In this article, we will go through installation steps for SOA 12c or Service Oriented Architecture 12c which comprises both SOA suite and Service Bus

1. Before 12c :

Prior to 12c, in 11g we have to follow several steps before actually installing SOA suite, OSB (Service Bus) and configuring domain. These steps are listed below in incremental order

Step 1: Install Oracle XE or Oracle 11g database
Step 2: Run RCU scripts
Step 3: Install Oracle Weblogic for Oracle SOA 11g
Step 4: Install Oracle SOA Suite
Step 5: Install OSB
Step 6: Weblogic domain creation for both SOA & OSB
Step 7: Install JDeveloper 11g
Step 8: To work in SOA & BPM from JDeveloper, download/install extension through JDev

Oracle reworked to get all these components in one place i.e.; they collaborated all into single bundle (single installer) with various options

2. SOA 12c installation steps

Step 1: Download Service Oriented Architecture suite 12c from Oracle SOA Suite download page

Download from Oracle site
Accept the License Agreement

Note: Make sure you have login credentials with Oracle, otherwise register to get it downloaded

A single ZIP file with name “fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1” of size approximately 2.97 GB will be downloaded which has two JAR files namely,

1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart
1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart2

Step 2: Installing Oracle SOA suite requires JAVA_HOME set in the windows environment with version jdk1.7.0_55 or higher

Check whether Java is installed in the windows environment using command prompt

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Command: java -version

Note: If the installed JDK version is not matching the required criteria then download the latest version and install in the system

Download latest JDK from Oracle site

Step 3: Actual SOA suite 12c installation from windows command prompt

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Open the command prompt using the option “Run as administrator” by right-clicking on the cmd.exe

Step 4: In the newly opened command prompt, change directory to the location where we have placed/saved the extracted SOA suite 12c installer

Run below command to start/launch the installer from that location

Command: “%JAVA_HOME%”\bin\java -jar fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar
Directory location: D:\SOASuiteDownloads\fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1>

Note: double quotes (“) is very much required while firing the above command

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Reason: Java by default installed at the location “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75” and to overcome single whitespace between Program and Files we need to put it into double quotes