Supported Configurations: Sun Solaris

BEA WebLogic Server 9.1 and Related Products on Solaris 9

This section provides the following information:

Related Information

For information about supported database configurations, Web servers, browsers, and interoperability tools, plus BEA product support for AquaLogic Service Bus 2.1 and WebLogic Server 9.1, see:

For information about the Solaris operating system, see the following Sun Web site: http://www.sun.com/solaris.
For information about Sun's support services—If you have a support contract for the use of Solaris platforms, you may be able to obtain support for general Java issues (for example, JDK problems). See http://www.sun.com/service/support.

Configuration Requirements

This section describes:

Table 13-1 Requirements for Solaris 9 on SPARC Using Sun 32-bit JDK

Operating System Version and Patches	Sun Solaris 9
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	UltraSPARC (168 MHz)
JDK	Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 with the Java HotSpot^TM Client and Server VMs (32-bit) and all later service packs of 5.0
RAM	1 GB minimum
Performance Pack	`server/native/solaris/sparc/libmuxer.so`
Design and Development Tools	WebLogic Server development tools are supported. The AquaLogic Service Bus Data Transformation Tools are not supported on this configuration.
BEA Product Support	WebLogic Server 9.1 AquaLogic Service Bus 2.1
Design and Development Tools	BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.1: Not supported The AquaLogic Service Bus 2.1 Data Transformation Tools: Not supported.

Table 13-2 Requirements for Solaris 9 on SPARC Using BEA JRockit 64-bit JDK

Operating System Version and Patches	Sun Solaris 9
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	UltraSPARC (168 MHz)
SDK	BEA JRockit® 5.0 R26.1.0 (64-bit) and all later 5.0 releases
RAM	1 GB minimum
Performance Pack	`server/native/solaris/sparc64/libmuxer.so`
Design and Development Tools	WebLogic Server development tools are supported.
BEA Product Support	WebLogic Server 9.1
Design and Development Tools	BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.1: Not supported

Table 13-3 Requirements for Solaris 9 on x86 Using Sun 32-bit JDK

Operating System Version and Patches	Solaris 9
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Xeon, Pentium II or higher, x86, and compatible chip architectures (1.1 GHz)
JDK	Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 5 with the Java HotSpot^TM Server VM (32-bit) and all later updates of 5.0.
RAM	1 GB minimum
Performance Pack	`server/native/solaris/x86/libmuxer.so`
BEA Product Support	WebLogic Server 9.1
Design and Development Tools	BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.1: Not supported

Known Issues

Serial Version UID Mismatch

A Serial Version UID Mismatch Issue may be encountered if you deploy an application on a latest JVM, but compiled with an earlier JDK release.

Workaround: To be compatible with the serialization of previously compiled applications, modify the <BEA_HOME>/Weblogic91/common/bin/commEnv.sh file to include the following command:

JAVA_OPTIONS="$JAVA_OPTIONS -Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

Alternatively, you can use the command line option:

export JAVA_OPTIONS="$JAVA_OPTIONS -Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

Note: If you intend to deploy new applications with previously compiled applications, they must be recompiled as necessary to have the same Serial Version UID.

Known Issues for Solaris 10 on SPARC Supporting JRockit

IIOP Huge Object Transmission

You might encounter the following exception if your application involves working with very large objects via RMI over IIOP:

java.rmi.MarshalException: CORBA MARSHAL 0 Maybe; nested exception is: org.omg.CORBA.MARSHAL: vmcid: 0x0  minor code: 0 completed: Maybe

Workaround: Increase the size of the thread stack using the -Xss option. By default, the JVM default is 256 KB; the new value depends on the size of the object in question.

Using Unwise Characters in the Netui Tag href can Lead to an Exception

By default, NetUI tags try to properly escape characters when they appear in an href attribute (by using the java.net.URI class in the JRE). However, certain characters when included in the href attribute for a NetUI tag, might cause a java.net.URISyntaxException on the Solaris 9 SPARC 64-bit platform. For example, <netui:anchor href="page{a}.html">.

Workaround: To avoid the exception, do not use "special" characters in the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). For a list of characters, you can refer to the Generic Syntax Specification available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt. As per the specification, the following characters are considered special:

curly braces: { }
pipe: |
backslash: \
carat symbol: ^
back tick:
square brackets: [ ]

Known Issues for Other BEA Products

For information about known issues with BEA products supported on this configuration, see the appropriate Release Notes document:

Issues related to...	Are described in...
AquaLogic Service Bus	BEA AquaLogic Service Bus Release Notes: `http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13171_01/alsb/docs21/relnotes/relnotes.html`
WebLogic Server	BEA WebLogic Server Known and Resolved Issues: `http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs91/issues/known_resolved.html`
Installation and configuration	BEA Products Installation and Configuration Release Notes: `http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13179_01/common/docs91/relnotes/relnotes.html`

Download and Installation Instructions

This section describes:

Download and Installation Instructions for Use with
BEA JRockit 5.0

Complete the following procedures:

Downloading and Installing BEA JRockit 5.0 R26.1 Solaris SPARC (64-bit)

Go to Oracle Technology Network or Oracle E-Delivery and download JRockit 5.0 R26 JDK Solaris (SPARC - 64-bit).

Note: For important information on how to download BEA products refer to My Oracle Support Note 762254.1 and My Oracle Support Note 763603.1.
Note: The BEA Download Center (i.e. http://commerce.bea.com) will be decommissioned on February 2, 2009. After this time, customers will be able to download the BEA software from Oracle's E-delivery portal (http://edelivery.oracle.com) or Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com).

Download and install the kit. For information on installing BEA JRockit 5.0, refer to the installation instructions at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13188_01/jrockit/releases/5026x/install/install.html.

Downloading and Installing the WebLogic Server 9.1 Package Installer for use with BEA JRockit 64-bit

Go to Oracle Technology Network or Oracle E-Delivery and download WebLogic Server 9.1 for Sun Solaris (9, 10, SPARC) supporting JRockit.

Note: For important information on how to download BEA products refer to My Oracle Support Note 762254.1 and My Oracle Support Note 763603.1.
Note: The BEA Download Center (i.e. http://commerce.bea.com) will be decommissioned on February 2, 2009. After this time, customers will be able to download the BEA software from Oracle's E-delivery portal (http://edelivery.oracle.com) or Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com).

Install WebLogic Server using the instructions provided in Starting the Installation Program on UNIX Platforms. Refer to instructions for the .jar installer.

Update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to point to the sparc64 directory under server/native/solaris. You can do this by replacing all occurrences of ${WL_HOME}/server/native/solaris/sparc with ${WL_HOME}/server/native/solaris/sparc64 in the {WL_HOME}/common/bin/commEnv.sh file.

For more information on installing WebLogic Server, refer to the WebLogic Server 9.1 Installation Guide.

Download and Installation Instructions for WebLogic Server 9.1 on Solaris 9 on x86

These instructions are provided only for customers planning to run WebLogic Server 9.1 on Solaris 9 on x86. If you are running Solaris 9 on SPARC, you can simply follow the instructions in BEA Products Installation Guide, available at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13179_01/common/docs91/install/index.html.

To install WebLogic Server 9.1 on your Sun Solaris 9 on x86 configuration, complete the following steps:

Step 1: Download and Install the Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 5

Go to the Sun download site:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_05/index.html

Download the Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 5 for the Solaris on x86 platform.

Install the JDK, following the 32-bit installation instructions on the download page:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_05/install.html

Update the JAVA_HOME environment variable to reflect the JDK installation directory. For example:

export JAVA_HOME=<Sun_JDK_installation_directory>

Add your Java executables to the PATH environment variable as follows:

export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Step 2: Download WebLogic Server 9.1

To download the installer for WebLogic Server 9.1, complete the following procedure:

Go to Oracle Technology Network or Oracle E-Delivery and download WebLogic Server 9.1 for Sun Solaris (9, 10, x86).

Note: For important information on how to download BEA products refer to My Oracle Support Note 762254.1 and My Oracle Support Note 763603.1.
Note: The BEA Download Center (i.e. http://commerce.bea.com) will be decommissioned on February 2, 2009. After this time, customers will be able to download the BEA software from Oracle's E-delivery portal (http://edelivery.oracle.com) or Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com).

Now you have the components required for your installation: the Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 5 and the WebLogic Server package installer.

Step 3: Install WebLogic Server 9.1

Install WebLogic Server, following the instructions in "Starting the Installation Program on UNIX Platforms" in BEA Products Installation Guide:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13179_01/common/docs91/install/start.html