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# Go to the [*Oracle Internet Application Server*|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/overview/index.html] site.  Click on the [*Downloads*|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/index.html] tab and all available [*Application Server 10g Release 3

the OC4J stand alone server

Go to the Oracle Internet Application Server site. Click on the Downloads tab and all available Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.x)

Downloads

*|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/index.html]

will

be

displayed.

\\ \\ # Scroll down until you reach the *Oracle Containers for J2EE* section and click on [*Pure Java*|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/utilsoft-090603.html].  The [*Oracle Application Server 10g Software Downloads*|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/utilsoft-090603.html] will be displayed. \\ \\ # Accept the License Agreement, then click on the *Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (OC4J)* link. The download of the *

Scroll down until you reach the Oracle Containers for J2EE section and click on Pure Java. The Oracle Application Server 10g Software Downloads will be displayed.
Accept the License Agreement, then click on the Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (OC4J) link. The download of the oc4j_extended_101350.zip

*

file

will

start.

Save

Save this

zip

file

on

your

workstation. Install

workstation.
NOTE: Before the download begins, Oracle will require you to either log in using an existing Oracle account or you will have to create a new Oracle account.

Install the OC4J stand alone server

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# In your $\{user.home} directory, create the directories oc4j/10.1.3.5.0 and unzip the *oc4j_extended_101350.zip* file to the $\{user.home}/oc4j/10.3.5.0 directory.&nbsp;&nbsp;Create a system environmental variable *ORACLE_HOME* and set it's value to $\{user.home}/oc4j/10.3.5.0.
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For example: if *$\{user.home}=/users/rstone*, then *ORACLE_HOME=/user/rstone/oc4j/10.1.3.5.0*
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You can actually unzip to any directory you desire.  The only requirement is that all directory names cannot contain any white space.
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*For MAC users*:&nbsp;&nbsp;You can now [download a nice plugin | Install the Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.5 standalone server^RCEnvironment-1.4.X.dmg] that helps you manage your system environmental variables.&nbsp;&nbsp;The plugin, *RCEnvironment*, is a preference pane for MacOS X 10.1 or higher that allows editing of your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.

Configure

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the OC4J stand alone server

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The above change is made to prevent PermGEN errors for occurring. If you get PermGen Out of Memory errors when either deploying your application or when starting the oracle server, increase the 512M values to 1024M.

Edit the file ${ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/home/config/system-application.xml

and

change:

{

Code Block

}


<import-shared-library name="oracle.toplink">

{code}

to:

{

Code Block

}


<!--import-shared-library name="oracle.toplink"-->

If you want to disable the Oracle Enterprise Manager then change

Code Block
<import-shared-library name="oracle.xml"/>

{code} # We need to add a datasource so that the applications can pull data from the database.  Edit $\

to:
Code Block

When you are satisfied that everything is correct, SAVE your changes.
We need to add a datasource so that the applications can pull data from the database. Edit ${ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/config/data-sources.xml

to

add

a

datasource.

Here's

an

example

of

adding

a

MITSIS

datasource:

\\ {code}

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<data-source
    class="com.evermind.sql.DriverManagerDataSource"
    name="OracleDS2"
    location="jdbc/MitsisDS"
    xa-location="jdbc/xa/StargateXADS-unused"
    ejb-location="jdbc/OracleDS-unused"
    connection-driver="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
    username=""
    password=""
    url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@//earth-vault-2.mit.edu:1523/

sundev2

sundev11"
    inactivity-timeout="30"
/>

{code}

where

obviously

*

you

MUST

add

your

username

and

password.

*  If you do not have a username and password, request a them from your team leader. \\ \\ # In order to use Spring 3.X with OC4J

If you do not have a username and password, request a them from your team leader.
When you are satisfied that everything is correct, SAVE your changes.
FOR WINDOWS ONLY - setting the administrator's password

Open a CMD window and cd to the ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin directory. Type the following command:
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oc4j -start
You will be asked to enter and confirm a password. Pick a password that is easy for you to remember. You will need to use this password when configuring Maven.

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parser configuration
parser configuration
In order to use Spring 3.X with OC4J 10.1.3,

you'll

need

to

swap

out

the

default

XML

parser

in

OC4J

with

something

more

modern.

  xercesImpl

xercesImpl.jar

and

xml-apis.jar

work

fine.

  To swap the parser

To swap the parser out,

you

need

to

create

a

new

shared

library

in

the

OC4J

enterprise

manager

and

then

edit

the

system-application.xml

file

to

use

your

new

shared

library

instead

of

the

Oracle

XML

parser.

\\ \\ Open $\

Start and stop the OC4J server.

Open ${ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/home/application-deployments/default/orion-application.xml

with

a

text

editor.

  If the file or any

If the file or any sub-directory

does

not

exist,

create

them

as

needed.

\\ \\ If you had to create the file anew, these are the contents of the file: {code}

If you had to create the file a new, these are the contents of the file:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<orion-application
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oracleas/schema/orion-application-10_0.xsd"
    schema-major-version="10"
    schema-minor-version="0"
    component-classification="internal">
    <imported-shared-libraries>
        <remove-inherited name="oracle.xml"/>
    </imported-shared-libraries>
</orion-application>

{code}

If

you

had

an

existing

file,

add

this

block

to

it:

{

Code Block

}


<imported-shared-libraries> <remove-inherited name="oracle.xml"/> </imported-shared-libraries>

When you are satisfied that everything is correct, SAVE your changes.

FOR ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS - how to change the administrator password.

Open ${

code} \\ # *FOR WINDOWS ONLY* - setting the administrator's password Open a CMD window and cd to the $\{ORACLE_HOME}/bin directory. Type the following command: {indent:2} oc4j -start

You will be asked to enter and confirm a password. Pick a password that is easy for you to remember. You will need to use this password when configuring Maven.

...

ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/home/config/system-jazn-data.xml with a text editor.

Find the <user> tag block for oc4jadmin. Change the oc4jadmin's <credentials> property to (substituting your password for myNewPassowd):

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<credentials>!myNewPassword</credentials>

Be sure to preface the password with an ! to inidcate that this is a plain text value.

When completed, the oc4jadmin <user> should look something like:

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<user>
    <name>oc4jadmin</name>
    <display-name>OC4J Administrator</display-name>
    <guid>E33D5A508AA511DF8F573778FB23EDF8</guid>
    <description>OC4J Administrator</description>
    <credentials>!myNewPassword</credentials>
</user>

Save the changes and restart the OC4J server.

Getting Better Debugging Information From OC4J

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By default, some run time errors that you'll see when testing web apps in OC4J are not too helpful. You can coax OC4J into giving you more information about certain errors by making the following changes in global-web-application.xml:

Open ${ORACLE_HOME}/j2ee/home/config/global-web-application.xml with a text editor.

Turn on "development" mode - in the <orion-web-app> section at the top of the file, change the "development" setting to true:

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<orion-web-app
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oracleas/schema/orion-web-10_0.xsd"
  jsp-cache-directory="./persistence"
  servlet-webdir="/servlet"
  development="true"
  jsp-timeout="0"
  jsp-cache-tlds="standard"
  schema-major-version="10"
  schema-minor-version="0">

Turn on debug mode. In the "jsp" servlet section, set a parameter debug_mode to true. The section should look like this:

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<servlet>
      <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>oracle.jsp.runtimev2.JspServlet</servlet-class>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>debug_mode</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>    
      </init-param>
      <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

With these settings, you should get more meaningful messages in your browser when you run into certain errors (JSP syntax errors for example).

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