XML Publisher for download on OTN

11 July 2006 at 07:44 CEST | In Oracle, Reports, XML Publisher | 8 Comments

I’m in the middle of evaluating XML Publisher as a possible replacement for Oracle Reports. More on that later in a series of blog postings. While I was doing this, I noticed XML Publisher is now available for download on OTN. It used to be only available on the (far less known) edelivery.oracle.com. Oracle offering evaluation licenses on OTN for XML Publisher will certainly give XML Publisher more attention than it used to.

Just wanted to let you all know it’s available on OTN. If you want to have a look yourself, go ahead. You can also wait a couple of days and read my forthcoming series of blog postings about my evaluation of XML Publisher as a possible replacement for Oracle Reports.

PS. At ODTUG, I heard XML Publisher will be rebranded to BI Publisher to become part of Oracle’s BI offering.

Oracle e-Business Suite will use Sun JPI

1 July 2006 at 11:20 CEST | In AppServer, Forms, Oracle, SUN JPI/JVM | 4 Comments

Pankaj Chandiramini reports Oracle e-Business Suite 12 will replace Oracle’s own JInitiator with the native Sun Java2 Standard Edition, also known as Sun’s Java Plug-In (JPI).

We’ve been running Sun JPI since summer 2005 and had some minor troubles in the beginning, when Sun JPI wasn’t officially supported by Oracle. Oracle eBS also making the switch to Sun JPI is good news for all of us. This means JPI will get even more attention as a platform for running Forms. Currently, most documentation and MetaLink notes still assume you’re running Oracle JInitiator. eBS making the switch might change this and will make live easier for me ;-)

Pankaj also reports eBS 12 will make the switch to the latest platform, which is Application Server 10.1.2 for Forms/Reports and Application Server 10.1.3 for the Java stuff. I bet they would have liked a single platform based on 10.1.3, but Forms is skipping the 10.1.3 platform and will go from 10.1.2 to 11.x. That’s probably why they do this split configuration, since they do want to use the latest J2EE based stuff on 10.1.3.

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