I’m running R12.0.4 on OEL5.3 with Virtualbox 2.2.2 having a Windows 7 machine.

R12

R12 is installed on OEL with the hostname: localhost.localdomain

Firefox works locally against R12 so the EBS stack in working at this point.

Start the database, listener and apps. See Managing R12:

$ addbctl start

$ addlnctl start VIS

$ adstrtal apps/apps

To test if a database network connection would work try:

$ sqlplus apps/apps@VIS

Virtualbox

Installed Vbox 2.2.2 on OEL. Get it from http://www.virtualbox.org

Setup Vbox host-only network in \File\Preferences

and give it a ip like 192.168.2.7 on the adapter tab:

and setup the dhcp tab like this:

When the Vbox machine is started you should be able to ping it:

Windows 7 in Virtualbox

I use Windows 7 RC.

Create a Vbox machine and mount the downloaded Win7 ISO as CDROM and run install:

You get it from here:

Setup Vbox networking like this:

This will communicate through the 192.168.2.7 ip address.

When Window 7 is installed create a new entry in the file:

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

like this:

Pointing to localhost.localdomain so Firefox R12 login works.

To ensure everything work try to ping localhost:

SQLDeveloper

If you want to do development then this tool is great. Get it from:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html

I installed version 1.5.1.

Setup the connection:

I just used the ip address here and it works fine.

Firefox

To run R12 forms and framework you need Firefox 2.

Install Firefox 2 in Win7. I installed version 2.0.0.14. Get it from:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

Allow localhost.localdomain is Firefox security:

and pop-ups:

To start R12 enter the URL:

http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML

And you get the login screen:

Java

Java is a must for R12. Check the version required when you have logged in to R12 and click a forms screen

In 12.0.4 it is 1.5.0.13:

Then install Java 1.5.0.13 to ensure you don’t get plug-in issues with R12. Get it from:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_13/index.html

As Firefox only supports one Java plug-in at any one time check the directory for plug-ins:

C:\ > DIR “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins”

Ensure you only have one Java plug-in here. If it is missing the do this:

C:\ > copy C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_13\bin\NPJPI150_13.dll C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

Restart Firefox and now everything should work.

Firefox

Firefox 3 does not work with R12. I could get forms to work however framework pages had problems with buttons. So install Firefox 2 instead.

Java Plug-in

For R12.0.4 on OEL desktop you want to use JRE 1.5.0.13 otherwise you have to fiddle with the context file.

You can always connect to the EBS from Windows but you want to test if the EBS stack works at all first.

I tried and could not get it to work in Linux with any other JRE version.

Download Java plug-in JRE 1.5.0.13 from:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_13/index.html

For Linux

Install JRE using this script (java.sh):

The script is using the plugin in …/ns7/… otherwise Firefox will regularly crash especially “manage addons” in preferences.

For WindowsXP

First ensure no NP* plug-in files exist in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins:

$ del C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\NP*

Manually copy the correct java version plug-in to the Mozilla plug-in:

$ copy C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_13\bin\NP* C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

In case you have more than one version of java installed you may need to disable Mozilla Java plugin scan.

Enter the URL: about:config like this:

In the filer box enter JRE and you will get:

Double click on the value and update to 1.9 which is a java version that does not exist yet and hence essentially disables the java plug-in scan.

Close and restart the browser and now 1.5.13 should always be the default.

Connect

Enter the following URL in Firefox to connect to EBS

http://localhost.localdomain:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin

Login as SYSADMIN and password SYSADMIN