Installation Steps Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.3

Today the virtual machine running my Oracle SOA Suite 11g didn’t want to start anymore. So i installed a brand new Oracle SOA Suite 11g patched to the latest patch set available.

1. Oracle Database XE
2. Repository Creation Ulitilty
3. Weblogic Server
4. SOA Suite 11.1.1.3
5. JDeveloper
6. SOA Extention of JDeveloper

Just follow the step described on the website of 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0).

Oracle Database XE

Installing the Oracle Database 10g XE is a piece of cake. Download from the Oracle site run oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm file and then follow the installation guide.

Repository Creation Ulitilty

Download the Repository Creation Utility (11.1.1.3.0). Follow the installation guide

Welcome screen


Select what you want to do Create or Drop schema’s

Specify Database connection

Warning because of the Database version. For development the use of XE is a good option. We can ignore this warning.

Prerequisites check completed

Componten selection of the schema’s i want to create

Here i received the following message:

1	RCU-6083:Failed - Check prerequisites requirement for selected component:SOAINFRA

2	RCU-6107:DB Init Param Prerequisite failure for: processes

3	Current Value is 40. It should be greater than or equal to 200

i solved this by connecting to the database as system and altered the valud of processes to 300 with the following sql command:

1.	alter system set processes=300 scope=spfile;

After that my prerequisites check passed!

Configure Schema’s password. I went for the easy option to specify 1 for all. Less passwords to forget

If you want to can alter some table space definitions

Creation of the table spaces

Summary

Complete Summary

The database is ready accommodate the data of the SOA Suite.

Weblogic Server
Download the Weblogic Server from the Oracle site.

Download the WebLogic Server (10.3.3). Follow the installation guide

I had to install java on the server before i could continue.

Follow the steps of the installation guide wizard.

You can now create your own domain or continue with the installation of the SOA Suite where a SOA domain will be created for you.

SOA Suite 11.1.1.3 (step 1 SOA Suite 10.1.1.2)
Be aware of the fact that you can’t install directly 11.1.1.3 on a brand new weblogic installation. You need first to install 11.1.1.2 and after that you can run the patch to upgrade to 11.1.1.3.

Download the SOA Suite (11.1.1.2.0) and SOA Suite (11.1.1.3.0) from the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1 Software Downloads. Follow the installation guide

I started the installation supplying directly the jre location

1	./runInstaller -jreLoc /opt/jdk1.6.0_20/jre

During my installation i encountered the problem of missing packages. By running the following yum command you will install the needed packages to continue the installation.

1	yum install compat-libstdc++-296 binutils compat-db control-center gcc gcc-c++ glibc glibc-common gnome-libs libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make pdksh sysstat xscreensaver libaio openmotif21 libaio-devel-0.3.106 compat-libstdc++-33 unixODBC-2.2.11 unixODBC-devel-2.2.11 elfutils-libelf-devel

to configure the open file limits.

I edited the file: /etc/security/limits.conf

1	vi /etc/security/limits.conf

and added the following lines:

1	# oracle soa suite 11g file limits

2	oracle hard nofile 4096

3	oracle soft nofile 4096

SOA Suite 11.1.1.3 (step 3 Run Patch set 10.1.1.3)

extract archive file ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.3.0_disk1_1of1 and run the installer in the folder Disk1

1	./runInstaller -jreLoc /opt/jdk1.6.0_20/jre

Running the patch set is quite easy.

Specify the Oracle_home and the installer takes care of the rest.

SOA Suite 11.1.1.3 (step 4 Config domain)
Now we just have to configure a domain

The server will be reachable on http://[host]:7001/.
The console is available on http://[host]:7001/console.

JDeveloper
The installation of Developer does’t need explanation just download jdeveloper from the oracle site Extract and your are up and running.

SOA Extention of JDeveloper

From the JDeveloper menu choose Help > Check for Updates.


In the Update Wizard, select Search Update Centers and ensure Oracle Fusion Middleware Products is checked.

Then ensure that Oracle SOA Composite Editor is checked.

Supply your Oracle Web Account to download the installation files


The SOA Extension is just over 200 MB. But after that you are up and running to use.

After a restart of JDev;-)

So now have an up to date Oracle SOA Enviroment ready to use!