By this time, you might already know that SOA Suite12c released last week. The twitter world is abuzz with the most awaited SOA Suite release and gave a welcome in great fashion. I too was equally excited to get a glimpse of it and try out some hands-on the same. In this post, we will quickly go through the SOA Suite 12c installation.
We can say that installation is quite streamlined and made simple with single installer that includes JDeveloper, JDev SOA Extension, RCU, Standalone WLS and Service Bus (formerly Oracle Service Bus). The installer can be downloaded from here.
I tried this installation in Windows 7, 64-bit machine. Make sure you installed JDK and JAVA_HOME environment variable is set before proceeding with the installation.
Unzip the installer and start the installation as shown below.
This brings up the welcome screen.
Click Next and set Oracle Home to your desired location.
Click Next to finish Prerequisites check.
Click Next. Here you can review the installation summary and click Install.
Click Finish to complete the installation.
RCU Installation
You need to create the required schemas using RCU before proceeding with domain creation. As I mentioned earlier, no separate installer is required for RCU and comes by default with SOA Suite.
Navigate to $MW_HOME/oracle_common/bin. Locate file rcu.bat and select ‘Run as Administrator’ on right click to bring up the following welcome screen. Make sure that you installed a supported database before proceeding.
Click Next and choose default options for creating the repository.
Click Next and enter your database information with sys credentials.
Click on Next and you can Ignore the warning related to Oracle XE database as you are going to use this domain for development purpose.
RCU will perform some prerequisite checks.
Click OK to bring up following screen. Enter prefix as you desired and select SOA Infrastructure schema. This will automatically select all other dependent schemas as shown.
Click Next and enter the password for all schemas.
Click Next and proceed to next screen by accepting the defaults.
Click on Close to finish RCU installation.
Domain Creation
Navigate to $MW_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin and locate the file config.cmd. Right click and select ‘Run as Administrator’ to bring up the following screen. Enter your desired domain name.
Click Next and select the products that your domain want to support.
Click Next and proceed further by accepting the defaults.
Click Next and enter the credentials.
Click Next and choose Domain Mode. You may want to retain Development as Domain Mode. You can accept defaults for JDK or you can select any other location.
Click Next. Enter STB schema information as shown below and click Get RCU Configuration.
Once schema retrieving is successfully done, click Next.
Click Next and verify that connection test is successful for all the schemas. If not, you can go back to previous screen and modify individual schema connection information.
Once testing is done, Click Next and accept the defaults.
Click Next and in this screen you verify the domain configuration the wizard is going to create.
Click Create to start the domain creation.
Once the the domain creation is successful, Click Next.
Remember Domain Location and Admin Server URL and click Finish to exit the configuration wizard.
Start the Admin and Managed Servers by executing startWebLogic.cmd, startManagedWeblogic.cmd respectively from bin folder of Domain Location (shown above).
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As mentioned in the error while opening cmd window did you right select and choose Run as Admin
Running the below command from CMD as an Administrator but getting this repeatedly.
Can some one help.
C:\Software\Oracle\fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1>java -jar fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx512M
Launcher log file is C:\Users\mohit.a.dua\AppData\Local\Temp\OraInstall2017-09-14_04-47-46PM\launcher2017-09-14_04-47-46PM.log.
Extracting files…………………………………..
Unable to access or modify the system registry. Select Run as Administrator when opening the Command Prompt and try again.
Press any key to exit . . .
JAVA_HOME is set to this
C:\WINDOWS\system32>set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131
I am getting error “At least one server in a Coherence cluster should have non localhost address.” while creating the domain.
Did you choose coherence cluster extension in template section while creating the domain>
There was some issue with the MDS creation !Now I am facing issue while logging in the admin console . I am using weblogic/welcome1 but that’s not working . How to recheck ?
you can check the logs in startweblogic console to see if there are any errors. Also you should see the message similar to Server state changed toRunning to be able to access the admin page.
Thanks alot Siva . The article is very much informative.
Really helpful. Thanks Siva
Hi Siva,
As Per your Blog I have Installed but I am unable to See SOA and OSB Application in JDeveloper.
are you seeing osb and soa directories in your middleware home?
hi siva nice blog , no need to instal weblogic software
single installer for everything..even there is no need of SOA Extension jar.
hi Siva, thanks a bunch for detailed installation steps. that said, I am unable to see any Service Bus extension for creating OSB projects in jDeveloper. What am i missing here?
Did you install the jdev as standalone using its installer? Or used soa suite installer as mentioned in the blog.. when you navigate to File – New – Applications, what are the options you are seeung thr..
Thank you for an awesome article, Siva! A quick question, it looks like the OSB server doesn’t start for some reason. It manifests as CommunicationException in the logs. Is it supposed to come up when you start the domain by default, or there is some config that needs to take place?
In 12c, we don’t have any development mode for domain similar to 11g. so it creates both admin and managed server of OSB. so we need to start both using startWeblogic and startManagedWeblogic. And mgr server does talk to Admin while starting to get some config info. but we don’t have to do anything for this. what’s the error you are seeing and command you used for starting osb server?
C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\oracle_common\bin>rcu.bat
The system cannot find the file C:\Oracle\MIDDLE~1\ORACLE~1\ORACLE~1\jdk\jre\bin
\javaw. – Im getting this error can anyone help me
would you check JAVA_HOME env variable and see whether it’s a valid path or not. It’s looking for javaw.exe program
Am getting the same error !! any clue ??
If you are receiving that error , set JAVA_HOME in command line.
like
>set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_79
and then run rcu.bat from the same command line.
I did get the same error and the above resolved this
Thank You very much bro…. superb articale
please share the details for standalone setup
Do you mean domain configuration??
Super Bro… Thanks for this information