Posted 17 Feb 2010 — by Arun
Category Droid
Firefox mobile will make the Android debut sometime late this year, according to TechRadar. Sullivan, Mozilla’s VP of mobiles, pointed out that the reason for the delay was based on the underlying code:
“Android has been built on a Java platform, whereas [Firefix Mobile] is based on C and C++ code. Until last year when [the Open Handset Alliance] released the NDK (native development kit) which allowed native code as part of the app, it was simply impossible.”
I’m waiting to give Firefox a try. I tried Opera for Android and I wasn’t impressed. I also tried Dolphin Browser for Android. I was impressed with it, but it was kind of buggy for me. especially while opening links from other applications. If you are within the browser, then it works great, especially with the hand gestures. I hope when Firefox is released, they would support pinch-to-zoom functionality like Dolphin Browser.
Technorati Tags: Firefox Mobile, Android, Dolphin Browser, Opera, Java
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When we were using Oracle Jinitiator to access Oracle E-Business suite application, I couldn’t get it to work in Linux. I tried several suggestions, but nothing worked. We finally moved to Sun Java JRE from Jinitiator. That helped a lot in getting it to work. I was getting this error message when we were using Jinitiator. I still see the message with Java, but it works.
In order to access this application, you must install the J2SE Plugin version 1.6.0_XX on your client and NPX_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable is set before starting Netscape. To install this plugin, click here to download the oaj2se.exe executable. Once the download is complete, double-click the oaj2se.exe file to install the plugin. You will be prompted to restart your browser when the installation is complete.
To get Java to work, use Synaptic package manager or whatever manager you use for installing programs in Linux. Search for sun java 6 and select sun-java6-jre (or whatever the latest version) and also select sun-java6-plugin. Install them. Once installed, Open a terminal from Application – Accessories – Terminal, type
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin
directory (if you are using a different version of Firefox than the default one, then the directory name might be different) and press enter. Then type
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.XX/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
and press enter (don’t forget the period at the end) where XX is the current Java version. At the time of this post, I think Java 1.6.0.16 is the latest, but Ubuntu might have an older version.
Restart Firefox and try starting the Oracle E-Business suite application. It worked for me.
Technorati Tags: Oracle E-Business Suite, Sun, Java, JInitiator, NPX_PLUGIN_PATH
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More than 8 months after Firefox 3.0 was released and Firefox 3.1 getting close to final release, Oracle has certified Firefox 3.0 with Oracle E-Business suite 11i and 12. They have released a new ATG interoperability patch to support Firefox 3.0. They have also released a patch for Java which removes static versioning and switches Firefox to non-static versioning. A long due changes finally arrived.
Source: Oracle E-Business Suite Technology blog.
Technorati Tags: Oracle, E-Business Suite, Firefox 3.0, Java
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If you work with Oracle Database, then you might have heard about SQL Developer. SQL Developer is a free graphical tool for database development. I use this for some of my Oracle work. It’s a decent tool and it’s free.
When I upgraded my SQL Developer to the latest version (1.5.0.53), I lost my database connection settings. The settings worked the first time I created them in the new version, but it was lost the next time I opened the SQL Developer. When I tried to recreate, the save or connect key did not work. I finally fixed it as per the advise given in the OTN forum. All you have to do is edit the sqldeveloper.conf file located under C:\Program Files\sql developer installation folder\sqldeveloper\bin using notepad or wordpad and add the following lines to the end of the file. Save and restart SQL Developer. You should see your connection settings back.
AddJavaLibFile ../../lib/java/api/jaxb-api.jar
AddJavaLibFile ../../lib/java/api/jsr173_api.jar
AddJavaLibFile ../../j2ee/home/lib/activation.jar
AddJavaLibFile ../../lib/java/shared/sun.jaxb/2.0/jaxb-xjc.jar
AddJavaLibFile ../../lib/java/shared/sun.jaxb/2.0/jaxb-impl.jar
AddJavaLibFile ../../lib/java/shared/sun.jaxb/2.0/jaxb1-impl.jar
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