Preparing to Install WebLogic Commerce Servers

 

This topic includes the following sections:

• What's New in WebLogic AC

• System Requirements

• Directory Structures

What's New in WebLogic AC

WebLogic Commerce Servers includes BEA WebLogic Personalization Server 1.7 (referred to in the documentation as BEA WebLogic Portal), and BEA WebLogic Commerce Server 1.7 (referred to in the documentation as BEA WebLogic Components).

BEA WebLogic Commerce Server includes the eBusiness Smart Components 1.6.1 from recently acquired Theory Center. The update includes a new version of the famous BuyBeans.com example e-commerce site called My BuyBeans.com; it is now integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal.

The My BuyBeans.com portal demo is designed to run "out of the box," and to provide an easy way to quickly see the capabilities of BEA WebLogic Components.

After following the steps in this Installation Guide, you will have downloaded the program .zip, or loaded the package CD, and installed it, and you will know how to:

• Use your software license

• Run the server

• Run the My BuyBeans demo example

• Run the My BuyBeans Administration

• Run the WebLogic Portal Administration Tool

• Use the documentation

  Note: This packaged software has some important prerequisites. To avoid having to stop the installation and resume it later, it is recommended that you review this guide carefully prior to running the Setup.exe .

System Requirements

Platforms

BEA WebLogic Commerce Servers is available for the following platforms:

• Solaris 2.7 on SPARC

• Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 5, on Intel

  Note: For Windows NT, it is strongly recommended that you be logged into the PC as a user with administrative privileges prior to installation.

Memory

The product requires at least 128 MB of memory (RAM).

The installation requires the following free disk space:

• 50 MB (Windows)

• 40 MB (UNIX)

Servers

BEA WebLogic Application Solutions requires the following software products:

• WebLogic Server 4.5.1 with Service Pack 4. A file, weblogic/lib/weblogic451sp4.jar , is included with the portal installation and is referenced in the startPortal scripts.

• JDK 1.1.7B, JDK 1.2.2-001 (NT); JDK1.1.7 Production, JDK 1.2.1-04 (Solaris)

  Note: The JDK 1.2 is required for the My BuyBeans.com example application that ships with the product.

• Web browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, or Netscape Communicator 4.5 and above)

• Text editor (such as Notepad, emacs, VI)

• Rational Rose 98 or 98i required for use of the the Rose Add-In, Rose UML, and SmartGenerator

Database

• A DBMS and a JDBC driver for the DBMS. This release has been certified for Cloudscape 2.0.1 and Oracle 8.0.5.

• An evaluation version of Cloudscape is distributed with the product as part of the example implementations.

Note about order of install

The following is the recommended order of installation for a completely new set-up:

1. JDK

2. Rational Rose

3. WebLogic Server

4. WebLogic Application Components

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Directory Structures

NT Directory Structure

The NT installation places the following directory structure in a WebLogicAC directory at the location you choose.

Figure 1-1 BEA WebLogic AC: Installed directory structure on NT.

Solaris Directory Structure

The unpacked .jar file creates the following directory structure on your drive:

Listing 1-1 BEA WebLogic AC: Installed directory structure on Solaris

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weblogicac/

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+- bin/

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+- deploy/

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+- lib/

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+- license/

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+- model/

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+- roseaddin/

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+- server/

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+- src/

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+- StartPortal.bat

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+- StartPortal.sh

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+- install.sh

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+- license.txt

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+- weblogic.properties