Saturday, March 2, 2013

soa suite installation in windows 7

Oracle SOA Suite is yet not certified to work on Windows7. Though it did run well on Windows 7 beta.
Installation procedure will be similar to that on Windows Vista.

Im running SOA Suite 11g on windows 7 home premium (AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core QL-65 2.10Ghz with 4,00 GB RAM). 

It all works fine. No issues so far. 

I installed SOA Suite on Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit. Weblogic use 32bit jdk. But SOA need 64bit jdk. Nothing unnormal.

Was your SOA-Suite installation a vanila installation or you tweaked the installation process.
If later is the case can you please brief the tweak in process.

First, I installed JDK 1.6u17, both 32bit and 64bit. Then modified the registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 0. This is required by [JDeveloper|http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/htdocs/11/11.1.1.2/knownissues.html#install1]. 
Installed Jdeveloper and Weblogic and run RCU to create SOA repository as normal steps. 
When installed SOA, it asked the location of JDK. It must be path of 64bit JDK. After installation, created a domain including SOA.
Everything goes well so far.

Did you use generic WLS installer (wls1032_generic) or wls1032_win32?
Do JDK versions matter? Can you provide any additional info about your installation procedure please?

When I try to install (on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit) everything goes well, untill creating the domain and I can't figure out what's wrong..

I finally made it work. I forgot to run the config.cmd as an administrator ;)

Everybody should consider installing on a certified platform. Windows 7, Vista, and XP are not certified SOA Suite platforms. I know may will say "it can work" and they are right. However, keep in mind that when your company buys SOA Suite the odds of you actually getting a desktop copy are next to zero. The licensing costs are just way over the top at over $100K list for everything you need to run on a dual core desktop. Get used to working off a shared server early for which there are many certified platforms to choose from.

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