Friday, June 07, 2013

Tech Review: Oracle Fusion: Friday, June 7, 2013

I really need a better understand of Fusion and how it works.  This reminds me of the old days when I had to search through tons of Unix documentation to figure something out by drawing bits and pieces for many different documents.



Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle OpenWorld

ORACLE FUSION MIDDLEWARE
  • low on meat and high on buzzword fluff.
Fusion middleware launch

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launch Event announced
  • Look like this came out in 2009 so we are dealing with technology that is already 4 years old.
  • Looks like Oracle is moving towards end-to-end solutions
  • We are building our own using old technology


ORACLE FUSION MIDDLEWARE RELEASE 1 (11.1.1.6)
  • this is the main location for documentation.

GET STARTED WITH ORACLE FUSION MIDDLEWARE


Overview of Oracle Fusion Middleware
  • a collection of standards-based software products
  • software components or enterprise applications
  • Middleware - software layer that lies between OS and application on each side of a distributed computer network
  • Web Tier
    • Horacle HTTP Server
  • Middle Tier
    • Oracle WebLogic Server
  • Data Tier
    • database
Understanding Key Concepts
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Environment
    • Oracle WebLogic Server domain
      • one Administration Server
        • Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
        • Fusion Middleware Control
      • one or more Managed Servers
        • Oracle WebCenter
        • Oracle SOA Suite

Description of Figure 2-1 follows

What Is a Middleware Home?
  • a container for 
    • one (?) Oracle WebLogic Server home
    • 0 or 1 Oracle Common home
    • 0 or more Oracle homes
  • Do we have an 'Instance Home'
  • We have a 'wlserver_10.3' home
    • Is the name of the server there?
    • Could the name be the domain?
    • The wlserver_10.3\common\bin folders has some scripts and config info
      • commEnv.com
        • contains all the 'home' definitions'
        • don't see a server name
  • no oracle_soa1
  • oracle_common
  • What is Oracle_WT1 (Web Tier 1)
  • user_projects
    • applications
      • <domain name>
        • <name>_domain
    • domains
      • <domain name>
        • <name>_domain
        • autodeploy
          • readme.txt
            • quick way to deploy applicatons to development server
            • when WebLogic Server is running in development mode
            • application in this directory are automatically deployed
            • WebLogic Server domains start up in development mode by default
            • all WebLogic Server instances in a domain
            • startWebLogic.cmd
            • can setup domain mode in Administration Console
        • bin
          • secureWebLogic.cmd
            • Sets DOMAIN_HOME
              • <drive>:\Oracle|Middleware\user_projects\domains\<domain name>
<drive>:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<domain name>\sysman\config\ohwconfig.cmd
  • oracle_apache
  • oracle_webcenter
  • weblogic_j2eeserver
<drive>:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<domain name>
  • shutdown.py
    • connect( url='t3://<machine>:7001', adminServerName='AdminServer')
    • shutdown('AdminServer','Server', ignoreSessions='true'
  • startWebLogic.cmd
    • <domain home>\bin\startWebLogic.cmd
<drive>:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<domain name>\bin\secureWebLogic
  • SERVER_NAME - Name of the weblogic server
  • set SERVER_NAME=AdminServer
E:\Oracle\Middleware\wlserver_10.3\common\bin\commEnv.cmd




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