Simply put the aim was to produce a set of instructions that not only configured prism but educated the installer.

Mostly of all a set of instructions that helped people set up DB Prism (prism for short) with no prior knowledge of Apache, Jserv etc. (If like me your background is oracle development, then the initial learning curve can be fairly steep.) This is NOT to say that Prism environment is harder to understand/install than OAS - but Prism requires numerous 'steps' its not a one step installation.

Why jserv, well when I started out using earlier versions of Prism (OWSKiller), jserv was one of the options, over the next year or so I expect TomCat to replace jserv, but it works. It should work with any servlet engine, even OAS's!

I have excluded cocoon and xml generation, simply to keep it simple stupid KISS.
I have added this toward the end

At the end of these instructions you will have a working web server supporting servlets, and prism configured so that you can generate html pages using pl/sql.

I keep an updated version of these with the zone files etc at http://www.telecomrg.com/darylcollins so they can be downloaded and maybe help get people up and running faster

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