The Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide describes the tools and procedures required for you to patch your existing Oracle Fusion Middleware environment or upgrade your existing Oracle Application Server environment.
This guide is intended for existing Oracle Fusion Middleware users who are upgrading their 11g Release 1 products to a more recent version or to the latest version. To follow the instructions provided in this document, the reader should be comfortable running system administration operations, such as creating users and groups, adding users to groups, and installing operating system patches on the computer where the products are going to be installed. Users on UNIX systems who are updating their Oracle Fusion Middleware software may need root
access to run some scripts.
If your existing software version is Oracle Application Server 10g, you should refer to the upgrade guide for your particular product for instructions on how to upgrade your environment to the latest Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 version. See Related Documents for a list of available upgrade guides.
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For additional information, see the following manuals:
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guides
Refer to the following upgrade guides to upgrade your existing Oracle Application Server 10g software to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g:
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle SOA Suite, WebCenter, and ADF
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Identity Management
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Service Bus
Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide. This document contains information about basic Oracle Fusion Middleware concepts as well as instructions for many of the common pre-patching and post-patching tasks.
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