Preparing to Install Oracle SALT

The following sections provide information on the preparations you need to know before installing Oracle SALT:

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Overview

•	System Requirements

•	Upgrade Considerations

•	Oracle SALT Installation Program

•	Oracle SALT Web Distribution

•	What’s Next?

Overview

Oracle SALT provides a native Web service stack for Oracle Tuxedo. It enables you to integrate Web service applications and Oracle Tuxedo applications via the SOAP/WS-* protocol or by using SCA. Oracle SALT is a separate product that must be installed on top of Oracle Tuxedo.

Oracle SALT software is distributed as an installer file which can be executed on Windows or UNIX platforms using any of the following three methods:

•	Graphical user interface (GUI) installation.

•	Console installation.

•	Silent installation.

Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) distribution contains the following key components:

•	Oracle SALT Service Component Architecture Support

•	Oracle SALT Web Service Gateway Server software

•	Oracle SALT Web Service Development Assistant utilities

•	Oracle SALT administrative utilities

•	Oracle SALT sample applications (optionally installed)

Oracle SALT components are installed directly in the Oracle Tuxedo TUXDIR directory.

System Requirements

Oracle Tuxedo

A supported version of Oracle Tuxedo must be installed before you can install Oracle SALT. If Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) is installed over an Oracle Tuxedo server installation, then you have the choice of installing the Oracle SALT Client and Server, the Oracle SALT Client, Server, and server-side Sample Applications, or the Oracle SALT Client only.

If the Oracle Tuxedo client platform is installed, then only the Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) client components are available for installation.

Regardless of which Oracle SALT package is installed, there are additional sample applications available on the Oracle Technology Network showcasing server-side and client-side capabilities of the Oracle SALT Service Component Architecture software.

Oracle Tuxedo Web Application Server

Running an Oracle Tuxedo Web Application server requires the following:

•	Oracle HTTP Server

Copy the $TUXDIR/udataobj/salt/mod_tuxedo.so library to ORACLE_HOME/ohs/modules

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Apache 2

Copy the $TUXDIR/udataobj/salt/mod_tuxedo.so library to <your apache instance directory>/modules

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iPlanet

Copy the $TUXDIR/udataobj/salt/tux_nsapi.so library to ORACLE_HOME/webserver7/plugins

Supported Platforms

Please refer to Appendix A, “Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2) Supported Platforms,” for Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) supported Oracle Tuxedo platform list.

WSDL Converter Requirement

Oracle SALT provides a WSDL converter, wsdlcvt, for external Web service support. wsdlcvt is a command utility that require using the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Java Runtime Environment 1.5 and 1.6 are certified for wsdlcvt. For more information, see wsdlcvt in the Oracle SALT Command Reference.

Upgrade Considerations

If you have a previous Oracle SALT release installed, it must be uninstalled before installing Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2). Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) cannot co-exist with a previous Oracle SALT installation on the same Oracle Tuxedo installation.

Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) provides utilities to help you migrate from Oracle SALT 1.1 or Oracle SALT 2.0. For more information, see “Migrating from a Previous Oracle Application in the Oracle SALT Administration Guide.

Oracle SALT Installation Program

The Oracle SALT software is distributed as an installation program for Windows or UNIX systems. The Oracle SALT installation program supports three installation methods. You can use any of these methods to install the Oracle SALT product software:

•	Graphical user interface (GUI) mode installation, described in “Oracle SALT GUI-Mode Installation” on page 2‑1.

•	Console-mode installation, described in “Oracle SALT Console-Mode Installation” on page 3‑1.

•	Silent installation, described in “Oracle SALT Silent Mode Installation” on page 4‑1.

Oracle SALT Web Distribution

An evaluation copy of Oracle SALT is available for download from the Oracle corporate Web site at: http://edelivery.oracle.com/ for production customers and http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html for developers.

Note:

Oracle SALT 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.2) does not require a license for installation.

For Oracle Customer Support contact information, go to:

http://www.oracle.com/support/index.html.

Platform-specific installer files for the Oracle SALT product software are available for download from the Oracle corporate Web site.

What’s Next?

You are now ready to begin your installation. For more information, see:

•	Oracle SALT GUI-Mode Installation

•	Oracle SALT Console-Mode Installation

•	Oracle SALT Silent Mode Installation

•	Oracle SALT Post Installation