Oracle Database XE - Installation
Today, I installed Oracle Database XE on my old Windows XP laptop. According to Oracle:
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer.
To my surprise, the installation process was very straightforward. The only weird thing is that the installer does not provide an option to change the default port (8080) of the servlet engine that comes with the product and hosts its administration program. This is very annoying since this port is also the default port of Tomcat. Hopefully, the installer will prompt you for choosing another port if during the installation the 8080 is occupied. So, start you Tomcat before installing Oracle Express.
I managed to connect to Oracle Express, using TOAD and JDBC using the thin driver of the Enterprise RDBMS 10g.
posted by Μπάμπης @ Friday, April 14, 2006
2 Comments:
MySQL's chief executive called the Oracle XE crippleware.
developer.com has an interesting article on Oracle XE. The author comments that:
Oracle XE is an extremely good product, and so "cool" it's kind of hard for me to believe it came from Oracle.
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