I've not been writing much lately, because I haven't had much (a) to#

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:11:42 +0000

I've not been writing much lately, because I haven't had much (a) to write about, (b) time to write it in. More (b) than (a), in fact.

Oracle error messages, n in a series of most-positive-fixnum:

:; owm      
Exiting
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at oracle.ewt.lwAWT.BufferedApplet.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at oracle.sysman.emSDK.client.appContainer.WebApplication.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at oracle.security.admin.wltmgr.owma.OwmaApp.<init>(Compiled Code)
        at oracle.sysman.emSDK.client.appContainer.WebApplication.main(Compiled Code)
Done.

The error message actually means "cannot connect to X server". Isn't it obvious? It also means "we don't accept any of the standard toolkit options", of course.

It turns out that we actually want to be using the Oracle Enterprise Login Assistant for this instead anyway. It has basically the same deficiency but doesn't insist on displaying a splash screen, so can actually map its window and get on with answering requests without user input.