Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-03 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Tim, Oracle makes available these most awesome Virtual Box appliances with Oracle pre-installed: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html I'm tinkering with a one of these images on my macbookpro, so I can do DSpace development on the go, using a facsimile of our envir

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-03 Thread Tim Donohue
Graham & All, That's good to hear, although I'd still have a concern around ongoing maintenance of a separate Oracle demo server. DuraSpace doesn't have the staff to maintain yet another demo server just for Oracle (as you may know, our entire DSpace tech staff is literally just myself). Thoug

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, Tim, we haven't run into any other Oracle issues in our on-going testing of 1.7.1. We're running a version of 1.7.1 that's been patched with the patch I submitted for DS-841 (which I feel is pretty hacky, just rolling back a change, but writing something better that incorporates the change in a

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Graham Triggs
Tim, There is absolutely no requirement to have an Oracle license for a testathon. The Oracle XE database is easy to install, works exactly the same as the full licensed copy, and we'll get nowhere near the limits in data sizes for the purposes of a testathon. I'm quite happy to assist with imple

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi Hardy & Richard, I'll readily admit that our Oracle support has been more difficult recently. The primary reason for this is that the Committer who was leading DSpace's Oracle support has moved on to a different role and no longer works with DSpace. So, at this point in time, we have no (zer

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, in my previous message, I made a misleading and incorrect reference to the list which should properly be referred to as the changelog list; for posterity's sake, here's a link to the correct mail list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-changelog I'm adding myself now, follo

Re: [Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, Richard, I think what needs to happen is someone from our community of Oracle installations needs to commit an Oracle-backed installation to the next Testathon, to catch items like this. I am also going to try to do more testing along the way. I think what we need to do as a community is to be

[Dspace-tech] Re bugs in the Oracle implementation

2011-05-02 Thread Jizba, Richard
We have encountered the problem reported previously by Peter Dietz: http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/DuraSpace-JIRA-Created-DS-841-Illega lArgumentException-No-such-column-rnum-error-in-DSpace-1-7-x-XML-td33815 04.html ('IllegalArgumentException: No such column rnum' error in DSpace 1.7.x