Preparing to Install WebLogic Commerce Servers

 

Preparing to Install WebLogic Commerce Servers includes the following topics:

What's new in WebLogic Commerce Servers

Migration Issues

Overview of System Requirements

Platforms

Memory

Servers

Databases

Recommended Installation Order

 

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What's new in WebLogic Commerce Servers

• Personalization Advisor: Personalization Advisor recommends content and performs several important functions in creating a personalized application, including searching for content, tying the other core personalization services together, and matching content to user profiles.

• Property Set Management: Property Set Management allows you to create property sets, the schema of personalization attributes, and the properties that make up property sets.

• User Management: User Management joins enterprise data about users with profile data that is used to personalize the users' view of the application.

• Content Management: The Content Management component provides content and document management capabilities for use in personalization services. You can use the document management system (DMS) provided as a reference implementation with WLPS 2.0.1, or you can use a third-party vendor's DMS, including Interwoven's TeamSite/OpenDeploy product and Documentum's 4i product.

• Rules Management: The Rules Management component allows developers to create business rules that turn on and off content and match content to users according to user profile information.

 

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Migration Issues

The WLCS 2.0.1 installation will not affect data in existing Portal 1.7 implementations. Refer to Migrating to WLCS 2.0.1 for more information about migration issues related to installing WLCS 2.0.1 with an existing Portal 1.7 installation.

 

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Overview of System Requirements

This section presents general information about the WebLogic Commerce Servers system requirements. For the latest platform updates and version-specific details, see the Supported Platforms section of the WebLogic Commerce Servers Release Notes. The Release Notes document resides on the BEA "e-docs" Web site and is updated periodically. For example, it is updated when the WebLogic Commerce Servers software supports an additional platform vendor and operating system. For our hardcopy readers, the URL of the Supported Platforms section is:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13210_01/wlcs/docs20/relnotes/relnotes.htm#platforms

Platforms

BEA WebLogic Commerce Servers (WLCS) is available for Microsoft Windows NT systems and various UNIX systems. For the latest details, see the Supported Platforms section of the WLCS Release Notes.

Note: For Windows NT, it is strongly recommended that you be logged into the PC as a user with administrative privileges prior to installation.

Memory

The product requires at least 128 MB of memory (RAM) to install and run. The system will run much better with more RAM, though. The installation requires the following free disk space:

• 50 MB (Windows)

• 40 MB (UNIX)

Servers

WLCS requires the following software products:

• WebLogic Server 5.1 (SP1 for WLCS Components)

• Java 2 SDK 1.2.

  Note: Different Java 2 SDK 1.2.* version levels are required for each platform. For the latest details, see the Supported Platforms section of the WLCS Release Notes. You must use at least JDK 1.2 to run the example applications that ship with the product.

• Web browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, or Netscape Communicator 4.5 and above)

• Text editor (such as Notepad, emacs, VI)

• Rational Rose 98i or 2000 required for use of the Rose Add-In, Rose UML, and SmartGenerator (for the WLCS Components)

For the latest details, see the Supported Platforms section of the WLCS Release Notes.

Databases

• A DBMS and a JDBC driver for the DBMS. This release has been certified for Cloudscape and Oracle databases. For the latest details about the supported database version numbers and drivers, see the Supported Platforms section of the WLCS Release Notes.

• An evaluation version of Cloudscape is distributed with the product as part of the example implementations.

 

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Recommended Installation Order

For a new installation, BEA recommends you install the components in the following order:

1. JDK

2. Rational Rose

3. WebLogic Server

4. WebLogic Commerce Servers (WLCS)