creating soa 12C domain

This post will give you clear step by step process of creating 12c soa domain. In my next post i am going to schedule a job (soa job). So i am creating ESS server along with soa server. Lets start by creating rcu.
we dont need to have a separate software for rcu. In 12C rcu became the part of soa suite. In this post i am not showing soa suite installation, you can find it in my previous posts.

prerequisites:
1. jdk 7
2. soa suite12c
3. oracle database 12c

creating RCU:

1. open <middleware>/oracle_home/oracle_common/bin directory. click on rcu.bat

2. make sure create Repository is selected and click on next

 3. provide database details

 4. Prerequisites check windows opens. click on ok

 5. enter prefix name and check soa suite. we are creating ESS server so check Oracle Enterprise Scheduler

 6. I will checks for component prerequisites, click on ok

 7. enter password for all schemas

 8. leave this step as it is.

 9. click on next

 10. click ok to create tablespaces

 11. click ok

 12. click create

 13. After installation successful click on close

Domain creation:

1. open <weblogic_home>/common/bin. click on config.cmd

 2. In the create domain window, rename the domain in the domain location field

 3. check the following templates.
       Oracle SOA Suite
       Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Service Basic
       Oracle SOA Core Extension
       Oracle Enterprise Manager Plugin for ESS

 4. click on next

 5. enter password and confirm password

 6. click on next

 7. select manual configuration and click next

 8. change rcu prefix and enter database details.

 9. click next

 10. I creating very simple domain. so i dont need to create node manager, frontend host capture and jms file        store

 11. click next

 12. click next

 13. click next

 14. click next

 15. click next

 16. click create

 17. click next

 18. click finish

19. domain installation completed. start weblogic server

20. weblogic server will start derby server

21. start soa server

 22. start ess server

23. open em 

Installing oracle 12C database

Oracle soa 12c and bpm 12c does not support 11g database. So in this post I will give clear installation steps to install oracle database 12c on windows environment.

Prerequisites:
1. minimum 6 GB of RAM
2. Oracle databse 12c software

Installation:

1. Download Oracle database 12c software from below link

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index-092322.html

or you can download the database 12c software from https://edelivery.oracle.com/

2. unzip the software and click on setup.exe

3. Installation started

4. I dont want to receive updates so I am unchecking I wish to recieve security updates via My Oracle             support

 5. Click on Yes

 6. make sure skip softwares updates is select. Click Next

 7. Click on Next

 8. Select Server class. Click on Next

 9. Click on Next

 10. select Advances install and click on Next

 11. click on next

12. click on next

 13. select use windows built-in account and click on next

 14. click on yes

 15. select location to install database. click next to proceed installation

 16. click on next

 17. enter SID and click next

 18. click on character sets tab and select use unicode option. click next

 19. click next

 20. click next

 21. click next

22. select use the same password for all accounts and enter password. click next

 23. click on install

 24. installation process is in progress

25. Database configuration assistant is installing

26. click on password management

 27. remove tick mark on all accounts. click ok

 28. click on close. we have completed database installation 12C