Technology Questions

- Scheduling and executing the batch jobs.

- Configuring, starting and stopping the real-time services

- Adapters configuration and managing them.

- Repository usage, Job Server configuration.

- Access Server configuration.

- Batch job publishing.

- Real-time services publishing through web services.

A static variable in Java belongs to its class and its value remains the same for all its instances. A static variable is initialized when the class is loaded by the JVM. If your code tries to access a non-static variable, without any instance, the compiler will complain, because those variables are not created yet and they are not associated with any instance.

Oracle HTTP Server is managed by OPMN which stands for Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server. With the use of opmnctl utility we can start, stop and restart Oracle HTTP Server. If we don’t use this utility the configuration management infrastructure cannot detect or communicate with the Oracle HTTP Server processes, and problems may occur.

The startproc command for the case of Windows is: ORACLE_HOME\opmn\bin> opmnctl [verbose] startproc ias-component=HTTP_Server.

To stop Oracle HTTP Server, use the stopproc command: Windows: ORACLE_HOME\opmn\bin> opmnctl [verbose] stopproc ias-component=HTTP_Server.

Executing two or more blocks (threads) of a program at a time is called MultiThreading.

String Args (String []) is an array of parameters of type String.

In Java, 'args' contains the supplied command-line arguments as an array of String objects. In other words, if you run your program as 'java MyProgram Hello World' then 'args' will contain ["Hello", "World"]. When a java class is executed from the console, the main method is what is called.

Windows XP supports four major file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. This means that Windows XP can be installed on these file systems. The use of NTFS is preferred especially when using a bigger hard drive space.

A 32 bit processor is faster than a 64 bit processor, 64 bit processors are very commonly used that you can find it easily in any home pc but the main difference is the hardware you are having on your machine. For 32 bits there isn't any need of any wide main bus to carry 32 bits at a time but for 64 bits its must that you should have a wider bus to carry 64bits.

Dimensional modeling is often used in Data warehousing. In simpler words it is a rational or consistent design technique used to build a data warehouse. DM uses facts and dimensions of a warehouse for its design. A snow and star flake schema represent data modeling.