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 Oracle Apps through Linux clients
The Client operating system for E-Business Suite users is normally Windows platform, In recent years linux open source distribution like Fedora , Redhat linux suse gained popularity in desktop market. Cost reduction, rich, and safe features makes Linux a viable desktop operating system .
In future Oracle may have plans to extend its support to Linux and Mac browsers like Mozilla, FireFox, and Safari. Presently, to use Linux as a user desktop, a separate agreement called Easy Adopter Program is required for Oracle. Sun Microsystem and RedHat Inc have signed an agreement with Oracle, and RedHat employees are accessing Oracle Apps through Linux browsers like Mozilla, FireFox, etc.
We at Human Base India have succeeded in using Oracle Apps through Linux clients. The following are the steps we used to configure the Linux clients to get access to the Oracle 11i apps.
Following are the steps
Minimum configuration changes are needed in the apps server and your browser . You can access Oracle 11i Apps throught the Internet by adding jre1.4.2_06, a plugin to the Linux browsers. Jre plugin can be downloaded from 11i server just as you download JInitiator from the server for Windows.
Following Configuration changes are needed in 11i server
server configurations
Log on to the server as the application user, for example applmgr or oracle
Edit the $COMMON_TOP/html/bin/appsweb_.cfg
search for sun_plugin_mimetype
sun_plugin_mimetype=application/x-jav-applet;jpi-version=1.4.1
sun_plugin_version=1.4.1
Edit the line in your java version, if your jre version of the server is 1.4.2_06 then it should be like this "sun_plugin_mimetype=application/x-jav-applet;jpi-version=1.4.2_06 sun_plugin_version=1.4.2_06"
save the file
client configuration
Download the jre 1.4.2_06 or required version from the Sun site.
Install mozilla-firefox on your Linux box
Make a softlink to the jre plugin to the Mozilla-FireFox browsers plugin folder,which would be like "# ln -s /usr/local/jre/plugins/i386/gcc/libjavaplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugin"
open a Mozilla-FireFox browser and type about:plugins. You should see your sun java plugin in that page
Now type your url of Oracle 11i apps server. You can access the forms.
You will be able to use Linux as a desktop for accessing Oracle 11i applications.
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