Year: 2007
September 5

XML Data – To be stored or not to be stored, and beyond…

This is a backup of my post, with the same title, on the AMIS Technology Blog site

It is nagging…

I got an email from that you are able to download the handouts from ODTUG until half September (download them now, 1/2 September they will be archived and you will need an account to access them). Because I am highly interested on XML / XMLDB stuff, I scrolled through the list. My eye caught the presentation of Mr. Ken Atkins. As far as I can see from his picture on his website he looks like a nice, cool guy, but I can’t resist making some remarks here about the slides from his presentation: “XML Data Into and Out of Oracle – Using PL/SQL”. Making these remarks is difficult, I wasn’t there, I don’t know the exact context in which they are said in, but…

Anyway. Hereby some of my pointers, based on this presentation…

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September 3

Oracle 11g: Peeking into Protocol Server functionality – orarep and DBMS_REPORT

It is undocumented. At least I couldn’t find references. In the XMLDB Protocol Server there is an extra service called orarep, and of course, everything which is undocumented interests me to pieces.

The xdbconfig.xml XMLDB Protocol Server configuration file has the following content ( “<>” has been replaced by “[ ]”):

[servlet-mapping]
  [servlet-pattern]/orarep/* [/servlet-pattern]
  [servlet-name] ReportFmwkServlet [/servlet-name]
[/servlet-mapping]

If you try something like http://localhost:8080/orarep/ something like the following will show up.

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August 30

Old Love Never Dies…

I started my IT career some years ago (1993/1994) with a company called “Cairo Information Systems”. This company made very smart software to optimize container haulage. Think about stuff like optimal trips (real time) for imports, exports and inland moves, covering containerized and closed-trailer equipment for cargo types. Optimizing, among others, inland container transportation (empty mileages).

Anyway, just the other day, I received an e-mail of an old colleague (Hans Rabouw). Contrary to our believe that the firm had been taken over and the software stopped to exist; It still exist. Currently a company called LINE is (still?) selling the system under the name “Paris” (once chosen after “Paris” from Greek mythology). Seeing the screens brings back a lot of good memories. The technology apparently has been upgraded. It looks like regular technical stuff nowadays, regarding the interfacing (web pages, application servers, multi-tier, etc.), although the look and feel still looks the same.

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