WebLogic on Linux
We continue to move up the software food chain, this time to the Application Server. For compatibility with our existing software, our choice is WebLogic 8.1. We conveniently ignore the fact that the WebLogic web site states that WL8.1 SP1 only supports SuSE Linux 8.0 and not Suse Linux 9.0.
The installation is actually uneventful. Download a very large .bin file and then run it - and it looks pretty much like any other WebLogic install. I do all this as the oracle user, which is a bit odd - as it results in a BEA_HOME that looks like /home/oracle/bea - but I am kinda clueless here.
But the install completes without a problem and I am able to set up mydomain in the usual WebLogic fashion. Now, to run the WebLogic console. Uh-oh, Konquerer (the KDE browser) completely chokes. So I download Mozilla. It requires a Java plug-in to run the console. Download that - but it still won't work, everytime I go to the console page, I am asked to re-download the plug-in. Well, we will try to get by using half the console.
Successfully create database connection pool and a datasource. Next up is the JMS configuration that JMetro requires. But more on that tomorrow.
And it is now "tomorrow" and the JMS configuration went smoothly. I followed the standard instructions to fix my Java applet plug-in, but now I am getting a "Bad Magic Number" problem. May try and reinstall Mozilla later.
Now the real challenge - installing JMetro on top of WebLogic on top of Oracle on top of Linux.