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Installation Concepts

This chapter provides conceptual information about installing Oracle9i Developer Suite and describes the install options available. The topics include:

• Oracle9i Developer Suite Installation Overview

• About the Installation Process

• About Installing Oracle9iDS Components

1.1 Oracle9i Developer Suite Installation Overview

The Oracle9i Developer Suite (Oracle9iDS) product installation consists of the following options:

• J2EE Development: Provides a lightweight installation that allows you to develop Java and Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications using Java, HTML, XML, and SQL. Includes testing capability with Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE (OC4J). Also allows you to extend applications with business intelligence using Oracle9i Business Intelligence Beans.

• Business Intelligence: (Windows only) Provides development tools that allow you to extend transactional applications with business intelligence. Includes relevant Oracle9iAS runtime services and testing capability with OC4J.

• Rapid Application Development: (Windows only) Provides the J2EE Development components and the development tools that allow you to rapidly build Reports-based and Forms-based applications. Also provides a software configuration management tool and a toolset for designing and generating databases and n-tier applications. Includes relevant Oracle9iAS runtime services and testing capability with OC4J.

• Complete: For Windows, this option provides all Oracle9iDS components. For UNIX, it provides the J2EE Development components and the development tools for building Reports-based and Forms-based applications.

Hardware and software requirements for installing Oracle9iDS are listed in Chapter 2, "Getting Started".

Step-by-step installation instructions for Oracle9iDS are provided in Chapter 3, "Installation".

Descriptions of the Oracle9iDS components are provided in Appendix B, "Components".

Table 1-1 lists the Oracle9iDS Windows install options, and the components that are installed with each option. Table 1-2 lists the Oracle9iDS UNIX install options, and the components that are installed with each option.

Table 1-1 Oracle9iDS Install Options and Components (Windows)

Component	J2EE Development	Business Intelligence	Rapid Application Development	Complete
Oracle9i JDeveloper (including Oracle9i Business Intelligence Beans, and UIX and Bali subcomponents)	YES	no	YES	YES
Oracle9i Reports Developer	no	YES	YES	YES
Oracle9i Discoverer Administrator (formerly Discoverer Administration Edition; including Oracle9i Discoverer Desktop)	no	YES	no	YES
Oracle9i Warehouse Builder	no	YES	no	YES
Oracle9i Clickstream Intelligence Builder	no	YES	no	YES
Oracle9i Forms Developer	no	no	YES	YES
Oracle9i Software Configuration Manager (formerly Oracle Repository)	no	no	YES	YES
Oracle9i Designer	no	no	YES	YES

Table 1-2 Oracle9iDS Install Options and Components (UNIX)

ComponentFoot 1	J2EE Development	Complete
Oracle9i JDeveloper (including Oracle9i Business Intelligence Beans, and UIX and Bali subcomponents)	YES	YES
Oracle9i Reports Developer	no	YES
Oracle9i Forms Developer	no	YES

1 To provide complete Oracle9iDS functionality, the UNIX distribution pack includes the full Windows distribution pack as well.

1.2 About the Installation Process

The Oracle9iDS installation process is divided into the following phases:

• Preinstallation: Perform certain preinstallation tasks before installing Oracle9iDS. Start the Oracle Universal Installer to begin installation. See Section 2.7, "Preinstallation Tasks" and Section 2.8, "About Oracle Universal Installer" for details.

• Installation: Follow the instructions given by the installer to install Oracle9iDS. See Chapter 3, "Installation" for details.

• Postinstallation: Perform certain postinstallation and configuration tasks after successfully installing Oracle9iDS. See Section 3.2, "Postinstallation Tasks" for details.

  Note: If you are migrating or upgrading from a previous version, make sure you review Appendix A, "Migration Notes" before installing Oracle9iDS.

1.3 About Installing Oracle9iDS Components

Oracle Universal Installer installs the Oracle9iDS components with default configuration values, and also configures basic network elements required for accessing local or remote server products.

The installation of Oracle9iDS does not require a separate Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) installation to run or test applications developed using Oracle9iDS. Depending on the install option selected, the Oracle9iDS installation provides relevant Oracle9iAS runtime services (OC4J, Oracle9iAS Forms Services, and Oracle9iAS Reports Services) for testing applications. However, Oracle recommends that you also test your applications on the actual deployment environments.

During installation, you will be asked to provide an Oracle Home name and path. For information about the coexistence of Oracle products in one Oracle Home directory, and guidelines for installing multiple Oracle products on one machine, see Section 2.6, "Coexistence".