The Wiki page for configuring Oracle is misleading

[northgorky]

Greetings.

I tried posting this in the Getting Started Documentation section, but that did
not really seem to work (was ignored).

The Wiki page for configuring Oracle is, to put it mildly, misleading. The way
it is laid out, it implies that local-tx datasources are what should be used for
Oracle Databases. This might have been correct for Oracle 8 and before, but is
definitely not the case for Oracle 10 & later.

The page I am concerned about is;
http://www.jboss.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SetUpAOracleDatasource

Proposed correction attached. I can upload if you would like, or post a
revision (or if somebody wants to update, go ahead).

The major change was to add a few statements just before the sample Datasource
files, and to switch the order the Datasource Examples are given in the
document. This should help cut down on the number of Transaction Manager
complaints as well, I would think. (Would have eliminated them from me, anyways).

Can't seem to attach files here, so put my suggested fix up on my webserver. Link is http://j2eeguys.com/~steve/JBoss/SetUpAOracleDatasource.html.

Regards,
Steve

[jaikiran]

"northgorky" wrote:

The page I am concerned about is;
http://www.jboss.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SetUpAOracleDatasource

Proposed correction attached. I can upload if you would like, or post a
revision (or if somebody wants to update, go ahead).

Steve,

The wiki is editable by any registered user (you are one of them). At the bottom of each wiki page, there is a "Edit this page" link. Please feel free to add any useful information to the wiki.

[northgorky]

Greetings.

Will do. But I figured it would probably be a good idea (as well as the polite thing to do) to run this by a few others before I just upped and changed something facing the public.

This will also be my first external facing 'contribution' for JBoss, so want to take the extra time to get it right.

Regards,
Steve