Configuring SSL in Oracle Apps 11.5.10.2

Question

Hi,
I am in the process of configuring SSL in oracle apps 11.5.10.2.
I am a bit confused with the Note ID: 123718.1. Could you please clarify me on the below things?
1. SSL can be implemented at three levels,
(a) Oracle Web/Apache Server Level
(b) Oracle Form Server Level
(c) Oracle Database Level
Can Implement SSL on any one or any two component levels? As per Note:123718.1, we MUST configure SSL for both the Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Forms Level and these cannot be configured independently.
2. As per the Note ID: 123718.1, Option 2.1. Certificate Provisioning for Oracle HTTP Server
Point b in point 2 says to execute "$OPENSSL_TOP/bin/openssl sha1 or* > $HOME/.rnd"
But which will be the OPENSSL_TOP?
Please advise on these above two queries.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Sravan

Answer 1

Thanks Hussien,
I have completed SSL configuration at all level including database. Forms are not getting launched. I am getting below error in the Java Console.
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_23
Using JRE version 1.6.0_23-b05 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = C:\Documents and Settings\sdalav
c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
g: garbage collect
h: display this help message
l: dump classloader list
m: print memory usage
o: trigger logging
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system and deployment properties
t: dump thread list
v: dump thread stack
x: clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
proxyHost=null
proxyPort=0
connectMode=HTTPS
Exception in thread "thread applet-oracle.forms.engine.Main-2" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/security/ssl/OracleSSLSocketFactory
     at oracle.forms.net.HTTPSStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.forms.net.HTTPConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.initConnection(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.startRunform(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.forms.engine.Main.createRunform(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.forms.engine.Main.start(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.security.ssl.OracleSSLSocketFactory
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass0(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
     ... 8 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed:https://sandispa.bp.com:8443/OA_JAVA/oracle/security/ssl/OracleSSLSocketFactory.class
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     ... 13 more
Thanks,
Sravan