Once the Oracle binaries are obtained, the administrator is ready to begin the installation process. The first step is to read the Oracle-supplied installation guide and to ensure that all prerequisites are met. OER/OAC can be installed in 32 or 64 bit environments but generally 64 bit is recommended as the 32 bit architecture is limited to addressing less than 4 GB of RAM. With 64 bit architecture, all system memory can be addressed and there are consequently more options available for JVM tuning.
Before installing the middleware components, the installer must create a database that will be used to house the Oracle schemas necessary to support the SOA Governance Suite of products. This book assumes installation into an Oracle 12c database. Once a database is created, the WebLogic installation can be continued followed by the OER/OAC software itself. In 11g, there were some manual steps that had to...