ORACLE 10 G Webutil Configuration

First of all thanks to invite me on this blog. This is my first post on

ORIXOOMIT. I have learned a lot here in ORIX LEASING PAKISTAN and its
my pleasure to share some research work that i have done when we were in
the migration process of ORACLE 10g from 6i. For the time being i m sharing
webutil configuration issues through which we can get into the client side for
file creation, uploading to databse and extract information such as IP
Address and File System etc. Hope this will help u.

WEBUTIL CONFIGURATION Pre-Requisite

ORACLE 10G R2 AS & DEV_SUITE (10.1.2.0.2 OR 10.1.2.3)

Follow this documentation only if you have AS / DEV_SUITE If you have

another version of AS / DEV_SUITE backup each of the file referenced in this
document before applying any modification.

Note: DEV_SUITE is used as an alias for your real Oracle 10g installation
directory
Feel free to copy this note to a text editor, and do a global find/replace on
DEV_SUITE with your actual value (no trailing slash). Then it is easy to
copy/paste actual commands to be executed from the note copy.

DEV_SUITE is used as an alias for your real Oracle 10g Developer Suite
installation directory.
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PRE-REQUISITE FOR APPLICATION SERVER (Usually Webutil is not installed
with ORACLE 10G Application Server)

1- Copy webutil folder from DEV_SUITE/Forms to APP_SERVER/Forms

2- Copy frmwebutil.jar, forms_ie.js, forms_base_ie.js file from

DEV_SUITE /Forms/Java folder to APP_SERVER/Forms/Java

3- Copy webutil.cfg, WebutilBase.htm, webutiljini.htm, webutiljpi.htm files

from DEV_SUITE/Forms/Server folder to APP_SERVER/Forms/Server

4- Copy webutil.olb,Webutil.pll,webutil.plx files from DEV_SUITE/Forms

folder to APP_SERVER/Forms

Webutil Configuration

How to get up and running with WebUtil included with Oracle Developer
Suite 10.1.2.0.2 on a win32 platform, I also tested it on Linux and it works
well (after of course taking care of the differences in PATH format)

Solution
Assuming a fresh "Complete" install of Oracle Developer Suite 10.1.2.0.2,
here are steps to get a small test form running
Download JACOB_!8.zip
and extract to a temporary staging area. Do not attempt to use 1.7 or 1.9.

1) Copy jacob.jar to DEV_SUITE\forms\java\

2) Copy jacob.dll to DEV_SUITE\forms\webutil\

3) Sign frmwebutil.jar and jacob.jar

Open a DOS command prompt.
Add DEV_SUITE \jdk\bin to the PATH:
set PATH=DEV_SUITE \jdk\bin
Sign the files, and check the output for success:
DEV_SUITE\forms\webutil\sign_webutil
DEV_SUITE\forms\java\frmwebutil.jar
DEV_SUITE\forms\webutil\sign_webutil DEV_SUITE\forms\java\jacob.jar

4) If you already have a schema in your RDBMS which contains the WebUtil
stored code,
you may skip this step. Otherwise,
Create a schema to hold the WebUtil stored code, and privileges needed to
connect and create a stored package. Schema name "WEBUTIL" is
recommended
for no reason other than consistency over the user base.
Open DEV_SUITE\forms\create_webutil_db.sql in a text editor, and delete or
comment
out the EXIT statement, to be able to see whether the objects were created
witout
errors.

Start SQL*Plus as SYSTEM, and issue:

CREATE USER webutil IDENTIFIED BY a
DEFAULT TABLESPACE users
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp;
/
GRANT CONNECT, CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM TO
webutil;
/

CONNECT webutil/webutil@rcci
@DEV_SUITE \forms\create_webutil_db.sql
-- Inspect SQL*Plus output for errors, and then
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM webutil_db FOR webutil.webutil_db;
/

Reconnect as SYSTEM, and issue:

grant execute on webutil_db to public;

5) Modify DEV_SUITE \forms\server\default.env, and append

DEV_SUITE\jdk\jre\lib\rt.jar; DEV_SUITE\forms\java\jacob.jar;
to the CLASSPATH entry.

(If this entry not exists then add this)

WEBUTIL_CONFIG=/forms/server/webutil.cfg

6) Modify DEV_SUITE \forms\j2ee\orion-web.xml, and append

7) WebUtil needs a single virtual directory to be defined in order to operate.

This virtual directory is used to locate various operating system-specific files
that WebUtil may need to download.
DEV_SUITE/forms/server/forms.conf

Add the following line to the file

# Virtual path for webutil
AliasMatch ^/forms/webutil/(..*) DEV_SUITE /forms/webutil/$1"

8) Modify DEV_SUITE \forms\server\formsweb.cfg insde [default] add :

(Note these line should be in this order to run webutil properly)

[webutil]
WebUtilArchive=frmwebutil.jar,jacob.jar
WebUtilLogging=off
WebUtilLoggingDetail=normal
WebUtilErrorMode=Alert
WebUtilDispatchMonitorInterval=5
WebUtilTrustInternal=true
WebUtilMaxTransferSize=16384
#baseHTMLjinitiator=webutiljini.htm (UnMark this to use JINITIATOR instead
of JRE)
baseHTMLjinitiator=webutiljpi.htm
baseHTMLjpi=webutiljpi.htm
baseHTML=webutilbase.htm
archive_jini=frmall_jinit.jar,icons.jar (For Jinitiator)
archive=frmall.jar,icons.jar (For JRE)
lookAndFeel=oracle

9) DEV_SUITE\forms\server\webutil.cfg

transfer.database.enabled=TRUE
transfer.appsrv.enabled=TRUE

10) Start the OC4J instance

11) Start Forms Builder and connect to a schema in the RDBMS used in step
(4).

12) Copy frmWebUtil.fmb to DEV_SUITE \forms\ folder from this documents

directory open it in the form builder then
Connect to webutil schema then webutil/webutil@connectstring
Compile the FMB to FMX, after doing a Compile-All (Shift-Control-K). If any
runtime error occurs re-attach webutil.pll library then
Compile-All (Shift-Control-K).

Note: For Oracle Application Server, on all platforms, you must regenerate
webutil.pll before using it; otherwise you’ll encounter error
ORA-06508 when running a form with the attached library. To recompile,
use the following command:

frmcmp module=ORACLE_HOME\forms\webutil.pll
userid= module_type=library compile_all=yes

13) Under Edit->Preferences->Runtime in Forms Builder, click on "Reset to

Default" if
the "Application Server URL" is empty.
Then append "?config=webutil" at the end, so you end up with a URL of the
form
http://server:port/forms/frmservlet?config=webutil
14) Run your form.

If you want to use JRE instead of JINITIATOR follow these steps;

DEV_SUITE\forms\server\formsweb.cfg

Change this line

baseHTMLjinitiator=webutiljini.htm
to this
baseHTMLjinitiator=webutiljpi.htm

One more thing you cannot use webutil functions/procedure in pre-form and
when-new-form-instance. Because library/java beans need to loaded before
using. It can be accomplished by running timer until the bean loaded and
calling the functions/procedure when timer expired.

To run Aplication from Intranet allow popup from intranet site.

Following are the steps

In Internet Exporer
Open Tools>Popup-Blocker>Popup-Blocker Settings
Add Both entries
http://192.168.0.1 (Application Server IP)
http://192.168.0.2 (DEV_Suite Developer IP)