Installation Guide
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Before you install BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, 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 gets installed.
The following sections are included:
This section provides a high level overview of the steps required to install Liquid Data, illustrated in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1 Overview of Installation Process
Preparing to install Liquid Data 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.
You can install Liquid Data 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 Liquid Data 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 Liquid Data Using GUI Mode. For more information about using Console mode and Silent mode, see Installing Liquid Data 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, Liquid Data generally supports the same platforms, operating systems, processor architecture, SDKs, and RDBMS systems as WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP4. In general any thread-safe, transaction-callable DBMS accessible through JDBC should be available to Liquid Data. For complete details see Supported Configurations for WebLogic Platforms.
Note: The minimum RAM recommendations are for one instance of WebLogic Server on which Liquid Data is running. You may need more memory if you run two or more instances of WebLogic Server and Liquid Data. 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 operating systems and/or hardware that has been specifically tested with Liquid Data under BEA Platform 8.1 SP4:
The following databases have been specifically tested with Liquid Data under BEA Platform 8.1 SP4:
The following describes results of testing Liquid Data 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 Liquid Data Release Notes.
Table 1-1 Matrix of Databases and JDBC Drivers Supported by Liquid Data
You must have the following software installed on the system where you plan to install Liquid Data:
WebLogic Platform 8.1 is available as a Web download from the BEA Download Center at http://commerce.bea.com/downloads/products.jsp. See the WebLogic Platform Installation Guide in the WebLogic Platform documentation 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 Liquid Data, you install it into <BEAHOME> directory with a directory name of four characters or less such as <BEA>.
The complete install of Liquid Data results in the installation of the following principal components on the system:
For more information about the software, refer to the Liquid Data Concepts Guide:
For information on how to configure Liquid Data once you have installed it, refer to the BEA Liquid Data Administration Guide:
Note: When you install Liquid Data, a valid evaluation license is automatically included with the installation.
The full Liquid Data 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, by default, <WL_HOME> is c:/bea/weblogic81.
For a detailed explanation of domains, see Creating WebLogic Configurations Using the Domain Control Wizard in the WebLogic Platform documentation.
Liquid Data is internationalized and supports multi-byte data from the underlying data sources. Specifically, Liquid Data works with Japanese character sets, where the underlying databases are running in Japanese locales. In accordance with the XML specification, target schema element names must be composed of single-byte characters.
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