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Oracle Primavera PPM Solution

2014-05-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

Primavera is Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Suite from Oracle used for Project Forecasting and long term decision making.

I get a chance to look and work with this product and find it very much interesting and excited product. It has following modules

Client Modules

1. Project Management Module

This module is use for project and resource management

2. Time Sheet Application

TimeSheets enables Web based team communication and time keeping for projects and tasks.

3. Methodology Management

This module stores methodologies of authoring or storing as templates for new projects. Organizations can gather its best practices and they can be used further.

Server Components \ Modules

Primavera has two main server components

1. Relational Database Management System

RDBMS stores every project and project methodologies related data into a separate central database server. Normally it requires two databases Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server or SQL Server Express. I’ll not go into the details here. Details can be found on following link

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17462_01/Product_Manuals/adminguide.pdf

2. Group Server

Group Server is a Windows 2003/2008 service that runs on your Web Server (e.g. IIS) and it allows clients to download Timesheets from that sever using Web browsers.

Group server is necessary if you’re planning to use Time sheets module which is a client module.

It acts as an intermediary between TimeSheets client and project management database

Additional Components \ Modules

Following are few additional components that can be used with Primavera. These are all optional modules but if you use them you’ll actually be expanding the functionality of Primavera solution.

1. P6 Web Access

P6 Web Access was previously also known as “myPrimavera” or “Primavera’s Web Application” but its new name is now P6 Web Access.

This provides project analysis, portfolio and resource information across the organization and allows users to access project management data over the internet (locally hosted application).

It has Dashboard which can be customized or personalized at user level. Filters can be applied on project related data so that only relevant users and roles can access respective data.

For further details information can be attained from following link

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17462_01/Product_Manuals/adminguide.pdf

2. Distributed Job Service

It is a Windows 2003/2008 service which runs a job at a preconfigured interval on project data. These jobs are created by users in Project Management Module.

3. Project Link

Additionally we also have plugin for Primavera so that Microsoft Project users to work in MSP environment while being connected to Primavera’s enterprise features.

4. Software Development Kit (SDK)

SDK provides us the facility to integrate the data between Primavera and any external system (database or application). SDK provides access to the schema and to business logic. SDK can be installed on any machine that needs to integrate with Primavera database. It supports following things

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard

ODBC-Compliant interfaces (OLE DB) for connecting to the project management database

JMS Bridge failed to Start Up

2013-04-10T22:53:00.001-07:00

WLS Messaging Bridge failed to start up

A WebLogic messaging bridge is a forwarding mechanism between any two messaging products. Message bridge is use to provide interoperability between separate implementations of WebLogic JMS, or between WebLogic JMS and another messaging product

There was a scenario in which we have to create a bridge but after configuring the message bridge when I check its monitoring tab it was showing following warning message

WARN: failed to look up the source adapter

Bridge was in In Active state.

After checking the documentation I found its a known and very common problem which one face while bridge configuration.

In my case the resolution was bit different. I was creating a Bridge on SOA Cluster and everything seems to be fine with rest of the bridges created for OSB Cluster but same things were not fine in case of SOA.

After a lot of efforts one of my colleague told me to check if everything is fine with my JMS-XA-ADP jar file deployed on my admin server.

When I check that resource deployment I noticed it was missing SOA as a target. After assigning SOA Cluster in a target Bridge start working fine and messages were picked from my queue by that bridge and forwarded to destination queues on another Server. ( which was WLS in my case).

I hope this helps to the readers as well :)

Step by Step Guide to Create Transaction in Oracle BTM

2013-02-19T23:51:00.000-08:00

End to End Monitoring is becoming a must have solution for now a days application. As business transaction needs to be monitored in complex scenarios where we're navigating from one systems to another and wants to manage if information is propagated to end systems successfully.

I will not go into the details here as its very well written on other places on internet.

Here I will explain how to create one simple BTM Transaction.

Our Test service is simple one.. BTM HelloWorld. it takes one parameter and calls another service BTM Consumer Service on some other location where BTM Observer is not installed.

Now we're going to monitor this using BTM.

First Step is to login to BTM UI and click on Create Transaction link from top left corner of BTM UI as shown in following figure

Then following screen will come up.

Then we need to select add Operation button as shown highlighted in following gui

browse the service in our case it is BTM Hello world.

On next tab select the logging options as shown in following screen.

After finishing with the transaction creation control will goes back to main screen which will be showing the transaction detail as following.

Now we will give call to our BTM Hello World Service either from SOAPUI or from em console. And will come back to see if the transaction is logged in BTM.

We can see the transaction details like throughput, completed transactions etc along with the message logs as shown in following screen short.

Following screen shows the Analysis for our BTM Trans 1

Following screen shows the conditions for our BTM Trans 1

Following screen shows the policies for our BTM Trans 1

Following screen shows the Summary for our BTM Trans 1

Following screen shows the Instances for our BTM Trans 1

This was the simplest good to start of creating transactions on BTM. But I am still exploring it and will come up with more stuff in future.

Oracle Apps Adapter in SOA 11g vs Apps Adapter in SOA 10 g

2013-02-08T10:21:00.001-08:00

Once migrating our integrations from oracle Soa 10 g to 11g we faced issue while calling oracle APIs using Oracle apps adapter. Everything looks fine at OEBS side. Because integration from SOA 10g was still working perfect and when we try to execute migrated interface from SOA 11g fails...

We had checked the JCA settings several times. Responsibility and user were correctly assigned as the same values were working fine for 10g.

After investigating a lot we decided to debug the Apps Adapter jar file deployed on SOA 11g as it's version was different on SOA 10g. We got a solution from there as there were few SQL queries this apps adapter calls before executing the Apis and our user don't had access to query those tables.

In my next post I wi try to share the details of it.

But it's quite strange that this information or clue for such problem was not available or I was not able to find it over the Internet nor at oracle support.

Apps Adapter Fails due to invalid Apps Context

2013-01-30T03:50:00.001-08:00

While calling API from Oracle SOA 11g using OracleApps Adapter. BPEL Process which was calling API of OEBS fails and give error that Invalid Apps Context.

Fault Thrown by SOA Component

2012-11-29T07:54:53.629+01:00] [soa_server1] [ERROR] [] [oracle.soa.bpel.engine.dispatch] [tid: orabpel.invoke.pool-4.thread-17] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid: 75f494dcfdf9a2f6:12e9d78e:13b46f8f54b:-8000-00000000000078df,1:23847] [APP: soa-infra] failed to handle message[[
com.oracle.bpel.client.BPELFault: faultName: {{http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension}bindingFault}
messageType: {{http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension}RuntimeFaultMessage}
parts: {{
summary=<summary>Exception occured when binding was invoked.
Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'APPS_AP_VENDOR_SITES_PKG_INSERT_NEW' failed due to: Apps Context Error.
Error occurred while setting up Apps Context.
Context parameters should be valid.
Contact oracle support if error is not fixable.
".
The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception.
Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution.
</summary>
,detail=<detail>ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
</detail>
,code=<code>EBzA-057</code>}

Solution

There could be more then one causes of the above problem.

1. User and responsibility in JCA file is not properly defined.

<jca:binding />
<operation name="APPS_AP_VENDOR_SITES_PKG_INSERT_NEW">
<jca:operation
IRepInternalName="PLSQL:AP_VENDOR_SITES_PKG:INSERT_ROW"
SchemaName="SYS_USER"
PackageName="AP_VENDOR_SITES_PKG"
ProcedureName="INSERT_ROW"
InteractionSpec="oracle.tip.adapter.apps.AppsStoredProcedureInteractionSpec"
Username="sysadmin"
Responsibility="System Administrator" >
</jca:operation>

2. User mentioned in JCA properties do not have access\correct responsibility assigned in OEBS setup

Following properties should be correctly mentioned in JCA file as well as in OEBS setup.

Username="sysadmin"
Responsibility="System Administrator"

3. User in jdbc datasource doesn't have enough rights to execute the API.

In my case problem was with the datasource user which was configured in WLS console doen't had enough rights. I provide with super user or apps user to access or execute the Apps Adapter from SOA plateform and my problem was resolved.

I hope this solution helps.

Oracle SOA: DB Adapter Singleton behaviour in High Availabilit...

2012-11-13T03:33:00.001-08:00

Oracle SOA: DB Adapter Singleton behaviour in High Availabilit...: There was a problem which one can face in high availability environment (clustered) . We had one Integration between Oracle Ebiz a...

DB Adapter Singleton behaviour in High Availability Environment

2012-11-13T02:41:00.000-08:00

There was a problem which one can face in high availability environment (clustered) .

We had one Integration between Oracle Ebiz and third party system in which we get data from Oracle Ebiz and send them to third party application. This integration was running fine till the time our server environment upgraded for high availability means clustered ones...

We had two clustered which were configured to be synchronous to idealised HA situation. But this causes one design issue in that Integration.

The issue starts coming in our DB Adapter that now the DB Adapter starting polling Staging table(OEBS) in parallel with the initialised interval. Cluster1 and Cluster2 starts initiating DB Adapter instances in parallel and if we increase the clusters form 2 to 3. The same way three instances of pooling components started. Which leads to a situation in which if we increase the clusters in future from 2 to 50 then in parallel 50 instances of pooling component will be created in parallel and will hit the third party application in parallel. This could be a problem for a target system if it doesn't supports parallel processing.

The solution to this problem was that we need a concept of singleton pattern in our pooling component / DB Adapter.

There's a property of Inbound endpoint lifecycle support within Adapters called Singleton.
To enable this feature for high availability environment for a given inbound adapter endpoint, one must add the singleton JCA service binding property in the composite.xml within the <binding.jca> element and set it to a value of true as shows.

Singleton Property in composite.xml

    <binding.jca config="bindin_file.jca">
        <property name="singleton">true</property>
    </binding.jca>

This was our finding to the problem we faced in clustered environment.

I hope this helps others as well.

AIA Artifacts reference problem in JDeveloper using oramds

2012-07-18T00:23:00.003-07:00

After finishing up with AIA 3.0 Installation when I starts building my component in JDeveloper on compilation I got errors which were pointing to my bpelprocess.wsdl and from there I come to know that one import is not proper which is actually pointing to AIA Artifact.

<wsdl:import namespace="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"
location="oramds/apps/AIAMetaData/AIAComponents/UtilityArtifacts/RuntimeFault.wsdl"/>

Solution

1.Check if the connection to MDS repositery is Created and if not then create a database connection to connect to the repository with either DEV_MDS or equivalent user.

2. Check if you have already created SOA-MDS connection (from resource palette) If not then create a new SOA-MDS connection. Make sure it uses the DB connection in step1 and also the partition is soa_infra. as by default its not soa_infra.

3. Now check for successful connection and installation of AIA Components by browsing AIAComponent files from MDS. These will be shown under /Apps/MetaData.

4. The last and very important step is to update adf-config.xml file in application home of your Jdeveloper(directory where .jws file exists). This will be used at design time to access files from MDS using oramds protocol. This is located in directory named %APPLICATION_HOME%/.adf/META-INF.

Add following line in adf-config.xml

<metadata-namespaces>

</metadata-namespaces>

<metadata-store-usage id="mstore-usage_3">

<metadata-store class-name="oracle.mds.persistence.stores.db.DBMetadataStore">

</metadata-store>

</metadata-store-usage>

After updating file now you can recompile and this time you will surely end up with no errors.

You can now start accessing the artifacts like WSDLs, XSDs etc using oramds.

eg:oramds/apps/AIAMetaData/AIAComponents/UtilityArtifacts/RuntimeFault.wsdl

Error Starting Weblogic Admin Server: Could not reserve enough spacefor object heap

2012-06-08T00:39:00.002-07:00

Error

"Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine. "

Reason for this error is when we make changes memory variable and assign more memory and we don't have enough memory available... server startup is failed with this error.

Solution

You can remove this error while decreasing heap size in setSOADomainEnvt.cmd

%ORACLE_HOME%\user_projects\domains\DOMAIN\BIN\setSOADomainEnvt.cmd

set DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS=-Xms512m -Xmx1024m
set PORT_MEM_ARGS=-Xms768m -Xmx1536m

set DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS=%DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS% -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
set PORT_MEM_ARGS=%PORT_MEM_ARGS% -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

Step by Step Installation Guide for SOA 11g

2012-05-29T01:44:00.001-07:00

Download all the software to get started.

Oracle Database OracleXEUniv.exe
WebLogic Server wls1035_oepe111172_win32.exe
Repository Creation Utility ofm_rcu_win_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_1of1.zip
SOA Suite ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_1of2.zip, ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_2of2.zip
OSB ofm_osb_generic_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_1of1.zip

Oracle Database Setup

This is the first step towards Installation of SOA Suite.

For this you need to have anyone of following versions but I will be using Oracle XE Universal database version 10.2.0.1 as it is already installed on my machine                    i. Oracle XE Universal database version 10.2.0.1
                  ii. Oracle 10g database version 10.2.0.4+
                 iii. Oracle 11g database version 11.1.0.7+

Note: You can not use any other database version in 11gR1 (certification of additional database is on the road map). Specifically, you cannot use XE Standard, It must be Universal.

Note: When you are using XE, you will see a warning when you install the database schema that this database version is too old. You can safely Ignore this warning as it applies only to production environments.

Once you are done with Installation of Oracle XE, you must update database parameters.

Set the processes parameter to >=500 using the following instructions.

sqlplus connect sys as sysdba

SQL> show parameter session
SQL> show parameter processes
SQL> alter system reset sessions scope=spfile sid='*';
SQL> alter system set processes=500 scope=spfile;
SQL> shutdown immediate
SQL> startup
SQL> show parameter session

SQL> show parameter processes

Schema Configuration

Note: If you want to use Oracle XE as your database, you need to set the RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS environment variable to TRUE prior to running RCU

1. To create the new schema, unzip ofm_rcu_win_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_1of1.zip navigate to rcuHome\bin and open a command window and run rcu.bat

2. The bat command returns to the prompt immediately and, after a few seconds, the Repository Creation Utility opens (if you just ran the utility to drop the schema, it opens the second time much more quickly).

3. On the Welcome screen, click on Next..

4. Select Create and click on Next.

5. Enter the database information.

6. Click on Next.

7. If you are using XE, you will see a warning at this point that this version is too old. You can safely ignore this warning as it applies only to production environments.

8. The pre-requisites are reviewed. When complete, click on OK. The utility moves to the next page ---with a slight delay, just wait for it.
9. On the Select Components screen, enter DEV in the field for creating a new prefix.
10. Select the component SOA Infrastructure. Dependent schemas are selected automatically.
11. If you choose to select other components, these install instructions may not match your install experience. Also, you may have to increase processes in XE (you will get a message telling you what is required).

12. Click on Next.
13. The pre-requisites for this step are checked. When completed, click on OK.
14. Select the radio button to Use the same password for all schemas. Enter a schema password. The password welcome1 is assumed in this document but you should choose your own secure password or a different one for each schema and be sure to record your passwords as you will need them later.

15. Click on Next.
16. Review the tablespaces and schema owners for the components.

17. Accepting the defaults, click on Next, and then click on OK to create the tablespaces.
18. When the pre-requisites for this step are completed, click on OK.

19. Click on Create to create the tablespaces. This takes about two minutes.
20. When completed, click on Close.

WebLogic Installation

First, you install Oracle WebLogic Server.
1.   To install WebLogic Server run wls1035_oepe111172_win32.exe
2.   When the Welcome screen for the install wizard comes up, click on Next.
3.   Select Create a new Middleware Home and enter: C:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gR1.

4.   Click on Next.
5.   Enter email address to register for security alerts or deselect the checkbox and decline—whichever you prefer—and click on Next.
6.   Select Typical, and click on Next.
7.   Review installation directories.

8.   Click on Next.
9.   Select "All Users" Start Menu folder and click on Next.
10.   Review Summary.

11. Click on Next to start the installation process. Installation takes about three minutes.
When the installation is complete, deselect the Run Quickstart checkbox and click on Done.

Installing SOA

Once the database is configured, and WebLogic is installed now you can install the SOA server into the Oracle Home on the WebLogic server.
Extract ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_1of2.zip, ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_2of2.zip at C:\SOA (this can be any path where you want to extract these zip files)

1.    In a command window, enter:
C:\SOA\Disk1\Setup –jreLoc C:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gR1\jdk160_11
2.    When the install wizard Welcome screen comes up, click on Next.
3.    Wait for the pre-requisite check to complete (it's quick!).

4.    Click on Next.
5.    On the Specify Installation Location screen, select the middleware home:
C:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gR1.
6.    Enter Oracle home: Oracle_SOA1. If you use a different Oracle home, then adjust accordingly when Oracle_SOA1 is referenced throughout this document.

7. Click on Next.
8. Review Summary.

9. Click on Install.
10.Wait for the installation to complete—it takes a few minutes. Click on Finish.

Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Installation

Once SOA is installed into Oracle Home we are ready to Install OSB on that.
Extract ofm_osb_generic_11.1.1.5.0_disk1_1of1.zip at C:\OSB (this can be any path where you want to extract these zip files)

1. In a command window, enter:
C:\OSB\Disk1\Setup –jreLoc C:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gR1\jdk160_11
2. When the install wizard Welcome screen comes up, click on Next.

3. Select “Skip Software Updates” and click “Next”
4. Leave default values for location:

5. Select “Typical” Installation and click Next:

6. Pre-requisites will be checked - click Next once done:

7. Accept default locations and click Next:

8. Review the summary and click Install
9. When it reaches to 100% - click Next and Finish

Domain Creation

This step describes detail for configuring the WebLogic server domain for the SOA server.
1.    In a command window, enter:
    C: /Oracle/Middleware/home_11gR1/Oracle_SOA1/common/bin
Config.cmd
2.    When the configuration wizard's Welcome screen comes up, select Create a new WebLogic domain, and then click on Next.
3.    Select Generate a domain and select SOA Suite, Enterprise Manager, and Business Activity Monitoring. Dependent products are selected automatically.

4. Click on Next.
5. Enter the domain name: domain1. or any other desired domain name

6. Click on Next.
7. Enter the user name as weblogic and a password. The password welcome1 is assumed in this document but you should choose your own secure password and remember it for later in the document when the password is referenced.

8. Click on Next.
9. Select the Sun SDK 1.6_11 and leave Development Mode checked.

10.    Click on Next.
11.    On the Configure JDBC Component Schema screen, you select the components that you want to change, and then enter the property value for those components. First, select all of the components and enter welcome1 for the password in the Schema Password field.
12.    With all of the checkboxes selected, enter the Service, Host, and Port values.

13. Now, look at the table. Review the Schema Owner column and confirm that the values are the same as what you configured in the Configure Schema section when you ran the RCU. Go back and review the screenshots in that section of this document for the schema owners if you do not remember them.
14. Complete the following if the schema owners need to be updated:

        a. Deselect all the component checkboxes.
        b. Select BAM Schema only.
        c. Enter the Schema Owner for BAM.
        d. Next, deselect BAM Schema and select the next one.
        e. Enter the schema owners one-by-one.
        f. Continue until all schema owners are entered.

15. Click on Next.

16. The data source connections are all tested.

17. If all are successful, click on Next, otherwise click on Previous and correct any errors.
18. You will now see options for optional configurations. Select Administration Server, Managed Servers Cluster and Machines and Deployments and Services.

19. Next screen is for configuring managed servers. Select bam_server1 and click Delete, select soa_server1 and click Delete. Then Click Next.

And then again Next.
20. On the Configure Machine screen Click next.

21. On the next screen Move AdminServer to the right and click Next.

22. For Target Services to Cluster or Servers,If not already done, select AdminServer on the left and click Select All on the right. Click Next.

23. You reach the Configuration Summary screen.
Click on Create.

24. Wait for the creation to finish it takes few minutes. Click on Done.

This ends the process of Oracle Fussion Middleware (SOA 11g) installation.

Now you can access Oracle Enterprise Manager on http://<YourHost>:7001/em

Weblogic Server Console on http://<YourHost>:7001/console

Root cause of ServletException java.lang.AssertionError: CurrencyKey not preserved

2012-05-14T06:53:00.000-07:00

After finishing up with the installation of AIA on SOA 11g when I access AIA home I was disappointed to see empty tabs of AIA including Project Life Cycle, CAVA, ect. When I check server log file I found following big error log.. which says....

Referer: http://localhost:7001/AIA/faces/oracle/apps/aia/home/ui/page/Home.jspx?_afrWindowMode=0&_afrLoop=8046694499161&_adf.ctrl-state=1b2migk5rh_9
Cookie: JSESSIONID=82k3PwvbRfLGCv3hGL5rK2sHQPJlzsWyBSmylvLLRptRhcmjS1T2!273321565; ADMINCONSOLESESSION=LMKjPwnCf10njbLYhNKwbPFGHX7cW2L94zgT7TC1jyYhJrJpyMyM!273321565
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 263

]] Root cause of ServletException.
java.lang.AssertionError: CurrencyKey not preserved
    at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection.encodeEnd(UIXCollection.java:540)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:937)
    at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.render.CoreRenderer.encodeChild(CoreRenderer.java:399)
    at oracle.adf.view.rich.render.RichRenderer.encodeChild(RichRenderer.java:2633)
    at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.renderkit.rich.PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.encodeCenterFacet(PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.java:769)
    at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.renderkit.rich.PanelStretchLayoutRenderer._encodeCenterPane(PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.java:1140)
    at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.renderkit.rich.PanelStretchLayoutRenderer._encodeMiddlePanes(PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.java:348)
    at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.renderkit.rich.PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.encodeAll(PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.java:313)
    at oracle.adf.view.rich.render.RichRenderer.encodeAll(RichRenderer.java:1396)
    at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.render.CoreRenderer.encodeEnd(CoreRenderer.java:335)
    at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXComponentBase.encodeEnd(UIXComponentBase.java:767)
    at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:937)
    at org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.render.CoreRenderer.encodeChild(CoreRenderer.java:399)
    at oracle.adf.view.rich.render.RichRenderer.encodeChild(RichRenderer.java:2633)
    at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.renderkit.rich.PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.encodeTopFacet(PanelStretchLayoutRenderer.java:781)

Solution

For this we need to update your Environment file which is available at following location

<MiddlwareHome>/user_projects/domains/<Domainname>/bin/setSOADomainEnv.cmd
   OR
<MiddlwareHome>/user_projects/domains/<Domainname>/bin/setSOADomainEnv.sh

set EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES=%EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES% -da:org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.component.UIXCollection

and restart the server...

Now tabs will be successfully visible with no error

Node Manager not reachable for machine "Local Machine", please ensure node manager service is running and port 5556

2012-05-13T23:21:00.000-07:00

While running Installer for Oracle AIA on local machine I faced following error

"Node Manager not reachable for machine "Local Machine", please ensure node manager service is running and port 5556". Because I forget to start Node manager ....

Solution

To start the nodemanager, you need to browse to MiddlewareHOME\wlserver_10.3\server\bin and execute "startNodeManager.cmd".

"nodemanager.properties" will get created under "MiddlewareHOME\wlserver_10.3\common\nodemanager\" once you start the nodemanager as shown in following GUI dump

You can also check the status of nodemanager from weblogic console.

Login to weblogic console.
Browse to Environment -> Machines in the Domain Structure panel (located left side)
Click on "LocalMachine".
Click on "Monitoring" tab to know the status of nodemanager.

MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document

2012-05-09T05:50:00.003-07:00

After successful installation of SOA(11g) 11.1.1.5 on Oracle XE when I started the managed server I faced following exception which makes me worried.... and kept on thinking for few minutes ....do I need to reinstall everything but thanks God I got a solution.

I hope this helps to all who faced such an issue.

Exception

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.....

Solution

First of all drop SOA Suite schemas and associated tablespaces using RUC.
Then go to command line (cmd) and set environment variable RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS=TRUE
Run RCU again to re-create the SOA Suite schemas and tablespace

Now restart server and this time there will be no error associated with "MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document"

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Step by Step Guide to Create Transaction in Oracle BTM

Oracle Apps Adapter in SOA 11g vs Apps Adapter in SOA 10 g

Apps Adapter Fails due to invalid Apps Context

Fault Thrown by SOA Component

Solution

Oracle SOA: DB Adapter Singleton behaviour in High Availabilit...

DB Adapter Singleton behaviour in High Availability Environment

AIA Artifacts reference problem in JDeveloper using oramds

Solution

Error Starting Weblogic Admin Server: Could not reserve enough spacefor object heap

Error

Solution

Step by Step Installation Guide for SOA 11g

Oracle Database Setup

Schema Configuration

Note: If you want to use Oracle XE as your database, you need to set the RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS environment variable to TRUE *prior* to running RCU

WebLogic Installation

Installing SOA

Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Installation

Domain Creation

Root cause of ServletException java.lang.AssertionError: CurrencyKey not preserved

Node Manager not reachable for machine "Local Machine", please ensure node manager service is running and port 5556

Solution

MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document

Note: If you want to use Oracle XE as your database, you need to set the RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS environment variable to TRUE prior to running RCU