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Well, I've been officially playing with 8.1.7 on Sun for 2 days now.
Other than the "thrown-in" Apache stuff that you have to hack and slash
the config files to make it do anything useful, the JavaVM is really
screwy in this release. Here's some of the quick points I'm working on
at the moment:
- There is a total lack of documentation on what script(s) need to be
executed in order to upgrade an 8.1.6 JVM to 8.1.7 - There is one
upgrade script in the $ORACLE_HOME/javavm/install directory, but it
doesn't seem to take care of the new namespace code (required for
sess_sh and others) that needs to get in there. If you are building a
database from scratch, initjvm does not call init_jis which is also used
to build the namespace code.
- ORA-600 hell - The initjvm.sql script dies with an ORA-600 the first
few times it is executed, but eventually runs. (I still hate the fact
that V$OPTION shows Java as false)
I'm also working on these issues, but it is possible that they are
somehow related to the ORA-600 problem mentioned above:
- The ncomp (native compiler) program doesn't seem to work properly -
Right now it's looking for a fragile-set.lst file that was alledgely
generated but I cannot locate it with the find command.
- The setup for servlets and jsps are kludgy, at best - Following the
README instructions in the $ORACLE_HOME/javavm directory to install
Servlet/JSP support hangs the database session.
- I've been logging Itars like crazy, all of which specify "CALL ME". So
what does support do? Their front-line folks paste in the good-ol canned
responses and soft-close my tar without so much as an E-mail or a
voice-mail. Am I supposed to be a MIND READER!? I've already escalated
several I-tars to duty managers, we'll see how that goes.
*THIS* is a TERMINAL RELEASE? Ugh. I've got a real hard time
recommending that our enterprise java apps move over to this release
until a few patch sets come out.
Needless to say, it will be a few more days before I can get my new
ncomp java perf numbers out to everyone. Sorry for the delay.
Received on Tue Nov 07 2000 - 18:44:23 CST
