After a long hiatus, I am back with a useful blog. I had to install AIA2.4 (AIA2.3 downloads were not available on edelivery) on SOA10.1.3.4 on the WebLogic9.2. I tried to avoid doing it as much as possible, given there were no documentation on this, other than a few OTN forum entries and few other useful links here and here , but finally after 3 days, it was successful.
this blog already pointed to issues with this install and the metalink note#822831.1
To start with - had to first set up SOA10.1.3.4 on Weblogic9.2. This is a pretty well established process, however I faced some challenges because of Windows7
First issue was the 10g installer would not even run complaining SWAP file size issues, I commented the SWAP size checks following this link
The second issue was a big issue, the installer kept failing at the OWSM step (Unable to locate a valid OC4J URI), the error was opmn would not stop properly, due to IP6 support in Windows7. Solution found from here and here
Basically I had to edit the opmn.xml file under opmn/config to change the stop-paramters as suggested in metalinknote#1206667.1. The other important step is to uncheck the IPv6 in the network properties.
After that, things were smooth barring a few "Error occurred during initialization of VM", "OPATCH_JAVA_ERROR=OPatch Exception while trying" errors. For VM issue, closing some applications helped. For opatch issues, running the patch inside opatch directory once resolved the issues.
So after installing
Oracle XE (increase process count)
irca.bat
SOA 10.1.3.1.0 with Advance option
Patch set 7272722 for 10.1.3.4
Weblogic9.2
Patch 7337034
Patch 7490612 For weblogic SOA Domain creation
MLR #9 p8589928_101340_GENERIC
No AIA patches required
AIA installer only Software Copy mode
(for all these ensure your directory names doesn't have spaces or else you might get "Unzip: No matching wildcard found for.." )
Now was the time for AIAFP2.4 AIA 2.4 Installer V17393-01
AIAFP install needs lot of prep work, I did the below
1)increased JTA time out to 300
2)setup AQJMS Startup class (getting the aqjms_v2.0.zip was a challenge, its no longer available on OTN, luckily I had it from a previous attempt)
here only create the startup class, no need to add as a weblogic startup class
3) setting up ADF libararies, downloaded adfinstaller10.1.3.4 and followed the instruction to copy the libararies to weblogic instance
run setupadf.cmd, copy the classpath and add to the weblogic startup classpath
4)copy the esbbootstrap.jar under the JVM_HOME/jre/lib/ext
After this was ready to run AIAFP, first thing was to setup the property files
1)set up the aiaenv.bat under AIA_HOME/bin
2)deploy.properties under AIA_HOME/config
3)FPwlInstall.proprties and server.properties under AIA_HOME/Infrastructure/install/wlscripts
Templates for these property files are available under AIA_HOME/install/templates
next was to run the install scripts under AIA_HOME/install/wlscripts
If you are lucky the following line should do it all...
ant -buildfile FPWLInstall.xml
But that doesn't happen often, so I had following error
Servlet: "AIAValidationSystemAPIServiceSoapHttpPort" failed to preload on startup in Web application
It turned out, this is a known bug AIA 2.4 INSTALLATION ERROR ON WEBLOGIC [ID 1059780.1], this patch didn't work easily, so I just modified the AIAApplicationWL.EAR to change the ValidationSystemAPIService.xml under ValidationSystemAPIService.war
So if your build fails in between, It's better to run the other sections separately, The ant scripts are well organized, you can run the DeployCAVS, DeployServices targets.
That's it, then you can see the beautiful screen of http://localhost:9700/AIA :-)
update26/July
update the weblogic start arguments with -Daia.home={your AIA Home}, this is required otherwise the aia core code will not work and you will see FileNotFound for AIAConfigurationProperties.xml
