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Installing the Hype called Oracle SOA Suite 11g -Part III

2009-08-12T23:14:00.000-07:00

After the installation is complete you must configure the components
Go to SOA_ORACLE_HOME, E:\OraMiddleware\OracleSOA\common\bin and run the config.cmd file, with –log option

>config.cmd –log=E:\config.log

For the fresh install, create a new Weblogic Domain

Select Oracle SOA Suite, Enterprise Manager and BAM, the dependent products are selected automatically

Specify domain name of choice, we gave “soadev”

Provide the username and password for the administrator, username:weblogic, password:welcome1

Configure the server start mode as Development Mode, using SUN SDK

Select all the component schemas, and provide the Oracle SID Name, in our case it is orcl11g and the host name as “wbi”.
The screen looks as the snapshot below:

Now deselect all the component schema, except BAM Schema. Now here you need to provide the “Schema Owner Name” and “Schema Password” as you provided in Step 4 of 7 of the RCU. Refer to the snapshots in RCU document.

Repeat this for all other component schemas. This would give you the following:

Deselect all, and move to next screen. This starts testing the connections –

Acquire the test result,

Since we would like to go with default options, we would not select any option on the screen below.

The important ports to remember are :

Admin Server: 7001

BAM server:8001

SOA Server:9001

Now click create, it would create the domains,



Once finished, you should be ready to go –


Click Done and dismiss the screen, your Oracle SOA Suite is now installed fully.

Now to start the SOA and BAM server, first start the weblogic server,

Open the command window, traverse to the Domain Location, specified in the Create Domain screen.

E:\OraMiddleware\user_projects\domains\soadev\bin> startWebLogic.cmd

Ensure the WLS is up, using http://localhost:7001 and http://localhost.7001/em

Once WLS is up and running, To start the SOA Server, type in the command
E:\OraMiddleware\user_projects\domains\soadev\bin>startManagedWebLogic.cmd soa_server1

Check if SOA server is up using
http://wbi:8001/integration/worklistapp
http://wbi:8001/b2b

To start the BAM server,
E:\OraMiddleware\user_projects\domains\soadev\bin>startManagedWebLogic.cmd bam_server1
Check the BAM server, http://wbi:9001/OracleBAM

This would ensure that your Oracle 11g SOA Suite is up and running. Happy Programming.

Installing the Hype called Oracle SOA Suite 11g -Part II

2009-08-12T03:18:00.000-07:00

Continuing fromOracle DB creation and creating repository, in this post we would proceed with working on installation of the actual servers.

Installing Weblogic Server

Initiate the installer oepe11_wls1031.exe, checkt he welcome screen

It is advisible to use your metalink user/password here, if you have one. But you may proceed without one as well.

Here we may choose to go with Custom install, but for a simpler option we would take typical,

Your MIDDLEWARE_HOME should contain both SOA_ORACLE_HOME and WEBLOGIC_SERVER_HOME, as per the Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation planning guide.

Choose a shortcut location, and observe the installation summary.

And the install begins…
On a good day, you would see

I would ask you to restart once, after successful install.

Installing Java Access Bridge

Now you would be required to configure the Java Access Bridge

For this you need to download Java Access Bridge from the following URL
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/accessibility/accessbridge/

If you are installing on a Windows computer, you can install and configure Java
Access Bridge for Section 508 Accessibility:
1. Download Java Access Bridge from the following URL:
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/accessibility/accessbridge/
2. Install Java Access Bridge, using .exe file and use .zip file to copy the files below to specific directory.
3. Copy the access-bridge.jar and jaccess-1_4.jar files from your
installation location to the jre/lib/ext directory.
4. Copy the WindowsAccessBridge.dll, JavaAccessBridge.dll, and
JAWTAccessBridge.dll files from your installation location to the jre/bin
directory.
5. Copy the accessibility.properties file to the jre/lib directory.

Installing SOA Server and BAM Server

To run the set up extract ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.1.0_disk1_1of1.zip
Now switch to command prompt and
E:\> cd E:\Software\ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.1.0_disk1_1of1\Disk1
E:\Software\ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.1.0_disk1_1of1\Disk1> setup.exe –jreLoc %JRE_HOME%

(JRE_HOME should have bin\java file)

This should start the Oracle Fusion Middleware installer screen

Ensure that you have ran RCU and installed Weblogic server. Click next.

Ensure that your pre-requisite check passes.

Install SP2 now and run the installer again to see that all the pre-requisites are met.

Specify the installation location

Install begins

The installation should finish gracefully

Installing the Hype called Oracle SOA Suite 11g -Part I

2009-08-11T22:49:00.000-07:00

This post would try to list down the steps to install Oracle SOA Suite 11g on a Windows 2003 system. The documents provided by Oracle do suffice in installation of the product, but a reason to post this blog is to have a single page specifying a step-by-step process rather than to keep hoping in between -

1) Installation Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release

2) Fusion Middleware Adminitrator Guide

3) Fusion Middleware Installation planning Guide

The steps below provide a snapshot of what is required to be done -

1. Install DB 11g or atleast 10.2.0.4.0+
2. Run the RCU downloaded from
3. Install Weblogic server and create middleware home
4. Install JavaAccessBridge, before that understand if it is required in your scenario. it is only required for windows.
5. Install SOA Suite 11G
6. Configure the Weblogic Server and SOA/BAM Server.
7. Run the servers and check the consoles for various required applicaitons.

Ensure that you have read the PREREQUISITES as specified in Installation Document, we would be creating the install on Windows 2003 Server 32-bit.

Oracle DB 11g Installtion

You would need to download the Oracle DB 11g from www.oracle.com\technology, the file is named win32_11gR1_database_1013.zip

We would need to perform Custom install for the purpose of SOA Suite, aswe have to specify character set to be used for this database.

1. Run the win32_11gR1_database_1013\database\setup.exe

2. Select the installation method as “Advanced Install”

3. Select the installation type as “Enterprise Edition”

4. Set the directory of install to E:\OracleDB
5. Now the installer checks the prerequisites

6. Now Select Configuration option, suggested “Create Database”

7.For the database configuration option, select General Purpose Transaction processing option

8.Set the global database name.

9. Set the Character set, it is very important, lest you check AL32UTF8, you wouldnot be able to run the Repository Creation Utility for SOA Suite 11g. Also remember to keep the Enable Automatic Memory Management checked. This would save you from many unseen problems.
10. Since we do not need any email notification, lets keep it unchecked.

11. Specify Database Storage option, select “file System” and specify the directory to hold database content

12. Select “Do not enable automatic backups”

14. We have used same password for all the users – “admin123”

15. You may want to associate your metalink account here, but we shall leave it blank.

16. Check the summary once, and then click “INSTALL”

17. Once installed, it would ask you to set up the password for any accounts you want to unlock

18. We have unlocked scott and set the password as tiger
19. This ends the installation of Oracle Database 11g for SOA Suite.

Create Schema for SOA Suite and BAM using RCU

PreRequisite: Install Oracle 11G using AL32UTF8 character set, using Oracle Custom Install. The procedure is explained above.

Goto the \ofm_rcu_win32_11.1.1.1.0_disk1_1of1\rcuHome\BIN in the command window and run the batch file,

Rcu.bat

Click Next on the welcome screen
On the Create Repository Screen select “CREATE”
On the following screen provide the Database connection details
The service name is “orcl11g”

This would begin prerequisite check

Select the following components which are REQUIRED for SOA Suite Install.Remeber that we have specified the “DEV” prefix for the schemas to be created. You may change it in the top dialogue box, this would help you to create your schema names as-
Metadata Services – DEV_MDS
SOA Infrastructure – DEV_SOAINFRA
Business Activity Monitoring – DEV_ORABAM
User Messaging Service – DEV_ORASDPM

It would now check the pre-requisites again.

Next it would ask for passwords for different schemas, you may also choose to give same passwords for all schemas, which is a good decision for Development environment.
We have used admin123 as the password
Note:You must remember or make a note of the password(s) from this screen; you will need them later when you are configuring your products.

On the Map Tablespaces screen, simply click OK.

Now it will begin creating tablespaces

Observe the summary information and click “Create” to proceed.

The RCU would now be busy creating tablespaces for each schema

This completes our repository creation exercise.

Faults in JAX WS

2009-07-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

Continuing with last post, we would look in to a scenario where in our java program is throwing an exception, which is fairly common scene in any service. So to look at this scenario, we would would make a small change to our Java program to enable our web service to return fault on occurence of certain event.

Except of the code all other steps would remain same as they were in Deploy JAX-WS on Tomcat through Eclipse.

The code now incorporates

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.xml.ws.WebFault;

@WebService
public class SwapException {
@WebMethod
public String greetException(@WebParam String myName)
throws MyException{
if(myName.equals("Swap") || myName == null) {
throw new MyException();
}
else {
return "Hello "+myName;
}
}
}

@WebFault
class MyException extends RuntimeException {
/**
*
*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 5476051236444095955L;
public MyException() {
super("Exception by Swapnil, don't say swap");

}
}

And follow the rest of the procedure to expose it as web service, as discussed in earlier post. You can even create a client and check how it behaves.

Deploy JAX-WS on Tomcat through Eclipse

2009-07-03T05:35:00.000-07:00

Today, I am going to present the step-by-step process to create JAX-WS compliant web service using eclipse and deploy it on tomcat web server.

Scope of this post is limited to create a JAX-WS webservice and does not discuss JAX WS implementation as such.

You would require to download the binary and execute this jar as

java -jar JAXWS2.1.1_20070501.jar

This would create a directory called jaxws-ri, henceforth refered to as %JAXWS_HOME%.

Configuring Eclipse

In Eclipse right-click to create a new "Dynamic Web Project", lets name it JAXWSCalculator.Now right click "Java Resources:src" and create a new class, say, Calculator in package de.swapgmbh.service.calculate. Now provide the code below with annotations -

package de.swapgmbh.service.calculate;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;
@WebService
public class Calculator {
@WebMethod
public int add(int expr1, int expr2) {
System.out.println("Now adding " + expr1 + " and "+expr2);
return expr1+expr2;
}
}

Now we need to create wsgen tool to process the class and generate web service. The wsgen.bat file is located in %JAXWS_HOME%\bin directory.

From the menu select Run > External Tools > External Tools...

This would open up a new window wherein you need to configure the wsgen tool.

Provide the following details >

Name:wsgen

In the Main Tab>

Location:D:\jaxws-ri\bin\wsgen.bat Â (%JAXWS_HOME%\bin\wsgen.bat)

Arguments:

-verbose -wsdl -keep -r "${project_loc}\WebContent\WEB-INF\wsdl" -d "${project_loc}\generated" -cp D:\Work\SwapStudy\workspace\JAXWSCalculator\build\classes ${java_type_name}

-r tells the wsgen where to keep the generated wsdl file.
-d tells the wsgen where to keep the generaed output files.

In the Environment Tab>

Create two variable

JAVA_HOME - C:\jdk1.5.04
JAXWS_HOME - D:\jaxws-ri

Now click Apply and Close.

Now in your project create "wsdl" folder in "WEB-INF" and a folder name "generated" on the root of your project.Â

Nowhighlight the Calculator class and Run the "wsgen". This would generate the wsdl and schema file in wsdl folder and other required classes in "generated" folder.

Now we need to modify the web.xml and create sun-jaxws.xml. Open the web.xml, and place the following details in.

<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" schemalocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>JAXWSCalculator</display-name>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<description>JAX-WS endpoint - calculator</description>
<display-name>JAXWSCalculator</display-name>
<servlet-name>calculator</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>calculator</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/addnumbers</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Now put in the following details in sun-jaxws.xml, which would be located in \WEB-INF folder, beside web.xml file.

Now, right click the project and click "Export >WAR File", place the war file at a preferred location.

Now copy the war file, place in webapps folder of your tomcat, and now you could access the wsdl file using "http://localhost:8080/JAXWSCalculator/addnumbers?wsdl"

You may want to use SOAP UI to access the service and see it working.

Problems faced during 10.1.3.4 SOA Suite Upgrade

2009-03-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

Problem #1: Oracle BPEL Console does not show the contents of default domain.

Debug:
Observe the debug logs in %ORACLE_HOME%\opmn\logs\default_group~home~default_group~1.log

And the application logs located in
%ORACLE_HOME%\j2ee\home\application-deployments\orabpel\home_default_group_1\application.log

Observation:
The following problem was observed:
Incorrect db schema version.
The database schema version "2.0.4" from the database does not match the version "10.1.3.4.0" expected by the server.
The database schema currently in place has probably been configured for a previous release; please re-install the database schema and try to start the server again.

Solution:
This means that the database schema was not upgraded to match the newer 10.1.3.4 version.

Execute the following scripts from your Installer directory
%SHIPHOME%\ias_windows_x86_101340\Disk1\install\soa_schema_upgrade\bpel\scripts
msql system/manager@jdbc:polite4@localhost:1531:orabpel @upgrade_10131_10134_olite.sql

%SHIPHOME%\ias_windows_x86_101340\Disk1\install\soa_schema_upgrade\esb\sql\other
msql system/any@jdbc:polite4@localhost:1531:oraesb @upgrade_10131_10134_olite.sql

Problem #2: Oracle Jdeveloper does not allow to deploy the Project, as it could not retrieve domain details.

Debugging:
Log on to enterprise manager console @ http://ics05-swapnils:8888/em/
Now go to Home > Applications, Inside applications,
Expand All Applications > default > Middleware Services > BPEL > orabpel

Check the status of “deploy Service”.

Observation:
The service is STOPPED.

Solution:
Start the service and your JDeveloper should now be able to retrieve Domains, using right click on Project Name.

WSIF Bindings

2009-03-04T03:17:00.001-08:00

How to create a WSIF WSDL?

Add these two schema to your definitions tag
xmlns:format="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/formatbinding/"
xmlns:java="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/java/"

The format namespace adds support for mapping Java types to XML schema.
The java namespace allows mapping WSDL operation to Java methods.

Specify binding Information
<binding name="JavaBinding" type="tns:TestService">
<java:binding/>

Binding name specifies the name which would be reffered from service tag.
Binding type specifies the portType, specified in WSDL
The java:binding tag identifies that this is bound to Java code rather than a SOAP service.

This binding would encompass, formatting information, i.e. which XML tag is to be mapped to what Java DataType

<format:typeMapping encoding="Java" style="Java">

The format:typeMapping tag tells us that we will be mapping XML Schema types onto Java types.

<format:typeMap typeName="xsd:string" formatType="java.lang.String" />

The format:typeMap tag explains what Java type is to be used for each XML schema type in the interface.

The Service Tag refers to binding tag for mapping information.
The Java:address tag specifies fully qualified classname which contains implementations of operations specified inside binding tag.

<service name="TaskServiceService">
<port name="TaskServicePort" binding="tns:TaskServiceWSIFBinding">
<java:address className="oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.impl.TaskServiceWSIF"/>
</port>
</service>

AQ Adapter for Complex Custom Objects

2009-02-24T22:22:00.000-08:00

This post would concentrate on creating AQ for consuming custom message structures. The pre-requisites for creating a custom AQ is -

1) Oracle DB 10g – AQ queues are created at DB
2) Admin user credential with sysdba role to grant permission for
normal user (e.g. scott) as in setup_user_grant.sql
3) user credentials for normal user (scott).

Step #1: Granting Permissions to Normal User

Connect tot he oracle DB "sys as sysdba" and run the following script

GRANT CONNECT, RESOURCE to scott;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_AQ to scott;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_AQADM to scott;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_AQIN to scott;
commit;

Step #2: Create Objects (Simple/Complex)

Now log out and re-connect as normal user (scott)

For simple objects like (Student:Roll_Num, Name, Age) run the following >>

create type STUDENT_TYPE as OBJECT (
ROLL_NUM VARCHAR2(128),
NAME VARCHAR2(512),
AGE number
);

For a more complex scenario like >>

Vendor(ID,Name,Equipments (occurs multiple times),Feedback (occurs Multiple Times))

Equipment(ID,Description,Rate)

Feedback(ID,Description)

Create the Types as written below>>

create type Equipment_type is OBJECT
(
id NUMBER,
description VARCHAR(100),
rate NUMBER(10,2)
);

create type Equipment_Arr is VARRAY(50) of Equipment_type;

create type Feedback_type is OBJECT
(
id NUMBER,
description VARCHAR(100)
);

create type Feedback_Arr is VARRAY(50) of Feedback_type;

create type vendor is OBJECT
(
id NUMBER,
name VARCHAR(100),
Equipments Equipment_Arr,
feedback Feedback_Arr
);

Step #3: Create and Start Queue

Here we need to create the table corresponding to object created above and link it with a queue and start the queue.

begin
dbms_aqadm.create_queue_table('stud_in_table', 'student_type');
dbms_aqadm.create_queue('stud_in_queue', 'stud_in_table');
dbms_aqadm.start_queue('stud_in_queue');

dbms_aqadm.create_queue_table('stud_out_table', 'student_type');
dbms_aqadm.create_queue('stud_out_queue', 'stud_out_table');
dbms_aqadm.start_queue('stud_out_queue');
end;

Here we created two queues- in-queue and out-queue, one for reading the contents and another one for writing contents in it. (In case of the complex scenario above, the queue table would be created only for vendor and not for equipment/feedback).

Once this procedure is completed successfully, this AQ can be utilized by BPEL AQ Adapter for enqueuing or dequeuing the object of interest.

The configuration of AQ is not covered in this post you may visit here for a step by step procedure for configuring the AQ Adapter in BPEL.

Securing B2B Integration Server Instance

2008-10-21T03:45:00.000-07:00

Oracle B2B Integration Server Security

First step in the process is to create a Certificate Request.

1. Open the Wallet Manager Application from Start-> Programs-> Oracle-oracleas-> Integrated Management Tools-> WalletManager.
2. Now click Wallet-> New from the Menu bar in the WalletManager Application

3. Provide a password for Wallet, say “admin123”

4. The application would prompt you if you want to create a certificate Request, now. Click Yes and provide the details in the box.

5. Once the certificate request is created, you need to submit this request to a Certificate Authority (CA).

6. Now select the Certificate:[Requested], which shows details of the certificate in the adjacent frame and click Operations-> Export Certificate Request, this would open a file browser, Select appropriate folder and save this request, with a file name “certificateRequestB2BSOA.cert”

7. The above steps can be seen in the viewlet at the following location: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oid/oidhtml/sec_idm_training/html_masters/flash/ocasslsetuppart1_viewlet_swf.html

Repeat the above steps for the other B2B Integration Server as well.

Next Step is to get this Certificate Authorized from Oracle Certificate Authority. We need the OCA installed on one of the machines. Follow the steps below to process the certificate request.

8. Send the CertificateFile to the OCA machine.
9. Now open the Oracle Certificate Authority User Page to submit the Certificate Request, by clicking the Server/SubCA Certificates>Request a Certificate

10. Now in the subsequent screen paste the contents of your certificate request, and do not forget to mention that the certificate would be used for Authentication, Encryption and Signing.

11. Note down the reference number provided on the subsequent screen this would be required in the admin console to approve the certificate.

12. Now open the admin console using the admin url, https://localhost:/oca/admin, and jump to “Certificate Management”. Select the certificate of interest and click “View Details”

13. In the details page, the certificate can either be approved or rejected. Click the “Approve” button here.

14. Take a note of sequence number generated in the subsequent screen.

15. Now go back to the https://localhost:/oca/user and click the Server/SubCA Certificates, now specify the sequence number noted above and click go.

16. Now check the desired row and click view details to check the certificate

17. In the following screen, copy the certificate information including “Begin Certificate” and “End Certificate” from under the heading “BASE64-Encoded Certificate”

18. Paste the above information in a text editor, and save it under a comprehensive filename.
19. Now we need to follow the same step to get the issuing authority’s certificate. Under the “Server/SubCA Certificates, click the button, “Save CA Certificate”

20. On the following screen, click the “Advanced” button.

21. Now again copy the certificate information including “Begin Certificate” and “End Certificate” from under the heading “BASE64-Encoded Certificate”.

22. Paste the above information as well under a comprehensive file name and transfer these two files to the B2B Machine.

Repeat the above steps for the trading partner’s B2B Server, as well.

Now the wallet, which was in “requested” state is to be brought in the “ready” state. For this open the Wallet Manager and follow the steps below.

23. Open the wallet, which was used to create certificate request, by selecting the wallet location and providing the password.
24. Now click “Import Trusted Certificate” and import the CA certificate file, created earlier.
25. Similarly, click the “Import User Certificate” and import the signed host certificate file. This would change the state of certificate from “requested” to “ready”.
26. Now for the host and trading partner to communicate, we would need to import the trading partner’s certificate in the wallet, as well, by clicking “Import Trusted Certificate”.
27. Now save the wallet, additionally also export the wallet to the same location to a file named “.txt” Preferably the location should not contain a directory name with spaces.

In this section, we would configure the Oracle B2B Integration Server for enabling SSL security. It is highly preferred that you have a running set up for atleast one collaboration instance, which is tested effectively to run in a non-secured http mode.

28. The first step is to check the https port number of opmn, use the command “opmnctl status -l” to check the port number. This port number would be used in step 34 to specify the https port. This is a very important step not every one gets default 443 as https port.

28. The first step, is to begin with creation of a secured Delivery Channel for the host trading partner. Select the “Trading Partners” under the “Partners” tab and click the host name.

29. Now click open the “Rosettanet over RNIF” under the capabilities tab.

30. In the following screen, open the “Create Communication Capability”

31. Now provide the details for creating the delivery channel, for the purpose of this document, the area of interest is only Transport security, the document doesnot focus on non-repudiation and encryption.

32. In the following screen, the existing Document Exchange settings could be reused, as shown in the figure below.

33. Now provide the details for transport, here we need to specify the HTTPS, as preferred transport protocol, SSL port as mentioned under the HTTP Server SSL Port as checked in Step #28, and use existing b2b/transportServlet as endpoint.

34. Save the current settings, by clicking apply.

Next we need to create the Secured Delivery channel for the trading partner, as well.

35. Select the “Trading Partners” under the “Partners” tab and click the name of trading partner, in this case (when GlobalChips is host), the trading partner is Acme.

36. Open the “Rosettanet over RNIF” protocol under the Capabilities head.

37. In the following screen, open the “Create Communication Capability”. Now provide the details for creating the delivery channel, for the purpose of this document, the area of interest is only Transport security, the document doesnot focus on non-repudiation and encryption.

38. Reuse the existing Document Exchange, since we do not need any additional information here to enable security.

39. Provide appropriate details for the Transport settings, to enable security.

40. Click Apply and save the changes.

This step is to be performed similarly on the trading partner's system, as well.

The server is now required to be updated and specified the location of certificate. The steps below would elaborate on how the certificate be configured.

41. Now open the Enterprise Manager Console, http://b2bsoa.yashdc.com:18100/emd/console/ specify the ias_admin as user and its usual password “admin123”. Click open the B2B server by clicking the “B2B” link, on the home page.

42. Now open the “server properties” under the Administration tab of B2B Server Instance.

43. In the subsequent page, provide for the path of .txt file, where the wallet file imported in text format, as specified in previous step is located.

44. The above property is stored in, tip.properties file in \ip\config directory.
45. To enable SSL, it is required that the opmn.xml file be modified, open the \opmn\conf\opmn.xml, search for ssl-disabled and replace it with ssl-enabled
46. Now restart the opmn, using opmnctl stopall/ opmnctl startall, for the changes to take effect.
47. Once both the B2B server instances, host & trading partner, have been configured and restarted, the following screens should be traverse-able from either systems,
https://b2bsoa.yashdc.com:4444/b2b/transportServlet and https://soab2b:4444/b2b/transportServlet

48. Now the respective certificate location is to be specified to the Trading partners, both Host and Remote Partner.

49. Open Partners->Trading Partner (Host) -> Certificates > Create

50. In the following screen provide the specified information. In this case the information provided is Name as “B2BSOACertificate” and the certificateFile as “C:\Certificates\issuedB2BSOACertificate.txt”, to stress further, it is not the wallet file, but the certificate file created in step no. 17 & 18.

51. Perform the above operation for Trading Partner (Remote Partner) as well. This ensures that the certificate is known during the inbound messages.

52. Now configure the agreement and set the configuration on both the systems and deploy.

53. Now restart the opmn, using opmnctl stopall/ opmnctl startall, for the changes to take effect and trigger the BPEL process to post appropriate document.

54. Very Important Note: Whenever any change is made to Trading partner configuration, like Delivery Channel, Document Exchange, Transport etc. Be sure that you re-deploy your agreement for the changes to take effect.

Check the thread below for some of the errors that may occur.
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=690847

Why this blog?

2008-10-03T03:20:00.000-07:00

My first post on this blog comes out of blue. I am not sure who this blog would cater to, and what subject would it specialize in.I believeblog should represent a person and should not be restricted to a particular subject, it is a personal opinion that instead of having multiple blogs (which I earlier had), it is more manageable to have a single blog and let the labels classify the kind of entry you have in you blog site.

This blog would act as a stage for me, a dias, where I can stand and shout what I want without caring if someone intends to listen. This place would be special, which would hold my views and my opinions on different subject matters at that instance of time including but not limiting to, psychology, phillosophy, my hobbies, the technologies, my collection, my observations of differents facets of life, personal, professional or otherwise. In short it would reflect the inner me.

I believe I would be able to steal some time to place in some or the other thing at least once a week.