Oracle's Online Documentation

Oracle publishes its online documentation using URLs which contain a version number (e.g. "_01"). If you bookmark such a URL, you will not know if the documentation has been updated (e.g. "_19"). This makes it difficult to maintain personal bookmarks and other links to Oracle's documentation.

Back in November 2005, I sent an email to appserverdocs_us@oracle.com with the following question: "Wouldn't it be better if old versions were moved to an archive while the most recent version was published without the suffix?"

The answer: "The OTN Web team's process for making the documentation libraries available is tied to the full part number of the library. We are aware that this is not ideal, and are working on a solution, but for now the documentation team does not have any control over the OTN process."

Hmmm . . .