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Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit v 9.0.2.0.0
Release Notes

Latest information can be found on Oracle Technology Network ().
For detailed information on the product, please refer to the whitepaper and the developer's guide.

Preface

i. Audience

Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit Release Notes is intended for application service providers (ASPs), developers and administrators who want an understanding of Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit installation process and system topologies.

ii. Support
Support is handled through the following:

Send registration information to ihkteam_us@oracle.com. The email should contain the following information:

User name (First, Last)

email contact and telephone number

company name

company address

brief description of how you plan to use IHK

After sending email to register, questions can be posted on the OTN Forum, under Application Server->Internet Hosting Kit (IHK).

IHK team will answer the questions on the forum.

iii. System Requirements

Oracle9iAS 9.0.2.0.0 Infrastructure

Oracle9iAS 9.0.2.0.0 Application Server

Solaris OS

Installation and System Topologies

1. Introduction

Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit(IHK) provides a set of services and guidelines for application service providers (ASPs), independent software vendors (ISVs), and company information technology (IT) staff to develop, deploy, and manage applications in a hosted Web environment.

Applications written using Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit are deployed in a J2EE Container.
Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit uses Oracle Internet Directory(OID), an LDAP server, to manage its entities.
Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit is integrated with Oracle Single Sign-On(SSO).

The following is the recommended system topology for using Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit:

In this configuration, Oracle9iAS Infrastructure provides the common backend infrastructure necessary for Single Sign-On for authentication and OID, LDAP directory for datastore.

Oracle9iAS Application Server provides the necessary J2EE environment for hosting web applications. In addition, different types of Oracle9iAS Application Server install types may be taken advantage of to provide further value (in the diagram above, Oracle9iAS Wireless is shown to provide access to IHK application to mobile devices). By separating the middle tier from the backend, scalability can also be achieved. The number of Oracle9iAS Application Server depends on performance requirements. In this example, we show only two.

In the installation instructions that follow, we assume the above topology. Specific configuration instructions (such as configuring SSO for use by IHK) is given in detail in the developer's guide and FAQ(frequently asked questions). At the end of this document, we will also provide various other topologies that may be used for IHK.

2. Installation Instructions

If this is the first time:

Install Oracle9iAS Infrastructure

see Oracle9iAS Administrator Guide for details

For each Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit installation:

Install Oracle9iAS Application Server

Install on a different machine from Oracle9iAS Infrastructure
Install Type:

IHK only requires a J2EE container to run. Since all install types include J2EE & WebCache, any install type will do. For example, if you plan to provide wireless access to the web application written in IHK, you may want to choose Portal and Wireless Install Type.

Install Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit on Oracle9iAS Application Server.

Download / Copy "eservices.tar" to $ORACLE_HOME.
Untar eservices.tar

tar -xvf eservices.tar

You should have the following directory structure:

$ORACLE_HOME/eservices/lib - contains all class libraries for IHK and other dependent products
$ORACLE_HOME/eservices/admin - contains all LDAP scripts for IHK LDAP schema
$ORACLE_HOME/eservices/config - contains configuration files
$ORACLE_HOME/eservices/doc - contains product documentation(developer's guide), Javadoc, FAQ, and Readme(this file)
$ORACLE_HOME/eservices/samples - contains the IHK sample Java files
$ORACLE_HOME/eservices/log - default directory for event and system logs

Configure Oracle9iAS Internet Hosting Kit

Set appropriate classpath and environment variables. A sample is given in $ORACLE_HOME/eservices/config/setpath.source
Edit eservices.properties(change permissions first if necessary: "chmod 644 eservices.properties"). Replace appropriate substitution variables and defaults to correct variables:

e.g %ORACLE_HOME%, %s_OIDHost%, %s_OIDPort%, %s_OIDPassword%

Run post-installation utility (this relies on LDAP properties in eservices.properties, even if 'useRepositoryAPI=true')

java oracle.eserv.hosting.tools.PostInstallUtil

Test installation:

Compile and run $ORACLE_HOME/eservices/samples/IHK/IHKSamples.java
If, for some reason the samples only run halfway and need to cleanup, run "java ihkclean", located in the same directory.

3. Other topologies

The above topology is not the only possible topology.

Minimal Topology:

The above shows a situation where everything is hosted on a single machine which is running Oracle9iAS Infrastructure. This is possible because Oracle9iAS Infrastructure does contain a J2EE Container. However, this does not take advantage of various features offered by the Oracle9iAS Application Server, and it does not scale very well, because all the load is concentrated on a single machine.

Multiple Infrastructures

In this diagram the backend Oracle9iAS Infrastructure is split into a dedicated SSO server and a dedicated LDAP Server, each residing on different machine for performance purposes.

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