Oracle Reports Unable to Open Reports Builder 11g (Appears Minimized in Taskbar)

This helped me today
http://pitss.com/us/2013/11/25/unable-to-open-reports-builder-11g-appears-minimized-in-taskbar/

And this one
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18185171/no-pl-sql-translation-for-the-bindtype-given-for-this-bind-variable

Handling classpath issues

Came across this issue today
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError    org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodebase64

Eventually realized this was because the class Base64 was picked from wrong jar file... the ques was which one , I mean as i got this in web application ... so the hierarchy is not easy to trace.

I tried adding the following line before the exception
logger.debug(Base64.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation());

And then eventually modified the classpath settings to modify the issue.

Tomcat startup window disappears ?

https://navnith.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/tomcat-startup-window-disappears/

on Command Prompt type: catalina.bat run
this will ensure that the window stays and shows you what the error was which was causing the window to disappear