Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oracle. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

"Getting Started with Java SE Embedded on the Raspberry Pi" (by Bill Courington and Gary Collins)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/raspberrypi-1704896.html by Bill Courington and Gary Collins

It includes a lot of useful Linux tweaks, that you may want to apply apart from installing Java SE anyway.

Resize the SD Card Partitions:
About half the card’s space is unallocated. The biggest chunk of free space follows the /dev/sdb3 partition. To add this space to /dev/sdb2 (the file system), we temporarily delete /dev/sdb3, extend /dev/sdb2, then re-create /dev/sdb3.
I started making use of the "Java SE" label with this article. Should apply it elsewhere as well.

It has a section "Optional Linux Tuning and Tweaking":

  • Set Up Static IP Address
  • Enable Swapping and Optimize File System Access Time
  • Set Time Zone and Locale
  • Set Up a Time Server
  • Set Up an Internet Proxy
  • Remap the Keyboard
  • Update Debian Packages
  • Automatically Start the Graphical User Interface
  • Add a Different Web Browser
  • Enable Sound
Do I really want to swap on the SD card? They discourage it there.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

installing Oracle "Java SE for Embedded" on a Synology NAS


I think, I will use his description for setting up Java on my Synology NAS (resp. NASs), so that I can run the Hibiscus Server (implemented in Java) on them. My NAS at home has plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet quite often each day.

Oracle's description on "Oracle Java SE Embedded Downloads":

For the DS112+ I chose the "ARMv5 Linux" entry "successfully". The ARMv6/7 and ARMv7 entries did not run at all. 

For the DS213+ I chose the "Power Architecture Linux - … - e500v2" entry "successfully".

Monday, October 21, 2013

O'Reilly Media book: Oracle Essentials

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027737.do
Written by Oracle insiders, this indispensable guide distills an enormous amount of information about the Oracle Database into one compact volume, including a valuable overview of Oracle Database 12c. Ideal for novice and experienced DBAs, developers, managers, and users, Oracle Essentials walks you through technologies and features in Oracle’s product line, including its architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, and tuning.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

O'Reilly Media book: Oracle PL/SQL Programming

Oracle PL/SQL Programming:
Considered throughout the Oracle technology community to be the best Oracle PL/SQL programming book available, this guide is the definitive reference on Oracle’s powerful procedural language. Like its predecessors, this sixth edition covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using PL/SQL. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 12c.

Friday, August 23, 2013

O'Reilly Media book: Oracle Essentials, 5th edition

Oracle Essentials:
Written by experienced Oracle insiders, this easy-to-read volume covers every aspect of the Oracle database for readers of all technical levels. The book includes information on Oracle's product line, architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, tuning and more.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Pre-Built VirtualBox VMs for Developers

VirtualBox VMs for Developers

This one looks particularly well-suited for excercising your Oracle DB skills:
It includes: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition.

This pre-built VM gets you around the hassle of setting up that beast
  • on your OS,
  • or even worse: under an OS derivate that you are not perfectly familiar with,
  • or somewhere, where you simply don't want to have it.
I would certainly love to make use of this DB server from within the VM host or other VM sibling guests. 

Monday, September 19, 2011

Poke disables Oracle's database auditing - The H Security: News and Features

Poke disables Oracle's database auditing - The H Security: News and Features: A command that is known from the BASIC programming language apparently allows unauthorised users to disable the auditing functions of Oracle databases. Experts think that this renders products which are based on these functions, such as Oracle Audit Vault, "nearly useless"

OpenIndiana's fork of OpenSolaris sees new Illumos based release - The H Open Source: News and Features

OpenIndiana's fork of OpenSolaris sees new Illumos based release - The H Open Source: News and Features: A year after the first release, the developers of the OpenSolaris fork, OpenIndiana, have released a new version that now includes the Illumos kernel

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Oracle's draft for the JCP clears an important hurdle - The H Open Source: News and Features

Oracle's draft for the JCP clears an important hurdle - The H Open Source: News and Features: With JSR 348, the developers introduced a draft to redesign the Java Community Process. Having gone through Public Review, the specification has now cleared an important implementation hurdle [--] only Google remains sceptical

Oracle adds commercial extensions to MySQL - The H Open Source: News and Features

Oracle adds commercial extensions to MySQL - The H Open Source: News and Features: New extensions for MySQL improve performance, scalability, availability and authentication, but will only be part of the commercial Enterprise Edition

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Oracle retires licence for distributing its Java with Linux - The H Open Source: News and Features

Oracle retires licence for distributing its Java with Linux - The H Open Source: News and Features: Oracle has announced that the "Operating System Distributor License" for Java will cease to exist, and that Linux distributors will in future only be allowed to package and distribute the OpenJDK