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Delete WebLogic Domain

Jason Stortz — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:29:27 +0000

Deleting a WebLogic domain can be accomplished through a series of manual tasks. There is no script or application to run that will accomplish deleting a domain or removing a domain. The good news is the steps are fairly short and easy. In the sample steps below it is assumed that your domain is named base_domain.

Delete the domain folder (meaning base_domain) under %WL_HOME%/user_projects/domains
Delete the domain folder (meaning base_domain) under %WL_HOME%/user_projects/apps
Remove any references to the domain in the %WL_HOME%/domain-registry.xml file
Remove any references to the domain in the file WL_HOME/common/nodemanager/nodemanager.domains
Remove any schema/database associated with the domain

UCM Content Rule Side Effects

Jason Stortz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:15:34 +0000

Content Profiles and Content Rules provide a mechanism for customizing a variety of pages within UCM. Generally just referred to as Profiles, you can conditionally configure/customize the check-in, update, search and information pages as relates to the context of the content and user intent.

One of the often used by seldom explained parts of Profiles is something called Side Effects. You will find the Side Effects tab on the Add/Edit Activation Conditions screen and it primarily allows you to accomplish two things:

Add name/value pairs as IdocScript that will then get pushed to local data if the activation condition is true.
Add custom IdocScript to a rule that is only evaluated if the activation condition is true and this can include logic like if and else statements or loops. Basically all IdocScript is possible here (though all of it may or may not be useful). As such, once a rule is activated, you can include logic, use includes from a component, etc.

What specifically might one use Side Effects for? For a simple example let’s pretend we have a profile for some scanned content. This content is checked in as an image based PDF (no OCR, no searchable text). Your profile should not display the full text search box in this case. There is no full text to be searched. You can accomplish this with a Side Effect in your profile:

<$SearchEngineName="DATABASE.METADATA"$>

Let’s take another example. Perhaps on the check-in page you want the alternate file field to be removed. You could go into config.cfg and add this setting, but it would be universal. More likely you want this to happen in a specific, conditional context. Try adding this as a Side Effect to your rule:

<$suppressAlternateFile="1"$>

Want more examples of Profiles, Rules and Side Effects? See below:

ADF and WebLogic 12c

Jason Stortz — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:11:13 +0000

Oracle recently released WebLogic 12c. I have had a lot of customers ask about running ECM products and ADF on the newly released WebLogic Application server. We talked with Oracle and basically the current releases of 11.1.1.5 ECM Products and ADF are not certified for WebLogic Application Server 12c. Also, it does not look like 11.1.1.6 will be certified either.

In short, 12c looks neat and there looks to be a lot of new features but those toys are not currently part of our playground.

UCM PS3 Search Cache off by Default

Jason Stortz — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:05:11 +0000

If you are using Oracle Universal Content Management PS3 (11.1.1.4.0) and are experiencing some search performance woes you might be surprised to find out that the search cache is turned off by default. This seems to be a known issue that is being addressed for the next patch set. In the mean time, you can turn it on by editing your config.cfg file located here:

/user_projects/domains//cs/config/config.cfg

Add the following entry:

UseSearchCache=true

Save and restart your content server.

Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release 2

Jason Stortz — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:22:31 +0000

Oracle has recently (September 2011) released Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release 2 (Oracle Database XE). This is an entry-level database based on the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that has a small-footprint. It’s free to “develop, deploy, and distribute”. It is also fast to download and simple to install.

Download Page

Documentation

The default character set used during installation and setup is AL32UTF8, which is perfect for use with WebCenter Content development machines!

Oracle XE 11g also supports Oracle Text.

Setting up YUM on OEL

Jason Stortz — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:43:30 +0000

Oracle provides a public YUM repository for OEL. The repository contains OEL 4, 5 and 6 releases, and relevant updates and add-ons.

This yum server only offers the packages already provided on the Oracle Linux and Oracle installation media. To access security updates and other patches or enhancements, you should use Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN).

Below are a few simple steps to setting up Oracle’s public repository:

To add OEL 5 update 5 repositories, for example (as root):

1. cd /etc/yum.repos.d

2. wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo

3. edit the generated *.repo file:

– Set the enabled flag to ’1′ for each repository needed (probably update 5 for most uses)

- You can use ‘ed’ (ed .repo) and do a “s/0/1/” to replace the relevant zeros with ones.

A few simple steps and you should be on your way with ‘yum’ and Oracle’s public repository.

This repository is provided by Oracle for free and comes with no support.

For support, you can visit the Oracle Technology Network Linux Forum.

Install WebLogic 11gR1 Patch Set 4 (10.3.5) in Console Mode

Jason Stortz — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:52:47 +0000

Previously we showed how to install WebLogic Application Server 11gR1 PS3 (10.3.4) using the graphical mode installation. You can also perform the installation in “Console Mode” which may be helpful if you only have terminal access (such as ssh).

Once you have download the generic installation jar you can execute a command line this to kick off the installation:

java -jar wls1035_generic.jar -mode=console

Upon executing this command you will basically get a text based version of the graphical installation. You can enter Next to move to the next step or enter numeric keystrokes to toggle selected options. Once all your choices are mad you’ll be presented with a text-based progress bar. Once installation is complete you’ll be notified and control of the command line will be returned to you.

The installation is very fast!

Also, take a little bit to check out silent install info.

Oracle ECM Patch Set 4 (11.1.1.5) Released

Jason Stortz — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:08:39 +0000

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/content-management/downloads/index-085241.html

Get it while it’s hot! Oracle released Patch Set 4, version 11.1.1.5 of ECM recently. Includes updates to IRM, IPM, UCM and the whole stack as well as matching updates for RCU, WebLogic and JDeveloper.

Installing Java on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Jason Stortz — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:29:19 +0000

Installing Java on Ubuntu 11.04 is pretty straightforward. First you need to edit the repositories for apt-get. Use the editor of your choice, but this is basically the command I use:

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment the following two lines and save the file:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ natty partner

Then, open a terminal and issue the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Install WebLogic 11gR1 Patch Set 3 (10.3.4)

Jason Stortz — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:51:16 +0000

Last Friday (Jan 14) Oracle released Patch Set 3 for fusion middleware. The blogo-sphere has picked this up already and a suprising amount of information is already available. Here is a list of reference links:

The Announcement - per the ECM Community

Download WebLogic