What is the best way to make Oracle forms work through Juniper SSL

[hazeen_]

Hi,

What is the best method to make Oracle forms work with Juniper SSL(IVE 6.0)?

should i use WSAM or pass-through-proxy?

Will pass-through-proxy work if there is an application load balancer for the oracle servers?

I have downloaded the document from juniper "HOW TO CONFIGURE PASS-THRU PROXY FOR ORACLE APPLICATIONS" but i does not tell me anything about how it will work with load balancers.

What are you ppl out there using? Please help(and do not hesitate to write if you do not have load balancer in your environment) .

Thank you

[drf_]

Our Oracle forms users have to use JSAM due to restrictions on their desktops. So they start JSAM with the host/port pre-configured by the SSLVPN admin in the Role. Then they open a new web browser and go to the URL to launch the Oracle forms. A new web browser instance is required because Oracle uses Jinitiator which conflicts with Sun Java which is what JSAM uses.

If you can get away with using WSAM that seems like the best option. I have never used the pass-through proxy so I cannot speak to that option.

[hazeen_ · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I started this post and would like to provide the solution that i have come up with in this post so that anyone who has similar integration issues do not have to struggle.

1) If you are using oracle without forms - u can use normal core access.

2) If you are using oracle with forms and it requires socket connection - u need to use wsam

3) if you are using oracle with forms and it is configured in servlet mode - u can use Pass-through-proxy (or) WSAM

I noticed that point(3) using PTP, the performance of the oracle is slow. The socket/servlet mode of oracle is configuration on oracle side (so it is up to the oracle admin to tell us, what mode the oracle is setup for).

I would like to add that the above points are there in the oracle/juniper integration documentation that you find in juniper site, but it is not clear which is the reason i am putting up the answer here.

Thank you.