OSB/B2B/SOA-Common Monitoring

Dear All,
Our partner is putting the files on SFTP server, which OSB Is copying to a temp location, from there Oracle B2B is procesing it and routing it further to SOA.
Currently we are using B2B Console for end to end monitoring, but we are looking for a solution to integrate OSB monitoring with B2B & SOA monitoring.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.

BAM is the best tool for such E2E transaction monitoring scenarios. Use BAM adapter with OSB to feed data to BAM. B2B has in-built integration mechanism with BAM to feed the data into it. Use BAM sensors/adapter at SOA layer to feed data to BAM. Then create the BAM reports as per your need on top of available data objects in BAM and you are good to go.
You may like to refer -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/dev.1111/e10224/bam_adapter.htm#BABIJBCC
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/user.1111/e10229/b2b_bam.htm#CFHJDIIC
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/dev.1111/e15866/jca.htm#i1105149
Regards,
Anuj

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OSB to SOA suite package not forming correctly

Setup is as follows:
AIX 5.3 on the box, 10 gigs ram, installation of the latest releases of OSB and SOA suite on top of weblogic. I've built out a couple of simple database queries in BPEL based off wsdls, dropped them on to the SOA suite server, used EM to open a test console and plugged in some search data. Search returns successfully.
I then open up OSB's console, create a business service to the endpoint on the soa server, and a proxy based off the same wsdl used in the BPEL construction which I then route to the business service. Both service and proxy are made with basic http for the protocol (not sure how to use the sb protocol, and not sure if that will fix the problem). Load the test console on the proxy service, which displays an xml form similar to what is used in the SOA suite. Fill out the same information, but the invoke returns BEA-380000. Following the invocation trace in OSB everything looks good in terms of package content.
Wondering if it might simply be a problem with how the OSB interprets XML from a wsdl, I piped the XML from the SOA suite into the OSB's xml field, but to no luck, same error. After some more testing and frustration,I put the SOA suite XML straight in to the form field in the OSB test console, and it worked. However, the package itself seems oddly formed, consisting of:
<soapenv:Envelope      xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     <soap:Header      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     </soap:Header>
     <soapenv:Body>
     <soap:Envelope      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     <soap:Header/>
Which I've been told is basically double wrapping the package, which shouldn't work, and more importantly wont be generated when someone uses say SOAPUI to access our service on the OSB.
Now, on the SOA suite side of things. In EM console, I navigate to my BPEL process and can see the faults caused by the OSB. The same faults are also generated when binding to the OSB's endpoint with SOAPUI, but not when going directly to the SOA suite's endpoint. The error is the following:
oracle.j2ee.ws.saaj.soap.SOAPVersionMismatchException: Mime Header Content-Type: text/xml requires SOAP envelope namespace: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/: Mime Header Content-Type: text/xml requires SOAP envelope namespace: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
And the payload sent shows as empty.
So to my best uneducated guess, it looks like the OSB wraps the payload in an envelope, and then unwraps it before handing it to the SOA suite, which expects the payload to be wrapped. Sadly, I'm still pretty new to the wsdl/webservice/oracle world, so I'm not even sure if that's an accurate representation. Any insight on what might be happening or how to get OSB to talk with SOA suite correctly would be greatly appreciated. Included below are the XML payloads I've used (minus a bit for confidentiality reasons). Apologies if the formatting doesn't work so nice for it.
OSB Generated (fails):
SOAP Header:
<soap:Header xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
</soap:Header>
Body:
<ns2:SyncEmployeeIDRequest xmlns:ns="removed" xmlns:ns1="removed" xmlns:ns2="removed">

<ns:PersonIdentificationAssertion>

<ns1:PersonBirthDate>
<ns1:Date>2008-09-28</ns1:Date>
</ns1:PersonBirthDate>

<ns1:PersonGivenName>string</ns1:PersonGivenName>
<ns1:PersonSurName>string</ns1:PersonSurName>
</ns:PersonIdentificationAssertion>
<ns1:DepartmentIDText>string</ns1:DepartmentIDText>
</ns2:SyncEmployeeIDRequest>
SOA Generated(works if plugged into OSB form field)
SOAP Header:
<soap:Header xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
</soap:Header>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     <soap:Header></soap:Header>
     <soap:Body xmlns:ns1="removed">
          <ns1:SyncEmployeeIDRequest xmlns:ns2="removed">
               <ns2:PersonIdentificationAssertion xmlns:ns3="removed">
                    <ns3:PersonBirthDate>
                         <ns3:Date>2008-09-28</ns3:Date>
</ns3:PersonBirthDate>
                    <ns3:PersonGivenName>string</ns3:PersonGivenName>
                    <ns3:PersonSurName>string</ns3:PersonSurName>
</ns2:PersonIdentificationAssertion>
</ns1:SyncEmployeeIDRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Working Request Document in OSB:
<soapenv:Envelope      xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     <soap:Header      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     </soap:Header>
     <soapenv:Body>
     <soap:Envelope      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
     <soap:Header/>
     <soap:Body      xmlns:ns1="removed">
     <ns1:SyncEmployeeIDRequest      xmlns:ns2="removed">
     <ns2:PersonIdentificationAssertion      xmlns:ns3="removed">
     <ns3:PersonBirthDate>
     <ns3:Date>2008-09-28</ns3:Date>
     </ns3:PersonBirthDate>
     <ns3:PersonGivenName/>
     <ns3:PersonSurName>ALastName</ns3:PersonSurName>
     </ns2:PersonIdentificationAssertion>
     </ns1:SyncEmployeeIDRequest>
     </soap:Body>
     </soap:Envelope>
     </soapenv:Body>
     </soapenv:Envelope>
If I can provide anymore information that will help shed light on this issue please let me know.
Thank you for your time.
~Nick

Problem solved. When I originally created my business service inside of OSB, I created it based off an endpoint provided by the SOA server. Instead, I went and did a mass import from a url, pointed it at the SOA server wsdl, and then built the web service off of that wsdl resource in the OSB. Now it works like a charm.

How to configure osb and soa in single domain

Hi all,
hope all are fine.
sorry if this question is already posted.
I installed wls 10.3.6 and osb 11.1.1.6 & SOA 11.1.1.6 and domain cofiguration also successful.
in domain cofiguration i selected both osb and soa.
all (wls,osb,soa ) servers are up but soa_infra was down. I am unable to see soa folder in em.
where is the problem please provide solution for this...
thanks in advance.
Thanks
Mohan

Hi Harsh,
I tried with(developer template) that but again soa_infra was down. i am getting user messaging services.
admin server logs are
oracle.mds.lcm.exception.MDSLCMException: MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document
MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"
MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.
ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"
ORA-06512: at line 1
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.deploy(DeployManager.java:733)
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.startDeployment(DeployManager.java:204)
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.MDSLifecycleListenerImpl.start(MDSLifecycleListenerImpl.java:215)
     at oracle.mds.lcm.weblogic.WLLifecycleListener.preStart(WLLifecycleListener.java:77)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$PreStartAction.run(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:282)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$LifecycleListenerAction.invoke(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:199)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow.preStart(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:62)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.prepare(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:283)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:648)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:191)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:59)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)
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     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:144)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:39)
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     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:21)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionApps(ConfiguredDeployments.java:240)
     at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.prepare(ConfiguredDeployments.java:165)
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Caused by: oracle.mds.config.MDSConfigurationException: MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document
MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"
MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.
ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"
ORA-06512: at line 1
     at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.loadFromBean(PConfig.java:959)
     at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.<init>(PConfig.java:758)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.loadFromBean(MDSConfig.java:787)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.loadFromElement(MDSConfig.java:848)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.<init>(MDSConfig.java:491)
     at oracle.mds.config.MDSConfig.<init>(MDSConfig.java:438)
     at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.deploy(DeployManager.java:516)
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MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.
ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"
ORA-06512: at line 1
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I installed rcu correctly and db is up and i installed following combination
oepe-wls-indigo-installer-11.1.1.8.0.201110211138-10.3.6-win32
ofm_rcu_win_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of1
ofm_osb_generic_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of1
ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of2
is there any mismatch combination.
Thanks
Mohan
Edited by: Mohan SOA on Sep 12, 2012 12:39 AM

OSB and SOA Suite in the Java Cloud

Hi All -- the question is rather to a technical support personnel of the Oracle Cloud,
Is it possible to deploy and run the OSB and SOA Suite applications on the Oracle Java Cloud? To be more precise:
1. Is the WL server in the cloud configured to contain the Oracle Soa Suite?
2. Is the WL server in the cloud configured to contain the Oracle Service Bus?
If not: would it be possible to configure the Cloud WL domains the way that these are supported?
What we need are two servers (or two clusters): a SOA Suite application runs on one, while the OSB application runs on the other.
Thanks for help.

Hi Chris,
Oracle's statement of direction that you can find at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/integration/service-bus/docs/Oracle-Service-Bus-SOD.pdf
there will be convergence of the 2 products that basically address 2 different use cases (see Statement of Direction).
In my opinion new tools will be added to Jdeveloper to develop and deploy on Oracle Service Bus (OSB). In present OSB version, OSB tools are not part of Jdeveloper and transformations use XQuery instead of XSLT (as for Oracle ESB).
Hope this help you a little bit.
Regards,
Jean-Pierre

OSB to SOA Suite communication

Hi,
We have an OSB cluster and SOA Suite cluster, spread over multiple servers (either physical or virtual) where each OSB managed server is on the same underlying O/S server as a corresponding SOA Suite managed server. A hardware load balancer will be used to expose an endpoint to service consumers. The load balancer will then distribute requests to either of the OSB managed servers.
My question is should the communication between the OSB managed servers be load balanced (and distrubuted) to the SOA Suite managed servers or should each OSB managed server speak locally to the corresponding SOA Suite managed server ?
My concern is that load balancing to SOA Suite introduces complexity without solving a resiliency problem (assuming a config over 4+ O/S servers), whereas local and direct communication keeps it simple in terms of logfile traceability and optimal performance (i.e. not going out on the netowrk again). I can see that in the event of a SOA Suite managed server going down or failing, you have to have a protective measure to ensure that requests to it's parent OSB managed server are stopped. This would need to be implemented at the OSB load balancer level.
I'm interested to understand what other people have done in this situation or if I'm missing some insight that would influence wither way.
TIA

user4709830 wrote:
My concern is that load balancing to SOA Suite introduces complexity without solving a resiliency problem (assuming a config over 4+ O/S servers), whereas local and direct communication keeps it simple in terms of logfile traceability and optimal performance (i.e. not going out on the netowrk again).This looks interesting... Assuming OSB and SOA servers are always in pairs hosted in the same machine, there's a high probability that if one is down, both will be down... Makes sense...
I can see that in the event of a SOA Suite managed server going down or failing, you have to have a protective measure to ensure that requests to it's parent OSB managed server are stopped. This would need to be implemented at the OSB load balancer level.Well, try to go around in the event of the half break, i.e. OSB up and SOA down, will be complex... I think here is a matter of assess the risk of that happening, the impacts and the effort needed to mitigate the impact versus the advantages you mentioned (logfile traceability and optimal performance)... How good are those advantages and would they really pay the effort/risk?
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Vlad

OSB vs SOA- which one can take max load in terms of req/resp traffic

Hi,
I have few basic questions about load taking capacity of OSB and soa.
1. Is there any oracle doc stating how much traffic OSB or SOA components(bpel, mediator etc.) can take in terms of request/response per hour with certain infrastructure?
2. Diff in java callout in bpel and in osb?
3. Which one is more stable product in high load situation eg. 2 lac req/resp per hour.
4. Is there a link between number of javacallouts and performance in OSB and in SOA.
Regards,
SOA Enthusiast.

Hi Saurabh,
Interesting challenge... As I said before it's unlikely you will find stats as you want, this type of study is very particular to a use case, platform and infrastructure... There's no generic magical number...
I can say that OSB is lightweight and scalable and I would be surprised if it would become a bottleneck if running in a well dimensioned hardware... The bottleneck is typically at the external system... I also believe that if you add SOA Suite in the picture you will be adding overhead rather than enhancing performance, you should add SOA Suite if you need capabilities like audit, traceability, recovery and so on that you won't have with OSB alone... There's an old study on the link bellow but I'd doubt it would apply for your case, but may be helpful anyway...
http://biemond.blogspot.com.au/2009/06/osb-esb-performance-comparison.html
Dimensioning hardware is always a challenge... I recommend you to write a typical service and a worst scenario service and use a tool like jmeter to test how much throughput you can get from your infrastructure... Java callouts and complex xml transformation processing are points to be highlighted... Use a clustered OSB topology so you can easily add new nodes if needed...
Cheers,
Vlad

OSB vs SOA suite

What is difference and relationship between OSB and SOA suite?
I see much much overlap between the two.
1.DB adapter, mq adapter, file adapter, app adapter,etc, exist in oracle service bus 10.3.1.Also SOA suite 11g has all theses components.
2.OSB is a WL domain in running time, SOA suite is also a WL domain in running time.
The difference is OSB does not support BPEL but SOA suite does.
Seems most of things done by OSB can also been done by SOA suite.
In what scenario we should use OSB and in what scenario we should use SOA suite instead?
Can someone give some helps on this?
Thanks
Edited by: user11997125 on May 20, 2010 2:28 AM
Edited by: user11997125 on May 20, 2010 2:29 AM

OSB is like the name says a 'Service Bus' and the soa suite is a suite of components which can be used to create a service oriented architecture. In this suite there isn't and service bus available for you.
So both products complement each other.
It's true most actions can be done in both the products/suites, but you should see them both in 1 total solution. After that decide what you design in the osb and what you design in the soa suite components.
if you check wikipedia for the definition of a service bus, you will see what the strengths are (or should be), some line virtualization/transformation/routing/etc.
from my point of view i would say, you create your interface on the service bus, keep the flows in the service bus lightweigh, and route to the 'real' services. These could be modelled in the soa suite components, and in there do the business logic

Common monitoring parameters of OGG

What are the common monitoring parameters of OGG and specific parameters for using JAgent ?
Thank you

Hi Eugen,
I think this link will be useful to you. It is about Monitoring Oracle GoldenGate Processes..
https://docs.oracle.com/goldengate/1212/gg-winux/GWUAD/wu_monitoring.htm#BABIACDB
Regards,
Veera

Soa common adapters

I am getting below error while trying to create SOA developer domain. I am not able go forward because of this issue. Can any body help me in this regards. Thanks in advace for your help.
Error : CFGFWK-64059 the following prerequisites were found to be missing: Oracle SOA Common Adapters - 11.1.1.0
Note : I strictly followed installation guide while installing..
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/overview/quickstartguidesoasuite11gr1ps4-459545.pdf
Can any body please assist me in this. I totally stuck not able to found solution.
More deails on this ... The following software was installed sequentially and successfully..
Database
Weblogic server
RCU
SOA

For some unknown reason the common adapters were not installed. Nothing about this was mentioned in the log files. I found the common apaters in the installation files and copied them over manually.
The error disappeared and I was able to install soa suite

OSB and SOA Server (Mediator) Design question

As OSB is the strategic ESB and is used for external services does it make sense that all communication must go out via the OSB.
For example if I have a request that comes in gets routed through the OSB and then calls a backend composite which contains a BPEL that sits on the Oracle SOA server that calls multiple external services (CRM, SAP etc..) Would all the calls out from the BPEL then go back to the OSB and out to the external services (via proxy/business services.) This seems to add a lot of network hops to the whole architecture.
I can't really seem to find a diagram to explain this but an external service consumer could call the Oracle SOA stack that will come in via the OSB (for security gateway as OWSM 11g doesn't support gateway yet.) Then get transformed into the CDM and then passed on to the Oracle SOA server that has a composite service with BPEL that orchestrates multiple calls to internal and external services. The external ones requiring a transformation back into the service providers format.
How does this flow work?

If you are talking to external B2B systems you should use the Oracle B2B Server, have a look at this link,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/integration.1111/e10229/b2b_intro.htm#CEGGAGJA
Section 1.6 in there gives a good example of doing just that. The OSB mediator is responsible for talking between CDM's in this case so it does some internal work, within one CDM set of services and then when ready the mediator translates from CDM to the format needed for the B2B. The B2B Server then does all the clever stuff needed to talk to the B2B partner.
In the internal case where the call is within the Enterprise the Oracle documentation states that there may be cases when doing this translation from CDM to legacy format may take place within the SOA server but recommends that it is normally done using the mediator in the same way as with partner calls. The 11g developer documentation states "The stated direction by Oracle is for the Oracle Service Bus to be the preferred ESB for interactions outside the SOA Suite. Interactions within the SOA Suite may sometimes be better dealt with by the Oracle Mediator component in the SOA Suite, but we believe that for most cases, the Oracle Service Bus will provide a better solution and so that is what we have focused on within this book."
Just what those exceptions are is an interesting question. If you have a CDM and all of your legacy world has translators you will spend all of your time hoping up to the mediator and back down maybe that is the exception. If everything is using the mediator then the SOA orchestration power is lost. If on the other hand most of your system lives within a canonical schema and there is one exception perhaps you make it pay the price for non-conformance.

Error Installing OSB in SOA Suite Installing process

after install SOA, the guide for instalation says "Locate the JDK directory path within the installed middleware home. You use this path in the next command. The JDK location is jdk160_21. In a command window enter
cd c:\stageFMW\OSB\Disk1 setup -jreLoc D:\Middleware\SOASuite11gR1PS4\jdk160_24" i followed it, but the Oracle Universal Installer show in a black window the follow message "Iniciando Oracle Universal Installer...
Comprobando si la velocidad de CPU es superior a 300 MHz . 1596 MHz Reales
Aprobado
Comprobando el espacio de intercambio: debe ser mayor que 512 MB . Real 1943 M
B Aprobado
Comprobando el monitor: debe estar configurado para mostrar al menos 256 colores
Mayor que 256 . Real 4294967296 Aprobado
Preparando para iniciar Oracle Universal Installer desde C:\Users\ALEJAN~1\AppD
ata\Local\Temp\OraInstall2013-02-07_09-57-19PM. Espere...
Especifique la ubicación de JRE/JDK ( ej. /home/jre ), <ubicación>/bin/java deb
e existir:"
here i don't know what to do...
please help me

986118 wrote:
... The JDK location is jdk160_21. In a command window enter
... -jreLoc D:\Middleware\SOASuite11gR1PS4\jdk160_24Make sure you are passing the right JDK dir, is it 21 or 24 ???
Cheers,
Vlad

1 Admin console to manage OSB and SOA installed on different servers

Dear All,
We are planning to have OSB installed on Host 1 and SOA server installed on Host 2. But there will be one Admin console to manage these 2 for the ease of maintenance. When i was trying to install this configuration I had few issues. Hope SOA experts can help me with the configuration.
1)
As SOA and OSB are installed on 2 different host both the servers must have weblogic installed as pre requisite. So I will have
on host 1:
http://host1:7001/console
http://host1:7001/sbconsole
On host 2:
http://host2:7001/console (this is redundant)
http://host2:8001/soa-infra
2) Is it possible to inactivate http://host2:7001/console ? and add SOA server running on host2 to http://host1:7001/console. In the sense, I would like to control the SOA server from host 1.
Issue No :2
When I create a domain on Host 1 I just get the options for OSB and not SOA. It is obvious as SOA is not installed on Host1. but if that is the case, Is it possible to add SOA server running on host2 to host1. Is it going to be a cluster?
Is this configuration seems realistic? Has anyone implemented. Any pointers please.
Reagrds,
Aani

Hi Aani,
Please go through the blog series -
http://blogs.oracle.com/reynolds/2010/09/installing_an_11g_soa_cluster.html
You may also refer EDG -
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/core.1111/e12036/toc.htm
Regards,
Anuj
Edited by: Anuj Dwivedi on Feb 23, 2011 9:14 PM

Coherence, OSB and SOA integration

Hi,
I have a WL domain, that consists on a SOA cluster and a OSB cluster. I want to have external cache servers, as it is the preferred option provided by Oracle, so I have external processes which starts a cache, loads data from database, and create a Coherence cluster.
I have tried different options for deployment and havinfg issues with all of them.
In my domain (FMW 11.1.1.6), I have not deployed the coherence libs, as they are included in the server modules. I start the external process, which points to the coherence lib in FMW_MODULES, and load everything. So far so good. When I start the managed servers for OSB cluster and SOA clusters I get a lot of errors, like:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No scheme for cache: "/soa-infra/deployment/members/mydomain_development_soa_cluster"
I don't know if I should create different coherence clusters, one for my apps, and one for built in OSB+SOA functionality, or I could use the same. If I use the same, where should I put cache configurations, and where can I see built in cache definitions.
If I should create a new cluster for my functionality, how could I do it, knowing that I will not be bundling only J2EE apps, but also global libraries, and security providers using these coherence infrastructure.
Do I need activecache for anything?
Documentation is not very clear.
Thanks for your support.

jorgemoralespou wrote:
Hi,
I have a WL domain, that consists on a SOA cluster and a OSB cluster. I want to have external cache servers, as it is the preferred option provided by Oracle, so I have external processes which starts a cache, loads data from database, and create a Coherence cluster.
I have tried different options for deployment and havinfg issues with all of them.
In my domain (FMW 11.1.1.6), I have not deployed the coherence libs, as they are included in the server modules. I start the external process, which points to the coherence lib in FMW_MODULES, and load everything. So far so good. When I start the managed servers for OSB cluster and SOA clusters I get a lot of errors, like:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No scheme for cache: "/soa-infra/deployment/members/mydomain_development_soa_cluster"
I don't know if I should create different coherence clusters, one for my apps, and one for built in OSB+SOA functionality, or I could use the same. If I use the same, where should I put cache configurations, and where can I see built in cache definitions.
If I should create a new cluster for my functionality, how could I do it, knowing that I will not be bundling only J2EE apps, but also global libraries, and security providers using these coherence infrastructure.
Do I need activecache for anything?
Documentation is not very clear.
Thanks for your support.Hi,
Oracle SOA Suite 11g leverages an embedded Coherence cache to coordinate several cluster-wide activities including composite deployment. Coherence cache-config is pre-defined for SOA Cluster, and all SOA composite application will inherit this. This cache-config is zipped in fabric-runtime.jar with the name of soa-coherence-cache-config.xml and tangosol-coherence-override.xml is also included in fabric-runtime.jar that enforces SOA server to use soa-coherence-cache-config.xml. Now you have 2 options to make it work,
1) Make managed servers join the external Coherence cluster as storage-disabled nodes: In order to accomplish it, you need to ensure that the configuration (soa-coherence-cache-config.xml and tangosol-coherence-override.xml) used by cache servers are same as used by SOA Suite(except, storage flag). Also, note that you need to merge your cache server configuration into soa-coherence-cache-config.xml because SOA Suite requires all the caches that are predefined in soa-coherence-cache-config.xml and reference this merged configuration file in you cache server and also in SOA cluster by modifying tangosol-coherence-override.xml
2) Managed Servers access the Coherence cluster as extend clients: In order to accomplish it, modify soa-coherence-cache-config.xml and add remote-scheme to access the external Coherence cluster. You need to ensure that you provide a tangosol-coherence-override.xml to your cache servers so that they form a seperate cluster and not try joining the SOA Suite cluster.
You are getting the error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No scheme for cache: "/soa-infra/deployment/members/mydomain_development_soa_cluster"Your coherence cluster is using the same multicast ip/port for this cluster as used by the SOA Coherence cluster on startup but a different configuration file is used by your Coherence cluster than soa-coherence-cache-config.xml.
Try following option1 and it should help solve your problem.
Please note, modifying fabric-runtime.jar is not recommended by Product Management and is just a work around. Also, I would suggest you to understand licensing from Oracle Sales Rep.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
NJ
Edited by: user738616 on Feb 27, 2012 11:02 AM

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