Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Dominique Petitpierre <>]

Hello,

- Is Grouper compatible with Oracle 11g for its registry?
  and with storage in UTF8 charset?

Specifically we plan to migrate from
current DB version :  10.2.0.3 character set : WE8ISO8859P1
to
future DB version  :  11.2.0.3 character set : UTF8

A comment in the grouper.hibernate.example.properties file mentions
the value org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect for the property
hibernate.dialect. The documentation page "API Building &
Configuration"
(https://spaces.internet2.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=14517958#APIBuilding&Configuration-GeneralPropertySettings)
has links to the hibernate documentation which states that for Oracle
11g one should use org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect so it seems
that 11g is supported.

The Oracle JDBC Driver jar distributed with Grouper 2.1.1 probably
needs to be replaced:

unzip -p $GROUPER_HOME/lib/jdbcSamples/ojdbc14.jar \
      META-INF/MANIFEST.MF \
| grep Specification-Version:
Specification-Version:  Oracle JDBC Driver version - "10.2.0.4.0"

- Is the jar file ojdbc6.jar listed in
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/jdbc-112010-090769.html
compatible with Grouper 2.* (registry, loader, subject adapter, etc.)?

At some point the registry will be in an Oracle 11g DB while the loader
will still connect to an Oracle 10g DB.
- Would the new driver still be compatible with an Oracle 10g DB?
 (the class having the same name as the one in ojdbc14.jar you cannot
have one
 for the registry and the other for a loader).

As for the UTF8 storage character set I don't see how it could cause
problems (UTF8 is a superset of WE8ISO8859P1).
- May be hibernate.connection.charSet should be set to UTF8 to avoid
  problems with a contextual default?

- Am I missing something?
- Any advice?


Incidentally the following links on the above mentioned documentation
page are obsolete:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-optional-dialects

should probably be changed to:

Hibernate Reference Documentation
Chapter 3. Configuration
3.3. JDBC connections
3.4.1. SQL Dialects
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/manual/en-US/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-optional-dialects

and

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-hibernatejdbc

should probably be changed to:

Hibernate Reference Documentation
Chapter 3. Configuration
3.3. JDBC connections
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/manual/en-US/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-hibernatejdbc

Mentioning the chapter titles will ease the search the next time the
link is obsolete again.

Best regards,
Dominique Petitpierre
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Mr Dominique Petitpierre, user=Dominique.Petitpierre domain=unige.ch
IT Division, University of Geneva, Switzerland