Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Part I Product Release Notes

1 Certification Information

• 1.1 Certification Information
• 1.2 Certification on Linux x86-64
  • 1.2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0, Update 3 or higher (AMD64 / Intel EM64T)
  • 1.2.2 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (AMD64 / Intel EM64T)

2 Known Issues

• 2.1 Preinstallation Issues
• 2.2 Installation Issues
• 2.3 Postinstallation Issues
• 2.4 Deinstallation Issues
• 2.5 Platform-specific Issues
  • 2.5.1 Linux Issues
• 2.6 Configuration Issues
• 2.7 Administration Issues
• 2.8 Documentation Errata
  • 2.8.1 Oracle Developer Suite 10g Installation Guide
    • 2.8.1.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Tools
  • 2.8.2 Oracle Developer Suite 10g Quick Installation Guide

Part II Component Release Notes

3 Oracle Business Intelligence Beans

• 3.1 Obtaining Fix for GUID-Generation Issue
• 3.2 Naming a Project with Spaces
• 3.3 executecommand Method of Connection Object
• 3.4 Family Step Followed by KEEP on Asymmetric Saved Selection
• 3.5 Presentations
  • 3.5.1 Issue with Graphs with Circular Components
  • 3.5.2 Numbers Printing as Pound Signs
  • 3.5.3 Issue with Start Align Button
• 3.6 HTML-Client Applications
  • 3.6.1 Custom Text for Tooltips in Thin Graphs
  • 3.6.2 Popup Windows and Third-Party Toolbar or Popup Blockers
  • 3.6.3 Issue with Partial Page Rendering
  • 3.6.4 Circular Reference in the FolderList Tag
• 3.7 Issues with Turkish Regional Settings
• 3.8 Accessibility Limitations for OracleBI Beans
• 3.9 Documentation Corrections
• 3.10 Known Issues with Oracle OLAP Option

4 Oracle Forms

• 4.1 General Issues and Workarounds
  • 4.1.1 Backwards Compatibility with Earlier Releases
  • 4.1.2 Unix Issues and Workarounds
    • 4.1.2.1 Unset NLS_LANG with UTF8 Character Sets Before Starting Forms Builder
    • 4.1.2.2 Change Permissions of Re-linked Executables
  • 4.1.3 Solaris Issues and Workarounds
    • 4.1.3.1 Truncated UI Strings in Korean
    • 4.1.3.2 Truncated UI Strings in Japanese
  • 4.1.4 Microsoft Windows Issues and Workarounds
    • 4.1.4.1 Availability of JACOB Libraries for WebUtil
    • 4.1.4.2 Java Related Dialogs And Microsoft Windows Are Not Read By JAWS
    • 4.1.4.3 Location of JAWS Scripts
    • 4.1.4.4 Internet Explorer Hangs When Exiting The Form and Closing Browser
• 4.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
  • 4.2.1 Non-Internet Explorer Browser Proxy Settings when Using One-Button-Run
  • 4.2.2 Change to Default Setting for FORMS_RESTRICT_ENTER_QUERY Environment Variable
  • 4.2.3 PJC Wizard Now Part of Oracle Forms
  • 4.2.4 Exception When Clicking Other Items While Inputting Multibyte Characters
  • 4.2.5 JDK 1.4.2_06 Plug-in Not Installed When Running a Form on the Web for the First Time
  • 4.2.6 CLOB Data Cannot be Retrieved When Query Data More Than Max Width
  • 4.2.7 FRM-92102 Existing Sessions Disconnect When User Added To JAZN
  • 4.2.8 Monitoring CPU Usage and Response Time
• 4.3 Documentation Errata
  • 4.3.1 Oracle Forms Migrating Forms Applications From Forms 6i 10g (10.1.2.0.2)

5 Oracle Reports

• 5.1 General Issues and Workarounds
  • 5.1.1 Enabling Backward Compatibility with 9.0.4
  • 5.1.2 Using the New Auto Save Feature in Reports Builder
  • 5.1.3 OracleAS Reports Services Demos Do Not Work If JServ Is Configured
  • 5.1.4 JSP Report Does Not Run in Oracle JDeveloper on UNIX
  • 5.1.5 Error While Editing Batch Registered Report in OracleAS Portal
  • 5.1.6 Limitation on Linked Queries for DelimitedData Output
  • 5.1.7 Summary Column Not Aligned for JSP-Based Web Reports with Group Above and Matrix Style
  • 5.1.8 Images in HTML Output of Oracle Reports Not Displayed When Viewed from Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g
  • 5.1.9 Misalignment in Large Multibyte Reports When Using the Enhanced Font Subsetting Feature with Acrobat Reader 7.0
  • 5.1.10 Incorrect Color for Multiline Text in Paper Design View When Inline HTML Tags Are Used
  • 5.1.11 PL/SQL Compilation Failure When Using SQL Constructs
  • 5.1.12 PL/SQLPackage Specification and/or Body Lost When Saving Report As XML
• 5.2 Vendor-Specific Issues and Workarounds
  • 5.2.1 Underlines Do Not Display in HTMLCSS Output in Browser
  • 5.2.2 JSP-Based Web Report with Large Number of Columns Generates JSP Compilation Error
  • 5.2.3 Java AWT Windows Hangs with Specific Graphics Cards
• 5.3 Globalization Support Issues and Workarounds
  • 5.3.1 Images Do Not Display Correctly in Turkish Environments
  • 5.3.2 MS Mincho Font in PostScript Font Mapping Does Not Work When NLS_LANG is JA16EUC
  • 5.3.3 Multibyte Reports Containing Oracle Object Types Hang Reports Builder
  • 5.3.4 Japanese and Korean Translated UI Strings Are Truncated in the Report Wizard
  • 5.3.5 Reports Server's Job Status Messages in Application Server Control Contain Invalid Characters
  • 5.3.6 ENVID Ignored While Detecting Duplicate Job

6 Oracle JDeveloper 10g

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 What's New in JDeveloper 10.1.2.1.0
  • 6.2.1 Offline Database Objects
  • 6.2.2 Struts Page Flow Diagram
  • 6.2.3 Improvements in the Business Components Wizards
  • 6.2.4 ADF Business Components Performance Improvements
  • 6.2.5 Data Binding
  • 6.2.6 Embedded OC4J
  • 6.2.7 JDBC Drivers
  • 6.2.8 ADF Runtime in Oracle Application Server 10.1.2
• 6.3 Migration Issues
  • 6.3.1 JDeveloper 9.0.3 PL/SQL Web Service Has Compile Errors When Regenerated
  • 6.3.2 Regeneration of Migrated Web Service May Result in an Incomplete Deployment Profile
  • 6.3.3 WS-I Test Tools Location Must be Entered Again
  • 6.3.4 Migrating Struts Applications to Oracle JDeveloper 10g Struts Applications Created in Oracle9i JDeveloper
  • 6.3.5 Default Iterators for View Object Rowsets Advance to First Row When Bound to ADF Iterator Bindings
  • 6.3.6 Migrating Projects that Use bc4jhtml.jar
  • 6.3.7 Migrating JClient Projects with Java Web Start and JNLP
  • 6.3.8 Custom JClient Error Handler Dialog Migration
  • 6.3.9 EJB: Migration of OC4J 9.0.x Native CMP Mappings
  • 6.3.10 Trouble Migrating Web Applications from Oracle9i JDeveloper 9.0.4
  • 6.3.11 Migration Dialog May Display when Migrating from 9.0.5.1 to 10.1.2
  • 6.3.12 Oracle-Style Bind Parameters Work Differently
  • 6.3.13 Migrating EJB CMR Relationships to Oracle10g JDeveloper Release 10.1.2
  • 6.3.14 Migrated 9.0.X UIX/BC4J/JSP Applications Do Not Have UIX Resources and Styles Available
• 6.4 Deployment Issues
  • 6.4.1 XSQL Page Processor Cannot Read Pages from Unexpanded Servlet 2.2 WAR File
  • 6.4.2 Type Incompatibilities when Deploying to WebLogic
  • 6.4.3 WebLogic6.1 Fails to Understand 'Windows-1252' Encoding in XML Files
  • 6.4.4 ejb-ref in web.xml not Updated if the Bean Type is Changed from Remote to Local
  • 6.4.5 Proper Deployment Profiles not Shown for Projects with ADF UIX Technology Scope
  • 6.4.6 Additional Details for Deploying UIX Applications to WebLogic
  • 6.4.7 Configuring Persistence-Manager in orion-ejb-jar.xml not Supported for OracleAS 10.1.2
  • 6.4.8 Starting ADF Application Exception in Websphere 5.1
  • 6.4.9 Additional Details for Deploying UIX Applications to WebLogic
  • 6.4.10 Using Standalone OC4J with External jazn.xml
  • 6.4.11 Unable To Deploy JClient JNLP Application Based On BC4J EJB to Oracle Application Server
• 6.5 ADF DataAction for Struts Known Issues
  • 6.5.1 Best Practice for ADF Binding to Method Results
  • 6.5.2 Data Actions Extending DataForwardAction Change to Data Pages Incorrectly
• 6.6 ADF Business Components Issues
  • 6.6.1 Don't Use "Scan Source Path" Project with ADF Business Components
  • 6.6.2 No Such Method Error For ADF BC4J JSP Application in WebLogic 8.1.2
  • 6.6.3 View Object Custom Methods In Batch Mode
  • 6.6.4 Authentication Using LDAP Does not Work with Standalone OC4J
  • 6.6.5 ClassCastException Accessing One-To-Many Entity View Link Accessor
  • 6.6.6 Do Not Use Over 19 Top-Level Application Module Instances in One Application
• 6.7 ADF UIX Issues
  • 6.7.1 Third-party Popup Blockers and Toolbars May Interfere With ADF UIX
  • 6.7.2 Javascript Compression May Cause Errors in ADF UIX
  • 6.7.3 UIT Templates not Available for Context Menu Insertion
  • 6.7.4 Setting Source Attribute for UIX Image Component Fails if Image on Different Drive
  • 6.7.5 Live Data in UIX Preview
• 6.8 Apache Struts Restrictions
  • 6.8.1 Multiple Struts Application Modules within a Single Project not Supported
  • 6.8.2 Only Partial Support for Tiles Based Applications
  • 6.8.3 <welcome-file> Entries in Web.xml
  • 6.8.4 Action Attribute Must be Edited When Using HTML Form in JSP Pages
  • 6.8.5 Drag and Drop of Method on to Data Page/Action Fails with Overlapping Forward Label
  • 6.8.6 Directory WEB-INF Does Not Exist Message Is Shown in Console
• 6.9 Data Binding Issues
  • 6.9.1 Avoiding Performance Problems Fetching Data or Retrofitting Client Side Cache
  • 6.9.2 Scalar Attributes Returned by Bean Accessors
  • 6.9.3 NoDefExeception When Rendering a Bean with No Scalar Attributes
  • 6.9.4 oracle.jbo.domain.Array Data Type
  • 6.9.5 Not Possible to Set Type of Rowset Return Type in Custom AM Method
  • 6.9.6 If Secondary RSI is Used for Master, No Detail Rows Are Returned
  • 6.9.7 DataControl IDs in .cpx File Must be Unique
  • 6.9.8 First Calculated Attribute of Read-Only View Object Reverts To Transient
• 6.10 JClient Issues
  • 6.10.1 Tooltip Text Is Not Picked up by JClient Clients
  • 6.10.2 JClient Controls Ignore Business Components Control Hints at Design Time
  • 6.10.3 JClient Controls Bound to a Collection are Not Visible in the Java Visual Editor
  • 6.10.4 JClient No Longer Creates Rows Ready to Commit
  • 6.10.5 Java Web Start Not Launched in IE 5.5
• 6.11 Toplink Issues
  • 6.11.1 Using the Custom Query Tab in the Mapping Editor
  • 6.11.2 Importing Projects from TopLink Mapping Workbench
  • 6.11.3 Cannot Modify the Primary Key Attribute of an Object in a Unit of Work
  • 6.11.4 orion-ejb-jar.xml Required to Deploy Using TopLink CMP
  • 6.11.5 Exception When Mapping Classes with TopLink Technology Scope
  • 6.11.6 TopLink Mappings Tab Not Available in Code Editor
  • 6.11.7 TopLink Descriptors May Be Lost After Modifying .JAVA Files
  • 6.11.8 Accessors (getters and setters) May Not Appear as Methods in the TopLink Mappings Editor
  • 6.11.9 TopLink Mappings Structure Window May Not Update Properly
  • 6.11.10 Toplink Accessibility Issues
  • 6.11.11 Class Names Containing Dollar Signs
  • 6.11.12 Using TopLink Mapping Editor with Oracle10g Database
  • 6.11.13 Migrating TopLink Data Control Parameters
  • 6.11.14 Some Attributes May Not Appear in TopLink Structure Window
  • 6.11.15 TopLink Default Queries are Non-Configurable
  • 6.11.16 Using TopLink ADF Data Bindings
  • 6.11.17 Using Database Session with Connection Pool Causes SessionLoader Exception
  • 6.11.18 Refactoring Classes Does Not Update TopLink Descriptors
  • 6.11.19 Adding a Preceding Space to a Session Name Causes Exception at Runtime
  • 6.11.20 Synchronizing Datacontrols.dcx and Databindings.cpx
  • 6.11.21 Error When Deleting and Committing a Record
  • 6.11.22 Multibyte Strings in "Source" View for session.xml Appear Garbled
  • 6.11.23 Resetting TopLink Units of Work will Improve Performance
• 6.12 Web Services Issues
  • 6.12.1 Insight Not Available for WSDL Documents
  • 6.12.2 Compilation Errors After Regeneration of PL/SQL Web Service
  • 6.12.3 In the Find Web Services Wizard, JAWS Will Only Return a Valid Value Once the Row is Loaded
  • 6.12.4 Changing the Project in the PL/SQL Web Services Wizard May Fail to Update the Context Root for the Endpoint
  • 6.12.5 Must Use Schema Qualified Name for PL/SQL Web Service
  • 6.12.6 Web Service Stub Fails if Generated from JDeveloper Install Path with Space
  • 6.12.7 Cannot Generate Stubs for Web Services which Reference Base64
  • 6.12.8 JPublisher Generates Incorrect Code if the PL/SQL Package Name Contains Hyphens
  • 6.12.9 Location of WS-I Log File has to be on Same System Drive as JDeveloper
  • 6.12.10 Cannot Generate a Stub or Skeleton for a WSDL that Uses Certain Types
  • 6.12.11 Using Underscores in Namespace Paths Can Cause Runtime Errors for Web Services
  • 6.12.12 Report for Web Service on UDDI Registry Is Garbled
• 6.13 Modeling Issues
  • 6.13.1 Erasing UML Diagram Elements From Disk
  • 6.13.2 Erasing Modeled EJBs From Disk
  • 6.13.3 Deleting Element from Diagram without Deleting Constraint Affects Node in Add to Diagram Dialog
  • 6.13.4 Renaming a Modeled Java Class to an Invalid Name Causes Errors
• 6.14 Team Based Development Issues
  • 6.14.1 CVS Support: Using Backslash Notation to Create NT PSERVER Connection
  • 6.14.2 WebDAV: Unable to Unlock Files on WebDAV Connection to Oracle9iAS Server
  • 6.14.3 Version History Against Oracle SCM
• 6.15 Unix-Specific Issues
  • 6.15.1 Running CodeCoach from the Command Line on Linux
  • 6.15.2 OJVM Installation on Linux
• 6.16 Macintosh OS X Issues
  • 6.16.1 Can't Scroll Down Using the Scroll Button in Help
  • 6.16.2 Clicking Near the Edge of the Smart Data or Data Window Gives a Console Exception
  • 6.16.3 Running a JClient Application Displays Diagnostic Information From Apple's VM
  • 6.16.4 Active View Does Not Get Highlighted
  • 6.16.5 Column/Row Re-Arrange not Working
  • 6.16.6 UI Outline Does Not Show Graphics
  • 6.16.7 The Context Menu Does Not Pop Up on the JSP Visual Editor
  • 6.16.8 The Focus is Never Set to the Proper Text Field in Dialogs
  • 6.16.9 Dynamic JNLP Files Do Not Work in Safari
  • 6.16.10 Floating a Dockable Window Will Disable the Menu Bar
  • 6.16.11 Java Developer Tools Required for Quick Javadoc to Work
  • 6.16.12 Dragging From the Palette not Supported
• 6.17 Screen Reader Issues
  • 6.17.1 JDeveloper Can be Installed with Java Access Bridge 1.2
  • 6.17.2 Issues With JDeveloper 10.1.2 When Using JAWS 3.70
  • 6.17.3 Issues With JDeveloper 10.1.2 When Using Either JAWS 3.70 or JAWS 5.0
  • 6.17.4 Issues With JDeveloper 10.1.2 When Using JAWS 5.0
  • 6.17.5 Issues With JAWS 3.70
  • 6.17.6 Issues With JAWS 5.0
• 6.18 Miscellaneous Issues
  • 6.18.1 Error Message When Deploying Applications Using the IDE (4502734)
  • 6.18.2 Unable to Debug with Client VM when JDeveloper Started with JDK 1.5\JRE\BIN in Path (4502080)
  • 6.18.3 Issue When Upgrading Library Definition from JDeveloper 10.1.2.0.0 to 10.1.2.1.0
  • 6.18.4 Null Pointer Exception in the UML Class Editor
  • 6.18.5 Running JDeveloper on Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • 6.18.6 Fail to Make/Run JSPs if Unused tlds Exist in Jars in WEB-INF/lib
  • 6.18.7 Using JDeveloper in a Multibyte Environment Obscures Some Characters in Text
  • 6.18.8 JSP/HTML Editor Cannot Decode File's Encoding Correctly if the File Has Large HEAD Tags
  • 6.18.9 Working with Offline Database Definitions

Part III Other Release Notes

7 Oracle Application Server Containers

• 7.1 OC4J Bugs Fixed in 10.1.2.0.2
• 7.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds
  • 7.2.1 Oracle JDBC-OCI driver upgrade in the Oracle Application Server
  • 7.2.2 OC4J Out of Memory Errors
  • 7.2.3 JDK 1.3 With OC4J 10.1.2.02
  • 7.2.4 Configuring Maximum Connections with Oracle HTTP Server
• 7.3 Enterprise Java Beans
  • 7.3.1 Deprecated orion-ejb-jar.xml Attributes
  • 7.3.2 Big EAR File Deployment Runs Out of Memory
  • 7.3.3 EJB Wrapper Code Compilation Fails When Running in zh_CN.GB18030 Locale.
  • 7.3.4 Package Name for RMIInitialContextFactory Has Changed
  • 7.3.5 How To Disable EJB Instance Pooling
  • 7.3.6 How To Compile in Non-Batch Mode
• 7.4 OC4J Services
  • 7.4.1 Data Sources
    • 7.4.1.1 Data Sources Creates the Correct Number of Connection Pools in 10.1.2
    • 7.4.1.2 Fatal Error Code Enhancement
    • 7.4.1.3 Fixed Connection Pool Problems
  • 7.4.2 ORMI
    • 7.4.2.1 ORMI - OC4J Only Creates IPv4 Sockets
    • 7.4.2.2 ORMI Protocol Is Not Secure
• 7.5 Oracle Application Server Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) Provider
  • 7.5.1 Using the 9.0.4 Oracle Internet Directory Server with 10.1.2.0.2 OracleAS JAAS Provider
  • 7.5.2 Support for auth-method="DIGEST" in <jazn-web-app>
• 7.6 Documentation Errata
  • 7.6.1 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE User's Guide Documentation Errata
    • 7.6.1.1 An OC4J Process Is Not "Contained" in an OC4J Instance
    • 7.6.1.2 Correct Cross Reference for Metric-Based Load Balancing Information
    • 7.6.1.3 JDK 1.4.2 Supported and Installed with OC4J
    • 7.6.1.4 Primers Content Removed from OC4J User's Guide
    • 7.6.1.5 Deprecated Oc4JUserKeepalive Parameter in OC4J User's Guide and OC4J Standalone User's Guide
    • 7.6.1.6 Additional OC4J Deployment Notes
  • 7.6.2 Oracle XML API Reference Documentation Errata
    • 7.6.2.1 Add Information for formDocument() Method
  • 7.6.3 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE Services Guide Documentation Errata
    • 7.6.3.1 Corrected JDBC Connect String for Third-Party Databases
  • 7.6.4 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE Security Guide
    • 7.6.4.1 Incorrect Example in Deployment Roles and Users
    • 7.6.4.2 Incorrect internal-settings.xml Information