Enterprise 2.0 Blog: June 2017

Oracle introduced WebCenter Suite (Portal, Content and Sites) in Software As A Service cloud and below are the cloud services are available.

WebCenter Portal Cloud

Document Cloud

Sites Cloud

Document cloud and Sites cloud and joined and now it is Content and Experience Cloud.

With the cloud solutions, we can save the time for setting up the infrastructure as we need to do below tasks to bring the WebCenter box.

Install the RCU schema in the Database.

Install Operating System in the WebCenter Box (Physical or Virtual machine)

Install Java

Install Weblogic Server

Install WebCenter Portal

Install WebCenter Content

Install WebCenter Sites

Create the Domain

Configure the memory parameters

Configure the Start and Stop scripts

Once the installation is completed, we need to perform integrations via Enterprise Manager

With cloud solutions, we can save the time for these activities and can start the portal developments. With WebCenter cloud solutions (Portal Cloud and Content & Experience cloud), we can create the rich content based web content and experience solutions for Websites, Internet Portal and Intranet Portal.

Main supports that we get from cloud solution in the development phases are given below.

Responsive User Interface is easy

Updated search with filter options

Portal cloud integration with Content and Experience Cloud

Deployment is easy. Can be deployed to on-premise environment as well as on cloud environment

I have created a Development WebCenter sites VM on Tomcat Application server and the installation and configuration steps are given here.

Now, for the better performance, it is advisable to create WebCenter Sites Delivery VM on Weblogic Server. This VM is already created with Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.9, JDK 1.7.0.79 and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 11.2.0.4. Below are the steps for installing Weblogic and WebCenter Sites.

Weblogic Installation

Detailed steps are given the here. The same is replicated here.

Create the below directories for MIDDDLEWARE_HOME using oracle user in the system.

[oracle@wcsites11g ~]$ mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g

[oracle@wcsites11g ~]$ mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/config/domains

[oracle@wcsites11g ~]$ mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/config/applications

Add the MW_HOME, WLS_HOME and WL_HOME environment variables in bash_profile before Weblogic installation.

[oracle@wcsites11g ~]$ cd ~

[oracle@wcsites11g ~]$ vi .bash_profile

Add the below entries,

export MW_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g
export WLS_HOME=$MW_HOME/wlserver_10.3
export WL_HOME=$WLS_HOME

Below are the database scripts for creating the user for WebCenter Sites Installation

DROP USER CSUSER CASCADE;

CREATE USER CSUSER IDENTIFIED BY welcome1 DEFAULT TABLESPACE USERS TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP;

GRANT CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW, CREATE SESSION, UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO CSUSER;

commit;

Install the Weblogic Server.

Create the Weblogic Domain

Edit setDomainEnv.sh to update the JAVA Heap variables to get better performance.

if [ "${JAVA_VENDOR}" = "Sun" ] ; then

WLS_MEM_ARGS_64BIT="-Xms512m -Xmx2048m"

export WLS_MEM_ARGS_64BIT

WLS_MEM_ARGS_32BIT="-Xms512m -Xmx2048m"

export WLS_MEM_ARGS_32BIT

else

WLS_MEM_ARGS_64BIT="-Xms512m -Xmx2048m"

export WLS_MEM_ARGS_64BIT

WLS_MEM_ARGS_32BIT="-Xms512m -Xmx2048m"

export WLS_MEM_ARGS_32BIT

MEM_PERM_SIZE_64BIT="-XX:PermSize=256m"

export MEM_PERM_SIZE_64BIT

MEM_PERM_SIZE_32BIT="-XX:PermSize=256m"

export MEM_PERM_SIZE_32BIT

Start the Admin Server

$cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domain/wcs_domain/bin

$./startWebLogic.sh

Open the Admin Console

Create the Datasource.

Stop Admin Server

$cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domain/wcs_domain/bin

$./stopWebLogic.sh

Create boot.properties and update username and password

$cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domain/wcs_domain/servers/AdminServer/

$mkdir security

$cd security

$vi boot.properties

username=weblogic

password=welcome1

Install WebCenter Sites

Edit startWebLogic.sh and add the below lines. Update the installation path with your installation path.

JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dnet.sf.ehcache.enableShutdownHook=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.io.tmpdir=/u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domains/wcs_domain/servers/AdminServer/tmp -Djava.library.path=/u01/sites/bin ${JAVA_OPTIONS}"

CLASSPATH="/u01/sites/bin:$CLASSPATH"

PRE_CLASSPATH="/u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domains/wcs_domain/CS/WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:$PRE_CLASSPATH"

Start the Admin Server

$cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domain/wcs_domain/bin

$nohup ./startWebLogic.sh > AdminLogs.out &