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November 2, 2015

Installing MAF 2.1.2 and MCS Lab Utility on Mac (OS X Yosemite 10.10.4) by Luis Augusto Weir

Jürgen Kress
PaaS Partner Adoption

During the OFM Summer Camp for Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) it was all going very smooth. In fact too good!! until I had to set up MAF 2.1.2 in JDevleoper and configure the utility provided in the lab (maf-mcs-utility-2.1.3.1.4). At this point nothing worked…The fact that I use Mac didn’t make things easier either as most people were on Windows and the lab sort of assumed the same….. So after at least 6 hours banging my head against the wall I finally found a solution.

Word of Caution

I initially tried to make this work in an existing Jdeveloper 12.1.3 soaquickstart installation. I tried to set up MAF 2.1.2 in this environment (following the docs steps) and it got to the point that I was getting all sort of weird errors (many related to MDS not loading and others around compilation). So at this point I decided to do a full clean install of everything (including Java).

Below the steps:

Preparation:

Uninstall JDK 1.8 or JRE 1.8 (if you don’t have a JDK installed yet) by following these instructions
1. JDK uninstalling steps: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/macjdk.html#A1096903
2. JRE uninstalling steps: https://www.java.com/en/download/help/macuninstalljava.xml
Download JDK 1.7 from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
Download JDK 1.8 (for later use) from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
Download JDeveloper 12.1.3 from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/downloads/index.html
Install Xcode from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
1. If Xcode is already installed make sure SDK is installed by clicking on Xcode Menu > Preferences > Download
2. If no simulator is installed, click on the latest simulator to install it

Installation:

Double click on jdk-7uxx-macosx-x64.dmg to install JDK 1.7
Open a command prompt and check that it was properly installed by running java –version. Read the complete article here.

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