Code is poetry (and in Oracle’s case, literally)
While trying to debug some connection problems getting an Alfresco CMS working with Oracle, I just couldn’t figure out what was going on behind-the-scenes and had to resort to a packet sniffer. Little did I know I’d find a small poem embedded in their database driver.
Everybody follows, Speedy bits exchange, Stars await to gl@ow
I know that Oracle uses a proprietary protocol for database communication, but I still figured I’d see something pretty standard. But I was surprised to see a small poem embedded in the connection string.
And as annoying it was to have to resort to a packet sniffer in first place, it was kind of cool to see the poem buried in there.
On a side note, if anybody knows why Alfresco insists on trying to do a database test connection using MySQL format (e.g. “select 1″) even when it’s clearly configured for Oracle, please let me know.
Everybody follows
Speedy bits exchange
Stars await to gl@ow”