OS & Oracle

Compiling from source is not an productive way to install software, the binary distribution will cease a lot of trouble when installing. It will be perfect will one distribution vendor bundle all of the necessary development software together and make the common configuration and optimization, and make the management easy to combine some management tools.
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Actually, the traditional way is compiling source from scratch. Below is information from OTN: Installing Apache, PHP, JDeveloper, and the PHP Extension on Linux
Apache 1.3

Login as Oracle user.
Copy/download apache_1.3.31.tar.gz
tar -zxf apache_1.3.31.tar.gz
cd apache_1.3.31
Configure:
./configure –enable-module=so –prefix=$HOME/apache –with-port=8888

Build: make
Install: make install
Start Apache: $HOME/apache/bin/apachectl start
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PL/SQL is a native language of Oracle, it’s an effective way to manipulate Oracle.  A lot of work can be done through PL/SQL programming, even workflow engine, which is usually implemented in Java.
PL/FLOW is an workflow engineer written in PL/SQL. Also it’s located in sourceforge: http://plflow.sourceforge.net/. This project is based on WfMC(Workflow Management Coalition), which [...]