n Oracle Applications professional Users can access professional forms via Apple tin web browser.

This Form Applet must run with in Java Virtual Machine (JVM) a nd Oracle bundles its own JVM as Oracle Jinitiator. This Jinitiator is availabl e only for Windows Client and for Unix/Linux you have to use Java Plug-In. Till Oracle Apps 11i default JVM was Jinitiator but with Oracle Apps R12 defa ult JVM under which form Applet run is J2SE Plug-In. If you are accessing Oracle Applications (11i/R12), Apps will automatically prompt you to install Jinitiato r/J2SE Plug-in (If Jinitiator/J2SE is not installed in client machine) but if yo u are accessing same Oracle Applications from Linux/Unix it does not prompt to i nstall plug-in and you can t apps forms from Linux client. How to access Oracle Apps 11i/R12 professional forms from Linux Client ? In you to access forms from Linux client, Three steps are installed (You can ski p first if Mozilla is installed on your Linux client) 1. Install Mozilla Browser 2. Install JRE on client machine (JRE version to install will depend on Server c onfiguration, Identify which version of JRE you need on client machine For 11i/R12 : Login to server as application o.s. user (applmgr), set environmen t variable and run grep plugin $CONTEXT_FILE (If you get output like 1.5.0_13 you need JRE 1.5.0 patchset 13, if its 1.5.0_10 you need 1.5.0 patchset 10; or f or 1.4.2_04 you need 1.4.2 patchset 4 ) 3. Use JRE installed above on client machine in Browser (Mozilla) Plugin 1. Install FireFox Mozilla Download Mozilla for Linux from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html#en firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz gunzip -d firefox-2.0.0.7.tar.gz (You will get unzipped file with name as firefox2.0.0.7.tar) Extract tar file as tar -xvf firefox-2.0.0.7.tar This will create directory called firefox which is under you will see executable c alled firefox ; Use this executable to start FireFox on Linux machine. 2. Install JRE on client machine Download JRE 5.0 Update 10 (change this as per your server plugin version shown above; I am on 12.0.0 hence 1_5.0.10) for Linux from http://java.sun.com/produ cts/archive/j2se/5.0_10/index.html jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586-rpm.bin chmod 755 jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586-rpm.bin ./jre-1_5_0_10-linux-i586-rpm.bin (You will be asked to accept license agreement , click enter and when prompted to accept license enter Yes) This will install jre 1.5.10 in linux machine under /usr/java and plugin is inst alled under /usr/java/jre1.5.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so Configure JRE Plug-in in browser Go to Mozilla FireFox plug-in directory which is $location_where_you_unziped_fire fox_directory/plugins and create soft link like ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_ oji.so