SOA Suite on EC2
One of the things on my To Do list was to move my local SOA Suite 11g R1 to
The Cloud. It seemed a good idea to save my laptop some resources (to spare some for JDeveloper) with only a limited investment. Besides that it can be a good way to demo applications, and work together with my colleagues on these demos.
During the last months I noticed that there are several good blogpost on the subject. In this post I’ll show you the ones I used and provide some additions to them.
Setting up Amazon Web Services (EC2 and S3)
This arcticle on OTN guided me while signing up for:
- Amazon AWS
- Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service
- Amazon EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud
and to setup PuTTY. The only hick-up here was that I’m using the PortableApps version of PuTTY that doesn’t come with the puttygen – Key Generator.
Provisioning a SOA Server on Amazon EC2
This blogpost guided me in the provisioning of the AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
- AMIs are per region: The Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) for SOA Suite (id = ami-acb557c5) is only available in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region.
- Don’t bother to setup the Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volume. It is scripted in the latest version of the AMI, as described in step 5 of “SSH to your image and accept license”. The EBS Volume is seeded using a snapshot (id = snap-dd980db4) that is provided. This volume will be used to persist your data across sessions and AMI start/stop.
- When launching the image (during the Configure Firewall step) set the SecurityGroup to accept HTTP traffic on port 7001 in case you want to use the SOA Suite from outside the Image.
Categories: Architecture, BPEL, Database, JDeveloper, Life hack, Oracle, SOA Suite, Service Bus, WLS Tags: 11g, cloud, EC2, Fusion Middleware, JDeveloper, SOA Suite, WebLogic, WLS
Yesterday Clemens Utschig posted a list of SOA Suite 11gR1 Patchset 2 ~ 11.1.1.3.0 (SOA) features. He says it is a non-exhaustive list. It contains features like:
- Full and complete support for BPEL 2.0 (designtime and runtime)
- Reintroduction of “BPEL domains” – that are called Partitions because there are already WebLogic Domains
- Enhancements to BPEL’s transactional behavior and audit-trail
- Full BPMN 2.0 support – part of BPM 11g which runs on top of 11g PS2 SOA core
Update: for the Java developer
In an additional post the features for the Java developer were announced. These include:
- Support for
interface.java as a first class citizen next to interface.wsdl
- Full support for Spring as component implementation
- Support for EJB bindings (binding.ejb)
- Invocation of a composite service
Categories: BPEL, JDeveloper, Oracle, Release, SOA Suite, Service Bus, WLS Tags: 11g, Fusion Middleware, JDeveloper, SOA Suite, WebLogic
This week I came across a good overview of Java Web Frameworks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mraible/4378559350/
The presentation (that will be given at TSSJS Las Vegas 2010) this time-line originates from, can be found here. The overview was created by Matt Raible of Raible Designs.
For a lot of us the migration to Windows7 will be the first time we get easy access to a 64-bit desktop OS. One of the first things after an upgrade like that is to get your tools, like in my case JDeveloper, working again. First step is to download the jdevinstall jar, and the Sun JDK. The installation worked fine:
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| java -jar jdevstudio11112install.jar |
Running JDeveloper on 64-bit JVM
Running JDeveloper with the 64-bit JVM resulted in an error:
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| Unable TO launch the Java Virtual Machine
located at path:
C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll |
A solution is to use the 32-bit JVM. To do this change the SetJavaHome in thejdev.conf that is located in the {JDEV_HOME}\jdev\bin\jdev.conf.
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| SetJavaHome C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_18_x86 |
Where the jdk1.6.0_18_x86 is a 32-bits JVM version.
After installing JDeveloper 11G successfully, we encountered the following error while starting JDeveloper:
Unable to create an instance on the Java Virtual Machine located on c:\jdeveloper11g\Middleware\jdk160_05\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll
Using Google and Oracle Support showed us that the virtual memory for the PC was not set to level that allowed the JVM to initialise.
The solution is to increase the virtual memory or swap area. To do this on Vista:
My Computer > Properties > Advanced System Settings > tab Advanced > Performance - Settings > tab Advanced > Virtual memory - Change
On January 27th Larry Ellison and other Oracle executives outlined the Oracle Sun strategy in a live event. The webcast and sheets are available online. There is also a FAQ overview available.
Besides that there is the Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Webcast Series. If you are into Java or Middleware developement, I think the message boils down to these few sheets:
Development Tools
Development Tools Strategy
Application Server
Glassfish and WebLogic will coexist and share logic/components.
AS strategy
SOA products
Oh, and WebCenter will be the strategic portal offering.
SOA product strategy
Previous post on the subject:
Categories: JDeveloper, Oracle, Release, SOA Suite, WLS Tags: AS, Fusion Middleware, JDeveloper, Oracle, Release, SOA Suite, Sun, WebLogic, WLS
This evening while playing with WinDirStat (using the Portable Apps version) I took the following screenshot:
JDeveloper Stats
It shows the growth of
Oracle JDeveloper in size, number of files, and subdirectories. The most recent version is more than twice as big as 10.1.3.3. Also notice the difference between a 11.1.1.0 with and without the
SOA Suite extension (marked with FMW).
SQL Developer also shows some growth. A large part of this is because the JDK has been expanded.
To some of us it came as a surprise that SOA Suite design time stuff was no longer an integral part of the Oracle IDE. To use BPEL, Mediator, Human Task, and Adapters the soa-jdev-extension is required.
The SOA extension can be acquired using the menu Help | Check for updates, clicking Next, and selecting Oracle Fusion Middleware Products. Select Oracle SOA Composite Editor and click next to start the download. Since the extension is over 200 MB this could take a few minutes depending on the speed of your internet connection. When the download has finished, the version number details are shown and you’ll click finish to start using it.
Install from local file
Update wizard
If the download described above is not working for you, try the install from local file option.
Go to the
Fusion Middleware Products Update Center to select the correct version of the Oracle SOA Composite Editor to go with your version of JDeveloper 11g. If you’re using JDeveloper 11g R2 you’ll find it
here. The file is called
soa-jdev-extension.zip.
Download the extension, and instead of selecting the Search Update Centers option during step 2 of the upgrade you choose the Install From Local File option and the appropriate file. This is displayed in the screenshot. From here on it is a Next - Next - Finish operation.
Other JDeveloper extensions
Other extensions like the AIA Composite Application Framework, PHP extension, and the SQL Developer extension can be found in the update center.
OFM11g release
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is here! There was a launch with almost viewable demos. However, more important there are
tons of resources available on this site.
The OFM 11g can be downloaded from:
Enjoy all this great new stuff.
Update
More links:
And those of you who want to read the press release go there.
Oracle JDeveloper 11g 11.1.1.1.0
We wouldn’t want to forget the latest JDeveloper release:
For those of you who didn’t notice… It is discover beta documentation week in the Oracle blogosphere. All were found somewhere here.
Anyway these give a great preview of Fusion Middleware Performance Guide (Release 11.1.1) and the next version of JDeveloper, including some SOA Suite documentation.
Update May 27th, 2009 Fast paced… the documentation has been removed 
If any of you have downloaded PDFs please let me know.
Update June 8th, 2009 So far I received a PDF copy of the Fusion Middleware Performance Guide (Release 11.1.1). If you are interested let me know.
Update July 1th, 2009The production documentation for 11g Release 1 is now available.
