SOA 11g FOD (Fusion Order Demo)

FOD or Fusion Order Demo is the platform to learn any new Oracle product, I had used it while learning 10gR3, also AIA2.0, and now for 11g. I downloaded the FOD from here, the packaged deployment scripts were great and it just went through besides few hick-ups, tips here

However I couldn't execute the Order-booking demo end to end (some or other errors crop up oracle.jbo.SQLStmtException: JBO-27122: SQL error during statement preparation, or Caused By: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Message send failed: Connection refused), I could run the composite and played around em to learn the essential new concepts.

So from 10gR3(weblogic-based), 11g is much different and many important changes, let me try summarize some

1. Earlier we were creating 3 schema (orabpel, oraesb, oraowsm), now it’s more - mds, soainfra, bam and user messaging. MDS is the new thing, which is the metadata storage for all composites.

2. The terminology has changed, In one soa_server there are 4 service engines bpel, mediator (earlier esb), workflow and rules. The same server also has b2b, owsm. The bam server is separate and that’s new Java version.

3. The em is completely new, its shows all the composites, there instances, traces, component traces etc. I couldn't find test screens for components, its there at composite level. Admin stuff by right clicking on soa_infra.

4. Of course the whole idea of composite is new, and a composite has 3 parts service, components and References. So a lot of new config files, deployment fils etc. Complete new composite editor in JDev11g.

5. New frameworks around EDN (even driven networks), SDO (Service Data Objects), Spring etc. to make coding a different experience.

More details as and when I work on them, for now 11g looks just great!

SOA 11g install

finally I got some time to look at 11g and the first set of challenges were to 1) set Jdev 11g and 2) to install SOA 11g on Linux

1) For Jdev we need 11.1.1.2.0 above to be able to see SOA projects, After installing JDev the SOA composite editor can be installed using -> help -> check for updates

2) Installing 11g on Linux is covered in couple of blogs one here, official site here, broadly 5 steps
a) installing DB - 11.1.0.7 (linux_11gR1_database_1013.zip and patch 6890831)
b) using RCU for SOA schemas (ofm_rcu_linux_11.1.1.2.0_disk1_1of1.zip)
c) installing weblogic 10.3.2.0 (ope111130_wls1032_linux32.bin) using bundled Sun JDK
d) installing SOA 11g (ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.2.0_disk1_1of1.zip)
e) configuring SOA for Weblogic

Good thing is this install is much easier that 10gR3 on weblogic9.2 as all configurations are wizard based.

For DB install all the steps are covered here - make sure all steps r followed also as in patch 6890831. For additional linux packages yum can be used. While dbconsole stop/start there will be an OC4J Configuration errror, the solutions is here

For weblogic/soa set up create a Middleware directory, chowner to the oracle user created as part of db install, as OUI will not work with root user.

While starting weblogic admin server if you see following error - your weblogic version is not proper, use 10.3.2.0

Failed to initialize the application 'em' due to error java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: weblogic.application.ApplicationLifecycleEvent.getDeploymentOperation()Lweblogic/application/DeploymentOperationType;.java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: weblogic.application.ApplicationLifecycleEvent.getDeploymentOperation()Lweblogic/application/DeploymentOperationType

While starting managed serevrs if you see errors like -
BEA-000386 Server subsystem failed. Reason: java.lang.NullPointerExceptionjava.lang.NullPointerException at weblogic.management.bootstrap.BootStrap.find(BootStrap.java:473)
or
BEA-000286 Failed to invoke startup class "JPS Startup Class", java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.security.jps.wls.JpsWlsStartupClassjava.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.security.jps.wls.JpsWlsStartupClass at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)

start the servers as root user and best way to start the managed servers is from the admin console, and for that start nodemanager, also make sure to modify nodemanger.properties under wlserver_10.3/common/nodemanager/ with StartScriptEnabled to true.

Next is to understand the big-bang changes in 11g and appreciate the value it has to offer.