So you are about to install SOA Suite 11gR1? Congratulations, you are starting an exciting journey, one which will reveal many new and wondrous sights along the way. But before you begin, don’t you want to know the answer to the number one question that comes up during installation?
When you choose Oracle XE as your database server, you get a warning message that you need a newer database version. This is because Oracle XE is version 10.2.0.1 and SOA Suite 11gR1 requires Oracle 10.2.0.4 or higher or 11.1.0.7 or higher. However, this warning is for production installs only and for a development install, you can ignore the warning.
Oracle XE is a fine choice for a small-footprint database for developing on SOA Suite 11gR1. Ignore the warning!
Comments (9)
It ill be good to have this information documented in install guide, I have been strugglng with my database to get a clean install of SOA suite and could have saved some time with this information
Posted by Varsha | July 23, 2009 11:20 PM
Posted on July 23, 2009 23:20
Yes, we'll try to add this to the next revision of the doc. Thanks for the feedback!
Posted by Demed | July 28, 2009 2:51 PM
Posted on July 28, 2009 14:51
hi please send dump of Soa Server 11g+jdev 11g to my mail
Posted by praneeth | July 28, 2009 11:46 PM
Posted on July 28, 2009 23:46
I'm unable to download SOA Suite 11g "ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.1.0_disk1_1of1.zip" from downloads.
Can you please suggest me an alternative site for downloading SOA Suite.
Posted by Chandrakanth Belde | September 22, 2009 8:07 AM
Posted on September 22, 2009 08:07
What do you mean by unable? Let me know what happens when you try to download so I can get it fixed.
Heidi.
Posted by heidi.buelow
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September 22, 2009 8:26 AM
Posted on September 22, 2009 08:26
I had to increase some of the resource limits in oracle XE to pass some of the prereq checks doing:
ALTER SYSTEM SET PROCESSES=500 SCOPE=SPFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM SET OPEN_CURSORS=500 SCOPE=BOTH;
SHUTDOWN
STARTUP
Posted by James Kao | October 21, 2009 9:05 AM
Posted on October 21, 2009 09:05
This is expected. If you only install SOA Suite, you need >= 200 processes. If you install all selections, you need >= 500 processes. The error message during installation lets you know how many you need.
Posted by heidi.buelow
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October 26, 2009 7:13 AM
Posted on October 26, 2009 07:13
Is it absolutely necessary to use Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Universal as mentioned in the the hands-on tutorial? Which problems can you expect when using Western European edition?
Posted by Sjoerd Aalbers | November 10, 2009 12:57 AM
Posted on November 10, 2009 00:57
We have seen errors when you do not use the universal version of XE. I haven't tried it with the GA version though! Let us know what happens.
Heidi.
Posted by heidi.buelow
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November 11, 2009 1:03 PM
Posted on November 11, 2009 13:03