Pascal’s Blog

For one of my Oracle ADF projects I had to make use of a scheduler, so every night I could execute a batch job to create some large dump files that the user wanted to have. After a quick search I found there is a scheduling framework available in Oracle AS/ OC4J. Since we are [...]

In my former post I already said that I don’t like the JDeveloper wizard for creating Web Services. Although it is working fine and very easy in JDeveloper, the result is a web service that is only able to run on a OC4J instance! You can read about it in this (old) thread.
I am now [...]

For my current project I am migrating several projects from JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 to JDeveloper 10.1.3.3. After migrating my WebService project I deployed the application to my local Standalone OC4J instance and ran my test suite in SoapUI to test the migrated services. But to my surpise, all requests failed! They all gave the same [...]

When you are just starting with Oracle ADF and JDeveloper, there are a lot of tutorials and hands-on documents which you can use to build your first ADF application. The embedded OC4J in JDeveloper makes it very easy to develop and test your application. But at some point you want to deploy your application to [...]

In an upcoming project, I have to work with the Oracle Internet Directory. The situation: there are some existing Oracle Report and Forms applications. I will help them to develop their first Oracle ADF application. All these applications will use SSO for the authentication and autorisation. The accounts for the SSO are stored in OID. [...]

In this post I show the steps it takes to secure an (Oracle ADF) web application by SSO as it is supplied with the Oracle Application Server.

Step 1:Install standalone OC4J

download it here
Unpack it to your PC
Set necessary environment variables

Run first time and set password (see for more installation details the oc4j Readme [...]