Installing SOA Plugin in Oracle Jdeveloper 11g

Right away Oracle jdeveloper 11g doesn't  have  compatibility with SOA.In order to develop SOA application trough jdeveloper we need to install the SOA extension  to jdeveloper

We can do this in two different ways

1)Offline download 
2)Online Update

In offline download we will download the SOA extension file in to our local machine and install it in jdeveloper.

In online update we will directly update SOA plugin through "Search Update Center"  in HELP menu



Following are the steps to install SOA extension in jdeveloper by offline method:

1) First download the SOA extension file(Zip file) from Oracle Update Center to your local machine.
     http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@otn/documents/webcontent/156082.xml
     File will be saved as  soa-jdev-extension.zip.


2) After successful download start jdeveloper and select Help/Check for updates in Menu

3)Click Next

 

4) Now select Install From Local File and browse the downloaded extension file and click next

 

 5) Next window will show the summary of the installation.

      Click next.

 6) jDeveloper will pop up the window to prompt the restart is needed to finish the installation. Click on Yes button to restart jDeveloper

 After the restart of JDeveloper Oracle JDeveloper SOA extention is installed.Now you can start developing SOA application in jdeveloper.

Following are the steps to install SOA extension in jdeveloper by online method:

1) Open your Jdeveloper 11g and Click on Help menu and select “Check for Updates” 

 

 2)Click next

 

3) Under ‘Search Update Centers‘, select  “Oracle Fusion Middleware Products” and “OfficialOracle Extensions and Updates” options as shown below & Click Next

4) You will view all the available Extensions and Updates in the wizard as shown below

5)Search for SOA from the available list as shown below and Select the “Oracle SOA Composite Editor 11.1.1.3.0.25.57” and click Next.

 Now the extension will get downloaded and installed in to your Jdeveloper 11g. You can see the progress bar as shown below

7) Once the extension is installed click “Finish“.

Establishing connection to Application Server in Jdev

 I will start my post by showing how to create connection to Application server in jdeveloper.As we know what ever the SOA application developed in jdeveloper will be deployed to application server i.e weblogic.

In order to deploy application we need to establish a connection with the application server.For that

1. First of all go to Files --> New. Then navigate to connections on left hand side under categories  and select application server connection.

Click OK.

 

2. New window will pop up prompting for app server details. Specify connection name that you want to give

In our case  its "myAppCon". Click next.

 

3. Now specify username and password to connect to application server.In most cases username would be "weblogic" and password "welcome1" (if you dint specify any own password).

 Click next.

4. In the next window provide the weblogic server details like hostname, port no and domain name 

 

Click next.

5. Now to check the connection,click on test connection.

 

Click finish.

 

By now we are good to deploy all the application to weblogic server.

Intoduction

This is my first most blog and this is to share my knowledge on SOA that might be helpful to others