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Oracle® Developer Suite Release Notes 10g (9.0.4) for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX Part No. B10668-03 |
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# Preface

This document summarizes differences between Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4) and its documented functionality.

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## Intended Audience

This installation guide is intended for developers, database administrators, and others responsible for installing Oracle products. You should be familiar with client/server architecture/relationships and database concepts.

## Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

    http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace. Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

## Organization

This document contains the following:

Part I, "Product Release Notes"

This part of the release notes contains information for the entire Oracle Developer Suite product.

The Part I chapters are:

- Chapter 2, "Product Naming"

- Chapter 3, "Certification Information"

- Chapter 4, "Known Issues"

Part II, "Component Release Notes"

This part of the release notes contains information for individual Oracle Developer Suite components.

The Part II chapters are:

- Chapter 5, "Oracle9i JDeveloper"

- Chapter 6, "Oracle Business Intelligence Beans"

- Chapter 7, "Oracle Discoverer Administrator"

- Chapter 8, "Oracle Discoverer Desktop"

- Chapter 9, "Oracle Forms Developer"

- Chapter 10, "Oracle Reports"

- Chapter 11, "Oracle Designer"

- Chapter 12, "Oracle Software Configuration Manager"

Part III, "Other Release Notes"

This part of the release notes contains information for server components that are installed with Oracle Developer Suite.

The Part III chapters are:

- Chapter 13, "Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J)"

## Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

- Oracle Developer Suite Documentation Library

- Oracle Developer Suite Platform Specific Documentation on Oracle Developer Suite Disk 1 CD-ROM or Oracle Developer Suite and Documentation DVD

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## Conventions

The following conventions are also used in this manual:

Convention | Meaning
--- | ---
boldface text | Boldface type in text indicates a key or button that you press or click; it could also indicate labels and options that appear on installation dialogs.
Italics | Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.
`code (lowercase monospace or fixed-width font)` | Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, file names, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, user names and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.
`boldface code` | Boldface monospace typeface indicates text that you enter in response to a command line prompt.
`italicized code` | Italicized code indicates placeholder text that you need to replace with an appropriate value.
`CODE (UPPERCASE monospace or fixed-width font)` | Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles.
. . . | Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . . | Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted.
[ ] | Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.

## Product Accessibility

To make the best use of the product's accessibility features, Oracle Corporation recommends the following software configuration:

- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6) or Windows 2000

- Sun Java Access Bridge 1.0.3

- JAWS

- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

- JDK 1.4.1

Additional accessibility information for Oracle products can be found at

`http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/`

For the latest configuration information or information on addressing accessibility and assistive technology issues, see the Oracle Accessibility FAQ at

`http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/faq.html`