Running FMW 11g on your laptop
There should be no problem running Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g on a laptop. However if it’s memory is on the low end of the spectrum, it can be challenging. One of the changes you can make, is reducing the memory allocated to the Java process for the WLS domain running the SOA Suite. These memory settings can be altered in the following file:
<your_WLS_home>\user_projects\domains\soa_domain\bin\setSOADomainEnv.cmd
Change the memory settings to:
set DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m
Off course the values are dependent on the resources of your machine, and shoud be altered accordingly.
Marc Kelderman has an additional note on running FMW 11g on a XP laptop: FMW 11g and DHCP . In case you have issues with deploying and / or testing composites, force SOA 11G to listen to local host apply the following settings.