Performing a Quick Start Installation of Oracle SOA Suite 12c

Purpose

This tutorial shows you how to perform a Quick Start installation of Oracle SOA Suite 12c on your Linux environment.

Time to Complete

About 2.5 hours

Note: In step 2, you must download the installer, which takes about 2 hours, and then the installation will take approximately 30 minutes.

Background

Oracle SOA Suite 12c is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. It provides a complete set of service infrastructure components for designing, deploying, and managing composite applications. Using Oracle SOA Suite 12c, you can create, manage, and orchestrate your services into composite applications and business processes.

What Do You Need?

• A Linux environment that meets the Oracle Fusion Middleware System Requirements and Specifications
• Basic knowledge executing Linux commands
• Permission and privileges for installing applications on your Linux environment
• An installed and certified JDK

Note: For SOA Suite release 12.1.3 use JDK 7 only.

1. Open a terminal window. Create the mywork/install directories by executing the following command:

   > mkdir -p mywork/install

2. Download the All Platforms-Generic 64bit JVM SOA Suite Quick Start installer zip file to the following directory:

   > mywork/install/

   Note: You need to Accept the OTN Free Developer License Agreement to download the All Platforms-Generic 64bit JVM version.

1. Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the location of your JDK.

   Note: JAVA_HOME must be in all capitals. Your path definition should be formatted something like the following:

   JAVA_HOME=$HOME/Java/jdk1.7.0_xx
   export JAVA_HOME
   

2. Set the environment variable ORACLE_HOME to point to the location where you want to install Oracle SOA Suite 12c.

   Note: ORACLE_HOME must be in all capitals. Your path definition should be formatted something like the following:

   ORACLE_HOME=$HOME/Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_Home
   export ORACLE_HOME
   

After you've downloaded the installer and set the environment variables, start the Quick Start installer:

1. In a terminal window, go to themywork/installdirectory and unzip the downloaded zip file, by executing the following commands:

   > cd mywork/install
   > unzip fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1.zip

   You see two JAR files after unzipping the installer:

   >  ls -a
   .  ..  fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart2.jar  fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar
   

2. In a terminal window, start the installation wizard using the following command:

   >  $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar
   

   The installation wizard appears.

3. On the Installation Inventory Setup page, accept the default values, and click OK.

   

   Note: On UNIX and Linux systems, the wizard begins by prompting for the location of the Installation Inventory file. This page doesn't appear on Windows operating systems.

4. On the Welcome page, click Next.

   

5. On the Installation Location page, provide your ORACLE_HOME directory, and click Next.

   

   Note: You can update the installation path as you need to.

6. On the Prerequisites Checks page, verify success, and click Next.

   

7. On the Installation Summary page, review all the components that are about to be installed, and click Install.

   

8. On the Installation Progress page, wait for the installation and configuration of all software, and click Next.

   

9. On the Installation Complete page, deselect Start JDeveloper, and click Finish.

   

After you've installed Oracle SOA Suite 12c and set the environment variables, you can create and configure a Default Domain.

Starting Oracle JDeveloper

1. In a terminal window, go to the Oracle JDeveloper home directory and start it by executing the following commands:

   > cd $ORACLE_HOME/jdeveloper/jdev/bin
   > ./jdev

   Oracle JDeveloper starts.

   

2. When prompted, select Studio Developer as your role and click OK.

   

Tuning Oracle JDeveloper (Optional)

After you've started Oracle JDeveloper, you can tune the configuration.

1. To improve the performance of Oracle JDeveloper IDE, you can increase the default memory size assigned by editing the following file:

   > vi $ORACLE_HOME/jdeveloper/jdev/bin/jdev.conf

2. Locate the following entry, and increase the value, for example to784M instead of320M.

   AddVMOptionHostspot -XX:MaxPermSize=320M

   Note: This value doesn't need to be added or changed for Windows distributions.

3. Save your edited entry and restart Oracle JDeveloper to apply the changes.

Configuring a Default Domain

1. In Oracle JDeveloper, select the Run menu, and click Start Server Instance:

   

2. In the Create Default Domain page, provide and confirm an administrator password, and click OK.

   

   Note: These are your credentials for your Oracle WebLogic Server.

   The domain creation takes several minutes. You can monitor the progress in the Running: IntegratedWebLogicServer-Log tab.

   

Verifying Your Domain

The default domain is now configured. Verify your installation:

1. Open a web browser and access the Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control by entering the URL following this format:

   http://hostname.domain:7101/em

2. In the Login page, provide your credentials and click Login.

   

   Verify that you now have access to the Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control console.

   

• In the Oracle Help Center: Introducing the Quick Start Distributions

• In the Oracle Help Center: Installing Oracle SOA Suite Quick Start for Developers

• In the Oracle Help Center: Preparing for an Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation

• Creating a SOA Composite Application with Oracle JDeveloper 12c

• Creating an Oracle Service Bus Application with Oracle JDeveloper 12c