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Every migration project has its unique challenges that, for the most part, get resolved with due diligence. Yet, some issues, let’s put it this way, can be more distinct.
Recently, I was on a client project migrating from ALUI 6.1 to WCI 10gR3. Beside overcoming the usual quirks with SSL, security certificates, notification service, [...]

There’s no better way to express my creative side than building colorful announcements and news articles with the ALI Publisher Rich Text Editor. Aqua text with burgundy background and cool animated gifs are all I need to create eye-popping, nausea-inducing, kaleidoscopes of information. But ALAS, one of my trusted clients could not share in this excitement [...]

Howdy all,

We recently had a customer who was running into a problem with their WWW crawlers.  Sadly, the verbose job log wasn’t of much help in tracking down the issue:

Jul 20, 2009 5:25:02 PM- *** Job Operation #1 failed: This crawl could not be launched because the location from which it was supposed to start, [...]

Howdy all.  After a long hiatus I’m back to blog your socks off with some technical minutiae that will save a few of you lots of headaches, and help the rest of you get a good night’s sleep.
 
Long Story Short (i.e. “Just the useful info, please”) 
There’s a bug in the JDK that causes problems when [...]

We just got back from OracleWorld last week, and wow!  That conference is unbelievably huge, but very well-organized.  We met a lot of current and past friends and colleagues out there, but a big part of our attendance was to get more insight into the future of the AquaLogic portal stack.
Once again, Oracle reaffirmed 9 [...]

We’ve warned you before about ACL propagation when you’re changing the security in ALI.  Heck, we even created a product to ease the pain of this important task.  Today’s bug is about another issue with security propagation.
Well, it’s actually 2 bugs (maybe 3).  Let me explain:
When you answer “yes” to that question about security propagation, [...]

This is a little old-school, but still a very relevant tip.  This problem has been around for all of the ALI 6.x days (including 6.5), and if I remember correctly, even the Plumtree 5.x days.  Basically, the automation server logs its activity to the PTJOBLOGS table, and if you’ve got jobs that are logging in verbose [...]

When I first introduced the Configuration Manager, I wondered aloud how it would work in a multi-system environment.
Well, it turned out the the Configuration Manager isn’t that complicated after all:  it’s pretty much an interface for editing a configuration file on disk, so it does only apply to the system you’re running it on.
The file [...]

I mentioned the ALI Interoperability Matrix (login required) in the Publisher 6.5 post, and realized that I don’t always go to the official site to check compatible versions of the Aqualogic stack; instead I just use a locally saved copy because it’s quicker to pull up. 
Obviously, the locally saved snapshot can get out of [...]

Experience Rules are a powerful way to provide different UIs based on certain conditions, such as the URL used by the portal, the client IP address, or the community a user is visiting.  But with this power comes some complexity:  occasionally rules don’t work out the way you want, and you run into problems with [...]