Installing ARCHIBUS Web Central on Oracle Application Server

This section covers details specific to the Oracle Application Server (AS).

To install ARCHIBUS Web Central on Oracle AS:

  1. Create an endorsed folder inside oracle\product\oc4j-101310\jdk1.5.0\jre\lib •

    The endorsed folder should contain the following files (copied from \\archibus\WEB-INF\lib folder):

  1. Expand archibus.war file, add the license file, and configure afm-projects.xml.
  2. Recompress the war file.
  3. Deploy the Web Central War file:
    1. Go to http://localhost:8888(This is the browser location of the Oracle Application Server) .

      The OAS Overview page opens.

    2. In the ‘Manage your SOA Suite’ section of the page, select ‘Application Server Control’ link.

      This takes you to the login screen for the application server.

    3. Login to the application server.

      ‘OC4J: home’ page opens. OC4J is the Oracle container for J2EE.

    4. Click on the ‘Applications’ tab.
    5. Click on the ‘Deploy’ button.

      ‘Deploy: Select Archive’ page opens.

    6. Keep all default setting, browse to the location of the WAR file, and click ‘Next’.

      The WAR file deploys and ‘Deploy: Application Attributes’ page opens.

    7. Enter ‘Web_Central’ into the ‘Application Name’ field and click <Next>.

      ‘Deploy: Deployment Setting’ window opens.

    8. Click <Deploy>.

      Web Central deploys.

  4. Navigate to OC4J:home/Application:Web Central/Web Module:archibus/Configuration Properties, and add the following to the “Classpath” input:

    ./WEB-INF/lib/jsp-api.jar;./WEB-INF/lib/servlet-api.jar

  5. Stop and restart the Oracle Application Server.