Where is Oracle Lite DB installed? In Soa Suite inst. dir? Service needed?

Question

As far as I know Soa Suite can use a separate "full" Oracle (Express) DB.
However user can omit this separate DB and use the built-in "Oracle lite" Database.
Is this Oracle lite DB installed in the installation directory of Soa Suite or somewhere else on the hard disc?
Does it need a Win service to run (similar to "full" Oracle DB) or does it run on-demand
in AppServer?
Peter

Answer 1

you can go from olite to full DB, but not the other way round. When you do this change you may lose state in your inflight messages.
to migrate from olite to Oracle DB do the following:
1.) Ensure that the new target database is running.
2.) Run IRCA script to create schemas for BPEL, ESB and OWSM in the new Database:
Eg: irca all "localhost 1521 v102" welcome -overwrite3.) Make a backup of the file:
${OC4J_HOME}\config\data-sources.xml4.) Change the following ESB and BPEL connection pools to point to new DB resource.
* BPELPM_CONNECTION_POOL
* ESBAQJMSPool
* ESBPool
You can use either Enterprise Manager Console to perform this changes or edit the file: ${OC4J_HOME}\config\data-sources.xml
Below is a sample of configuration for BPELPM_CONNECTION_POOL:
<connection-pool name="BPELPM_CONNECTION_POOL">
<connection-factory factory-class="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
user="orabpel_OracleAS_1"
password="orabpel" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xe"/>
</connection-pool>5.) If you are changing from Olite DB to Oracle EE, look in the project's build.properties files for DB_URL and change DB_VENDOR from "olite" to "oracle"
DB_VENDOR=oracleotherwise no change is neccesary.
6.) Update ESB Metadata - Log into ESB schema (ORAESB) and change the value of DT_OC4J_HOST and DT_OC4J_HTTP_PORT to match your environment Hostname and Port and by running the following SQL script:
insert into esb_parameter values('ACT_ID_RANGE', '400');
insert into esb_parameter values('DT_OC4J_HOST', 'soainternal.mycompany.com');
insert into esb_parameter values('DT_OC4J_HTTP_PORT', '7777');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY', 'com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_TCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyTCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_XATCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyXATCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_TOPIC_JNDI','OracleASjms/ESBDeferredTopic');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_ERROR_TCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyTCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_ERROR_XATCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyXATCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_ERROR_TOPIC_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/ESBErrorTopic');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_ERROR_RETRY_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/ESBErrorRetryTopic');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_ERROR_RETRY_TCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyXATCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_MONITOR_TCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyTCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_MONITOR_TOPIC_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/ESBMonitorTopic');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_CONTROL_TCF_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/MyXATCF');
insert into esb_parameter values('PROP_NAME_CONTROL_TOPIC_JNDI', 'OracleASjms/ESBControlTopic');
commit;
select * from esb_parameter7.) Restart the SOA container and verify the opmn and J2EE container logs for any errors.
cheers
James