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Java-Powered Robot Named NAO Wows Crowds

- by Tori Wieldt

He drew a crowd where he went at JavaOne. And only being 22.5 inches/573 mm tall, that's pretty impressive. Nao (pronounced now) is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company. Over 200 academic institutions worldwide have made use of the robot. In this video from JavaOne, Nicolas Rigaud shows off the NAO robot which you can control with Java. We are eager to see what Java developers can do with a robot that can walk, talk, see, hear, and dance. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;span id=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;XinhaEditingPostion&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; You can see several pictures in the blog Aldebaran Robotics at JavaOne. Learn more about the Aldebaran robotics developer program.

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Current State EA: Focus on the Integration!!!

- by Eric A. Stephens

A recent project has me at the front end of a large implementation effort covering multiple software components. In addition to the challenges of integrating 15-20 separate and new software components there is the challenge of integrating the portfolio into an existing environment. Like other clients I've worked with and other environments I've worked in for many years, this is typical. The applications are undocumented and under patched leading to a mystery for any architect leading change. We can boil down most architecture development methodologies (ADM) into first understanding the current/baseline state and then envisioning one or more future states. Many pundits emphasize the need to focus on the future/target states. I agree since enterprise architecture (EA) is about where you are going and not so much where you have been. But to be effective in the future, I contend some focused time needs to be spent on the current state. And specifically on the integration. Integration is always the difficult part of a project (I might put it more coarsely at a cocktail party). While I don't have a case study, my anecdotal experience suggests poorly integrated application portfolios tend to cost more to operate and create entropy when trying to respond to new changes and opportunities. In the aforementioned project, I was able to get one of our EAs assigned to focus on just integration almost immediately. While we're still early in the process, this EA is uncovering all sorts of information that will greatly assist our future state planning for this solution. This information is driving early decision making that we anticipate will accelerate our efforts moving forward. #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; } #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; } #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; } #next_pages_container { width: 5px; hight: 5px; position: absolute; top: -100px; left: -100px; z-index: 2147483647 !important; }

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Social Targeting: This One's Just for You

- by Mike Stiles

Think of social targeting in terms of the archery competition we just saw in the Olympics. If someone loaded up 5 arrows and shot them straight up into the air all at once, hoping some would land near the target, the world would have united in laughter. But sadly for hysterical YouTube video viewing, that’s not what happened. The archers sought to maximize every arrow by zeroing in on the spot that would bring them the most points. Marketers have always sought to do the same. But they can only work with the tools that are available. A firm grasp of the desired target does little good if the ad products aren’t there to deliver that target. On the social side, both Facebook and Twitter have taken steps to enhance targeting for marketers. And why not? As the demand to monetize only goes up, they’re quite motivated to leverage and deliver their incredible user bases in ways that make economic sense for advertisers. You could target keywords on Twitter with promoted accounts, and get promoted tweets into search. They would surface for your followers and some users that Twitter thought were like them. Now you can go beyond keywords and target Twitter users based on 350 interests in 25 categories. How does a user wind up in one of these categories? Twitter looks at that user’s tweets, they look at whom they follow, and they run data through some sort of Twitter secret sauce. The result is, you have a much clearer shot at Twitter users who are most likely to welcome and be responsive to your tweets. And beyond the 350 interests, you can also create custom segments that find users who resemble followers of whatever Twitter handle you give it. That means you can now use boring tweets to sell like a madman, right? Not quite. This ad product is still quality-based, meaning if you’re not putting out tweets that lead to interest and thus, engagement, that tweet will earn a low quality score and wind up costing you more under Twitter’s auction system to maintain. That means, as the old knight in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” cautions, “choose wisely” when targeting based on these interests and categories to make sure your interests truly do line up with theirs. On the Facebook side, they’re rolling out ad targeting that uses email addresses, phone numbers, game and app developers’ user ID’s, and eventually addresses for you bigger brands. Why? Because you marketers asked for it. Here you were with this amazing customer list but no way to reach those same customers should they be on Facebook. Now you can find and communicate with customers you gathered outside of social, and use Facebook to do it. Fair to say such users are a sensible target and will be responsive to your message since they’ve already bought something from you. And no you’re not giving your customer info to Facebook. They’ll use something called “hashing” to make sure you don’t see Facebook user data (beyond email, phone number, address, or user ID), and Facebook can’t see your customer data. The end result, social becomes far more workable and more valuable to marketers when it delivers on the promise that made it so exciting in the first place. That promise is the ability to move past casting wide nets to the masses and toward concentrating marketing dollars efficiently on the targets most likely to yield results.

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Working with Analytic Workflow Manager (AWM) - Part 8 Cube Metadata Analysis

- by Mohan Ramanuja

CUBE SIZEselect dbal.owner||'.'||substr(dbal.table_name,4) awname, sum(dbas.bytes)/1024/1024 as mb, dbas.tablespace_name from dba_lobs dbal, dba_segments dbas where dbal.column_name = 'AWLOB' and dbal.segment_name = dbas.segment_name group by dbal.owner, dbal.table_name, dbas.tablespace_name order by dbal.owner, dbal.table_name SESSION RESOURCES select vses.username||':'||vsst.sid username, vstt.name, max(vsst.value) valuefrom v$sesstat vsst, v$statname vstt, v$session vseswhere vstt.statistic# = vsst.statistic# and vsst.sid = vses.sid andVSES.USERNAME LIKE ('ATTRIBDW_OWN') ANDvstt.name in ('session pga memory', 'session pga memory max', 'session uga memory','session uga memory max', 'session cursor cache count', 'session cursor cache hits', 'session stored procedure space', 'opened cursors current', 'opened cursors cumulative') andvses.username is not null group by vsst.sid, vses.username, vstt.name order by vsst.sid, vses.username, vstt.name OLAP PGA USE select 'OLAP Pages Occupying: '|| round((((select sum(nvl(pool_size,1)) from v$aw_calc)) / (select value from v$pgastat where name = 'total PGA inuse')),2)*100||'%' info from dual union select 'Total PGA Inuse Size: '||value/1024||' KB' info from v$pgastat where name = 'total PGA inuse' union select 'Total OLAP Page Size: '|| round(sum(nvl(pool_size,1))/1024,0)||' KB' info from v$aw_calc order by info desc OLAP PGA USAGE PER USER select vs.username, vs.sid, round(pga_used_mem/1024/1024,2)||' MB' pga_used, round(pga_max_mem/1024/1024,2)||' MB' pga_max, round(pool_size/1024/1024,2)||' MB' olap_pp, round(100*(pool_hits-pool_misses)/pool_hits,2) || '%' olap_ratio from v$process vp, v$session vs, v$aw_calc va where session_id=vs.sid and addr = paddr CUBE LOADING SCRIPT REM The 'set define off' statement is needed only if running this script through SQLPlus.REM If you are using another tool to run this script, the line below may be commented out.set define offBEGIN DBMS_CUBE.BUILD( 'VALIDATE ATTRIBDW_OWN.CURRENCY USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNT USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.DATEDIM USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.CUSIP USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNTRETURN', 'CCCCC', -- refresh methodfalse, -- refresh after errors 0, -- parallelismtrue, -- atomic refreshtrue, -- automatic orderfalse); -- add dimensionsEND;/BEGIN DBMS_CUBE.BUILD( ' ATTRIBDW_OWN.CURRENCY USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNT USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.DATEDIM USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.CUSIP USING ( LOAD NO SYNCH, COMPILE SORT ), ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNTRETURN', 'CCCCC', -- refresh methodfalse, -- refresh after errors 0, -- parallelismtrue, -- atomic refreshtrue, -- automatic orderfalse); -- add dimensionsEND;/ VISUALIZATION OBJECT - AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN" ( "PS#" NUMBER(10,0), "GEN#" NUMBER(10,0), "EXTNUM" NUMBER(8,0), "AWLOB" BLOB, "OBJNAME" VARCHAR2(256 BYTE), "PARTNAME" VARCHAR2(256 BYTE) ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE ( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "AWLOB" ) STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) PARTITION BY RANGE ( "GEN#" ) SUBPARTITION BY HASH ( "PS#", "EXTNUM" ) SUBPARTITIONS 8 ( PARTITION "PTN1" VALUES LESS THAN (1) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE READS LOGGING NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP661" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP662" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP663" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP664" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP665" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP666" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP667" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP668" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) , PARTITION "PTNN" VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP669" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP670" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP671" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP672" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP673" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP674" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP675" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP676" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) ) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."ATTRIBDW_OWN_I$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN" ( "PS#", "GEN#", "EXTNUM" ) PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE STATISTICS STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000406980C00004$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOCAL (PARTITION "SYS_IL_P711" PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP695" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP696" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP697" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP698" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP699" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP700" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP701" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP702" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) , PARTITION "SYS_IL_P712" PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP703" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP704" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP705" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP706" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP707" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP708" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP709" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP710" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) ) PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE BUILD LOG CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( "BUILD_ID" NUMBER, "SLAVE_NUMBER" NUMBER, "STATUS" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE), "COMMAND" VARCHAR2(25 BYTE), "BUILD_OBJECT" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "BUILD_OBJECT_TYPE" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE), "OUTPUT" CLOB, "AW" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "OWNER" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "PARTITION" VARCHAR2(50 BYTE), "SCHEDULER_JOB" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "TIME" TIMESTAMP (6)WITH TIME ZONE, "BUILD_SCRIPT" CLOB, "BUILD_TYPE" VARCHAR2(22 BYTE), "COMMAND_DEPTH" NUMBER(2,0), "BUILD_SUB_OBJECT" VARCHAR2(30 BYTE), "REFRESH_METHOD" VARCHAR2(1 BYTE), "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "COMMAND_NUMBER" NUMBER, "IN_BRANCH" NUMBER(1,0), "COMMAND_STATUS_NUMBER" NUMBER, "BUILD_NAME" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE) ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "OUTPUT" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) LOB ( "BUILD_SCRIPT" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407294C00013$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407294C00007$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE DIMENSION COMPILE CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE" ( "ID" NUMBER, "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "ERROR#" NUMBER(8,0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "ERROR_MESSAGE" VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE), "DIMENSION" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "DIMENSION_MEMBER" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "MEMBER_ANCESTOR" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "HIERARCHY1" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "HIERARCHY2" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), "ERROR_CONTEXT" CLOB ) SEGMENT CREATION DEFERRED PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "ERROR_CONTEXT" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ID"IS 'Current operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS 'Cube build log sequence number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR#"IS 'Error number being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR_MESSAGE"IS 'Error text being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."DIMENSION"IS 'Name of dimension being compiled'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."DIMENSION_MEMBER"IS 'Problem dimension member'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."MEMBER_ANCESTOR"IS 'Problem dimension member''s parent'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."HIERARCHY1"IS 'First hierarchy involved in error'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."HIERARCHY2"IS 'Second hierarchy involved in error'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR_CONTEXT"IS 'Extra information for error'; COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"IS 'Cube dimension compile log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407307C00010$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE OPERATING LOG CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG" ( "INST_ID" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "SID" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "SERIAL#" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "USER#" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE, "SQL_ID" VARCHAR2(13 BYTE), "JOB" NUMBER, "ID" NUMBER, "PARENT_ID" NUMBER, "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "TIME" TIMESTAMP (6)WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL ENABLE, "LOG_LEVEL" NUMBER(4,0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "DEPTH" NUMBER(4,0), "OPERATION" VARCHAR2(15 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "SUBOPERATION" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE), "STATUS" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "NAME" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "VALUE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE), "DETAILS" CLOB ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "DETAILS" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."INST_ID"IS 'Instance ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SID"IS 'Session ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SERIAL#"IS 'Session serial#'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."USER#"IS 'User ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SQL_ID"IS 'Executing SQL statement ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."JOB"IS 'Identifier of job'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."ID"IS 'Current operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."PARENT_ID"IS 'Parent operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS 'Cube build log sequence number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."TIME"IS 'Time of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."LOG_LEVEL"IS 'Verbosity level of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."DEPTH"IS 'Nesting depth of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."OPERATION"IS 'Current operation'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SUBOPERATION"IS 'Current suboperation'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."STATUS"IS 'Status of current operation'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."NAME"IS 'Name of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."VALUE"IS 'Value of record'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."DETAILS"IS 'Extra information for record'; COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"IS 'Cube operations log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407301C00018$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE REJECTED RECORDS CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS" ( "ID" NUMBER, "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER, "ERROR#" NUMBER(8,0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "ERROR_MESSAGE" VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE), "RECORD#" NUMBER(38,0), "SOURCE_ROW" ROWID, "REJECTED_RECORD" CLOB ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE ( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ( "REJECTED_RECORD" ) STORE AS BASICFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ID"IS 'Current operation ID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS 'Cube build log sequence number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ERROR#"IS 'Error number being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ERROR_MESSAGE"IS 'Error text being reported'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."RECORD#"IS 'Rejected record number'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."SOURCE_ROW"IS 'Rejected record''s ROWID'; COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."REJECTED_RECORD"IS 'Rejected record copy'; COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"IS 'Cube rejected records log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407304C00007$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ;

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Where I missed boot.properties.?

- by Dyade, Shailesh M

Today one of my customer was trying to start the WebLogic Server ( Production Instance) , though he was trying to start the server in a standard way, but it was failing due to below error : ####<Oct 22, 2012 12:14:43 PM BST> <Warning> <Security> <BanifB1> <> <main> <> <> <> <1350904483998> <BEA-090066> <Problem handling boot identity. The following exception was generated: weblogic.security.internal.encryption.EncryptionServiceException: weblogic.security.internal.encryption.EncryptionServiceException: [Security:090219]Error decrypting Secret Key java.security.ProviderException: setSeed() failed> And it started failing into below causes. ####<Oct 22, 2012 12:16:45 PM BST> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BanifB1> <AdminServer> <main> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1350904605837> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: java.lang.AssertionError: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException java.lang.AssertionError: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException weblogic.security.internal.encryption.EncryptionServiceException: weblogic.security.internal.encryption.EncryptionServiceException: [Security:090219]Error decrypting Secret Key java.security.ProviderException: setSeed() failed weblogic.security.internal.encryption.EncryptionServiceException: [Security:090219]Error decrypting Secret Key java.security.ProviderException: setSeed() failed at weblogic.security.internal.encryption.JSafeSecretKeyEncryptor.decryptSecretKey(JSafeSecretKeyEncryptor.java:121) Customer was facing this issue without any changes in the system, it was stable suddenly started seeing this issue last night. When we checked, customer was manually entering the username and password, config.xml had the entries encrypted However when verified, customer had the boot.properties at the Servers/AdminServer/security folder and DomainName/security didn't have this file. Adding boot.properies fixed the issue. Regards Shailesh Dyade

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Web Services Example - Part 2: Programmatic

- by Denis T

In this edition of the ADF Mobile blog we'll tackle part 2 of our Web Service examples. In this posting we'll take a look at using a SOAP Web Service but calling it programmatically in code and parsing the return into a bean. Getting the sample code: Just click here to download a zip of the entire project. You can unzip it and load it into JDeveloper and deploy it either to iOS or Android. Please follow the previous blog posts if you need help getting JDeveloper or ADF Mobile installed. Note: This is a different workspace than WS-Part1 Defining our Web Service: Just like our first installment, we are using the same public weather forecast web service provided free by CDYNE Corporation. Sometimes this service goes down so please ensure you know it's up before reporting this example isn't working. We're going to concentrate on the same two web service methods, GetCityForecastByZIP and GetWeatherInformation. Defing the Application: The application setup is identical to the Weather1 version. There are some improvements to the data that is displayed as part of this example though. Now we are able to show the associated image along with each forecast line when using the Forecast By Zip feature. We've also added the temperature Hi/Low values into the UI. Summary of Fundamental Changes In This Application The most fundamental change is that we're binding the UI to the Bean Data Controls instead of directly to the Web Service Data Controls. This gives us much more flexibility to control the shape of the data and allows us to do caching of the data outside of the Web Service. This way if your application is, say offline, your bean could still populate with data from a local cache and still show you some UI as opposed to completely failing because you don't have any connectivity. In general we promote this type of programming technique with ADF Mobile to insulate your application from any issues with network connectivity. What's different with this example? We have setup the Web Service DC the same way but now we have managed beans to process the data. The following classes define the "Model" of our application: CityInformation-CityForecast-Forecast, WeatherInformation-WeatherDescription. We use WeatherBean for UI interaction to the model layer. If you look through this example, we don't really do that much with the java code except use it to grab the image URL from the weather description. In a more realistic example, you might be using some JDBC classes to persist the data to a local database. To have a good architecture it is always good to keep your model and UI layers separate. This gets muddied if you start to use bindings on a page invoked from Java code and this java code starts to become your "model" layer. Since bindings are page specific, your model layer starts to become entwined with your UI. Not good! To help with this, we've added some utility functions that let you invoke DC methods without having a binding and thus execute methods from your "model" layer without requiring a binding in your page definition. We do this with the invokeDataControlMethod of the AdfmfJavaUtilities class. An example of this method call is available in line 95 of WeatherInformation.java and line 93 of CityInformation.Java. What's a GenericType? Because Web Service Data Controls (and also URL Data Controls AKA REST) use generic name/value pairs to define their structure and don't have strongly typed objects, these are actually stored internally as GenericType objects. The GenericType class is simply a property map of name/value pairs that can be hierarchical. There are methods like getAttribute where you supply the index of the attribute or it's string property name. Why is this important to know? Because invokeDataControlMethod returns GenericType objects and developers either need to parse these GenericType objects themselves or use one of our helper functions. GenericTypeBeanSerializationHelper This class does exactly what it's name implies. It's a helper class for developers to aid in serialization of GenericTypes to/from java objects. This is extremely handy if you have a large GenericType object with many attributes (or you're just lazy like me!) and you just want to parse it out into a real java object you can use more easily. Here you would use the fromGenericType method. This method takes the class of the Java object you wish to return and the GenericType as parameters. The method then parses through each attribute in the GenericType and uses reflection to set that same attribute in the Java class. Then the method returns that new object of the class you specified. This is obviously very handy to avoid a lot of shuffling code between GenericType and your own Java classes. The reverse method, toGenericType is also available when you want to go the other way. In this case you supply the string that represents the package location in the DataControl definition (Example: "MyDC.myParams.MyCollection") and then pass in the Java object you have that holds the data and a GenericType is returned to you. Again, it will use reflection to calculate the attributes that match between the java class and the GenericType and call the getters/setters on those. Issues and Possible Improvements: In the next installment we'll show you how to make your web service calls asynchronously so your UI will fill dynamically when the service call returns but in the meantime you show the data you have locally in your bean fed from some local cache. This gives your users instant delivery of some data while you fetch other data in the background.

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Java Champion Dick Wall Explores the Virtues of Scala (otn interview)

- by Janice J. Heiss

In a new interview up on otn/java, titled “Java Champion Dick Wall on the Virtues of Scala (Part 2),” Dick Wall explains why, after a long career in programming exploring Lisp, C, C++, Python, and Java, he has finally settled on Scala as his language of choice. From the interview: “I was always on the lookout for a language that would give me both Python-like productivity and simplicity for just writing something and quickly having it work and that also offers strong performance, toolability, and type safety (all of which I like in Java). Scala is simply the first language that offers all those features in a package that suits me. Programming in Scala feels like programming in Python (if you can think it, you can do it), but with the benefit of having a compiler looking over your shoulder and telling you that you have the wrong type here or the wrong method name there.The final ‘aha!’ moment came about a year and a half ago. I had a quick task to complete, and I started writing it in Python (as I have for many years) but then realized that I could probably write it just as fast in Scala. I tried, and indeed I managed to write it just about as fast.”Wall makes the remarkable claim that once Java developers have learned to work in Scala, when they work on large projects, they typically find themselves more productive than they are in Java. “Of course,” he points out, “people are always going to argue about these claims, but I can put my hand over my heart and say that I am much more productive in Scala than I was in Java, and I see no reason why the many people I know using Scala wouldn’t say the same without some reason.”Read the interview here.

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The State of the Internet -- Retail Edition

- by David Dorf

Over at Business Insider, there's a great presentation on the State of the Internet done in the Mary Meeker style. Its 138 slides so I took the liberty of condensing it down to the 15 slides that directly apply to the retail industry. However, I strongly recommend looking at the entire deck when you have time. And while you're at it, Business Insider just launched a retail portal that's dedicated to retail industry content. Please check it out as well. My take-aways are below after the slide show. &amp;amp;amp;lt;span id=&amp;amp;amp;quot;XinhaEditingPostion&amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt; [Source: Business Insider] Here are a few things I took away from the statistics: Facebook and Twitter are in their infancy. While all retailers should have social programs, search is still the driver and therefore should receive the lions share of investment. Facebook referrals are up 92% year-over-year, but Google still does 80% of the referrals. E-commerce continues to grow at breakneck speed, but in-store commerce is still king. Stores are not showrooms yet. And social commerce pure-plays like Gilt and Groupon are tiny but worthy of some attention. There are more smartphones than PCs on the internet, and the disparity will continue to grow. PC growth will be flat and Tablet use will continue to grow. Mobile accounts for 12% of all internet traffic. A quarter of smartphone sales come from China, so anyone with a presence there better have a strong mobile strategy. 38% of people have used their smartphone to make a purchase, and many use their smartphones inside stores. Smartphones are a critical consumer tool for shopping. Mobile is starting to drive significant traffic to e-commerce sites, especially tablets. Tablet strategies are crucial for retailers. Mobile payments from the likes of Paypal and Square are growing quickly. It will be interesting to see how NFC plays in this area. Mobile operating systems are losing market share to iOS and Android. I wonder in Microsoft can finally make a dent? The internet is being dominated by mobile devices, and retailers had better have a strong mobile strategy to meet consumer demand.

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New Recipes for WebLogic 12.1.2

- by JuergenKress

New Recipes for Oracle WebLogic 12.1.2 Oracle ACE Director Frank Munz talks about the new content to be found in the newly published second edition of his book "Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Distinctive Recipes: Architecture, Development and Administration," and about some of his favorite features in WebLogic 12.1.2. Watch the video here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: Frank Munz,WebLogic Recipes,WebLogic,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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Accessing ADF Faces components that are read-only from JavaScript

- by Frank Nimphius

Almost as a note to myself and to justify the time I spent on analyzing aproblem, a quick note on what to watch out for when working trying to access read-only ADF Faces components from JavaScript. Those who tried JavaScript in ADF Faces probably know that you need to ensure the ADF Faces component is represented by a JavaScript object on the client. You do this either implicitly by adding an af:clientListener component (in case you want to listen for a component event) or explicitly by setting the ADF Faces component clientComponent property to true. For the use case I looked at in JDeveloper 11g R1 (11.1.1.7) I needed to make an output text component clickable to call a JavaScript function in response. Though I added the af:clientComponent tag to the component I recognized that it also needed the clientComponent property set to true. Though I remember this as not being required in 11.1.1.6, I like the new behavior as it helps preventing read-only components from firing client side events unless you tell it to do so by setting the clientComponent property to true. Note: As the time of writing, JDeveloper 11.1.1.7 is not publicly available and I put the note in this blog as a reminder in case you ever hit a similar challenge so you know what to do.

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Where Twitter Stands Heading Into 2013

- by Mike Stiles

As Twitter continued throughout 2012 to be a stage on which global politics and culture played itself out, the company itself underwent some adjustments that give us a good indication of what users and brands can expect from the platform in 2013. The power of the network did anything but fade. Celebrities continued to use it to connect one-on-one. Even the Pope signed on this year. It continued to fuel revolutions. It played an exponentially large factor in this US Presidential election. And around the world, the freedom to speak was challenged as users were fired, sued, sometimes even jailed for their tweets. Expect more of the same in 2013, as Twitter has entrenched itself, for individuals, causes and brands, as the fastest, easiest, most efficient way to message the masses so some measure of impact can come from it. It’s changed everything, and it’s not finished. These fun facts reveal the position of strength with which Twitter enters 2013: It now generates a billion tweets every 2.5 days It has 500 million+ users The average Twitter user has tweeted 307 times 32% of everyone using the Internet uses Twitter It’s expected to bring in $540 million in ad revenue by 2014 11 new accounts are created every second High-level Executive Summary: people love it, people use it, and they’re going to keep loving and using it. Whether or not outside developers love it is a different matter. 2012 marked a shift from welcoming the third party support that played at least some role in Twitter being so warmly embraced, to discouraging anything that replicates what Twitter can do itself…or plans to do itself. It’s not the open playground it once was. Now Twitter must spend 2013 proving it can innovate in-house and keep us just as entranced. Likewise, Twitter is distancing itself from Facebook. Images from the #1 platform’s Instagram don’t work on Twitter anymore, and Twitter’s rolling out their own photo filter product. Where the two have lived in a “plenty of room for everybody” symbiosis up to now, 2013 could see the giants ramping up a full-on rivalry. Twitter is exhibiting a deliberate strategy. Updates have centered on more visually appealing search results, and making finding and sharing content easier. Deals have been cut with some media entities so their content stands out. CEO Dick Costolo has said tweets aren’t the attraction, they’re what leads you to content. Twitter aims to be a key distributor of media and info. Add the addition of former News Corp. President Peter Chernin to the board, and their hashtag landing page experience for events, and their media behemoth ambitions get pretty clear. There are challenges ahead and Costolo has also laid those out; entry into China, figuring out how to have Twitter deliver both comprehensive and relevant, targeted experiences, and the visualization of big data. What does this mean for corporations? They can expect a more media-rich evolution and growing emphases on imagery. They can expect more opportunities to create great media content and leverage Twitter for its distribution. And they can expect new ways to surface in searches. Are brands diving in? 56% of customer tweets to companies get completely and totally ignored. Ugh. A study Twitter recently conducted with Compete shows people who see tweets from retailers are more likely to buy a product. And, the more retailer tweets they see, the more likely they are to purchase on the retail site. As more of those tweets point to engaging media content from the brand, the results should get even better. Twitter appears ready for 2013. Enterprise brands have some work to do. @mikestilesPhoto Stuart Miles, freedigitalphotos.net

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Interactive Reporting Translation Workbench utility is available

- by THE

As you may have seen in our Newsletter, Oracle has released the "Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting Translation Workbench" for Hyperion Interactive Reporting (IR) customers who are moving to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). A summary for this utility can be found here. To get the Utility along with documentation and training material we suggest that you visit the Oracle Technology Network ( OTN ) "Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting Downloads" page. Friendly enough, instead of hundreds of pages of "getting started Docs", Oracle has packed some training videos into the downloads, so that getting started is made as easy as possible. But of course the documentation comes with it as well.

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C++11 Tidbits: Decltype (Part 2, trailing return type)

- by Paolo Carlini

Following on from last tidbit showing how the decltype operator essentially queries the type of an expression, the second part of this overview discusses how decltype can be syntactically combined with auto (itself the subject of the March 2010 tidbit). This combination can be used to specify trailing return types, also known informally as "late specified return types". Leaving aside the technical jargon, a simple example from section 8.3.5 of the C++11 standard usefully introduces this month's topic. Let's consider a template function like: template <class T, class U> ??? foo(T t, U u) { return t + u; } The question is: what should replace the question marks? The problem is that we are dealing with a template, thus we don't know at the outset the types of T and U. Even if they were restricted to be arithmetic builtin types, non-trivial rules in C++ relate the type of the sum to the types of T and U. In the past - in the GNU C++ runtime library too - programmers used to address these situations by way of rather ugly tricks involving __typeof__ which now, with decltype, could be rewritten as: template <class T, class U> decltype((*(T*)0) + (*(U*)0)) foo(T t, U u) { return t + u; } Of course the latter is guaranteed to work only for builtin arithmetic types, eg, '0' must make sense. In short: it's a hack. On the other hand, in C++11 you can use auto: template <class T, class U> auto foo(T t, U u) -> decltype(t + u) { return t + u; } This is much better. It's generic and a construct fully supported by the language. Finally, let's see a real-life example directly taken from the C++11 runtime library as implemented in GCC: template<typename _IteratorL, typename _IteratorR> inline auto operator-(const reverse_iterator<_IteratorL>& __x, const reverse_iterator<_IteratorR>& __y) -> decltype(__y.base() - __x.base()) { return __y.base() - __x.base(); } By now it should appear be completely straightforward. The availability of trailing return types in C++11 allowed fixing a real bug in the C++98 implementation of this operator (and many similar ones). In GCC, C++98 mode, this operator is: template<typename _IteratorL, typename _IteratorR> inline typename reverse_iterator<_IteratorL>::difference_type operator-(const reverse_iterator<_IteratorL>& __x, const reverse_iterator<_IteratorR>& __y) { return __y.base() - __x.base(); } This was guaranteed to work well with heterogeneous reverse_iterator types only if difference_type was the same for both types.

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Master Data Management – A Foundation for Big Data Analysis

- by Manouj Tahiliani

While Master Data Management has crossed the proverbial chasm and is on its way to becoming mainstream, businesses are being hammered by a new megatrend called Big Data. Big Data is characterized by massive volumes, its high frequency, the variety of less structured data sources such as email, sensors, smart meters, social networks, and Weblogs, and the need to analyze vast amounts of data to determine value to improve upon management decisions. Businesses that have embraced MDM to get a single, enriched and unified view of Master data by resolving semantic discrepancies and augmenting the explicit master data information from within the enterprise with implicit data from outside the enterprise like social profiles will have a leg up in embracing Big Data solutions. This is especially true for large and medium-sized businesses in industries like Retail, Communications, Financial Services, etc that would find it very challenging to get comprehensive analytical coverage and derive long-term success without resolving the limitations of the heterogeneous topology that leads to disparate, fragmented and incomplete master data. For analytical success from Big Data or in other words ROI from Big Data Investments, businesses need to acquire, organize and analyze the deluge of data to make better decisions. There will need to be a coexistence of structured and unstructured data and to maintain a tight link between the two to extract maximum insights. MDM is the catalyst that helps maintain that tight linkage by providing an understanding about the identity, characteristics of Persons, Companies, Products, Suppliers, etc. associated with the Big Data and thereby help accelerate ROI. In my next post I will discuss about patterns for co-existing Big Data Solutions and MDM. Feel free to provide comments and thoughts on above as well as Integration or Architectural patterns.

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Devoxx Belgium - CFP Closes On July 5th

- by Yolande Poirier

The biggest Java conference in Europe is taking place in Antwerp, Belgium from November 11 to 15, 2013. The conference is designed by developers for developers and attracts renowned international speakers. The review committee looks for passionate speakers who are technically knowledgeable and not afraid to speak in front of a full room of Devoxxians. The speakers can increase CFP acceptance rate by submitting one or more talks for Tools in Action, Quickie, BOF, University session, Conference and Hands On Labs sessions.

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Speed up ADF Mobile Deployment to Android with Keystore

- by Shay Shmeltzer

As you might have noticed from my latest ADF Mobile entries, I'm doing most of my ADF Mobile development on a windows machine and testing on an Android device. Unfortunately the Android/windows experience is not as fast as the iOS/Mac one. However, there is one thing I learned today that can make this a bit less painful in terms of the speed to deploy and test your application - and this is to use the "Release" mode when deploying your application instead of the "Debug" mode. To do this you'll first need to define a keystore, but as Joe from our Mobile team showed me today, this is quite easy. Here are the steps: Open a command line in your JDK bin directory (I just used the JDK that comes with the JDeveloper install). Issue the following command: keytool –genkey –v –keystore <Keystore Name>.keystore –alias <Alias Name> -keyalg RSA –keysize 2048 –validity 10000 Both keystore name and alias names are strings that you decide on. The keytool utility will then prompt you with various questions that you'll need to answer. Once this is done, the next step is to configure your JDeveloper preferences->ADF Mobile to add this keystore there under the release tab: Then for your application specific deployment profile - switch the build mode from debug to release. The end result is a much smaller mobile application (for example from 60 to 21mb) and a much faster deployment cycle (for me it is about twice as fast as before).

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Common SOA Problems by C2B2

- by JuergenKress

SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture and has only really come together as a concrete approach in the last 15 years or so, although the concepts involved have been around for longer. Oracle SOA Suite is based around the Service Component Architecture (SCA) devised by the Open SOA collaboration of companies including Oracle and IBM. SCA, as used in SOA suite, is designed as a way to crystallise the concepts of SOA into a standard which ensures that SOA principles like the separation of application and business logic are maintained. Orchestration or Integration? A common thing to see with many people who are beginning to either build a new SOA based infrastructure, or move an old system to be service oriented, is confusion in the purpose of SOA technologies like BPEL and enterprise service buses. For a lot of problems, orchestration tools like BPEL or integration tools like an ESB will both do the job and achieve the right objectives; however it’s important to remember that, although a hammer can be used to drive a screw into wood, that doesn’t mean it’s the best way to do it. Service Integration is the act of connecting components together at a low level, which usually results in a single external endpoint for you to expose to your customers or other teams within your organisation – a simple product ordering system, for example, might integrate a stock checking service and a payment processing service. Process Orchestration, however, is generally a higher level approach whereby the (often externally exposed) service endpoints are brought together to track an end-to-end business process. This might include the earlier example of a product ordering service and couple it with a business rules service and human task to handle edge-cases. A good (but not exhaustive) rule-of-thumb is that integrations performed by an ESB will usually be real-time, whereas process orchestration in a SOA composite might comprise processes which take a certain amount of time to complete, or have to wait pending manual intervention. BPEL vs BPMN For some, with pre-existing SOA or business process projects, this decision is effectively already made. For those embarking on new projects it’s certainly an important consideration for those using Oracle SOA software since, due to the components included in SOA Suite and BPM Suite, the choice of which to buy is determined by what they offer. Oracle SOA suite has no BPMN engine, whereas BPM suite has both a BPMN and a BPEL engine. SOA suite has the ESB component “Mediator”, whereas BPM suite has none. Decisions must be made, therefore, on whether just one or both process modelling languages are to be used. The wrong decision could be costly further down the line. Design for performance: Read the complete article here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Wiki Technorati Tags: C2B2,SOA best practice,SOA Community,Oracle SOA,Oracle BPM,Community,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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Obtaining the correct Client IP address when a Physical Load Balancer and a Web Server Configured With Proxy Plug-in Are Between The Client And Weblogic

- by adejuanc

Some Load Balancers like Big-IP have build in interoperability with Weblogic Cluster, this means they know how Weblogic understand a header named 'WL-Proxy-Client-IP' to identify the original client ip.The problem comes when you have a Web Server configured with weblogic plug-in between the Load Balancer and the back-end weblogic servers - WL-Proxy-Client-IP this is not designed to go to Web server proxy plug-in. The plug-in will not use a WL-Proxy-Client-IP header that came in from the previous hop (which is this case is the Physical Load Balancer but could be anything), in order to prevent IP spoofing, therefore the plug-in won't pass on what Load Balancer has set for it.So unfortunately under this Architecture the header will be useless. To get the client IP from Weblogic you need to configure extended log format and create a custom field that gets the appropriate header containing the IP of the client.On WLS versions prior to 10.3.3 use these instructions:You can also create user-defined fields for inclusion in an HTTP access log file that uses the extended log format. To create a custom field you identify the field in the ELF log file using the Fields directive and then you create a matching Java class that generates the desired output. You can create a separate Java class for each field, or the Java class can output multiple fields. For a sample of the Java source for such a class, seeJava Class for Creating a Custom ELF Field to import weblogic.servlet.logging.CustomELFLogger;import weblogic.servlet.logging.FormatStringBuffer;import weblogic.servlet.logging.HttpAccountingInfo;/* This example outputs the X-Forwarded-For field into a custom field called MyOriginalClientIPField */public class MyOriginalClientIPField implements CustomELFLogger{ public void logField(HttpAccountingInfo metrics, FormatStringBuffer buff) { buff.appendValueOrDash(metrics.getHeader("X-Forwarded-For"); }}In this case we are using 'X-Forwarded-For' but it could be changed for the header that contains the data you need to use.Compile the class, jar it, and prepend it to the classpath.In order to compile and package the class: 1. Navigate to <WLS_HOME>/user_projects/domains/<SOME_DOMAIN>/bin2. Set up an environment by executing: $ . ./setDomainEnv.sh This will include weblogic.jar into classpath, in order to use any of the libraries included under package weblogic.*3. Compile the class by copying the content of the code above and naming the file as:MyOriginalClientIPField.java4. Run javac to compile the class.$javac MyOriginalClientIPField.java5. Package the compiled class into a jar file by executing:$jar cvf0 MyOriginalClientIPField.jar MyOriginalClientIPField.classExpected output is:added manifestadding: MyOriginalClientIPField.class(in = 711) (out= 711)(stored 0%)6. This will produce a file called:MyOriginalClientIPField.jar This way you will be able to get the real client IP when the request is passing through a Load Balancer and a Web server before reaching WLS. Since 10.3.3 it is possible to configure a specific header that WLS will check when getRemoteAddr is called. That can be set on the WebServer Mbean. In this case, set that to be X-Forwarded-For header coming from Load Balancer as well.

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C2B2 is now an Application Grid Specialized Partner

- by JuergenKress

Thanks to C2B2 to become an Application Grid Specialized Oracle Gold Partner. With the Specialization C2B2 has proven successful implementations of WebLogic and certification of their WebLogic experts. You as a customer can choose our Specialized partners to make your project successful! If you want to become Specialized please make sure that you join our Oracle WebLogic Partner Community: For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: c2b2,Apps Grid Certification,Implementation Specialist,Apps Grid Specialist,Oracle education,Glassfish,Jürgen Kress,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN

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Oops, I left my kernel zone configuration behind!

- by mgerdts

Most people use boot environments to move in one direction. A system starts with an initial installation and from time to time new boot environments are created - typically as a result of pkg update - and then the new BE is booted. This post is of little interest to those people as no hackery is needed. This post is about some mild hackery. During development, I commonly test different scenarios across multiple boot environments. Many times, those tests aren't related to the act of configuring or installing zone and I so it's kinda handy to avoid the effort involved of zone configuration and installation. A somewhat common order of operations is like the following: # beadm create -e golden -a test1 # reboot Once the system is running in the test1 BE, I install a kernel zone. # zonecfg -z a178 create -t SYSsolaris-kz # zoneadm -z a178 install Time passes, and I do all kinds of stuff to the test1 boot environment and want to test other scenarios in a clean boot environment. So then I create a new one from my golden BE and reboot into it. # beadm create -e golden -a test2 # reboot Since the test2 BE was created from the golden BE, it doesn't have the configuration for the kernel zone that I configured and installed. Getting that zone over to the test2 BE is pretty easy. My test1 BE is really known as s11fixes-2. root@vzl-212:~# beadm mount s11fixes-2 /mnt root@vzl-212:~# zonecfg -R /mnt -z a178 export | zonecfg -z a178 -f - root@vzl-212:~# beadm unmount s11fixes-2 root@vzl-212:~# zoneadm -z a178 attach root@vzl-212:~# zoneadm -z a178 boot On the face of it, it would seem as though it would have been easier to just use zonecfg -z a178 create -t SYSolaris-kz within the test2 BE to get the new configuration over. That would almost work, but it would have left behind the encryption key required for access to host data and any suspend image. See solaris-kz(5) for more info on host data. I very commonly have more complex configurations that contain many storage URIs and non-default resource controls. Retyping them would be rather tedious.

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ADF is YouTubed

- by Chris Muir

A blog post along the lines of "your wishes are our command". ADF developers are hopefully aware of our ADF Insider Essentials recordings, a page full of presentations from small to large topics on all-things-ADF. A couple of customers have pointed out these recordings aren't accessible via the iPad and other Apple OSX devices thanks to the recordings being wrapped in an Adobe Flash applet. To satisfy this need we've now uploaded all of the videos as MP4s to our ADF Insider Essentials YouTube channel for your iPad viewing pleasure. So now regardless if you're sitting at your PC or on the couch with your iPad, you can enjoy my horrible Aussie accent amongst the more professional ADF presentations from my colleagues ;-) Make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel to receive notifications of newly uploaded content.

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Kostenlose Openbooks: Handbuch zu Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 LTS

- by britta wolf

Ab sofort steht das umfassende Handbuch zu Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 LTS als kostenloses Openbook auf der Website von Galileo Computing zur Verfügung. Mit diesem Standardwerk lernt man alles Wissenswerte über die Linux-Distribution Ubuntu »Precise Pangolin« kennen. Das Buch überzeugt durch seine Themenvielfalt und Vollständigkeit. Von der Installation, der Benutzeroberfläche »Unity«, der Paketverwaltung über Optimierung, Programmierung, Migration und Kernelkompilierung bis hin zur Virtualisierung und Serverkonfiguration finden die Leser alle wichtigen Fragen in diesem über 1.000 Seiten starken Buch beantwortet. Darüber hinaus profitieren sie von mehr als 300 eigens gekennzeichneten Tipps und Tricks sowie von zahlreichen Praxisworkshops. Sowohl Einsteiger, erfahrene Anwender als auch Profis profitieren von diesem Handbuch. Die HTML-Version kann bequem im Browser gelesen werden. Das gedruckte Buch ist im Buchhandel erhältlich. Link zum Openbook: http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/ubuntu/

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Java Magazine: Java at Sea!

- by Tori Wieldt

The September/October issue of Java Magazine is now out, with several great Java stories, including: Java At Sea? Liquid Robotics charts a new course with expert help from Java pioneer James Gosling.? ?Duke’s Choice AwardsMeet this year’s winners! (The awards will be presented at the JavaOne Sunday night reception at the Taylor Street Cafe.)Looking Ahead to Project LambdaJava Language Architect Brian Goetz on the importance of lambda expressions.JCP Q&A: Ben EvansThe London JUG representative talks about the JCP and the Java community.Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6Adam Bien on deep integration with connector services in a lean way.DataFX: Populate JavaFX Controls with Real-World DataTools to retrieve, parse, and render data in a variety of JavaFX controls. Fix ThisStephen Chin challenges your JavaFX skills. Java Magazine is a bi-monthly online publication. It includes technical articles on the Java language and platform; Java innovations and innovators; JUG and JCP news; Java events; links to online Java communities; and videos and multimedia demos. Subscriptions are free.

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ADF Faces Skin Editor - How to Work with It

- by Shay Shmeltzer

The ODTUG Kscop11 conference was a great success with lots of sessions about FMW running in a special track. I did several sessions and labs in the conference, and I thought it might be a good idea to at least give you a taste of what you might have missed. So here is most of what I demoed in my ADF Faces Skinning session (not all though - that session was 60 minutes long, and while everyone did end up going out of the building in the middle because of a fire drill for about 5 minutes, there was other things covered in the session as well). In the demo here you'll see how to generate new images and default color scheme, how to identify a component class with Firebug, how to skin a component, how to identify the global selector of a property, how to change fonts and how to change strings. By the way, for more on ADF Skinning you should also listen to the ADF Insider seminar that Frank Nimphius recorded on skinning, it will give you better understanding of the overall skinning process. P.S. in the demo I add an entry to the web.xml file which prevent ADF Faces from compressing the HTML that is generated. The entry is for org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.DISABLE_CONTENT_COMPRESSION and I set it to true. This is very useful when you work on creating the skin, but don't forget to un-set it before you go production.

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20 Jahre Solaris - 25 Jahre SPARC!

- by Stefan Hinker

Normalerweise wiederhole ich ja nicht einfach das, was woanders schon steht. Hier mache ich eine Ausnahme... 20 Jahre Solaris - Und wer hat die ganzen Innovationspreise bekommen?25 Jahre SPARC - und kein bisschen muede :-) Wie die Geschichte weiter geht, steht ganz unten auf diesen Seite - also schnell nachsehen... Und wer's lieber als Video mag: 20 Jahre Solaris - 25 Jahre SPARC (Kaum zu glauben, ich habe nur die ersten 4 Jahre von Solaris "verpasst". Die Zeit vergeht wohl doch...)

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