Installation Guide
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Before you install BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (DSP), you need to verify that your system meets minimum requirements. This chapter provides information about supported platforms, system hardware and software requirements, and describes installation prerequisites. The chapter also provides an overview of what is installed.
The following sections are included:
Note: Data Services Platform was initially named Liquid Data. Some instances of the original name remain in the product, installation path, and components.
This section provides a high level overview of the steps required to install DSP, illustrated in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1 Overview of Installation Process
Preparing to install DSP involves checking the supported platforms and databases, and verifying that you have the installation prerequisites in place. You can also familiarize yourself with a description of what gets installed on your system. To prepare to install the software, complete the remaining sections of this chapter.
Note: The Uninstall option does not remove any Data Services Platform or other Workshop applications that you have created.
You can install the Data Services Platform software either in GUI mode, featuring an easy to use graphical installer application, or in interactive Console mode, suitable on UNIX systems without a graphics (windowing) workstation. Alternatively, you can choose to install DSP on Windows and UNIX systems using Silent mode, which reads an installer properties file to determine the install options.
For more information about using GUI mode, see Installing Data Services Platform Using GUI Mode. For more information about using Console mode and Silent mode, see Installing Data Services Platform Using Console or Silent Mode.
Following installation, you can verify that the installation was successful, and explore Windows shortcuts and UNIX paths to key components. For more information, see Post-Installation Tasks.
As a WebLogic Workshop application, DSP generally supports the same platforms, operating systems, processor architecture, SDKs, and RDBMS systems as does WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP4 or SP5.
In general any thread-safe, transaction-callable DBMS accessible through JDBC should be available to DSP. For complete details see Supported Configurations for WebLogic Platforms.
Note: The minimum RAM recommendations are for one instance of WebLogic Server on which DSP is running. You may need more memory if you run two or more instances of WebLogic Server and DSP. Some systems use disk space as virtual RAM. Performance when running in virtual RAM may be markedly slower than when running in physical RAM.
The following table lists operating systems and/or hardware that has been specifically tested with Data Services Platform under BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP4 or SP5.
Table 1-1 Matrices of Operating Systems/Hardware Supported by DSP 2.1
DSP offers two levels of database vendor support:
The following table lists databases which have been specifically tested with DSP under WebLogic Platform 8.1, service packs SP4 and SP5.
Table 1-2 SQL Database Versions Supported by DSP 2.1
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The following table describes results of testing DSP against various databases under different JDBC drivers. Both the BEA and native drivers were tested in XA and non-XA modes. Limitation encountered are noted as CR numbers in the Comments column.
Details related to those numbers can be found in the DSP Release Notes.
Table 1-3 Matrices of Databases and JDBC Drivers Supported by Data Services Platform
The following table describes the matrices for configuring the Data Services Platform JDBC driver for supported reporting applications.
Table 1-4 Matrices of Required Connectivity Software for Reporting Applications Supported by the Data Services Platform JDBC Driver
The following table lists Web services standards supported by DSP 2.1.
Table 1-5 Supported Web Services Standards
You must have the following software installed on the system where you plan to install DSP:
http://commerce.bea.com/downloads/products.jsp.
See the WebLogic Platform Installation Guide for instructions on installing WebLogic Platform.
Note: If you are running Windows 2000, the maximum classpath size can be exceeded. For this reason it is recommended that when you install DSP, you install it into <BEAHOME> directory with a directory name of four characters or less such as <BEA>.
The complete installation of Data Services Platform results in the installation of the following principal components on the system:
The following documents contain information that is useful to refer to after installing DSP:
Data Services Platform Administration Guide
When you install DSP, a valid evaluation license is automatically included with the installation.
The full Data Services Platform with Samples option provides a preconfigured samples domain as shown in the following table.
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Note: <WL_HOME> is the home location of your WebLogic installation. On Windows the default <WL_HOME> is:
For a detailed explanation of domains, see Creating WebLogic Configurations Using the Domain Control Wizard in the WebLogic Platform documentation.
DSP is internationalized and supports multi-byte data from the underlying data sources. Specifically, DSP works with Japanese character sets, where the underlying databases are running in Japanese locales.
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