Monday, March 21, 2016

Cheat sheet and links for installing SOA Suite 12.2.1

I just finished installing SOA Suite 12.2.1, developer edition, on my laptop and took a few notes to try to expedite the process for others. Personally, I find each time I install I need to spend a few mins looking around for the right links, the right JDK, the right commands to run the installer. So in case these are useful for others, here are my notes:

1. Download the two SOA Suite installer zip files from:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/downloads/index.html
    -accept the OTN license and open up the Recommended Install Process region to get to the downloads

2. Unzip installers so you have two jar files in a directory <somewhere>

3. Download and install the JDK - docs say you need JDK 8 update 51 or later. I tested with JDK 8 update 92, which can be located at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
specifically for Windows 64 bit: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u92-b14/jdk-8u92-windows-x64.exe (though this link only works if you have accepted the license agreement in the last 30 mins...)

4. Open up a command prompt - RUNNING AS ADMINISTRATOR by right-clicking the command prompt icon and choosing run as administrator - and cd to where you put the SOA Suite jar files. You will also need to make sure you are picking up the right Java - both the right version you just downloaded and the one associated with a JDK and not a JRE. For me, accepting the default location on Windows 64 bit for my Java installation, I was able to run the SOA Suite installer with:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_92\bin\java.exe" -jar fmw_12.2.1.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar
(on my laptop, it takes 2-3 mins to extract all the files and then the graphical installer comes up - the screens in the installer wizard are pretty self-explanatory so I won't go through them here...)

5. Fire up JDev and go!

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