UCM users cannot reset their passwords!!!

I had an issue that I was trying to avoid, until I worked in a project that needs it. I cannot imagine how Oracle guys missed it, USERS CANNOT RESET THEIR PASSWORDS.

I don't care about how the new UCM has been structured, Users must have the ability to change their passwords. Guys most of the time LDAPS are only used as a repository (it is database) and users are not accessing them, that's beside a lot of customers doesn't have LDAP to work with or integration is not part of the scope.

Do you think this is a minor issue or not an issue at all?

At the end I want to thank Raj from Oracle support for his support.

Go Go Google :)

I was browsing google application engine features where I am thinking in hosting a website there. You may don't know that a free account can use up to 1 GB of storage and up to 5 million page views a month.

Anyway I found something else interesting which is Go programming language, it is a new one owned by google and is very interesting and promising. I have quoted the following:



"Compiled Go code runs at close to the speed of C"

"Compilation happens almost instantly"

"Existing languages haven't been optimized for multi-core processors or massive scaling." "One of our goals in Go was to make a language that could use those processors well, particularly for the kind of server-side programming that we do here at Google where you have many client requests coming into a machine that's multiplexing them. And Go is a really good language for writing multiplex servers in, where you use these things called 'go' routines, which are kind of like threads but lighter-weight, and some communication primitives to do the multiplexing"

"Go is appropriate for a broad spectrum of uses, including Web programming, mobile programming and systems programming"

Visit http://golang.org/

Nice Name but the question is: What are google's plans for GO?

Packt Offer for Oracle books

is offering the following discounts:

• 20% off all Oracle print books
• 30% off all Oracle eBooks

That's because their celebration  for the publication of its 50th  Oracle book

Here is the campaign like if you are interested http://www.packtpub.com/article/50th-oracle-book-offer

For me I am waiting a new book about Oracle Identity Management

CouchDB: Document Based Database

Did you notice that screenshot, we have something like metadata here !!!

A friend of mine (Amr Gawish) told me today about a new database engine project which I found interesting, it is called CouchDB which is a document oriented database. It is about semi-structured content as I read from Apache (for me it is about unstructured content) which manages and stores documents.

The interesting part about CouchDB is that you can use JSON and AJAX to work with database, so Google Web Toolkit will fit here too :D

The important questions, is that which future waits CouchDB? Is it practical?

Google Web Toolkit with UCM

Started development using Google Web Toolkit which in my opinion will be one of the major development tools for enterprise applications.

Let me explain from Oracle UCM point of view, in UCM services can be consumed using JSON that's by adding IsJson=1 at end of the URL, even if you created custom services you can consume them using JSON too. Now using GWT you can build your vertical solution which calls UCM services and display results and takes actions. In that way you will gain great benefits, like concentrating on user interface, build easy to use application, and lightweight too which will attract customers.

I recommend you to take a look and consider it seriously as another point of view for development.

Interesting truth about education system

Active Directory Notes

I was working on integration on Active Directory with Oracle UCM 11g and I have the following notes that may be helpful:

- Change DefaultAuthenticator's Control Flag from REQUIRED to SUFFICIENT

- We are not using Oracle UCM LDAP Providers for integration with Active Directory anymore

- Users mapping between Oracle UCM and Weblogic embedded LDAP is done using JpsUserProvider provider

- In Oracle UCM 11g, you can give default roles and accounts for authenticated users, to do that from Oracle UCM Providers page edit a provider called JpsUserProvider and in Default Network Roles field add the default roles separated with commas, for default accounts use Default Network Accounts field

- Any weblogic ldap user assigned to administrators group, he will have Oracle UCM admin role