going to discuss a new feature that is only present in Oracle Utilities Application Framework 4 and above that allows JMX to be used for management and monitoring the Oracle Utilities Web Applications. In this case JMX can be used to perform monitoring as well as provide the management of the cache. In Oracle Utilities Application Framework you can enable Web Application Server JMX monitoring that is unique to the framework by specifying a JMX port number in RMI Port number for JMX Web setting and initial credentials in the JMX Enablement System User ID and JMX Enablement System Password configuration options. These options are available using the configureEnv[.sh] -a utility. Once this is information is supplied a number of configuration files are built (by the initialSetup[.sh] utility) to configure the facility: spl.properties - contains the JMX URL, the security configuration and the mbeans that are enabled. For example, on my demonstration machine: spl.runtime.management.rmi.port=6740 spl.runtime.management.connector.url.default=service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:6740/oracle/ouaf/webAppConnector jmx.remote.x.password.file=scripts/ouaf.jmx.password.file jmx.remote.x.access.file=scripts/ouaf.jmx.access.file ouaf.jmx.com.splwg.base.support.management.mbean.JVMInfo=enabled ouaf.jmx.com.splwg.base.web.mbeans.FlushBean=enabled ouaf.jmx.* files - contain the userid and password. The default setup uses the JMX default security configuration. You can use additional security features by altering the spl.properties file manually or using a custom template. For more security options see the JMX Site. Once it has been configured and the changes reflected in the product using the initialSetup[.sh] utility the JMX facility can be used. For illustrative purposes, I will use jconsole but any JSR160 complaint browser or client can be used (with the appropriate configuration). Once you start jconsole (ensure that splenviron[.sh] is executed prior to execution to set the environment variables or for remote connection, ensure java is in your path and jconsole.jar in your classpath) you specify the URL in the spl.management.connnector.url.default entry and the credentials you specified in the jmx.remote.x.* files. Remember these are encrypted by default so if you try and view the file you may be able to decipher it visually. For example: There are three Mbeans available to you: flushBean - This is a JMX replacement for the jsp versions of the flush utilities provided in previous releases of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. You can manage the cache using the provided operations from JMX. The jsp versions of the flush utilities are still provided, for backward compatibility, but now are authorization controlled. JVMInfo - This is a JMX replacement for the jsp version of the JVMInfo screen used by support to get a handle on JVM information. This information is environmental not operational and is used for support purposes. The jsp versions of the JVMInfo utilities are still provided, for backward compatibility, but now is also authorization controlled. JVMSystem - This is an implementation of the Java system MXBeans for use in monitoring. We provide our own implementation of the base Mbeans to save on creating another JMX configuration for internal monitoring and to provide a consistent interface across platforms for the MXBeans. This Mbean is disabled by default and can be enabled using the enableJVMSystemBeans operation. This Mbean allows for the monitoring of the ClassLoading, Memory, OperatingSystem, Runtime and the Thread MX beans. Refer to the Server Administration Guides provided with your product and the Technical Best Practices Whitepaper for information about individual statistics. The Web Application Server JMX monitoring allows greater visibility for monitoring and management of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework application from jconsole or any JSR160 compliant JMX browser or JMX console.

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