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Now we can start with soa specific installation. There is quite confusion over the oracle soa 11.1.1.3.0 installation. The issue is is a 11.1.1.3.0 patchset rather then a complete installer, hence first 1.1.1.2.0 need to be installed and then we need to install 11.1.1.3.0 at the top of it. So we need both the files, that is the reason I mentioned both the files in the prerequisite. 3. SOA Server Installation. 3.1 Unzip the files ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.2.0_disk1_1of1.zip and ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.3.0_disk1_1of1.zip both. 3.2 Start your database if not in the running condition. 3.3 Now go to the directory ofm_soa_generic_11.1.1.2.0_disk1_1of1\Disk1 and then click on setup.exe, it will ask you the location of your JDK. JDK is a part of the standard weblogic installation. So check the directory where you have installed the weblogic in the previous step jdk must be there, for me the location is D:\Oracle\MW_HOME\jdk160_21. Paste this location to the command window and pre...

I was trying to install oracle soa server, but there was a lot of issues, I faced and then decide to write this blog. There is a lot of help available but the problem is its spread across a number of sites and documents. A developer with some basic knowledge and if want to learn Oracle Soa will be in the net of all these sites and documents to install a basic SOA server. So I am trying to point out the basic steps which need to configure a Oracle SOA server. Prerequisite There are number of pieces you need to download before starting the installation. my advice is first download all these files because these are quite large files and in the installation process you need all these files, which will make installation task 10-20 job once you have all these files. Another prerequisite is oracle database. That is must for SOA installation, if you don't have oracle database installed you may need to install oracle database too. I would advice to go for oracle xe, a small light weight...