Oracle Openworld 2011 Schedule Set

Yes!! I finally get to go to an Oracle Openworld. I have been to many IOUG users weeks before and after the IOUG conference split from Oracle in 1995 along with a couple ODTUG conferences, but not to an Oracle Openworld conferences out in San Francisco.

I got my schedule all set. Here is the process I went through to get it my schedule loaded on my phone via my Google calendar. (I know there is an Oracle Openworld application, but I have an old Windows Mobile phone and the Android port for my phone eats my battery and I have no cellular data service...)

1. In the Openworld schedule content catalog I went through and populated my interest list.
2. I copied (cut and paste) the 69 events to my PC in Excel (date, time, location and event title).
3. In the Openworld schedule builder I selected my first choices for each time slot. I have 36 first choices. I prefixed my primary event names with "1)".
   
4. Next I selected 33 secondary choices left on my interest list for each time slot. I prefixed my secondary event names with "2)".
5. I saved all the events to a CVS file.
6. I imported the CVS file into my Google calendar.
7. I synced my old Windows Mobile phone with my Google calendar.
8. Now I have to fit in time for the exhibit hall..
   

It was a long painful process, but I now have all the events I want go to in my phone.

Here are my preferred events for each time slot. Unfortunately it shows the session ID and not the session title.

Oracle Forms Builder will not start

Well I ran into an error that I found posted out on the Internet with no solution listed. I just wanted to post my solution in case someone else is running into this.

Problem: "All of sudden" today when I started Oracle Forms Builder 9i (yes we are using 1996 technology) I got Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error Assertion failed! FRM-10039:



Cause: A new Java Virtual Machine (JVM.DLL) was pushed out to our PCs. Users were having problems with it. While working out the user's JVM problems, I made a copy of JVM.DLL in the directory where I start Oracle Forms Builder. When Oracle Forms Builder was starting it was using the local copy of JVM.DLL and not the copy in the directory where I installed Oracle Forms.

Fix: I deleted the copy of the JVM.DLL that was in my local directory. Now Oracle Forms Builder is using the JVM.DLL that was provided by the Forms installation.

Summary: If you get the Assertion Error when starting Oracle Forms Builder, check to see what JVM.DLL file is being used by Oracle Forms.

How Oracle got to where it is today

Here is a great presentation about the history of Oracle got to where it is today.

Oracle Forms - 2011 Conference Missing In Action (MIA)

I was doing some 2011 training planning and was looking at some Oracle-related conferences for this year. I noticed there are no Oracle Forms sessions at the IOUG Collaborate 11 and one "migrating off of Oracle Forms" session at ODTUG KSCOPE11. Not a good indication for the future of Oracle Forms.

If you know of any please post them as comments to the blog entry.

Apex 4.0 Upgrade, Not Possible

Well I started looking at my 2011 projects and was getting excited about upgrading of our Oracle Apex version 3.1 to version 4.0 until I found out that Apex version 4.0 requires 10.2.0.3 or higher. Unfortunately the main Apex repository we have is Oracle 9i!! Barring moving the Apex repository (applications) to a different 10g database and setting up database links to "bridge" back to the data in the 9i database (ugly and messy), I am stuck with Apex 3.1 until the 9i database is upgraded to 10g. Unfortunately that is dependent on a lot of non-Apex applications completely out of my control getting modified/upgraded. Oh well.

Oracle A.I.M. Retired

This morning I started doing some reading on Oracle Application Implementation Method (A.I.M.) 3.0. I ran across the multitude of documents associated with it. I remember back reading books on Oracle's CASE*Method. Well while surfing for more information about A.I.M. I noticed that Oracle is retiring A.I.M. as of the end of this month (January). Now I need to see if I can dig up information about ORACLE^® UNIFIED METHOD (OUM)