Overview

The BC4J installer upgrades the BC4J runtime libraries in an iAS or standalone OC4J installation, allowing you to deploy BC4J applications to an earlier version of the application server. For example, it allows you to deploy a BC4J 9.0.3.3 application to iAS 9.0.2. Note that to run a BC4J application on a later version of the application server (for example, BC4J 9.0.2 on iAS 9.0.3), you do not need to run the installer.

The installer runs inside JDeveloper, and installs the BC4J runtime libraries that are in your JDeveloper installation. This means, for example, that if you run the installer in JDeveloper 9.0.3.3, it installs the BC4J 9.0.3.3 runtime libraries.

The version matrix below shows supported BC4J and application server versions, and what, if anything you need to do, to make the combination work.

The BC4J installer only works with JDeveloper 9.0.x. JDeveloper 10g includes an ADF runtime installer that installs the ADF runtime to different application servers.

1. Exit JDeveloper.
2. Copy bc4j_installer.jar to the jdev_home\jdev\lib\ext folder (do not unzip it).

How to Run the Installer

1. Start JDeveloper.
2. From the main menu, select Tools > BC4J Framework installer > Standalone OC4J 9.0.x (to install to standalone OC4J) or Tools > BC4J Framework installer > Oracle 9iAS 9.0.x (to install to iAS).
3. Follow the instructions in the wizard; for documentation click Help at any stage in the wizard.

Note 1: The installer does not upgrade UIX applications in iAS.
Note 2: The installer requires that the application server is on the local machine, or mapped to a drive on the local machine. To map a windows drive to a unix server, or vice versa, you might need to use a third-party product such as Samba or NFS.

This matrix shows supported BC4J and application server versions. To use the matrix:

• Find the cell corresponding to version of JDeveloper you are working with and the iAS or OC4J version you want to deploy your application to.
• The contents of the cell tell you whether this combination is supported, and what, if anything, you need to do to make it work.

Notes
1.Using the utility available on OTN (windows and solaris only).
2. Requires installing the BC4J runtime libraries, using the BC4J runtime installer.
3. Downloadable standalone OC4J. Of course you can always run the embedded OC4J that ships with JDeveloper 9.0.n as a standalone OC4J and deploy BC4J applications from JDeveloper 9.0.n to this standalone OC4J.
4. Requires upgrading the iAS JDK to 1.4 (this must be done before running the ADF runtime installer).