Rule Author does not work with Firefox 3. Rule Author uses the Oracle UIX framework, which provides AJAX-style functionality. UIX was developed before Firefox 3 was released, and unfortunately there are incompatibilities.
One issue is when running Firefox and the application server on the same machine, when opening a dictionary within Rule Author using the "Browse" feature, only the name of the file and not the full path is filled into the text box. This will result in an error message like:
Cannot perform operation. 'RUL-01213: Error initializing the repository. Please refer to the base exception. Root Cause: 'ruleRepository' does not exist. '
Also, there are several issues with the partial page rendering and the popup windows do not work, preventing the user from editing rules.
Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 all work properly.
Google Chrome, though not officially supported, works properly and has the nice feature of being able to resize text entry windows for expressions. However, as of November 2008, Chrome does not have an autofill/autocomplete feature for text entry, so the user must manually enter the location of the dictionary, Java classes and jars, and XML schemas each time.
Apple Safari also works, but pop-up blocking must be disabled (unlike Firefox and IE, the pop-ups are silently blocked rather than prompting the user to allow them).
Comments (1)
I dont know how I would have solved this had I not seen your page. Thanks a ton for sharing...I am happy I only spent 0.5 hr on this :) before searching google
Posted by Amit | February 10, 2009 9:45 AM
Posted on February 10, 2009 09:45