Running the Workshop Installation Program in Silent Mode

To simplify installation on multiple machines, you can customize the operation of the Workshop installer to use silent installation.

There are a variety of silent mode options you can use to override the defaults and customize your Workshop installation. These include:

BEAHOME: Specifies the root of the target installation directory. The default is C:/bea.

WLW_INSTALL_DIR: Specifies the root of the Workshop product directory. This is typically a subdirectory of BEAHOME but can be a separate location. The default is C:/bea/workshop_10.3.

WLWIDE_ORDER_ID: Specifies your Workshop order id. The default is blank.

WLWIDE_SERIAL_NO: Specifies your Workshop serial number. The default is blank.

BEA_BUNDLED_JVMS: Option to select BEA bundled JVMS (for example, either jrockit_160_05 or jdk160_05 for Windows and Linux platforms). The default value is all BEA bundled JVMs for the selected platform.

LOCAL_JVMS: Option to select a supported JVM, which is already installed. Note: The presence of either (BEA_BUNDLED_JVMS or LOCAL_JVMS) or both of
these tokens negates any default selection and only sets the values assigned for these tokens as user selection. The value of the token can be a pipe ('|') separated JavaHomes.

USE_EXTERNAL_ECLIPSE: If the correct version of Eclipse is already installed, this variable is ignored. The default value is false.

EXTERNAL_ECLIPSE_DIR: The directory where the existing Eclipse instance is installed. If the correct version of Eclipse is already installed, this variable is ignored. USE_EXTERNAL_ECLIPSE must be set to "true".

ECLIPSE32_HOME: Specifies the root of the Eclipse directory. Use this when you want to install into an existing Eclipse directory instead of the one provided by Oracle. For more information, see Adding Workshop to an Existing Eclipse Installation. The default is C:/bea/tools/eclipse_pkgs/2.0/eclipse_3.3.2.
Note: use of ECLIPSE32_HOME is discouraged. If the variables USE_EXTERNAL_ECLIPSE and EXTERNAL_ECLIPSE_DIR are set, they take precidence.

For a complete list of silent mode options and additional information on running the installation in silent mode, see Running the Installation Program in Silent Mode in the WebLogic Server documentation.

Also see the example silent.xml file in the WebLogic Server documentation

Example

You have purchased Workshop and wish to install it on your F: drive. You also wish to specify your order id and serial number at installation time to forgo the prompts for this information when Workshop is first started. You would:

Create a file named silent.xml that contains the XML shown below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<bea-installer>
  <input-fields>
    <data-value name="BEAHOME" value="F:/bea"/>
    <data-value name="WLWIDE_ORDER_ID" value="your_order_id"/>
    <data-value name="WLWIDE_SERIAL_NO" value="your_serial_number"/>
  </input-fields>
</bea-installer>

Start the Workshop installer in silent mode using the following command line options:

workshopstudio101_win32.exe -mode=silent -silent_xml=path_to_silent.xml

Running the Workshop Installation Program in Silent Mode

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