Excellent Free JavaScript/XML /XSLT/FO editors

Found Excellent editors to edit XML/XSLT/FO editors
All the editors mentioned below are free (some editors do do not make available all the features in the freebie version).
XMLSpear: http://www.donkeydevelopment.com/#features
XMLFox: http://www.xmlfox.com/ Another free XML Editor. Some of the features are not available in the freebie version.
Editx: Excellent Free XML Editor, cool Features http://free.editix.com/ Requires you to buy, in order to use do FO Translations, XML and other features

For FO Translations:
RenderX: http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html

Microsoft:
Any mention without Microsoft XML Editors is incomplete (Not that it has any cool features). You can also use MS Word to create /Edit XML documents.
XML Notepad: Microsoft XML Editor

JavaScript
Yaldex: http://www.yaldex.com/Free_JavaScript_Editor.htm

Last but not the least,is Oracle JDeveloper - although I am yet to go through it completely and one which I intend to make my favorite - to download goto:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html

"Paid" Editor:
Of course, there are other "paid" version of XML Editor, which have superior features, some offering fully functional "trial" versions. I have listed below a couple of them:
XMLSPY http://www.altova.com/simpledownload2c.html?gclid=CMrz8q37zqACFYd-5QodfEqp5Q
oXygen: http://www.oxygenxml.com/

New Product from Oracle

Oracle® has finally entered the food world! After drinking Gatorade and other energy drinks for years, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle®, got this idea while racing for the America cup, in the Mediterranean. Viola! Oracle ® Organic drink. Studies were conducted on two groups, one which drank 3 bottles of Oracle ® Juice and the other drank plain apple/orange/lime juice. Those who drank 3 bottles a day of Oracle ® juice, learnt Oracle ® products at least 2 times faster. The savings in terms of spending on learning at Oracle ® University, software, and books is estimated to be, 52.75%. Learn Oracle®! Drink Oracle ®! Earn more!

This is a spoof on Oracle. Link to original article I read is here. I have no knowledge whether this is an Oracle product or not.None of statistics presented are true. I have written this article with tonge-firmly-in-the-cheek.

SOA Foundation Certification

I saw a beta announcement on SOA Foundation. Intend to take this in the first week of March.
Beta Exam on SOA Foundation. For more details click here.

How to create tnsnames.ora for R12?

I followed the following steps to create a tnsnames.ora entry for Oracle Release 12. (funny could not find any entry for this)

To create this using Net Manager, you would need
# 1. Hostname, 2. Oracle HOME PATH in c drive, 3. SID - find from v$instance
# 4. Copy Oracle SID details from Listener.ora and add the following
# (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = )
# TNSNAMES.ora file is ready
# Open sqlnet.ora file and Comment out the line NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT)
# test by running tnsping
# add this to toad or sqldeveloper.


LISTENER ENTRY:

VISR12 =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = demo)(PORT = 1521)
)
)

SID_LIST_VISR12 =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = VISR12)
(ORACLE_HOME = )
(SID_NAME = VISR12)
)
)



TNSNAMES ENTRY:
Example entry I)

VISR12 =
( DESCRIPTION =
( ADDRESS = ( PROTOCOL = TCP ) (HOST = demo) (PORT=1521)
)
( CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME =VISR12 )
)
)


Example Entry II)
VISR12 =
( DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
( ADDRESS = ( PROTOCOL = TCP ) (HOST = demo) (PORT=1521)
)
)
( CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME =VISR12 )
)

)