Oracle Service Bus – Upgrade to OEPE 11.1.1.6
Oracle recently released its Service Bus tool suite Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) 11.1.1.6. This Eclipse 3.6 Helios based version offers Oracle Coherence Tools and supports Weblogic Scripting Tools (WLST) via the PyDev Eclipse plugin. There are lots of other nice features added compared to 11.1.1.5.
But how do you install it in an existing environment without reinstalling OSB afterwards?
Simply unzipping the downloaded zip file into a new folder within the middleware home does not work. You won’t be able to create Oracle Service Bus Configuration projects. Or, if you open existing projects you will miss the ability to add Service Bus projects to Service Bus Configuration projects (Eclipse tries to move one folder physically into another instead).
In fact, there is not much to do to get it working:
- Download OEPE 11.1.1.6
- Unzip it into your middleware home. Mine is located at D:\Oracle\Middleware so I unzipped it into D:\Oracle\Middleware\oepe11_1_1_6_0
- Create a file named oracle.osb.ide.link in the directory D:\Oracle\Middleware\oepe11_1_1_6_0\dropins\
- Open the file in a text editor an insert the following line:
path=D:/Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_OSB1
The path points to your OSB installation directory. Notice the forward slashes. - Open the file D:\Oracle\Middleware\oepe11_1_1_6_0\eclipse.ini in a text editor
- Modify the memory arguments according to this:
-Xms256m
-Xmx768m - Add the following lines to the end of the file (adjust paths according to your environment):
-Dweblogic.home=D:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gPS2\wlserver_10.3
-Dharvester.home=D:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gPS2\Oracle_OSB1\harvester
-Dosb.home=D:\Oracle\Middleware\home_11gPS2\Oracle_OSB1
-Dosgi.bundlefile.limit=500
-Dosgi.nl=en_US
That’s it. Start eclipse.exe. Some more tips probably ease your life:
- Create a fresh Eclipse workspace.
- This means all your runtime environments, servers and the like are gone. It’s vital to create the new ones with exactly the same names as they have got in the old workspace. Otherwise your OSB projects point to not existing resources and you will have a hard time getting everything back to work.
- Import all the OSB projects into the new workspace.
- If you have trouble with your existing Oracle Service Bus Configuration project, simply drop the old and create a new one. It is not much work to configure the target server and to add all the OSB projects to the OSB Configuration project via drag&drop.
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Mischa Kölliker
Working for Trivadis in Zurich
JMischa 
Mischa – Is there way to export the projects done using the ALSB console into Eclipse projects? I want to have a more control on versioning by using Eclipse instead of sbconsole. How can export the projects on sbconsole and import them as eclipse osb projects?
This is pretty easy (I assume you are using OSB 11g, maybe it works for older versions too):
– Export the projects with the OSB console (System Administration -> Export Resources)
– In Eclipse (OEPE) create an OSB Configuration project
– Right click on the Configuration project -> Import -> OSB Configuration JAR
– Select the exported JAR, import it and you’re done
We have managed to use maven to improve our build and release process. Better forget about OSB Workstudio (or whatever is called) and learn how to design pipelines using a proper XML editor, once you understand the structure is pretty straightforward and you avoid a lot of pain.
Plus, you can take full advantage of including your java class (saxon??)
Hi,
I am getting the following error when I tried to create a connection to the server in the eclipse servers tab.
The error is:
An internal error occurred during: “Configure WLST Interpreter”.
oracle/eclipse/tools/weblogic/IRuntimeComponentProvider
Also, if you have idea please help about one more issue in the default OEPE 3.5
When I try to create the connection, the connection creates and the server starts running, but finally the servers tabl gets a unable to start the server. changes the status to STOPPED.
Any help please. Urgent.
I think there’s something wrong with one of your paths (either in eclipse.ini or the system CLASSPATH variable or any other system variable).
Maybe this helps too: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9161914&tstart=0
When the configuration errors are fixed, your second error will be gone away too I hope…
Is anyone able to solve Internal Error related to “Configure WLST Interpreter” in OEPE 11.1.1.6.1?
Hi,
I have reverified the settings in OEPE 11.1.1.6.1 everything seems to be correct, but I have the same error as in the above forums. I have installed the
wls1033_oepe111150_win32.exe
ofm_osb_generic_11.1.1.3.0_disk1_1of1.zip
ofm_rcu_win32_11.1.1.3.3_disk1_1of1.zip
Oracle XE 10.3 database for DEV_SOAINFRA
Even I reinstalled, still I have the same issue.
Thanks,
Khaleel
Hi,
After doing lot of R&D I still not found the solution to connect the server from OEPE 11.1.1.6.1.
However I found a solution for the OEPE OEPE 3.5 issue.
The solution is commenting with # to the following line in the drivers/etc/hosts file
#127.0.0.1 localhost
I suspect, its trying to use the t3 protocal which intern is linking to this.
However, I have some more questions…
1. I am not able to stop the server
I hope there is some setup need to be done to the server to use HTTP protocal instead of t3 protocal. Do you have any suggestions.
For more information about the issue, please look at
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1053961&tstart=0
Thanks,
Khaleel
Hi,
Is it possible to make the OEPE IDE sychronize changes made in the console, by me or other people? Now, if I (or someone else) makes a change in the console, the IDE never sees it and I’m afraid it will overwrite such changes with no warning.
I am having a lot of troubles trying to get OSB working on Windows 7 64bit Professional.
I keep get in “The selected wizard could not be started.
Plug-in “com.bea.alsb.ui” was unable to instantiate class “com.bea.alsb.ui.wizards.NewALSBContainerWizard”.
com/bea/alsb/core/containers/exceptions/ContainerException” when trying to craete a new OSB project. My question is what are the different components required to get OSB functional and running on windows 7 ????… Thanks.
Hi, i followed all d steps u listed..but my eclipse ide doesnt show d option of opening an osb project..can u pls help?? priya
Hi Mischa
I am a newbie in Oracle Middleware products. I am trying to learn OSB. I have downloaded the following versions of softwares:
OSB – 11.1.1.6.0
WebLogic – 10.3.5
SOA Suite – 11.1.1.6.0
I have faced a lot of issues while installing OSB IDE with the above version. Then according to your blog, I have downloaded oepe-helios-all-in-one-11.1.1.6.1.201010012100-win32. Unzipped it in the Middleware home and labelled the directory as oepe. After that I have installed OSB and I could install the OSB IDE successfully after this. When I checked in the dropin directiry, the link file was already present and it was pointing to the right OSB directory. When I checked eclipse.ini file, all the directories, ie. wls home, middleware home and others were poiniting correctly.
Now when I tried to create a OSB project I am facing with the following error:
An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
com/bea/alsb/core/AlsbCore
It would be great if you could help me with this request.
Thanks in advance.
With Warm Regards
Harsha
There seems to be a common misconception about versioning. This post is about OEPE 11.1.1.6, not about OSB 11.1.1.6. The version of OEPE which is delivered with OSB 11.1.1.6 is OEPE 11.1.1.8 (as far as I know).
To solve your problem, make a fresh install with the bundled WLS+OEPE and then install the OSB.