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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>RAJ,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I was able to get OpenCms installed with
Tomcat and Oracle 9i, as well as a few others were.  To answer your questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Tomcat 5.5.12, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3
(Taroon Update 4), Kernel 2.4.21-27.ELsmp on an i686<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Oracle 9.2.0.1.0<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Oracle classes12.zip – note I had to add this to the WEB-INF/lib
directory and change the name to classes12.jar for tomcat to recognize it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>       </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>OpenCms version 6.0.2<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>When I was first installing opencms, I was
doing the install through Firefox and was experiencing similar issues.  As a
last resort, I tried the install using IE and then everything went fine. 
However, it seems like I was the only person experiencing that issue.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Joel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
opencms-dev-bounces@opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces@opencms.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>RAJ<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 25, 2006
5:01 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> opencms-dev@opencms.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [opencms-dev] Installing
OpenCMS with Apache/Tomcat and Oracle8/9i/XE</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We have
been trying to install OpenCms. <br>
We successfully installed and ran OpenCms with Apache/Tomcat and MySQL. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But our
target database platform is Oracle and not MySQL. <br>
All the effrots to install OpenCms to run on Oracle has been unsuccessful. :(<br>
OpenCms Installer is able to create tables in database (that means connection
is successful) but it always fails at installing module. <br>
It gives either of the following two errors.<br>
1. Critical error while loading driver manager<br>
2. Critical error while initializing driver
"org.OpenCms.db.oracle.CmsUserDriver".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Searching
on the forums found that there are other users who have experienced similar
problems but following those threads didn't lead to any satisfactory answer. <br>
Alex mentioned that OpenCms has been tested with JDBC drivers supplied with
Oracle 9i. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So what
am I asking for:<br>
1. Version of Apache/Tomcat, developers of OpenCms are using to test OpenCms
with Oracle.<br>
2. Version of Oracle <br>
3. Version of JDBC drivers and if I need any special JAR files supplied by you.
<br>
4. Version of OpenCms itself. (Specifically if beta release of OpenCms was
used.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If
someone who has actually got OpenCms running on Oracle would share the version
details, it will be great.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks
for your time,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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