This chapter provides a general overview of installing Oracle Communications Design Studio.
To install Design Studio, you download and unzip an archive file, which contains (but is not limited to) the Design Studio feature and a preconfigured update site.
The installation procedure follows these steps:
Review the system requirements.
Ensure that your installation meets the minimum hardware, software, operating system, and JDK version requirements. See "Design Studio System Requirements" for more information.
Perform the pre-installation tasks.
Before installing Design Studio, you must install the prerequisite software. See "Installing Prerequisite Software" for more information.
Create and distribute a preconfigured Design Studio environment.
Provide your Design Studio users with a preconfigured installation for quick installation. See "Installing and Configuring Design Studio" for more information about obtaining the Design Studio software package, configuring the installation, and working with the preconfigured environment.
The Design Studio software package is an archive file that you download from the Oracle software delivery website. The Design Studio software package includes the following:
A preconfigured update site, which includes the Design Studio feature. The Design Studio feature includes Design Studio Platform and all product features and plug-ins.
The update site folder structure is compatible with the Eclipse Software Update feature. See "About Update Sites" for more information.
Sample command-line build scripts.
Application software developer's kit (SDK) functions, which provide the resources required to configure a project library list and to build Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) application projects in Design Studio. For more information about the OSM SDK, see OSM Developer's Guide available at the Oracle Help Center.
Cartridge Management Tool scripts and OSM migration scripts.
Installation scripts (for Windows and Linux) that you can run to automatically install the Design Studio feature and to configure the Design Studio environment. When you run the script, you will provide the JDK and OEPE bundle locations and the middleware home location (for example, Oracle WebLogic Server 12c). Optionally, you can provide the updated site details for the Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Charting feature (BIRT), Graphical Editing Framework Zest Visualization Toolkit feature, SDK location from UIM application installation, and SDK location from NI application installation.
Oracle recommends that system administrators, when installing all new releases and patches, obtain a new Design Studio software package, perform a new installation, and distribute a new preconfigured installation to all Design Studio users. This method ensures that all users in the organization upgrade simultaneously and that all users are working with the identical platform, Java, and Design Studio feature versions.
Note:
System administrators must ensure that the individual Design Studio users all work with the same version of Design Studio.Design Studio installations require an update site. An update site is a repository of Design Studio features and their supporting plug-ins, and uses a specific format that works with the Eclipse update manager. The update site is a preconfigured set of directories in the update folder, which includes the artifacts.jar and the content.jar files. These JAR files identify the features and supporting plug-ins available in the update site.
Oracle recommends that system administrators use the update site packaged in the Design Studio software package.