Oracle BPM 10gR3 MP1 and hotfix

It was release on Jan/6/2009. As published on legacy BEA website, some of you guys may not be aware of the existence of the Maintenance Pack.

Again, please check http://albpmsupport.bea.com on a regular basis if you work on OBPM. One thing I don't understand is that why don't use a better publishing platform for the patch-set/hotfix site? Even a RSS feed would be much nicer in such a Web 2.0 era, it's easy!

10gR3 MP1 which is 10.3.1.0.0.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/bpm/index.html

It's good to find a direct link without using edelivery to download the media.

I am surprised to see the final birth of a official Mac OS X version of Studio for 10gR3 MP1 for Mac OS X. I am not a big Mac fan, but I am still glad to see OS X is supported by Oracle, maybe later OS X server, you reckon?

It seems that the newly supported platform hasn't been added to all of the release notes yet. Even the recommended official config matrix page, it has been weeks after the release...
check:

Enjoy! A late happy new year to all of you who is lucky enough to see this post!^_^

Finally Canonical/Ubuntu fixed the high LCC

Early this morning, I found that there was a new fix for ACPI. After checking the details, I confirmed that a obviously and easy-to-fix bug has finally been fixed after being reported for 2+ years. It was first reported back in September, 2006...

Anyway, it is fixed!

More info:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695

I dug a bit further. The fix is actually a few script hooking up with different mode of ACPI, pretty much doing the same thing as the ugly fix does.

So if you applied the ugly fix, you can delete the ugly fix from ACPI folders:
$sudo rm /etc/acpi/resume.d/99-hdd-ugly-fix.sh
$sudo rm /etc/acpi/start.d/99-hdd-ugly-fix.sh
$sudo rm /etc/acpi/ac.d/99-hdd-ugly-fix.sh
$sudo rm /etc/acpi/battery.d/99-hdd-ugly-fix.sh

In fact we can take a look at the 90-hdparm.sh script, it is more elegant than the ugly fix:) Maybe that's why the author of the ugly fix named it.

Can't apply patches for Oracle BPM (ALBPM) Studio on Windows?

The first hot fix and service pack for Oracle BPM 10gR3 were released. If you do a quick search on Google, you'll surprisingly found that it is still published on BEA web site for some reason.

I did noticed that folks run into problems applying the hot fix. I am not sure if there is any customer out there who is using this release. However, as it is first release under Oracle, it shoud have drew enough attention of the public. Besides, bloody Windows still owns almost 80% of the OS market. So I reckon that this post won't be a waste of time anyway.

Finally we got something officially, this is a known issue for Studio(Windows only).

Symptom: Errors will be encountered when applying hot fix for OBPM studio 10gR3 GA.
"Files in use by another application. Stop all BPM applications before installing this update.
Detail:The following file could not be modified: C:\Oracle\BPMStudio\lib\fuego.boot.jar."

Solution:
1. shutdown Studio
2. download the fuego.boot.jar(MP0 hotfix) or fuego.boot.jar(MP1) file listed in the download website for your particular update.
3. copy the downloaded fuego.boot.jar file to studio_installation_dir/lib
4.start Studio
5. apply either the HF

Note: There are 2 different fuego.boot.jar files. This needs to be done only once for 10gR3 GA. After you have applied the hotfix or or pactchset(MP), you don't need to do it again.

Check Help - About for version info: 10.3.0.0.0 Build #94551 or 10.3.1.0 Build #94375

For more info, check this out:
http://albpmsupport.bea.com/download/10gR3/10gR3Studio.jsp

More updates:
If you try to upgrade from ALBPM 6.0 MP4 to MP5, you'll probably run into the same issue.


"This HotFix cannot be applied to this product version. Detail: Current Version: 4 - HotFix Service Pack Version: 5".


The workaround is to shutdown Studio, copy the fuego.boot.jar file from STUDIO_INSTALL_DIR/studio/studio/eclipse/plugins/fuego.boot_6.0.0 to STUDIO_INSTALL_DIR/lib, overwrite the one there. Start Studio and apply the hot fix again.
replace the one in /lib