Oracle Virtual Box Only Showing on 32 Bit Options

While trying to configure the SOA 12c on a VM running on 64 bit O/S, when trying to install Ubuntu Linux we observed that Oracle Virtual Box only shows 32 bit options

• To fix this issue, we need to ensure that in BIOS settings the VM support is enabled
• Hyper -V needs to be disabled. To do this Enter Windows Key + q and type in turn windows features on or off

         Ensure that the Hyper-V is unchecked and restart your machine.

• You should now be able to see all 64 bit options.

Weblogic 10.3.6: Registering the Jersey JAX-RS RI Shared Libraries With Your WebLogic Server Instances

Shared Java EE libraries are registered with one or more WebLogic Server instances by deploying them to the target servers and indicating that the deployments are to be shared. Shared Java EE libraries must be targeted to the same WebLogic Server instances you want to deploy applications that reference the libraries.

When a referencing application is deployed, WebLogic Server merges the shared library files with the application. If you try to deploy a referencing application to a server instance that has not registered a required library, deployment of the referencing application fails with following exception

[Extension-Name: jsr311-api, exact-match: false], [Extension-Name: jersey-bundle, exact-match: false].>

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer

        at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLoader.java:297)

        at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.java:270)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)

        at weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.loadClass(GenericClassLoader.java:179)

        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAnnotationProcessorImpl.processServlets(WebAnnotationProcessorImpl.java:225)

        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAnnotationProcessorImpl.processJ2eeAnnotations(WebAnnotationProcessorImpl.java:209)

The following steps show how to deploy the Jersey JAX-RS RI Shared Libraries With Your WebLogic Server Instances.

• Change to the directory C:\WLS10-3-6\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\server\bin
• Execute the cmd file setWLSEnv.cmd

•  Execute the command

java weblogic.Deployer -verbose -noexit -source C:\WLS10-3-6\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\deployable-libraries\jersey-bundle-1.1.5.1.war -targets AdminServer -adminurl t3://localhost:7001 -user weblogic -password welcome1 -deploy -library

• Execute the command.

java weblogic.Deployer -verbose -noexit -source C:\WLS10-3-6\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\deployable-libraries\jsr311-api-1.1.1.war -targets AdminServer -adminurl t3://localhost:7001 -user weblogic -password welcome1 -deploy -library

Weblogic 12.2.1:Java - JMX to get the Server Name and port

 The following section of code discusses how to get the Server Name and Port for the managed server or a cluster where the API is deployed.

     public static Integer getPort() {

       Integer port=null; 

       try {

            InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();

            String serverName = System.getProperty("weblogic.Name");

            MBeanServer server =

                (MBeanServer)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jmx/runtime");

            ObjectName objName =

                new ObjectName("com.bea:Name=" + serverName + ",Type=Server");

            port = (Integer)server.getAttribute(objName, "ListenPort");

            

            ctx.close();

             

            

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        return port;

    }

Oracle® Weblogic 10.3.6 Or Higher: Steps to create a Self-Signed Certificate using the SHA-256 Algorithm

Support for SHA-256 with JSSE is supported in WLS 10.3.3 and higher, in conjunction with using the JSSE SSL implementation. It is not supported when using the Certicom SSL implementation, which is deprecated in WLS 10.3.4 and higher.

The following sections describes the steps to create the self signed SHA-256 certificate.

• Set the WLS domain, by executing the command setDomainEnv.sh or setDomainEnv.sh (Windows)
• Enter the following pieces of when prompted

$ keytool -genkey -alias selfsignedcert -keyalg RSA -sigalg SHA256withRSA -keypass password1 -keystore identity.jks -storepass password -validity 365

What is your first and last name?
[Unknown]: soad.mindtelligent.com
What is the name of your organizational unit?
[Unknown]: mindtelligent-soa
What is the name of your organization?
[Unknown]: MindTelligent
What is the name of your City or Locality?
[Unknown]: El Dorado Hills
What is the name of your State or Province?
[Unknown]: c
What is the two-letter country code for this unit?
[Unknown]: US
Is CN= soad.mindtelligent.com, OU= mindtelligent-soa, O= MindTelligent, L= El Dorado Hills, ST= El Dorado Hills, C=US correct?
[no]: yes

• Export the certificate

$ keytool -export -alias Mindteligent-SelfSigned -sigalg SHA256withRSA -file root.cer -keystore identity.jks
Enter keystore password:
Certificate stored in file <root.cer>          

• Import the root certificate to the trust store:

$keytool -import -alias Mindteligent-SelfSigned  -sigalg SHA256withRSA -trustcacerts -file root.cer -keystore trust.jks
Enter keystore password:
Re-enter new password:

• Please include the following parameter for startup options.

-Dweblogic.ssl.JSSEEnabled=true

Oracle® SOA 12c (12.1.3 and 12.2.1) Setting Composite Title using a mediator

The setCompositeInstanceTitle operation is no longer supported in 12c. It has been replaced with oraext:setFlowInstanceTitle operation. 

To use this operation in SOA 12c (12.1.3) specifically , we need to install Patch 18310693.

Pre-install Instructions for the patch

• Set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to the directory where you have installed Oracle SOA Suite.

• Stop all servers (AdminServer and all Managed server(s)).

Installation Instructions

• Unzip the patch zip file into the PATCH_TOP.

   $ unzip -d PATCH_TOP p18310693_121301_Generic.zip

• Set your current directory to the directory where the patch is located.

    $ cd PATCH_TOP/18310693

• Run OPatch to apply the patch.

   $ opatch apply

• Once the patch has checked all the imperative prerequisites, it will prompt to proceed with installation. Please enter Y and press Enter.

• On successful installation, you should see the following results.

SOA 12c 12.1.3 is now ready testing the setSlowInstanceTitle.


Changes to the Mediator

• Click on the Assign button of the Mediator and setthe following property

• Please ensure that you use the operation setFlowInstanceTitle() as shown below

         oraext:setFlowInstanceTitle(string('The tilte is'))

• Build your code and deploy it. You should be able to the Tile in the Enterprise Manager

Oracle® Weblogic 12.2.1: How to implement a custom UUID in for Toplink EJB 3.0

To implement a custom sequence strategy you can subclass org.eclipse.persistence.sequencing.Sequenceor StandardSequence 

StandardSequence assumes a numeric value being used so Sequence will be used for this example to return a random UUID value.

Implementation of UUIDSequence
                                                             
package com.mindtelligent.worklist.model;


import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.Vector;

import org.eclipse.persistence.config.SessionCustomizer;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.databaseaccess.Accessor;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.sessions.AbstractSession;
import org.eclipse.persistence.sequencing.Sequence;
import org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.Session;

public class UUIDSequence extends Sequence implements SessionCustomizer {

public UUIDSequence() {
super();
}

public UUIDSequence(String name) {
super(name);
}

@Override
public Object getGeneratedValue(Accessor accessor,
AbstractSession writeSession, String seqName) {
return UUID.randomUUID().toString().toUpperCase();
}

@Override
public Vector getGeneratedVector(Accessor accessor,
AbstractSession writeSession, String seqName, int size) {
return null;
}

@Override
public void onConnect() {
}

@Override
public void onDisconnect() {
}

@Override
public boolean shouldAcquireValueAfterInsert() {
return false;
}

 

@Override
public boolean shouldUseTransaction() {
return false;
}

@Override
public boolean shouldUsePreallocation() {
return false;
}

public void customize(Session session) throws Exception {
UUIDSequence sequence = new UUIDSequence("system-uuid");

session.getLogin().addSequence(sequence);
}

}

                                                             

Registering Sequence

Add a property to persistence.xml

 <property name="eclipselink.session.customizer" value="com.mindtelligent.worklist.model.UUIDSequence"/> 

 

                                                             

Change the EJB 3.0 Class 

@Id

@GeneratedValue(generator="system-uuid")    

@Column(name="ADDRESS_ID", nullable = false, length = 50)

Where ADDRESS_ID is the Primary Key of the table

Oracle® SOA 12c Enterprise Scheduler Health Check

Access the Java health check servlet in a web browser.

Access to the health check page is available only to users with administrator privileges.

To verify the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler installation:

• In a web browser, enter the following URL: 

http://host:port/EssHealthCheck/checkHealth.jsp

http://localhost:7001/EssHealthCheck/checkHealth?

• Log in to the diagnostic servlet using an Oracle WebLogic Server administrator user name and password. 

•  Click the Check Health button to verify the installation

• You should see the following screen

Oracle® SOA 12c 12.2.1 Quick Start

Starting in 12c (12.1.3), we can no longer download SOA extensions. We need to use a Quick Start distribution to obtain a version of JDeveloper pre-configured for either SOA Suite or Business Process Management Suite. This thread discusses the installation of Oracle SOA Suite Quick Start.

• Navigate to URL to download the zip files for SOA Suite Quick Start. Download both the files. 

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/downloads/index.html

• Extract the contents of both the files
• Ensure that contents of both the zip files are in the same folder

• JDK 1.8 is a minimum requirement for running the software. Please download and install JDK 1.8 or above. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

• Navigate to the unzipped folder for Disk 1 of 1 and give the command

java -jar fmw_12.2.1.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar

• This will launch the SOA installer

• Click Next 

• Click Next

• Click Next

• Click Next

• Click Install

Please verify JDeveloper

Oracle® Fusion Middleware Weblogic 10.3.6: JPA client error

In a recent IoT project, MindTelligent team ran into an issue with connecting the JPA (Session Facade Client) with Session Beans when deployed on Weblogic 10.3.6 JDK 1.7 and client running on JDeveloper 11.1.1.7.

Following exception is thrown

java.io.InvalidClassException: org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.ValidationException; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 8323218586942907354, local class serialVersionUID = 7573113798854854020
java.io.InvalidClassException: org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.ValidationException; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 8323218586942907354, local class serialVersionUID = 7573113798854854020
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:562)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1315)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350)
at weblogic.rjvm.ClassTableEntry.readExternal(ClassTableEntry.java:36)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readExternalData(ObjectInputStream.java:1791)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1750)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350)


Issue:
The version of the Class org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.ValidationException is different in JDeveloper and Weblogic instance on which the EJB 3.0 are running.

Solution:

FTP the  org.eclipse.persistence_1.2.0.0_2-3.jar from the Weblogic Instance where the deployed beans are running and include it in the CLASSPATH of the client as shown below. This should resolve the issue

Registering the Jersey JAX-RS RI Shared Libraries With Your WebLogic Server Instances

Shared Java EE libraries are registered with one or more WebLogic Server instances by deploying them to the target servers and indicating that the deployments are to be shared. Shared Java EE libraries must be targeted to the same WebLogic Server instances you want to deploy applications that reference the libraries.

If you wish to use Jersey JAX-RS RI Version 1.1.5.1, the following shows an example of how to deploy the shared libraries that provide support for the basic Jersey JAX-RS RI functionality and JAX-RS API.

• Change to the WLS_HOME/server/bin and run the command

          setWLSEnv.cmd

• Change to the WLS_HOME/server/lib directory

           cd C:\WLS1036\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\server\lib

•  Give the command

java weblogic.Deployer -verbose -noexit -source C:\WLS1036\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\deployable-libraries\jersey-bundle-1.1.5.1.war -targets AdminServer -adminurl t3://localhost:7001 -user weblogic -password *** -deploy -library

• Give the command

 java weblogic.Deployer -verbose -noexit -source C:\WLS1036\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\deployable-libraries\jsr311-api-1.1.1.war -targets AdminServer -adminurl t3://localhost:7001 -user weblogic -password Satnaam111 -deploy -library