Oracle Developer Depot

Installation and Configuration Guide

What’s Required

• Some experience with Oracle application Server Control
• What are the Software Requirements
• • Oracle Containers for Java 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.1) or Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.1)
  • Oracle Developer Depot Application
  • Oracle database
  • Java 5 Oracle's Java site

Installation

Oracle Developer Depot (ODD) is only available packaged as an EAR file.

1. Download the odd.ear from OTN 

2. Log in to EM at http://localhost:8888/em

3.   Select the “applications” tab.

4. click the “Deploy” button

5. Enter the archive location for the odd.ear into the “Archive is already present on the server where Application Server Control is running.” Input area.

6. Click “Next”

7. Enter the application name on the next screen.

8. Click “Next”

9. Click “Deploy”.

10. Wait for the deployer to successfully deploy ODD.

Configuration

ODD should just work right out of the box with no configuration necessary. However there are situations where configuration of ODD needs to occur.

Those situations are:

Your workplace uses a Proxy for web access

Start the oracle application server with the following switch:

-DproxyHost=YOURPROXYHOST –DproxyPort=YOURPROXYPORT

Your workplace uses a Proxy for web access (alternative)

1. Unpackage odd.ear
2. Unpackage odd.war which lives inside odd.ear
3. Open the applicationContext.xml which is in the WEB-INF/classes directory
4. find:

<bean id="proxy" class="com.oracle.odd.http.Proxy">

<!-- optional if running behind a proxy

                <property name="host"><value>${proxyHost}</value></property>

                <property name="port"><value>${proxyPort}</value></property>

                -->

</bean>

5. Remove the comments in the xml (<!—and à )
6. Open the appserver.properties file which is in the WEB-INF directory
7. Uncommend and edit the entries for:

# proxy info

proxy.host=proxy.oracle.com

proxy.port=80

8. Repackage odd.ear
9. Redeploy odd.ear 

Changing ODD locations

1. Unpackage odd.ear
2. Unpackage odd.war which lives inside odd.ear
3. Open the appserver.properties file which is in the WEB-INF directory
4. find:

content.directoryURL=…

metadata.directoryURL=…

5. Edit the host, port and context to appropriate values.

Run Oracle Developer Depot 

Point browser at http://localhost:8888/odd to run the application.

License

Oracle Developer Depot contains Apache Software Foundation licensed software

Apache License