Group,
In order to battle the big boys, Orion needs us all. This is why I started
my support site. Although this is a commercial venture, our goal is to
provide a support community for Orion. If you take a look at the submissions
on the Oracle container support list, you can see that even Oracle needs
some help in understanding some bits of Orion.
For those of you who have already signed up at the site, thanks. I thought
about just providing a maillist server, but felt that what we really needed
was some type of forum application. Several of you have made suggestions
about improving the site, and we are making these changes:
1. automatic logins.
2. wider input forms for the messages.
3. a message thread view as well as the default forum view.
4. next and previous message buttons.
5. message filters so that html tags in the message are not necessary.
6. search engine for the messages and the site.
We are also adding a news application so that members can directly add news
to the site. The up-coming tips and hints page will include the steps that
were taken to build the forum application, including:
1. breaking the 4k barrier for clobs and lobs in Oracle.
2. distributing the application so that session clustering works.
3. encrypted user security.
Regards,
the elephantwalker
