Installing Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.2: Tips based on my experience with installing on Kubuntu 9.10

I have installed Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.2 on my local Kubuntu 9.10 (64bit). This posting contains some tips based on my experience.

Please have a look here to find more details about where to find the new Oracle Fusion Middleware Release.

To install the new release you have to upgrade WLS to 10.3.2 and install the new SOA component again. I decided to throw everything away, download the complete new release including the new RCU and JDeveloper release (don't forget this component!) and install everything again..

Required software:
- Weblogic Server 10.3.2 generic (I have a 64 bit config)
- JDeveloper 11.1.1.2
- SOA Suite 11.1.1.2
- RCU (See additional software section)

Please follow the installation instructions, which can be found here, to install the components in the correct order.

JDK issues
With my default OpenJDK version (build#16) I encountered problems with the WLS installer and with starting the installer of the SOA Suite component.

The WLS installer only started in console mode:

tomhofte@tomhofte-laptop:~/downloads$ java -jar wls1032_generic.jar
Unable to instantiate GUI, defaulting to console mode.     
Extracting 0%....................................................................................................100%                                                                                       

<-------------------- Oracle Installer - WebLogic 10.3.2.0 ------------------->

Welcome:
--------

This installer will guide you through the installation of WebLogic 10.3.2.0.
Type "Next" or enter to proceed to the next prompt.  If you want to change data entered previously, type "Previous".  You may quit the installer at any time by typing "Exit".                              

Enter [Exit][Next]>

<-------------------- Oracle Installer - WebLogic 10.3.2.0 ------------------->

Not really convenient...

When I tried to start the SOA Suite installer using my OpenJDK as the java runtime the following problem showed up in the console and the installer UI did not show up.

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
                                               

Checking if CPU speed is above 300 MHz.    Actual 800 MHz    Passed
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 47087 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 9507 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors.    Actual 16777216    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-11-14_08-16-57PM. Please wait ...
Please specify JRE/JDK location ( Ex. /home/jre ), /bin/java should exist :/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk                                                                                            
tomhofte@tomhofte-laptop:~/downloads/soa_11112/Disk1$ Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so

I assumed that something was wrong with my JDK version so I decided to install JRockit Realtime JVM version 6. After installing JRockit Realtime JVM version 6 and using this Java distribution for installing WLS and SOA Suite everything was able to install without any problems. The JRockit version I used is available from here.

Note: this will definitely not mean that FMW 11.1.1.2 will only install with JRockit Realtime JVM version 6! It is only that this made it work for me and in case you hit the same issue you now how I solved it :)


Configuring JDeveloper
After I had installed JDeveloper, I noticed that the SOA Composite editor extension is not part of the JDeveloper 11.1.1.2 bundle as it was with the previous version...so...Go to Help -> Check for Updates and select the SOA Composite editor extension:

Install the extension and restart JDeveloper to activate the update.

Activate the Preview Spring component designer
(Thanks to this posting)
To activate the Spring component in the Component palette of the Composite editor in JDeveloper, you have to change the soa-config.xml file that can be found in JDEV_HOME/integration/seed/soa/configuration. Uncomment the following the part and restart JDeveloper

${SPRING_COMPONENT_NAME_L}
${SPRING_COMPONENT_FOLDER_NAME_L}
spring
.xml
oracle.tip.tools.ide.spring.sca.SCAComponentSpring
${SPRING_COMPONENT_DESC}
${SPRING_COMPONENT_DESC}
/oracle/tip/tools/ide/spring/sca/images/springcomponent.png
/oracle/tip/tools/ide/spring/sca/images/springcomponenticon_dia.png

/oracle/tip/tools/ide/spring/sca/images/springTop.png
/oracle/tip/tools/ide/spring/sca/images/springMiddle.png
/oracle/tip/tools/ide/spring/sca/images/springMiddleShort.png
/oracle/tip/tools/ide/spring/sca/images/springBottom.png
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All of the above did the job for me.