Oracle BPM PS4FP - Process Spaces Resource Catalog

Missing the BPM Resource Catalog in your WebCenter Catalog ?

Log into WebCenter Spaces, (as administrator or weblogic) select Administration, select the Resources tab, select Resource Catalogs under Structure on the left hand side. Click Upload and depending on your configuration, point to the  /MiddlewareHOME/Oracle_WC1/bpm/process_spaces/resourceCatalog/ProcessSpacesCatalog.ear.

There should now be a "BPM Process Spaces Catalog" listed.

Oracle Unified Directory and Weblogic

Do you want to use "Oracle Unified Directory 11.1.1.5.0" with WebLogic as a security provider ? Use the OpenLDAP provider, configure the provider with you custom configuration, and you are up and running.

OSB 11.1.1.5 IDE on X86_64

To install the 64 bit OEPE with the OSB plugins enabled follow these steps:

1. Install the 32 bit OEPE and install OSB to point to this OEPE install, according to the normal OSB installation steps.
2. Download the latest 64 bit OEPE from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/eclipse/downloads/index.html
3. Install the 64 bit OEPE, as explained in the instructions on the above web page
4. Copy the oracle.osb.ide.link from the original 32 bit oepe 'dropins' to the newly created 64 bit 'dropins' directory.
5. Edit the eclipse.ini to include the Java path (64-bit required) and the Oracle Service Bus configuration.

-vm
/oracle/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_24-R28.1.3-4.0.1/jre/bin/java
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.1.R36x_v20101122_1400.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.2.R36x_v20101019_1345
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true
-Dweblogic.home=/oracle/Oracle/Middleware/wlserver_10.3
-Dharvester.home=/oracle/Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_OSB1/harvester
-Dosb.home=/oracle/Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_OSB1
-Dosgi.bundlefile.limit=750
-Dosgi.nl=en_US

Start the new OEPE and the Service Bus IDE extensions will be loaded.

If you get strange errors, for example it can't find a file, which is listed in the workspace, then go to Windows->Preferences->General->Workspace and check the 'Refresh Automatically'  checkbox.

Oracle Fusion Middleware - High Disk Usage ?

Cleaning out my laptop in preparation for a workshop I have to deliver, I have pickup that my FMW home is taking up a massve amount of disk space. I have SOA, JDeveloper and OER/OSR installed.

After investigating I found the scoundrel - everytime you update a JDeveloper extension, it creates a *.backup.* file for all the files replaced in the JDeveloper extension.

I cleaned out the backup files, saving close to 1 Gb of disk space.

Disable IPv6 on Linux

To disable IPv6 on Linux, add the following to modprobe.conf:

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Installing CAMM on 64-bit Linux

If installing CAMM on 64-bit Linux and you encounter the following error:
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


execute the following to fix:

cat install.bin |sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > install.fixed
chmod +x install.fixed
./install.fixed

Installing older Oracle software on OEL5/RH5

When starting runInstaller, and you get an Exception java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: ...libXp.so.6 ... , then you have to install the compatibility library - xorg-x11-libs-compat.x.x.rpm, which can be downloaded at http://oss.oracle.com/projects/compat-oracle/files

OPMN failing with ../Apache/Apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory then you have to create a software link to as follow: ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so /usr/lib/libdb.so.2