Disable Firefox redirecting to localhost.com
Filed under ‘Annoying things I keep forgetting how to fix…’: Out of the box, Firefox has a feature designed to help people mis-typing URLs in the browser bar. It’s described in detail here, but...
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Overlapping Resource URI Templates
It is possible for the URI Templates of Application Express Listener RESTful Services to overlap, meaning that more than one URI Template can match a single URI. For example consider these two URI...
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Introducing Oracle REST Data Services
Oracle Application Express Listener is now known as Oracle REST Data Services. We just pushed out a new point release (2.0.6) that uses the new product branding. We’ve changed the product name to...
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Understanding the Oracle REST Data Services Configuration Folder
Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) needs a location to store it’s configuration files. The location is configured using the config.dir setting. You can view and set this setting using the configdir...
View ArticleWhy trailing slashes on URIs are important
Ed. Note, March 2019: I’ve written a more succinct version of this argument here: https://blog.cdivilly.com/2019/02/28/uri-trailing-slashes Origin of the trailing slash In Unix, a trailing slash on a...
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Oracle REST Data Services & Entity Tags
Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) has always had strong support for generating Entity Tag (ETag) HTTP Headers. Entity Tags are an important aspect of the HTTP protocol, they help reduce needlessly...
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Remote Debug Oracle Database in a VirtualBox VM using SQL Developer
It’s possible to debug pl/sql code in an Oracle Database, in much the same way as you can in any interactive debugger environment. Jeff Smith shows how it’s done in this blog post. It get’s a little...
View ArticleConfiguring custom error pages with Oracle REST Data Services
If you need to configure a custom error page instead of the error page generated by Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS), then do the following: Edit the defaults.xml file in the ORDS configuration folder...
View ArticleWhat does UnsupportedClassVersionError mean?
Every time the structure of Java byte-code changes, the version number embedded in .class files must also change. Java 1.2 uses major version 46 Java 1.3 uses major version 47 Java 1.4 uses major...
View ArticleFarewell wordpress.com, time for a new blog
After 100 posts and approaching 8 years it’s time for me to close up this little old wordpress.com blog. For a long time now I’ve been itching to self host my blog, and I’ve finally found the time to...
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