It also provides information on when to use the Enterprise Deployment guide.
An Enterprise Deployment Guide provides a comprehensive, scalable example for installing, configuring, and maintaining a secure, highly available, production-quality deployment of selected Oracle Fusion Middleware products. This resulting environment is known as an enterprise deployment topology.
By example, the enterprise deployment topology introduces key concepts and best practices that you can use to implement a similar Oracle Fusion Middleware environment for your organization.
Each Enterprise Deployment Guide provides detailed, validated instructions for implementing the reference topology. Along the way, the guide offers links to supporting documentation that explains concepts, reference material, and additional options for an Oracle Fusion Middleware enterprise deployment.
Note that the enterprise deployment topologies described in the enterprise deployment guides cannot meet the exact requirements of all Oracle customers. In some cases, you can consider alternatives to specific procedures in this guide, depending on whether the variations to the topology are documented and supported by Oracle.
Oracle recommends customers use the Enterprise Deployment Guides as a first option for deployment. If variations are required, then those variations should be verified by reviewing related Oracle documentation or by working with Oracle Support.
This guide describes one of three primary installation and configuration options for Oracle Fusion Middleware. Use this guide to help you plan, prepare, install, and configure a multi-host, secure, highly available, production topology for selected Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
Alternatively, you can:
Use the instructions in Installing SOA Suite and Business Process Management Quick Start for Developers to install a development environment.
A development environment provides the software and tools that you can use to develop Java, Oracle Application Development Framework, and other applications that depend on Oracle technologies. Development environments are typically installed on a single host and do not require many of the features of a production environment.
Use the instructions in one of the product-specific installation guides to install and configure a standard installation topology for a selected set of Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
A standard installation topology can be installed on a single host for evaluation purposes, but it can also serve as a starting point for scaling out to a more complex production environment.
For Oracle SOA Suite, see:
Review Planning an Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware, which provides additional information to help you prepare for any Oracle Fusion Middleware installation.