Modifying the DVM’s and Business Rules using SOA Composer

Modifying the DVM’s and Business Rules using SOA Composer

Oracle SOA Suite Composer is a J2EE application deployed into the weblogic server that help us to edit the DVM’s and the Business Rules after the deployment  to the Oracle SOA Suite server during the runtime.

The SOA Composer application can be accessed using the following URL

http://<SOA Server Host>:<SOA Server port>/soa/composer/

To modify the DVM’s or the Business Rules the weblogic user must have the SOADesigner role.

When using Oracle SOA Composer, you can save your customizations in a sandbox environment without applying them to a running instance and later return to the sandbox to make additional customizations. These customizations are only applied to the running instance when you click Commit.

Modify DVM:

• Login to SOA Composer
• Click on open and then click on Open DVM, this will list all the DVM’s deployed to MDS

java.lang.ClassCastException: weblogic.jms.common.DurableSubscription cannot be cast to weblogic.jms.backend.BEConsumerCommon

 java.lang.ClassCastException: weblogic.jms.common.DurableSubscription cannot be cast to weblogic.jms.backend.BEConsumerCommon

I was receiving the following exception in my local Oracle SOA Suite environment 11.1.1.6.0.

java.lang.ClassCastException: weblogic.jms.common.DurableSubscription cannot be cast to weblogic.jms.backend.BEConsumerCommon

        at weblogic.jms.backend.BackEnd.dump(BackEnd.java:2880)

        at weblogic.jms.JMSService.dump(JMSService.java:1169)

        at weblogic.jms.common.JMSDiagnosticImageSource.createDiagnosticImage(JMSDiagnosticImageSource.java:43)

        at weblogic.diagnostics.image.ImageSourceWork.run(ImageSourceWork.java:111)

        at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)

        Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

After analysis found that this is a known issue related to weblogic server versions 10.3.4 and 10.3.5.

Solution:

Download and apply the patch 10023173 from Metalink.

Cluster Constraint for the deployment in weblogic server

Cluster Constraint for the deployment in weblogic server

Cluster constraint specifies that deployments targeted to a weblogic cluster succeed only if all servers in the cluster are running.

When this option is enabled, WebLogic Server enforces a strict two-phase deployment policy for all Managed Servers in a domain—ensuring that application deployment to a cluster succeeds only if all Managed Servers in the cluster are reachable and can deploy the application. If any server instance in the cluster is unreachable, the application is not deployed to any of the Managed Servers.

If you do not enable this option, WebLogic Server allows deployment to a partial cluster. When the unreachable Managed Server becomes available, deployment to that server instance will be initiated.

By default, cluster constraints are disabled and deployment is attempted only on the servers that are reachable at the time of deployment from the Administration Server.

To Enable Cluster Constraint:

• Login to Weblogic Admin Console
• Click on the domain name
• Select the Check box against “Enable Cluster Constraint”

Installing the patches to weblogic server using Oracle Smart Update

Installing the patches to weblogic server using Oracle Smart Update:

Oracle Smart Update tool help us to apply and manage the patches for weblogic server.

As of Smart Update 3.3.0, the Get Patches tab has been removed, and you can no longer use Smart Update to download patches, service packs, maintenance packs, or version upgrades. You must first download the appropriate patch or patches directly from My Oracle Support. Once downloaded, you can use Smart Update to apply the patches.

Smart Update 3.3.0 no longer prompts you to register for security updates from Oracle Configuration Management (OCM).

The version can be verified from Help -> About.

This blog will explain the steps to install the patches to a weblogic server using Oracle Smart Update.

Steps to install the patches to a weblogic server using Oracle Smart Update

• Download the patch through metalink using the patch id or bug no.
• Uncompress patch zip file to $MWHOME/utills/bsu/cache_dir (If the cache_dir folder is not available then create the same)

•  Launch the Oracle Smart Update Tool (bsu.cmd) from $MWHOME\utils\bsu, this will list all the applied patchs and all those patches that are ready for installation.

CodeCache is full. Compiler has been disabled - Oracle SOA Suite 11g

CodeCache is full. Compiler has been disabled - Oracle SOA Suite 11g:

Frequently we used to see the below message in our log file.

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: CodeCache is full. Compiler has been disabled.
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Try increasing the code cache size using -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=

The code cache is a memory area separate from the JVM heap that is used for compilation and storage of native code.This is where the JIT compiled methods are kept.

The JIT compilier will be disabled when the code cache is full. Once the JIT compiler is switched off due to the Code Cache being full, it does not switch back on.

This will affect the performance of the server in high extend.

We can try to increase the default code cache size to resolve this issue.

Steps to increase the code cache size(we have increased to 64m)

• Login into Admin Server node
• Open $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/setSOADomainEnv.sh file 
• Edit the "DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS" to add the following parameters at the end of line before double quotes: -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=64m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m
• Login into admin console and go to all the servers server start up properties tab and edit the section to add the following parameters at the end of the line  -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=64m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m

• Restart all servers (Admin and Managed)