I recently helped some folks out with a “recipe” for setting up SOA Suite 11g and OSB (service bus) on Solaris and thought I’d share the information I put together (presented here without warrantee to being perfectly complete/accurate).  Because the versions of WLS being slightly different for SOA and OSB, the install requires 2 WLS instances…not a big deal.

The super-high install flow is

0) Configure database/schemas

1) Install WLS for the SOA Suite ( + correct JDK first)

2) Install SOA Suite pointing to the WLS from step #1

3) Install OSB (which includes WLS) ( + correct JDK first)

For desktop installation, I found this wiki entry that might be useful to keep the number of servers to a minimum:

http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+SOA+Suite+11g:+How+To+Create+All+In+One+AdminServer#

Here is my whitepaper on SCA which is relevant to the 11g SOA Suite

http://www.oracle.com/technology/architect/entarch/pdf/oracle_sca_the_power_of_the_composite.pdf

Installation Instructions

WebLogic

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/web.1111/e13751/toc.htm#GETST109

SOA Suite

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/install.1111/e14318/qisoa.htm#BABEIAIA

OSB

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13159_01/osb/docs10gr3/install/index.html

Note: During installation, it is important that you use a JDK (and not a JRE) because the installation process assigns values to JAVA_HOME and related variables to point to the JDK directory

Databases for both SOA Suite and OSB

Oracle 10.2.0.4+
Oracle 11.1.0.7+

You can check all the requirements with the Requirements matrix:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/oracle%20fusion%20middleware%2011gr1%20(11%201%201%201%200)%20certification%20matrix.xls

Installation packages

SOA Suite

From the page http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/111110_fmw.html

http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/middleware/11g/ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.1.0_disk1_1of1.zip

WebLogic version for use under SOA Suite

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/wls_main.html

wls1031_generic.jar (for all 64-bit platforms)

You need to have the JDK installed first. Either:

Sun
1.6.0_11+

or

JRockit
6 Update 5 R27.6.2+

Odds and ends, JDeveloper + RCU.  JDeveloper is only needed for development stations.  I think the RCU is the only other piece that you need, but check.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/111110_fmw.html#depends

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/htdocs/soft11.html

OSB

http://download.oracle.com/otn/bea/osb/osb1031_wls103_solaris32.bin

In this case, to use 63, just replace the JDK

Specifics for JDK Requirements (32 and 64):

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/suppconfigs/configs_al10gr3/osb10gr3/overview.html#1133682