Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Installation Concepts

• 1.1 Oracle Developer Suite Installation Overview
• 1.2 About the Installation Process
• 1.3 About Installing Oracle Developer Suite Components
• • 1.3.1 Compatibility with Other Releases
• 1.4 What's New in the Installation
• • 1.4.1 Installation from Oracle E-Delivery
  • 1.4.2 Installation from DVD
  • 1.4.3 Solaris 8 and 9 Supported
  • 1.4.4 New Operating System Patches Required
  • 1.4.5 Space in /var/tmp No Longer Required During Installation (Linux and Solaris Only)
  • 1.4.6 More Prerequisite Checks
  • 1.4.7 Configuration Assistant Enhancements
  • 1.4.8 Removed Restrictions

2 Getting Started

• 2.1 Obtaining Software from Oracle E-Delivery
• • 2.1.1 Finding and Downloading the Oracle Developer Suite 10g E-Pack
  • 2.1.2 Finding Required and Optional Downloads
  • 2.1.3 Disk Space Requirements
  • 2.1.4 Extracting Software from the Zip Files
  • 2.1.5 Burning Files to CD-ROM
• 2.2 Hardware Requirements
• 2.3 Supported Operating Environments
• 2.4 Operating Environment Software Requirements
• • 2.4.1 Windows Operating Environment
  • 2.4.2 Solaris Operating Environment for Sun SPARC workstations
  • 2.4.3 Linux Operating Environment
  • • 2.4.3.1 Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 2.1 Systems
    • 2.4.3.2 Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0 Systems
    • 2.4.3.3 Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 Systems
    • 2.4.3.4 Software Requirements for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 Systems
    • 2.4.3.5 Software Requirements for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Systems
• 2.5 Certified Software
• 2.6 Online Documentation Requirements
• 2.7 Coexistence in One Oracle Home
• • 2.7.1 Oracle Home Considerations
  • 2.7.2 Performing Multiple Installations of Oracle Developer Suite
  • 2.7.3 Oracle Developer Suite Installation and Oracle Databases
• 2.8 Directories Used by the Installer
• 2.9 Preinstallation Tasks
• • 2.9.1 General Checklist
  • 2.9.2 Setting the Locale
  • 2.9.3 Using Assistive Technologies (Windows only)
  • 2.9.4 Installing Java Access Bridge (Windows only)
  • 2.9.5 Setting Environment Variables (Linux and Solaris only)
  • • 2.9.5.1 DevSuiteHome
    • 2.9.5.2 DISPLAY
    • 2.9.5.3 TMP
    • 2.9.5.4 TNS_ADMIN
  • 2.9.6 Creating Linux and Solaris Accounts and Groups
  • • 2.9.6.1 Group Name for the Installer Inventory
    • 2.9.6.2 User for Oracle Software
  • 2.9.7 Information Needed During Installation
  • 2.9.8 Migration or Upgrading
• 2.10 Component-Specific Pre-Installation Tasks
• • 2.10.1 OracleBI Beans
• 2.11 Preparing to Start the Installer
• • 2.11.1 About Oracle Universal Installer
  • 2.11.2 Installer Prerequisite Checks
  • 2.11.3 The Installer Inventory Directory
  • 2.11.4 Starting the Installer
  • • 2.11.4.1 For Windows Users
    • 2.11.4.2 For Linux and Solaris Users
    • 2.11.4.3 Running the Installer in Silent or Non-Interactive Mode

3 Installation

• 3.1 Installing Oracle Developer Suite
• 3.2 Postinstallation Tasks
• • 3.2.1 General Checklist
  • • 3.2.1.1 Updates
    • 3.2.1.2 NLS
    • 3.2.1.3 TNS Names
    • 3.2.1.4 Port Numbers
    • 3.2.1.5 OC4J Instance for Oracle Developer Suite
    • 3.2.1.6 Assistive Technologies (Windows only)
  • 3.2.2 Completing Component-specific Postinstallation Tasks
  • • 3.2.2.1 Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.2)
  • 3.2.3 OracleBI Beans
  • • 3.2.3.1 Database Considerations
    • 3.2.3.2 Additional Tasks
  • 3.2.4 Oracle Reports Developer
  • 3.2.5 Oracle Forms Developer
• 3.3 Starting a Component
• • 3.3.1 Oracle10g JDeveloper and Oracle Business Intelligence Beans
  • 3.3.2 Oracle Reports Developer
  • 3.3.3 Oracle Forms Developer
  • 3.3.4 Oracle Designer

4 Deinstallation and Reinstallation

• 4.1 Deinstallation
• • 4.1.1 Deinstalling Using the Installer
• 4.2 Reinstallation

A Upgrade Notes

• A.1 Oracle Developer Suite
• A.2 Oracle10g JDeveloper
• • A.2.1 Migrating JDeveloper User Settings from Release 9.0.2 to Release 10.1.2
  • A.2.2 Additional Migration Issues
• A.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Beans
• A.4 Oracle Reports Developer
• A.5 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administrator
• A.6 Oracle Forms Developer
• A.7 Oracle SCM Repository
• A.8 Additional Documentation

B Components

• B.1 Oracle10g JDeveloper
• • B.1.1 Supported Deployment Environments
  • B.1.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Beans
  • B.1.3 UIX
  • B.1.4 Bali
• B.2 Oracle Reports Developer
• B.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Tools
• • B.3.1 Database Requirements for Oracle Business Intelligence Tools
  • B.3.2 Downloading the Most Recent OLAP Patch
• B.4 Oracle Forms Developer
• B.5 Additional Documentation
• • B.5.1 Oracle on the Web

C Installing the Documentation Library

• C.1 Documentation Library Titles
• C.2 Installing the Documentation Library
• • C.2.1 File Copy Installation Method
  • C.2.2 Installer Method
• C.3 Viewing the Documentation Library
• • C.3.1 Viewing the Release Notes from Disk

D Silent and Non-Interactive Installation

• D.1 Introduction
• • D.1.1 Silent Installation
  • D.1.2 Non-Interactive Installation
• D.2 Requirements
• D.3 Preinstallation
• D.4 Working with Response Files
• • D.4.1 Example Response Files for Oracle Developer Suite Installations
  • • D.4.1.1 Business Intelligence (Windows only)
    • D.4.1.2 Complete Install (Windows)
    • D.4.1.3 Complete Install (Linux and Solaris)
• D.5 Starting the Installation
• • D.5.1 Starting the Installer for a Silent Installation
  • D.5.2 Starting the Installer for a Non-Interactive Installation
• D.6 Postinstallation

E Migrating Existing BI Beans Projects

• E.1 Migrating the Oracle OLAP Instance (Optional)
• E.2 Migrating the BI Beans Catalog
• • E.2.1 Additional Step for Migration to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 2
• E.3 Migrating User Settings from Previous Releases
• E.4 Migrating the BI Beans Workspaces
• • E.4.1 Manual Migration Steps for BI Beans JSP Applications
  • • E.4.1.1 Updating the Namespace
    • E.4.1.2 Accessing New BI JSP Tag Functions
    • E.4.1.3 Updating the <body> Tag
    • E.4.1.4 Updating Code that Accessed a Presentation
    • E.4.1.5 Updating the SaveButton JSP Tag
  • E.4.2 Manual Migration Steps for BI Beans UIX Applications
  • • E.4.2.1 Updating the Path of Images
    • E.4.2.2 Updating the Error Page
    • E.4.2.3 Adding an Element for Partial Page Rendering
    • E.4.2.4 Adding Code for Each dialogLinkDef Element
    • E.4.2.5 Updating Code that Accessed a Presentation
    • E.4.2.6 Updating the SaveDef UIX Tag
  • E.4.3 Manual Migration Steps for BI Beans Java-Client Class Applications
  • • E.4.3.1 Graph Code Changes
  • E.4.4 Manual Migration Steps for BI Beans Java Servlet Applications
  • • E.4.4.1 Updating the Installables in the Cabo Directory For Servlet Applications
    • E.4.4.2 Consulting Samples for Servlet Applications
• E.5 Post-Migration Task for the BI Beans Catalog (Optional)
• • E.5.1 Conditions when Catalog Post-Migration is Beneficial
  • E.5.2 Reason for Message BIB-9549
  • E.5.3 Post-Migration Task

F Troubleshooting

• F.1 Before You Begin
• • F.1.1 Verify Hardware and Preinstallation Requirements
  • F.1.2 Read the Release Notes
• F.2 Troubleshooting the Installation
• F.3 Troubleshooting Oracle Developer Suite Configuration Assistants
• • F.3.1 Determining Configuration Assistant Execution Status
  • F.3.2 Fixing Configuration Assistant Failures
  • F.3.3 Handling Fatal Errors
  • F.3.4 Oracle Developer Suite Configuration Assistant Descriptions

Index