SOA Suite Installation

To download the BPEL Process Manager [SOA Suite],
follow the link http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/webservices/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101310.html
Alternately follow the above link[ I am not installing the Companion CDs as yet].

First install the SOA Suite as shown below.
I have listed the installation steps. The install was very straightforward, and does not really need a supporting article.

Salient feature of this install are:-
**This will install the BPEL Server, which is equivalent to the Workflow Engine[just in case you wish to make comparison].
**SOA Suite comes bundled with a Oracle Lite database, which should sufffice for your tutorials etc.
**SOA Suite will not have jDeveloper. jDeveloper can either be installed separately, or as a part of Companion CD.

What is the Difference between BPEL Server and jDeveloper?
Both are needed for you to practice BPEL design/development. jDeveloper will be used to make Service Orchestration diagrams.

Unzip the SOA Suite to c:\bpel and run the install.
For this I doubleclicked on C:\bpel\soa_windows_x86_101310_disk1\setup.exe


Password lets say xx123xx123

The installation of Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.3.1.0 was successful.
These instructions are located in C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\install\readme.txt for your future reference.

You can view the status of the server with the following command:
C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\opmn\bin\opmnctl status


Access the Oracle SOA Suite 10g Application Server Welcome Page via the following URL:
http://dell:8888


Access the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control via the following URL:
http://dell:8888/em



Installation Details:

Installation Directory: C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1
Installation Type: J2EE Server and SOA Suite
Installed Components: SOA Suite, Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) and Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN)
Instance Name: anilpassi.dell
Administrator Username: oc4jadmin

The log file containing the details of Configuration Asistants is located in C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\cfgtoollogs



Documentation
Online documentation for Oracle Application Server is available at:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017-01/index.htm.

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You can access the list of ports used by the following command :
C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\opmn\bin\opmnctl status -l


Access the Oracle Web Services Manager through the following URL
http://dell:8888/ccore

Access the Oracle Business Rules Author through the following URL
http://dell:8888/ruleauthor

Access the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus through the following URL
http://dell:8888/esb


Access the Oracle BPEL Process Manager Control through the following URL
http://dell:8888/BPELConsole


Please refer to the following file for a summary of this installation.
This file also contains the URLs for the various OWSM components.

Filename: owsmsetupinfo.txt
Location: C:/product/10.1.3.1/OracleAS_1/install