Oracle breaks sun forums google search
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I'm having a problem with some java related stuff. I used google to find a solution. In the top results is a very promising-looking thread on forums.sun.com. Unfortunately, when I click on the result, I get this page: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/main.jspa?categoryID=84 . Not that big of deal, as long as the old results are cached, but still annoying. Also, all internal links in the cached version also redirect to the oracle forum homepage. Bigger annoyance, after landing at the oracl forums homepage, clicking the back button redirects to the current page.
Sorry if this is a repost.
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I dunno, when I Google for "site:http://forums.oracle.com java" and skip a few pages to get to the threads, I can follow them just fine. What was the URL you were trying to follow?
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@Xyro said:
I dunno, when I Google for "site:http://forums.oracle.com java" and skip a few pages to get to the threads, I can follow them just fine. What was the URL you were trying to follow?
Here's one search I used: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+site:forums.sun.com+jnlp+launch.jnlp+com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException:+Unable+to+load+resource&sa=X&ei=O6LZTNaVHsP_lgfXwKmoCQ&ved=0CBoQrQIwAA
Click on any of those links.
Just to clarify, I was doing an unrestricted google search, even though the link above is specific to forums.sun.com . It just so happens that a lot of the promising results point to the old sun forums.
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Adobe's online livedocs are similarly frustrating. If you click on Google's cached version (which I often do when searching because I like getting my search terms highlighted), Adobe redirects you to the documentation index. Grrrr....
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Wow, looks like the nuked their "Java Web Start & JNLP" forum somehow. It still exists if you search manually though.
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@Xyro said:
wait -- people still use web start?
This is for a class. I'm going part time for my MSCS. My professor is a retired manager with "tons" of industry experience. He insists that all programming assignments be either applets or launchable via JNLP and be web accessible on our school server. He thinks that this somehow relects the current state of the art in the "real world". He is also very impressed with fancy 2D graphics.
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There are a good share of client/server apps that are made that way ... though I wouldn't call them applets. The GUI stuff is only called "applet" if it is embedded on a web page, otherwise it is considered an Application.
Hell, most of us working on LDAP servers still use an age-old freeware LDAP browser made in Java.
Never used Web Start/JNLP though... the stuff I've worked with isn't the kind where constant client-side updates are made. Most of that is made on the AppServer side. :)
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GET /thread.jspa?threadID=5438103 HTTP/1.1
Host: forums.sun.com
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://forums.oracle.com
They did indeed break the Sun forum. The whole forum - not just the google search. WTF Oracle?
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[url]http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5438103[/url]
moved to
[url]http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5498687[/url]
where SunForumsGuest registered a month and a half ago and has over two and a quarter million posts.
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But SunForumsGuest is still considered a newbie! What a great find. We can only assume their skills at database extraction and migration are as terrible as their skill to implement these abilities...
