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Installing and Updating WebLogic Platform License Files
Your WebLogic Platform distribution requires a valid product license to run. The following sections explain how to acquire, install, and update a WebLogic Platform license:
About the WebLogic Platform License
WebLogic Platform 7.0 uses an XML-format license called license.bea. This license file, stored in the BEA Home directory, is used for the BEA WebLogic Platform products installed on the target system and is checked at run time to determine which components of WebLogic Platform you can use.
For information about the licenses available for WebLogic Platform, see the Licensing page on the e-docs Web site at the following URL:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/docs70/interm/license.html
The first time you install a BEA WebLogic product, the installation program installs a license.bea file in the BEA Home directory, and populates the file with a one-year evaluation license so that you can start using the product immediately. Subsequently, when you install additional BEA products that contain a license.bea file as part of the distribution, the installation program automatically adds the new evaluation product licenses to the license.bea file.
The evaluation license for WebLogic Platform is a full license, enabling all of the component features of WebLogic Platform. For information about purchasing licenses, contact BEA Sales at http://www.bea.com.
All WebLogic Platform evaluation products are licensed for use on a single server machine and allow up to twenty connections to the server.
Developer and Production Licenses
You can purchase licenses for the entire WebLogic Platform product, or for individual components. For information about the licenses available for WebLogic Platform, see the Licensing page on the e-docs Web site at the following URL:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/docs70/interm/license.html
If you purchased WebLogic Platform on CD-ROM, you will receive a developer or production license for the components that you licensed via e-mail, to the account specified on the purchase order. After installing the WebLogic Platform software and receiving the product license, you must update the existing license.bea file with the license file you received. For instructions, see Updating Your license.bea File.
Updating Your license.bea File
You must update your license.bea file if at least one of the following is true:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs70/upgrade/index.html
In each case, you receive a license update file in an e-mail attachment. You then update your license.bea file by performing the following procedure.
Note: Enabling 128-bit encryption requires that the 128-bit encryption license be present in the license.bea file before you install the WebLogic Platform software. For details, see Enabling 128-Bit Encryption.
Two levels of secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption are available for WebLogic Platform: 56-bit and 128-bit. An evaluation license comes only with 56-bit encryption enabled, whereas a developer or production license may be purchased with either 56-bit or 128-bit encryption enabled.
The installer program must find the 128-bit encryption license in the license.bea file before the installer enables 128-bit encryption for the WebLogic Platform installation. If the installation program does not find a 128-bit encryption license for WebLogic Platform in the license.bea file, or finds only a 56-bit encryption license, the installer includes 56-bit SSL plug-ins in the WebLogic Platform installation. If the installation program finds a 128-bit encryption license for WebLogic Platform in the license.bea file, the installer includes both 56-bit and 128-bit SSL plug-ins in the WebLogic Platform installation.
Note: If you already installed WebLogic Platform without the 128-bit encryption license and you want 128-bit encryption, you need to uninstall the software, place the 128-bit encryption license for WebLogic Platform in the BEA Home directory, and then reinstall WebLogic Platform.
When creating a new BEA Home directory for a WebLogic Platform installation intended for 128-bit encryption, proceed as follows:
For details, contact BEA Sales at http://www.bea.com.
Upgrading Licenses from Pre-7.0 Releases of WebLogic Platform Products
The format of the license.bea file has changed in WebLogic Platform 7.0. To convert a license.bea file from a previous release of a WebLogic Platform component product to a WebLogic Platform 7.0 license.bea file, complete the following steps. Be sure the license.bea license file from the previous release is available on the machine on which you perform this procedure.