Oracle® Fusion Middleware

Release Notes

11g Release 1 (11.1.1) for IBM: Linux on System z

E15731-15

September 2011

Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) for IBM: Linux on System z

E15731-15

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Contents

Preface

- Audience

- Documentation Accessibility

- Related Documents

- Conventions

Part I Oracle Fusion Middleware

1 Introduction

- 1.1 Latest Release Information

- 1.2 Purpose of this Document

- 1.3 System Requirements and Specifications

- 1.4 Memory Requirements

- 1.5 Certification Information

- 1.5.1 Where to Find Oracle Fusion Middleware Certification Information

- 1.5.2 Certification Exceptions

- 1.5.2.1 Certification Information for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 with Oracle Database 11.2.0.1

- 1.5.2.2 Restrictions on Specific Browsers

- 1.5.2.3 Support for GridLink Data Sources in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

- 1.5.3 JMSDELIVERYCOUNT Is Not Set Properly

- 1.5.4 Viewer Plugin Required On Safari 4 To View Raw XML Source

- 1.6 Downloading and Applying Required Patches

- 1.7 Licensing Information

2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration

- 2.1 General Issues and Workarounds

- 2.1.1 Clarification About Path for OPMN

- 2.1.2 Fusion Middleware Control May Return Error in Mixed IPv6 and IPv4 Environment

- 2.1.3 Deploying JSF Applications

- 2.1.4 Limitations in Moving from Test to Production

- 2.1.5 Limitations in Moving Oracle Business Process Management from Test to Production Environment

- 2.1.6 Message Returned with Incorrect Error Message Level

- 2.1.7 Recovering from Loss of Host for Oracle Essbase Not Supported

- 2.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

- 2.2.1 Must Stop Oracle SOA Suite Managed Server Before Stopping soa-infra

- 2.2.2 Configuring Fusion Middleware Control for Windows Native Authentication

- 2.2.3 Fusion Middleware Control Does Not Keep Column Preferences in Log Viewer Pages

- 2.2.4 Topology Viewer Does Not Display Applications Deployed to a Cluster

- 2.2.5 Changing Log File Format

- 2.2.6 SSL Automation Tool Configuration Issues

3 Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

- 3.1 General Issues and Workarounds

- 3.1.1 Product Behavior After a Session Timeout

- 3.1.2 Fixing Errors Displayed When Selecting the TopLink Sessions Command in Fusion Middleware Control

- 3.1.3 Verifying the DISPLAY Variable to Correct Problems Displaying Graphics

- 3.1.4 Incomplete Information Available on the MDS Configuration Page

- 3.1.5 Exceptions When Starting Oracle Web Cache After Accessing Configuration Pages from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

- 3.1.6 Table Display Problems When Using Some Language Variants

- 3.1.7 Problems When Internet Explorer 7 is Configured to Open Pop-Up Windows in a New Tab

- 3.1.8 Additional Fusion Middleware Control Release Notes

- 3.1.9 Problem with Performance Charts After Moving a Chart Region

- 3.1.10 Display Problems When Running JDK 160_18 on Intel Systems that Support the SSE4.2 Instruction Set

- 3.1.11 Adobe Flash Plugin Required When Displaying Fusion Middleware Control in the Apple Safari Browser

- 3.1.12 Unable to Access Fusion Middleware Control After Installing the Oracle Identity Management 11.1.1.4.0 Patch Set

- 3.1.13 Disk Space Considerations When Using Fusion Middleware Control to Scale Out Oracle BI EE

- 3.2 Documentation Errata

- 3.2.1 Search Unavailable for Some Embedded Administrator's Guides

- 3.2.2 Patching Section in the Fusion Middleware Control Online Help is Not Supported

4 Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability and Enterprise Deployment

- 4.1 General Issues and Workarounds

- 4.1.1 Secure Resources in Application Tier

- 4.1.2 mod_wl Not Supported for OHS Routing to Managed Server Cluster

- 4.1.3 Only Documented Procedures Supported

- 4.1.4 SOA Composer Generates Error During Failover

- 4.1.5 Accessing Web Services Policies Page in Cold Failover Environment

- 4.1.6 Considerations for Oracle Identity Federation HA in SSL Mode

- 4.1.7 Online Help Context May be Lost When Failover Occurs in High Availability Environment

- 4.1.8 ASCRS Cannot be Used to Create a Database Resource for the Oracle Database Console Service on Windows

- 4.1.9 Changes to Rulesets May Not be Persisted During an Oracle RAC Instance Failover

- 4.1.10 Manual Retries May be Necessary When Redeploying Tasks During an Oracle RAC Failover

- 4.1.11 Timeout Settings for SOA Request-Response Operations are Not Propagated in a Node Failure

- 4.1.12 Scale Out and Scale Up Operations Fail

- 4.1.13 Harmless SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException Can be Received in a SOA Cluster

- 4.1.14 WebLogic Cluster WS-AT Recovery Can Put a Server into a 'Warning' State

- 4.1.15 Very Intensive Uploads from I/PM to UCM May Require Use of IP-Based Filters in UCM Instead of Hostname-Based Filters

- 4.1.16 Worklist Application May Throw Exception if Action Dropdown Menu is Used During a Failover

- 4.1.17 ClassCastExceptions in a SOA Cluster for the SOA Worklist Application

- 4.1.18 Use srvctl in 11.2 Oracle RAC Databases to Set Up AQ Notification and Server-side TAF

- 4.1.19 Oracle I/PM Input Files May Not be Processed Correctly During an Oracle RAC Failover

- 4.1.20 Failover Is Not Seamless When Creating Reports in Oracle BI Publisher

- 4.1.21 Failed to Load Error Appears in Layout View When Oracle BI Publisher Managed Server is Failed Over

- 4.1.22 When Scheduling an Oracle BI Publisher Job, a Popup Window Appears After Managed Server Failover

- 4.1.23 Cannot Save Agent When Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Server Fails Over

- 4.1.24 Patch 10094106 Required for SSO Configuration in an Enterprise Deployment

- 4.1.25 Installing Additional Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer Instances After Upgrading Oracle Single Sign-On 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g

- 4.1.26 JMS Instance Fails In a BI Publisher Cluster

- 4.1.27 Null Pointer Exception Error Window Opens during Approving Task When Failover Occurs

- 4.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

- 4.2.1 jca.retry.count Doubled in a Clustered Environment

- 4.2.2 Cluster Time Zones Must Be the Same

- 4.2.3 Fusion Middleware Control May Display Incorrect Status

- 4.2.4 Accumulated BPEL Instances Cause Performance Decrease

- 4.2.5 Extra Message Enqueue when One a Cluster Server is Brought Down and Back Up

- 4.2.6 Duplicate Unrecoverable Human Workflow Instance Created with Oracle RAC Failover

- 4.2.7 Configuration Files Missing after Planned Administration Server Node Shutdown or Reboot

- 4.2.8 No High Availability Support for SOA B2B TCP/IP

- 4.2.9 WebLogic Administration Server on Machines with Multiple Network Cards

- 4.2.10 Additional Parameters for SOA and Oracle RAC Data Sources

- 4.2.11 Message Sequencing and MLLP Not Supported in Oracle B2B HA Environments

- 4.2.12 Credentials not Propagated for Transport Protocols in B2B

- 4.2.13 Create a Protected Resource for Oracle Identity Navigator

- 4.2.14 Use Fully-Qualified Hostnames when Configuring Front-end Hosts in High Availability Configurations

- 4.2.15 Managed Server goes into Suspended Status After Oracle RAC Failover

- 4.2.16 Primary/Secondary Configuration Section of the Availability Tab is Not Visible

- 4.2.17 Permission Denied Error appears and Oracle Identity Manager Fails to Configure

- 4.2.18 Limitation in the Command Line Options for the OAM Configuration Tool

- 4.2.19 Server Start Parameters Not Getting Set After Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Server

- 4.2.20 Ensuring the Oracle HTTP Server Lock File is on a Local Drive

- 4.2.21 Enabling High Availability for Oracle JMS Adapter

- 4.2.22 Oracle Access Manager Servers Fail to Start

- 4.3 Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS

- 4.4 Documentation Errata

- 4.4.1 Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide

- 4.4.1.1 Latest Requirements and Certification Information

- 4.4.2 Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter

- 4.4.2.1 Link to Section 8.1.3 is Missing

- 4.4.2.2 Additional Information for Discussions Forum Mulitcast to Unicast Conversion

- 4.4.2.3 Additional Discussion Connection Properties Explained in Administration Guide

- 4.4.3 Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management

- 4.4.3.1 Set -DDomainRegistrationEnabled=true when Starting Node Manager

- 4.4.3.2 Ignore Empty Section in the Oracle Virtual Directory Chapter

- 4.4.4 Documentation Errata for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

- 4.4.4.1 Additional Step Must be Performed After Setting the Location of the BI Publisher Configuration Folder

- 4.4.4.2 Corrections to the Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog Section

- 4.4.5 Documentation Errata Affecting Multiple Enterprise Deployment Guides

- 4.4.5.1 Sections on Configuring Oracle Coherence for SOA Composites Need Fixes

- 4.4.5.2 Updates are Needed to Steps for Testing Server Migration

- 4.4.5.3 Steps for Updating Data Sources for Server Migration Need Updates

- 4.4.5.4 Clarification of the Procedure for Configuring the Analytics Collectors

- 4.4.5.5 Correction to Table 2-2, "Ports Used"

- 4.4.5.6 WebLogic Versions May Not Be Current in Enterprise Deployment Guides

Part II Oracle Development Tools

5 Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)

6 Oracle TopLink

- 6.1 General Issues and Workarounds

- 6.1.1 TopLink Object-Relational Issues

- 6.1.1.1 Incorrect outer join SQL on SQLServer2005

- 6.1.1.2 UnitOfWork.release() not Supported with External Transaction Control

- 6.1.1.3 Returning Policy for UPDATE with Optimistic Locking

- 6.1.1.4 JDBC Drivers returning Timestamps as Strings

- 6.1.1.5 Proxy Authentication with Oracle Containers for Java EE (OC4J) Managed Data Sources

- 6.1.1.6 Unit of Work does not add Deleted Objects to Change Set

- 6.1.2 TopLink Workbench Issues

- 6.1.2.1 Accessibility

- 6.1.2.2 Running the TopLink Workbench on Windows OS

- 6.1.3 Oracle Database Extensions with TopLink

- 6.1.3.1 Template JAR for Spatial and XDB Support in Oracle WebLogic Server

- 6.1.4 Allowing Zero Value Primary Keys

- 6.1.5 Managed Servers on Sybase with JCA Oracle Database Service

- 6.1.6 Logging Configuration with EclipseLink Using Container Managed JPA

- 6.1.7 Grid Cache requires CacheLoader

Part III Web Tier

7 Oracle HTTP Server

8 Oracle Web Cache

- 8.1 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

- 8.1.1 Reset the Random Password Generated When Installing Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer

- 8.1.2 Running Oracle Web Cache Processes as a Different User Is Not Supported

Part IV Oracle WebLogic Server

9 Oracle WebLogic Server

- 9.1 General Issues and Workarounds

- 9.1.1 Oracle WebLogic Server Version Number

- 9.1.2 Oracle ojdbc14.jar File Has Been Changed to ojdbc6.jar

- 9.1.3 Strong Password Enforcement May Cause Issues With WLST Offline Scripts

- 9.1.4 In Turkish Locale, MDS Initialization Fails

- 9.1.5 Administration Server Reports a 'Too Many Open Files' Message on the EM Console

- 9.2 Administration Console Issues and Workarounds

- 9.2.1 Console Help Viewer Does Not Display Help Table of Contents or Search

- 9.2.2 Cached JDBC Information is not Displayed

- 9.2.3 Pressing Browser Back Button Discards Context

- 9.2.4 Unsupported Work Manager Configurations Can Be Created

- 9.2.5 Server Status Table Reflects Inconsistent Information

- 9.2.6 Exceptions When Defining a Security Policy for an EJB

- 9.2.7 Administration Console Does Not Always Reflect External Changes Made in a Deployment Plan

- 9.2.8 Oracle OCI Driver Support

- 9.2.9 Data Takes a Long Time to Display on the Metric Browser Tab

- 9.3 Apache Beehive Support Issues and Workarounds

- 9.4 Clustering Issues and Workarounds

- 9.4.1 Threads Are Blocked on Cluster Messaging in Unicast Mode

- 9.5 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

- 9.5.1 Directory For a Non-Existent Server Name Is Created

- 9.5.2 Abnormal Behavior in Terminal Window After Entering WebLogic Password

- 9.5.3 Creating and Updating Domains Takes Too Long

- 9.5.4 Password Field Is Not Editable When Configuring a New Domain

- 9.6 Connector (Resource Adapter) Issues and Workarounds

- 9.7 Console Extensions Issues and Workarounds

- 9.8 Core Server and Core Work Manager Issues and Workarounds

- 9.8.1 Threads Become Stuck While Waiting to Get a Connection

- 9.8.2 Using IPv6-Formatted Addresses

- 9.8.3 Server Cannot Be Started After a Whole Server Migration

- 9.8.4 Object State is not Retained After Renaming Field

- 9.8.5 Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order

- 9.8.6 Servers Configured to Listen on a Host Name Are Listening on a Different Host Name After Startup

- 9.8.7 Administration Server or Node Manager Cannot Track the Status of a Managed Server

- 9.8.8 Multicast Traffic Observed to be Unreliable During or After a Network Partition

- 9.9 Deployment Issues and Workarounds

- 9.9.1 security-permission Element is not Available in weblogic-application.xml

- 9.9.2 Extraneous String Values Interpreted as File Specification

- 9.9.3 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is Displayed

- 9.9.4 The restore Method Does Not Update the DConfig Bean With Plan Overrides

- 9.9.5 config-root <directory> not found Warning Is Displayed When Applying a Plan

- 9.9.6 Deployment Task Fails When a Large Application File Is Deployed

- 9.9.7 Application State Is Not Updated If the Server Starts in MSI Mode

- 9.9.8 Attempting to Redeploy an Application Fails if the Application is Already Deployed Using a Different Source File Location

- 9.10 EJB Issues and Workarounds

- 9.10.1 Primary Key in Oracle Table is CHAR

- 9.10.2 No Available Annotation That Enables Creation of a Clusterable Timer

- 9.10.3 Kodo's MappingTool Cannot Generate Schemas

- 9.10.4 Extensions to the JPA Metadata Model Can Only Be Specified Via Annotations

- 9.10.5 Lookup Method Injection Not Supported by Spring

- 9.10.6 Deserializing a JDO PersistenceManagerFactory in a Managed Environment May Fail

- 9.10.7 Indexes Not Always Created During Schema Creation

- 9.10.8 OpenJPA throws an exception when @Id fields are also annotated as @Unique

- 9.10.9 Cache Hit and Miss Counts May Rise Unexpectedly

- 9.10.10 Open JPA Tries to Create a Table Even if the Table Exists

- 9.10.11 EJB Applications Fail During Serialization

- 9.10.12 Non-Transactional Message-Driven Bean Container Can Fail to Provide Reproducible Behavior For Foreign Topics

- 9.11 Examples Issues and Workarounds

- 9.11.1 Security Configuration in medrec.wls.config

- 9.11.2 HTML File not Created for StreamParser.java File

- 9.11.3 Warning Message Appears When Starting Medrec or Samples Domain

- 9.12 HTTP Publish/Subscribe Server Issues and Workarounds

- 9.12.1 Authentication and Authorization of the Local Client is not Supported

- 9.12.2 Event Messages Published by Local Clients Cannot Be Received

- 9.12.3 Event Messages Published By Local Clients Do Not Go Through Filters

- 9.13 Installation Issues and Workarounds

- 9.13.1 Sybase JDBC Drivers Not Downloaded with Upgrade Installation

- 9.13.2 Improper Rollback to Previous Installation May Occur After Exiting an Upgrade Installation Prematurely

- 9.13.3 Unable to Upgrade to WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Using Smart Update

- 9.13.4 Documentation Link in QuickStart Points to an Older Library

- 9.13.5 WebLogic Server Installer Fails With Insufficient Disk Space Error

- 9.13.6 Installation Fails with Fatal Error

- 9.13.7 Patch for NoClassDefFoundError While Using JACC in AIX and zLinux

- 9.13.8 Patch for Incompatibility of IBM JDK Transformer Factory With Security SAML in AIX and zLinux

- 9.14 Java EE Issues and Workarounds

- 9.14.1 FastSwap May Relax the Access Modifiers of Fields and Methods

- 9.14.2 FastSwap Does Not Support Redefinition of the Entity Bean and ejbClass

- 9.14.3 Classpath Order Is Not Guaranteed When There Are Multiple JARs in an EAR File

- 9.15 JDBC Issues and Workarounds

- 9.15.1 Queries Can Take Longer When Using Data Direct 4.0 MSSQL Driver

- 9.15.2 An Attempt to Access a Remote 10.3.2 or Later WLS Data Source Fails

- 9.15.3 BLOB Data Is Not Updating in the Database

- 9.15.4 ORA-01591 Errors Occur on SOA Servers Configured to Use Multiple Oracle RAC Nodes

- 9.16 JMS Issues and Workarounds

- 9.16.1 Deployment Descriptor Validation Fails

- 9.16.2 Exception When Multiple Producers Use the Same Client SAF Instance

- 9.16.3 Multi-byte Characters are not Supported in Store File and Directory Names

- 9.16.4 Generation of the Default UOO Name Has Changed

- 9.16.5 Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS

- 9.16.6 JMS Message Consumers Will Not Always Reconnect After a Service Migration

- 9.16.7 Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order

- 9.17 JNDI Issues and Workarounds

- 9.18 JSP and Servlet Issues and Workarounds

- 9.18.1 Deployment Plans Cannot Be Used To Override Two Descriptors

- 9.18.2 Spring Dependency Injection Not Supported on JSP Tag Handlers

- 9.18.3 503 Error When Accessing an Application With a Valid sessionid

- 9.19 JTA Issues and Workarounds

- 9.20 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Issues and Workarounds

- 9.20.1 1.4 Thin Client Applet Cannot Contact WebLogic Server

- 9.20.2 Applications Running on Some Processors May Experience Intermittent Time Issues

- 9.20.3 JRockit JVM Appears to Freeze When Doing Long Array Copies

- 9.20.4 Serial Version UID Mismatch

- 9.20.5 JVM Stack Overflow

- 9.20.6 Using AWT libraries May Cause a JVM Crash

- 9.21 Monitoring Issues and Workarounds

- 9.21.1 MBean Attributes Not Explicitly Marked as @unharvestable Appear as Harvestable

- 9.21.2 The BEA Prefix in Message IDs Will Be Changed in a Future Release

- 9.21.3 Events Generated By the JVM Level Are Not Generated at Low Volume

- 9.21.4 WLDF Performance Issues Can Occur When JVM Events Are Enabled

- 9.22 Node Manager Issues and Workarounds

- 9.23 Operations, Administration, and Management Issues and Workarounds

- 9.24 Oracle Kodo Issues and Workarounds

- 9.25 Protocols Issues and Workarounds

- 9.26 RMI-IIOP Issues and Workarounds

- 9.26.1 Ant 1.7 rmic Task Incompatibility

- 9.27 Security Issues and Workarounds

- 9.27.1 StoreBootIdentity Works Only if the Appropriate Server Security Directory Exists

- 9.27.2 Boot Time Failure Occurs With SecurityServiceException

- 9.27.3 Authentication Failure After Upgrading a Domain From WLS 6.1

- 9.27.4 InvalidParameterException Message Generated and Displayed

- 9.27.5 Enabling Both the Authentication and Passive Attributes In SML 2.0 Service Provider Services Is an Invalid Configuration

- 9.27.6 Running the WebLogic Full Client in a Non-Forked VM

- 9.28 SNMP Issues and Workarounds

- 9.29 Spring Framework on WebLogic Server Issues and Workarounds

- 9.29.1 OpenJPA ClassFileTranformer Does Not Work When Running on JRockit

- 9.29.2 petclinic.ear Does Not Deploy on WebLogic Server

- 9.30 System Component Architecture (SCA) Issues and Workarounds

- 9.31 Upgrade Issues and Workarounds

- 9.31.1 Domains Created on WebLogic Server 10.3.1 Cannot Be Run on WebLogic Server 10.3

- 9.32 Web Applications Issues and Workarounds

- 9.32.1 Administration Console Fails to Implement session-timeout Changes

- 9.32.2 Connection Pool Connection Reserve Timeout Seconds Value is Overridden

- 9.32.3 Database Connections Become Unstable When a PoolLimitSQLException Occurs

- 9.32.4 Web Page Fails to Open When Accessing It Using the SSL Port

- 9.32.5 Unable to View the Output of SVG files in Internet Explorer 7

- 9.33 WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) Issues and Workarounds

- 9.33.1 Property Names Containing '.' Characters Are Not Supported by loadProperties

- 9.33.2 Invalid cachedir Created by Jython Causes WLST to Error Out

- 9.33.3 WLST returnType='a' Option Returns Child Management Objects

- 9.34 Web Server Plug-Ins Issues and Workarounds

- 9.34.1 MOD_WLS_OHS Does Not Fail Over

- 9.35 Web Services and XML Issues and Workarounds

- 9.35.1 weblogic.wsee.jaxws.mdb.DispatchPolicy WorkManager Cannot Be Found

- 9.35.2 Multiple Resize Buffer Calls Occur

- 9.35.3 Troubleshooting Problems When Applying the WebLogic Advanced Web Services for JAX-WS Extension Template

- 9.35.4 Sparse Arrays and Partially Transmitted Arrays Are Not Supported

- 9.35.5 WSDL Compiler Does Not Generate Serializable Data Types

- 9.35.6 Use of Custom Exception on a Callback

- 9.35.7 Cannot Use JMS Transport in an Environment That Also Uses a Proxy Server

- 9.35.8 clientgen Fails When Processing a WSDL

- 9.35.9 JAX RPC Handlers in Callback Web Services Are Not Supported

- 9.35.10 Message-level Security in Callback Web Services Is Not Supported

- 9.35.11 Handling of Java Method Arguments or Return Parameters That Are JAX-RPC-style JavaBeans

- 9.35.12 IllegalArgumentException When Using a Two-Dimensional XML Object in a JWS Callback

- 9.35.13 Using SoapElement[] Results in Empty Array

- 9.35.14 FileNotFound Exception When a Web Service Invokes Another Web Service

- 9.35.15 Client Side Fails to Validate the Signature on the Server Response Message

- 9.35.16 xmlcatalog Element Entity Cannot Be a Remote File or a File in an Archive

- 9.35.17 Catalog File's public Element Is Not Supported When Using XML Catalogs

- 9.35.18 Local xmlcatalog Element Does Not Work Well

- 9.35.19 JAXRPC Client Does Not Encode the HTTP SOAPAction Header With Multi-byte Characters

- 9.35.20 External Catalog File Cannot Be Used in the xmlcatalog Element of clientgen

- 9.35.21 Exceptions When Running Reliable Messaging Under Heavy Load

- 9.35.22 ClassNotFound Exception Occurs When Using wseeclient.jar

- 9.35.23 Incomplete Configuration When Adding Advanced Web Services Component to SOA Domain

- 9.35.24 Exception Occurs During Invocation of Clientside Policy Applied to a Service

- 9.35.25 WS-AT Interoperation Issues With WebSphere and WebLogic Server

- 9.35.26 First Response From an SCA Application Takes a Long Time

- 9.35.27 WsrmClient.getMostRecentMessageNumber() Always Returns Zero

- 9.35.28 WsrmClient.reset() Fails to Reset All Necessary States

- 9.36 WebLogic Tuxedo Connector Issues and Workarounds

- 9.36.1 View Classes are not Set on a Per Connection Basis

- 9.37 Documentation Errata

- 9.37.1 Coherence Option Is Not Supported

- 9.37.2 Japanese Text Displays in Some Search Results Topics Avitek Medical Records

- 9.37.3 HTML Pages For Downloaded Libraries Do Not Display Properly

- 9.37.4 Evaluation Database Component Is Not Listed For silent.xml

- 9.37.5 Online Documentation URL Displays Earlier Version

Part V Oracle WebCenter

10 Oracle WebCenter

- 10.1 General Issues and Workarounds

- 10.1.1 Using Oracle WebLogic Communications Server

- 10.1.2 Using Jive Forums Documentation

- 10.1.3 Application Role Names Cannot Include Thai Characters

- 10.1.4 Pagelet Producer Failover Support

- 10.1.5 Configuring a Client Security Policy for Oracle Content Server Connections

- 10.1.6 Importing Space Templates with Public Access

- 10.1.7 Option to Create a Portal Resource Displayed for Design-Time Task Flows

- 10.1.8 Connections Network Task Flow on System Pages Not Supported

- 10.1.9 Cannot Log In to WebCenter Spaces if Oracle BPM is Down

- 10.1.10 SQL Query with NCHAR Data Type Throws Exception

- 10.1.11 Modifying Default Resource Strings for Language Support

- 10.1.12 Setting Up WNA-Based SSO Using JDK 1.6.22 Produces an Error

- 10.1.13 Cannot Navigate to the Current Page Using Out-of-the-Box Navigation Task Flows in WebCenter Portal Applications

- 10.1.14 Login Outcome Fails to Navigate to Privileged Pages

- 10.1.15 Space Language Does Not Take Effect

- 10.1.16 Performing Security-Related Operations on Business Role Pages

- 10.1.17 Unable to Access SSL-Protected WebCenter Endpoints

- 10.1.18 Unable to Export Content to Excel by using a Custom ADF Taskflow

- 10.1.19 Errors for Activity Graph Queries When the Activity Graph Engines are Running

- 10.1.20 Page Not Found Error When Clicking Back to Portal Link

- 10.1.21 Turning Off Automatic Event Listening in WebCenter Spaces

- 10.1.22 Cannot Add Certain Task Flows on a Space Page with the Default Page Template Catalog

- 10.1.23 Search Limitations with Special Characters

- 10.1.24 Configuring the REST Server Post-Installation

- 10.1.25 Resources in WebCenter Portal Application Disappear after Redeployment of Application

- 10.1.26 Configuring a Proxy Server for External Links in Activity Stream

- 10.1.27 Installing Oracle SES 11.1.2.2

Part VI Oracle SOA Suite and Business Process Management Suite

11 Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite, and Common Functionality

12 Web Services Security and Administration

- 12.1 Using Multibyte User Credentials with wss_http_token_* Policy

- 12.2 Importing Custom Policies Before Attaching and Deploying to a Service Application

- 12.3 Performing a Bulk Upload of Policies

- 12.4 Reviewing Policy Configuration Override Values After Detaching a Client Policy

- 12.5 Removing Post-deployment Customizations

- 12.6 Reviewing Localization Limitations

- 12.7 When Using WLST to Import a Security Policy, the Same Policy May Be Repeatedly Imported

- 12.8 Identity in WSDLs Is Not Used for Enforcement with ADF DC Applications

- 12.9 JVM limitation for Kerberos Token Policy with Message Protection Policy

- 12.10 Fusion Middleware Control Does Not List Policies When Two Servers Are SSL Enabled (Two-way SSL)

- 12.11 Web Service Test Page Cannot Test Input Arguments Bound to SOAP Headers

- 12.12 Possible Build Label Version and Date Discrepancy On the Policy Validation Page

- 12.13 When Adding SAML Issuer From Fusion Middleware Control the jps-config.xml File Is Incorrectly Updated

- 12.14 Patching of Patch Set 1 WebLogic Server Web Services Attached to Custom Polices With Patch Set 3 Oracle WSM Policy Manager

- 12.15 Custom Policy Fails When an Empty Subject Is Passed

- 12.16 Possible Limitation When Using Custom Exactly-one Policies

- 12.17 Ignore "Services Compatibility" Error for Security Policies Used Between Oracle WSM and WebLogic Server

- 12.18 Compatible Policies Not Returned When Using JDeveloper Wizard to Attach Oracle WSM Policies to Web Service Client

- 12.19 SAML Bearer Token Policies Now Signed by Default

- 12.20 Policyset Containing Invalid PolicyRef Causes Application to Fail

- 12.21 Security Policies do not Work on Subscriber Mediator Component

- 12.22 Policy Table Might not Show Attached Policies For Some Locales

Preface

This preface includes the following sections:

- Audience

- Documentation Accessibility

- Related Documents

- Conventions

Audience

This document is intended for users of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation on Oracle Fusion Middleware Disk 1

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation Library 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

- Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention

Meaning

boldface

Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic

Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

monospace

Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Part I

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Part I contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 1, "Introduction"

- Chapter 2, "Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration"

- Chapter 3, "Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control"

- Chapter 4, "Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability and Enterprise Deployment"

1 Introduction

This chapter introduces Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). It includes the following topics:

- Section 1.1, "Latest Release Information"

- Section 1.2, "Purpose of this Document"

- Section 1.3, "System Requirements and Specifications"

- Section 1.4, "Memory Requirements"

- Section 1.5, "Certification Information"

- Section 1.6, "Downloading and Applying Required Patches"

- Section 1.7, "Licensing Information"

1.1 Latest Release Information

This document is accurate at the time of publication. Oracle will update the release notes periodically after the software release. You can access the latest information and additions to these release notes on the Oracle Technology Network at:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

1.2 Purpose of this Document

This document contains the release information for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). It describes differences between Oracle Fusion Middleware and its documented functionality.

Oracle recommends you review its contents before installing, or working with the product.

1.3 System Requirements and Specifications

Oracle Fusion Middleware installation and configuration will not complete successfully unless users meet the hardware and software pre-requisite requirements before installation.

For more information, see "Review System Requirements and Specifications" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Planning Guide

1.4 Memory Requirements

Oracle Fusion Middleware memory requirements for installation, configuration, and runtime are as follows:

1. Without a Database on the same server: Minimum 4 GB physical memory and 4 GB swap.

2. With a Database on the same server: Minimum 6 GB physical memory and 6 GB swap.

Note:
These minimum memory values are with the assumption that no user or operating system process is consuming any unusually high amount of memory. If such a condition exists, corresponding amount of additional physical memory will be required.

1.5 Certification Information

This section contains the following:

- Section 1.5.1, "Where to Find Oracle Fusion Middleware Certification Information"

- Section 1.5.2, "Certification Exceptions"

- Section 1.5.3, "JMSDELIVERYCOUNT Is Not Set Properly"

- Section 1.5.4, "Viewer Plugin Required On Safari 4 To View Raw XML Source"

1.5.1 Where to Find Oracle Fusion Middleware Certification Information

The latest certification information for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) is available at the Oracle Fusion Middleware Supported System Configurations Central Hub:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/fusion-certification-100350.html

1.5.2 Certification Exceptions

This section describes known issues (exceptions) and their workarounds that are associated with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g certifications. For a list of known issues that are associated with specific Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) components, see the Release Notes for the specific Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) component.

This section contains the following topics:

- Section 1.5.2.1, "Certification Information for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 with Oracle Database 11.2.0.1"

- Section 1.5.2.2, "Restrictions on Specific Browsers"

- Section 1.5.2.3, "Support for GridLink Data Sources in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g"

1.5.2.1 Certification Information for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 with Oracle Database 11.2.0.1

If you choose to configure Oracle Internet Directory with Database vault, do the following:

1. Apply patch 8897382 to fix bug 8897382.

Note:
the following workaround is required only if the Oracle Fusion Middleware version is 11.1.1.1.0 (11gR1). This issue will be fixed in 11.1.1.2.0.

2. Apply the workaround for bug 8987186 by editing <OH>/ldap/datasecurity/dbv_oid_command_rules.sql file and find the following declaration:

/declare
begin
dvsys.dbms_macadm.CREATE_COMMAND_RULE(
command => 'CONNECT'
,rule_set_name => 'OID App Access'
,object_owner => 'ODS'
,object_name => '%'
,enabled => 'Y');
commit;
end;/

and change the line that is indicated in bold:

/declare
begin
dvsys.dbms_macadm.CREATE_COMMAND_RULE(
command => 'CONNECT'
,rule_set_name => 'OID App Access'
,object_owner => '%'
,object_name => '%'
,enabled => 'Y');
commit;
end;/

1.5.2.2 Restrictions on Specific Browsers

1.5.2.2.1 Java Plugin for Discoverer Plus Not Downloaded Automatically on Firefox

When you attempt to connect to Discoverer Plus by using the Mozilla Firefox browser on a computer that does not have Java 1.6 installed, Firefox does not download the JRE 1.6 plug-in automatically. Instead, Firefox displays the following message: "Additional plugins are required to display this page..."

The workaround is to download the JRE 1.6 plug-in by clicking the Install Missing Plugin link to install it manually.

1.5.2.3 Support for GridLink Data Sources in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Active GridLink for Oracle RAC allows you to create GridLink data sources. GridLink data sources provide connectivity between Oracle WebLogic Server and an Oracle Database service targeted to an Oracle RAC cluster. You can also use GridLink data sources when configuring Oracle Exalogic with an Oracle RAC cluster.

However, GridLink data sources are currently supported for use only with custom Java EE applications running on Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Exalogic. They are not supported for use with the other Oracle Fusion Middleware products, such as Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebCenter, and Oracle Enterprise Content Management. For products other than Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Exalogic, Oracle recommends using JDBC Multi Data Sources to connect to an Oracle RAC service.

For more information about using GridLink data sources, see "Using Grid Link Data Sources" in Configuring and Managing JDBC Data Sources for Oracle WebLogic.

1.5.3 JMSDELIVERYCOUNT Is Not Set Properly

When using AQ JMS with Oracle Database 11.2.0.1, JMXDELIVERYCOUNT is not set correctly.

The workaround is to apply patch 9932143 to Oracle Database 11.2.0.1. For more information, contact Oracle Support.

1.5.4 Viewer Plugin Required On Safari 4 To View Raw XML Source

You need a Safari plugin to view raw XML. If there is no plugin installed, you will see unformatted XML which will be difficult to read. This is because Safari applies a default stylesheet, which only displays the text nodes in the XML document.

As a workaround, go to View > View Source in the Safari menu bar to see the full XML of the metadata document. Also, selecting File > Save and choosing XML Files as the file type, will correctly save the XML metadata file with all the markup intact.

1.6 Downloading and Applying Required Patches

After you install and configure Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0), there might be cases where additional patches are required to address specific known issues.

Patches for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g are available from My Oracle Support:

https://myoraclesupport.com/

Table 1-1 lists some of the specific Oracle Fusion Middleware patches that were available at the time these release notes were published.

Table 1-1 Patches Required to Fix Specific Issues with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle Fusion Middleware Product or Component

Bug/Patch Number

Description

Oracle SOA Suite - Oracle BPM Worklist application

9901600

Unless you apply this patch, errors appear in the log files when you access the Event Driven page in the Oracle Business Process Management Worklist application.

Oracle XDK for Java

10337609

This patch fixes the following issue.

If you use the XSU utility to insert some data into the database, and the database connection had the connection property called oracle.jdbc.J2EE13Compliant set to "true", and the target column was some kind of numeric column, then it is possible for the insert to fail with a the following error:

java.lang.NumberFormatException

1.7 Licensing Information

Licensing information for Oracle Fusion Middleware is available at:

http://oraclestore.oracle.com

Detailed information regarding license compliance for Oracle Fusion Middleware is available at:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/overview/index.html

2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle Fusion Middleware administration. It includes the following topics:

- Section 2.1, "General Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 2.2, "Configuration Issues and Workarounds"

Note:
This chapter contains issues you might encounter while administering any of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
Be sure to review the product-specific release note chapters elsewhere in this document for any additional issues specific to the products you are using.

2.1 General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes general issue and workarounds. It includes the following topics:

- Section 2.1.1, "Clarification About Path for OPMN"

- Section 2.1.2, "Fusion Middleware Control May Return Error in Mixed IPv6 and IPv4 Environment"

- Section 2.1.3, "Deploying JSF Applications"

- Section 2.1.4, "Limitations in Moving from Test to Production"

- Section 2.1.5, "Limitations in Moving Oracle Business Process Management from Test to Production Environment"

- Section 2.1.6, "Message Returned with Incorrect Error Message Level"

- Section 2.1.7, "Recovering from Loss of Host for Oracle Essbase Not Supported"

2.1.1 Clarification About Path for OPMN

OPMN provides the opmnctl command. The executable file is located in the following directories:

- ORACLE_HOME/opmn/bin/opmnctl: The opmnctl command from this location should be used only to create an Oracle instance or a component for an Oracle instance on the local system. Any opmnctl commands generated from this location should not be used to manage system processes or to start OPMN.
On Windows, if you start OPMN using the opmnctl start command from this location, OPMN and its processes will terminate when the Windows user has logged out.

- ORACLE_INSTANCE/bin/opmnctl: The opmnctl command from this location provides a per Oracle instance instantiation of opmnctl. Use opmnctl commands from this location to manage processes for this Oracle instance. You can also use this opmnctl to create components for the Oracle instance.
On Windows, if you start OPMN using the opmnctl start command from this location, it starts OPMN as a Windows service. As a result, the OPMN parent process, and the processes which it manages, persist after the MS Windows user has logged out.

2.1.2 Fusion Middleware Control May Return Error in Mixed IPv6 and IPv4 Environment

If your environment contains both IPv6 and IPv4 network protocols, Fusion Middleware Control may return an error in certain circumstances.

If the browser that is accessing Fusion Middleware Control is on a host using the IPv4 protocol, and selects a control that accesses a host using the IPv6 protocol, Fusion Middleware Control will return an error. Similarly, if the browser that is accessing Fusion Middleware Control is on a host using the IPv6 protocol, and selects a control that accesses a host using the IPv4 protocol, Fusion Middleware Control will return an error.

For example, if you are using a browser that is on a host using the IPv4 protocol and you are using Fusion Middleware Control, Fusion Middleware Control returns an error when you navigate to an entity that is running on a host using the IPv6 protocol, such as in the following situations:

- From the Oracle Internet Directory home page, you select Directory Services Manager from the Oracle Internet Directory menu. Oracle Directory Services Manager is running on a host using the IPv6 protocol.

- From a Managed Server home page, you click the link for Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, which is running on IPv6.

- You test Web Services endpoints, which are on a host using IPv6.

- You click an application URL or Java application which is on a host using IPv6.

To work around this issue, you can add the following entry to the /etc/hosts file:

nnn.nn.nn.nn  myserver-ipv6 myserver-ipv6.example.com

In the example, nnn.nn.nn.nn is the IPv4 address of the Administration Server host, myserver.example.com.

2.1.3 Deploying JSF Applications

Some JSF applications may experience a memory leak due to incorrect Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) application context classloader initialization in the Java class library. Setting the oracle.jrf.EnableAppContextInit system property to true will attempt eager initialization of the AWT application context classloader to prevent this leak from occurring. By default, this property is set to false.

2.1.4 Limitations in Moving from Test to Production

Note the following limitations in moving from test to production:

- When you execute the pasteBinary command, the -executesysprereqs option is set to true by default. If you set it to false, the operation fails. To work around this problem, either do not pass the option to the pasteBinary command, or set it to true.

- If your environment includes Oracle WebLogic Server which you have upgraded from one release to another (for example from 10.3.4 to 10.3.5), the pasteConfig scripts fails with the following error:

Oracle_common_home/bin/unpack.sh line29:
WL_home/common/bin/unpack.sh No such file or directory

To work around this issue, edit the following file:

MW_HOME/utils/uninstall/WebLogic_Platform_10.3.5.0/WebLogic_Server_10.3.5.0_Core_Application_Server.txt file

Add the following entries:

/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/unix/nodemanager.sh
/wlserver_10.3/common/quickstart/quickstart.cmd
/wlserver_10.3/common/quickstart/quickstart.sh
/wlserver_10.3/uninstall/uninstall.cmd
/wlserver_10.3/uninstall/uninstall.sh
/utils/config/10.3/setHomeDirs.cmd
/utils/config/10.3/setHomeDirs.sh

- When you are cloning Oracle Virtual Directory, the Oracle instance name in the source environment cannot be the same as the Oracle instance name in the target environment. The Oracle instance name in the target must be different than the name in the source.

- After you clone Oracle Virtual Directory from one host to another, you must add a self-signed certificate to the Oracle Virtual Directory keystore and EM Agent wallet on Host B. Take the following steps:

1. Set the ORACLE_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables.

2. Delete the existing self-signed certificate:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -delete -alias serverselfsigned
-keystore ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OVD/ovd_component_name/keystores/keys.jks
-storepass OVD_Admin_password

3. Generate a key pair:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkeypair
-keystore ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OVD/ovd_component_name/keystores/keys.jks
-storepass OVD_Admin_password -keypass OVD_Admin_password -alias serverselfsigned
-keyalg rsa -dname "CN=Fully_qualified_hostname,O=test"

4. Export the certificate:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -exportcert
-keystore ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OVD/ovd_component_name/keystores/keys.jks
-storepass OVD_Admin_password -rfc -alias serverselfsigned
-file ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OVD/ovd_component_name/keystores/ovdcert.txt

5. Add a wallet to the EM Agent:

ORACLE_HOME/../oracle_common/bin/orapki wallet add
-wallet ORACLE_INSTANCE/EMAGENT/EMAGENT/sysman/config/monwallet
-pwd EM_Agent_Wallet_password -trusted_cert
-cert ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OVD/ovd_component_name/keystores/ovdcert.txt

6. Stop and start the Oracle Virtual Directory server.

7. Stop and start the EM Agent.

- The copyConfig operation fails if you are using IPv6 and the Managed Server listen address is not set.
To work around this problem, set the Listen Address for the Managed Server in the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. Navigate to the server. Then, on the Settings for server page, enter the Listen Address. Restart the Managed Servers.

2.1.5 Limitations in Moving Oracle Business Process Management from Test to Production Environment

Note the following limitations when moving Oracle Business Process Management from a test environment to a production environment:

- When you move Oracle Business Process Management from a test environment to a production environment as described in the Task "Move Oracle Business Process Management to the New Production Environment" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide, Oracle Business Process Management Organization Units are not imported.
To work around this issue, you must re-create the Organization Units in the production environment. In addition, if any Organization associations with the Calendar rule for the Role exist in the test environment, you must re-create them, using the Roles screen.

For information, see "Working with Organizations" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management.

- Oracle recommends that you move artifacts and data into a new, empty production environment. If the same artifacts are present or some data has been updated on the production environment, the procedure does not update those artifacts.

- If Oracle Service Bus is part of the same domain as Oracle SOA Suite, you cannot use the test-to-production procedures described in "Moving Oracle SOA Suite to a Production Environment" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide. you can either install Oracle Service Bus in a different domain, or manually create the production environment.

2.1.6 Message Returned with Incorrect Error Message Level

In Fusion Middleware Control, when you select a metadata repository, the following error messages are logged:

Partitions is NULL
Partitions size is 0

These messages are logged at the Error level, which is incorrect. They should be logged at the debug level, to provide information.

2.1.7 Recovering from Loss of Host for Oracle Essbase Not Supported

In this release, recovering from loss of host for Oracle Essbase is not supported. You can recover from other failures, such as media failure.

2.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

This section describes configuration issues and their workarounds. It includes the following topics:

- Section 2.2.1, "Must Stop Oracle SOA Suite Managed Server Before Stopping soa-infra"

- Section 2.2.2, "Configuring Fusion Middleware Control for Windows Native Authentication"

- Section 2.2.3, "Fusion Middleware Control Does Not Keep Column Preferences in Log Viewer Pages"

- Section 2.2.4, "Topology Viewer Does Not Display Applications Deployed to a Cluster"

- Section 2.2.5, "Changing Log File Format"

- Section 2.2.6, "SSL Automation Tool Configuration Issues"

2.2.1 Must Stop Oracle SOA Suite Managed Server Before Stopping soa-infra

Using Fusion Middleware Control, if you stop a Oracle SOA Suite Managed Server before you stop soa-infra, then you start the Managed Server, the soa-infra application is not restarted automatically. If you try to restart the soa-infra, you will received an error. When you encounter the problem, you cannot close the dialog box in the browser, so you cannot take any further actions in Fusion Middleware Control.

To avoid this situation, you should stop the Managed Server, which stops all applications, including the soa-infra application. To start the Managed Server and the soa-infra, start the Managed Server.

To close the browser dialog box, enter the following URL in your browser:

http://host:port/em

2.2.2 Configuring Fusion Middleware Control for Windows Native Authentication

To use Windows Native Authentication (WNA) as the single sign-on mechanism between Fusion Middleware Control and Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, you must make changes to the following files:

- web.xml

- weblogic.xml

These files are located in the em.ear file. You must explode the em.ear file, edit the files, then rearchive the em.ear file. Take the following steps (which assume that while the front end is on Windows, the em.ear file is on UNIX):

1. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. For example:

setenv JAVA_HOME /scratch/Oracle/Middleware/jrockit_160_05_R27.6.2-20

2. Change to the directory containing the em.ear, and explode the file. For example:

cd /scratch/Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/applications/domain_name
JAVA_HOME/bin/jar xvf em.ear em.war
JAVA_HOME/bin/jar xvf em.war WEB-INF/web.xml
JAVA_HOME/bin/jar xvf em.war WEB-INF/weblogic.xml

3. Edit web.xml, commenting out the first login-config block and uncommenting the login-config block for WNA. (The file contains information about which block to comment and uncomment.) When you have done this, the portion of the file will appear as in the following example:

<!--<login-config>
<auth-method>CLIENT-CERT</auth-method>
</login-config>
-->
<!--
the following block is for Windows Native Authentication, if you are using
WNA, do the following:
1. uncomment the following block
2. comment out the previous <login-config> section.
3. you also need to uncomment a block in weblogic.xml
-->
<login-config>
<auth-method>CLIENT-CERT,FORM</auth-method>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/faces/targetauth/emasLogin</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/login/LoginError.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-constraint>
.
.
.
<security-role>
<role-name>Monitor</role-name>
</security-role>

4. Edit weblogic.xml, uncommenting the following block. (The file contains information about which block to uncomment.) When you have done this, the portion of the file will appear as in the following example:

<!--
the following block is for Windows Native Authentication, if you are using
WNA, uncomment the following block.
-->
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>Admin</role-name>
<externally-defined/>
</security-role-assignment>
.
.
.
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>Deployer</role-name>
<externally-defined/>
</security-role-assignment>

5. Rearchive the em.ear file. For example:

JAVA_HOME/bin/jar uvf em.war WEB-INF/web.xml
JAVA_HOME/bin/jar uvf em.war WEB-INF/weblogic.xml
JAVA_HOME/bin/jar uvf em.ear em.war

2.2.3 Fusion Middleware Control Does Not Keep Column Preferences in Log Viewer Pages

In Fusion Middleware Control, you can reorder the columns in the pages that display log files and log file messages. However, if you navigate away from the page and then back to it, the columns are set to their original order.

2.2.4 Topology Viewer Does Not Display Applications Deployed to a Cluster

In Fusion Middleware Control, the Topology Viewer does not display applications that are deployed to a cluster.

2.2.5 Changing Log File Format

When you change the log file format note the following:

- When you change the log file format from text to xml, specify the path, but omit the file name. The new file will be named log. xml.

- When you change the log file format from xml to text, specify both the path and the file name.

2.2.6 SSL Automation Tool Configuration Issues

The following issues have been observed when using the SSL Automation tool:

- The script creates intermediate files that contain passwords in clear text. If the script fails, these files might not be removed. After a script failure, delete all files under the rootCA directory.

- If Oracle Internet Directory password policy is enabled, passwords entered for wallet or keystore fail if they violate the policy.

- Before you run the script, you must have JDK 1.6 installed and you must have JAVA_HOME set in your environment.

- If the Oracle Virtual Directory configuration script fails, check the run log or enable debug for the shell script to view specific errors. If the error message looks similar to this, rerun the script with a new keystore name:

WLSTException: Error occured while performing cd : Attribute
oracle.as.ovd:type=component.listenersconfig.sslconfig,name=LDAP SSL
Endpoint,instance=%OVD_INSTANCE%,component=ovd1 not found

3 Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

This chapter describes issues associated with Fusion Middleware Control. It includes the following topics:

- Section 3.1, "General Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 3.2, "Documentation Errata"

Note:
This chapter contains issues you might encounter while using Fusion Middleware Control to manage any of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
Be sure to review the product-specific release note chapters elsewhere in this document for any additional issues specific to the products you are using.

3.1 General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes general issue and workarounds. It includes the following topic:

- Section 3.1.1, "Product Behavior After a Session Timeout"

- Section 3.1.2, "Fixing Errors Displayed When Selecting the TopLink Sessions Command in Fusion Middleware Control"

- Section 3.1.3, "Verifying the DISPLAY Variable to Correct Problems Displaying Graphics"

- Section 3.1.4, "Incomplete Information Available on the MDS Configuration Page"

- Section 3.1.5, "Exceptions When Starting Oracle Web Cache After Accessing Configuration Pages from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control"

- Section 3.1.6, "Table Display Problems When Using Some Language Variants"

- Section 3.1.7, "Problems When Internet Explorer 7 is Configured to Open Pop-Up Windows in a New Tab."

- Section 3.1.8, "Additional Fusion Middleware Control Release Notes"

- Section 3.1.9, "Problem with Performance Charts After Moving a Chart Region"

- Section 3.1.10, "Display Problems When Running JDK 160_18 on Intel Systems that Support the SSE4.2 Instruction Set"

- Section 3.1.11, "Adobe Flash Plugin Required When Displaying Fusion Middleware Control in the Apple Safari Browser"

- Section 3.1.12, "Unable to Access Fusion Middleware Control After Installing the Oracle Identity Management 11.1.1.4.0 Patch Set"

- Section 3.1.13, "Disk Space Considerations When Using Fusion Middleware Control to Scale Out Oracle BI EE"

3.1.1 Product Behavior After a Session Timeout

For security purposes, your sessions with the Fusion Middleware Control will time out after a predefined period of inactivity, and you will be asked to log in to the console again. In most cases, you are returned to the page you had displayed before the session timed out.

However, in some circumstances, such as when you are using the Fusion Middleware Control deployment wizards, you will not be returned the same location in the product after you log in. In those cases, you will have to navigate to the specific Fusion Middleware Control page you were using before the session timed out.

3.1.2 Fixing Errors Displayed When Selecting the TopLink Sessions Command in Fusion Middleware Control

In Fusion Middleware Control, you can view the Oracle TopLink management pages by selecting TopLink Sessions from the Application Deployment menu.

However, if you receive an error message when you select this command, you can remedy the problem by adding one or both of the following MBean system properties, as follows

On Windows operating systems:

rem set JAVA_OPTIONS=%JAVA_OPTIONS% -Declipselink.register.dev.mbean=true
rem set JAVA_OPTIONS=%JAVA_OPTIONS% -Declipselink.register.run.mbean=true

On UNIX operating systems:

JAVA_OPTIONS="${JAVA_OPTIONS} -Declipselink.register.dev.mbean=true"
JAVA_OPTIONS="${JAVA_OPTIONS} -Declipselink.register.run.mbean=true"

For more information, see the following URL on the Eclipse WIKI Web site:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Integrating_EclipseLink_with_an_Application_Server_(ELUG)#How_to_Integrate_JMX

3.1.3 Verifying the DISPLAY Variable to Correct Problems Displaying Graphics

The graphics subsystem for the Fusion Middleware Control generates some of its graphics on demand, and if the DISPLAY environment variable is set, Fusion Middleware Control tries to open the specified DISPLAY environment.

If Fusion Middleware Control fails to start due to graphics errors, check to see whether the DISPLAY environment variable is set to a proper DISPLAY environment.

If the DISPLAY environment variable is set incorrectly, unset the DISPLAY environment variable. Then restart Fusion Middleware Control.

3.1.4 Incomplete Information Available on the MDS Configuration Page

After deploying a Oracle SOA Suite application that requires Oracle Metadata Services (MDS), in some rare circumstances, you may find that the MDS configuration page for the application does not contain complete information about the MDS repository.

To address this problem, use the Metadata Repositories page to register the repository again. For more information, see "Create and Register an MDS Repository" in the Fusion Middleware Control online help.

3.1.5 Exceptions When Starting Oracle Web Cache After Accessing Configuration Pages from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

To start, stop, or restart Oracle Web Cache from Fusion Middleware Control, from the Web Cache menu, you can choose Control, and then Start Up, Shut Down, or Restart.

If you select Shut Down, and then Start Up on a configuration page, Fusion Middleware Control may return exception errors. If these errors occur in your environment, perform the operations from Web Cache Home page.

3.1.6 Table Display Problems When Using Some Language Variants

When you use Fusion Middleware Control in some non-English language environments, some of the tables on the component home pages display incorrectly. For example, some rows of the table appear to be merged and without content.

These issues can be safely ignored, since no data on the pages is hidden. The table cells that appear incorrectly do not contain performance data or other information.

3.1.7 Problems When Internet Explorer 7 is Configured to Open Pop-Up Windows in a New Tab

If you configure Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 so it always displays pop-up windows in a new browser tab, then you may experience problems using Fusion Middleware Control. For example, in some cases, Enteprise Manager content displays in a new tab as expected, but Fusion Middleware Control stops responding to mouse clicks. The only way to continue working is to close the tab.

To avoid this problem, use the Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer to disable the option for displaying pop-up windows in a new tab.

3.1.8 Additional Fusion Middleware Control Release Notes

Refer to Chapter 4, "Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration" for additional Fusion Middleware Control release notes.

Additional Fusion Middleware Control release notes are also included in the component chapters of the Release Notes.

3.1.9 Problem with Performance Charts After Moving a Chart Region

Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control provides performance charts on many of the component home pages. For example, it provides charts that display the current response and load metrics, as well as the CPU and memory usage.

If you move one of these charts to a new location on the home page, then sometimes the Table View link (which provides a tabular view of the data) does not work properly and the chart might stop refreshing automatically.

To fix this problem, click the refresh icon at the top, right corner of the page to refresh the page.

3.1.10 Display Problems When Running JDK 160_18 on Intel Systems that Support the SSE4.2 Instruction Set

Some of the newer Intel-based computers support the SSE4.2 instruction set. If you are using the 160_18 version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) on one of these computers, then you might see some display issues in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control.

This is related to the following issue on the Sun Developer Network (SDN):

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6875866

In particular, when using Fusion Middleware Control, you might experience some font size and alignment issues, and an error similar to the following appears in the server log file:

Servlet failed with Exception
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range

To remedy this problem:

1. Locate and open the setDomainEnv configuration file in your Oracle WebLogic Server domain home.
For example:

DOMAIN_HOME/bin/setDomainEnv.sh

2. Add the following to the JAVA_OPTIONS entry in the setDomainEnv file and save your changes:

-XX:-UseSSE42Intrinsics

For example:

JAVA_OPTIONS="${JAVA_OPTIONS} ${JAVA_PROPERTIES}
-Dwlw.iterativeDev=${iterativeDevFlag} -Dwlw.testConsole=${testConsoleFlag}
-Dwlw.logErrorsToConsole=${logErrorsToConsoleFlag} -XX:-UseSSE42Intrinsics"

3. Locate the following directory in your Oracle WebLogic Server domain home:

DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/tmp/_WL_user/em/jmb4hf/public/adf/styles/cache/

4. Delete the style sheets (.css) files from the directory.

5. Restart the Oracle WebLogic Server domain.

6. Clear the cache in your Web browser.

3.1.11 Adobe Flash Plugin Required When Displaying Fusion Middleware Control in the Apple Safari Browser

To use the Apple Safari browser to display Fusion Middleware Control, you must have the Adobe Flash browser plugin installed.

If you experience problems displaying graphics or other Fusion Middleware Control elements, download and install a newer version of the plugin from the Adobe Web site.

3.1.12 Unable to Access Fusion Middleware Control After Installing the Oracle Identity Management 11.1.1.4.0 Patch Set

After you install the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0) patch set, you might experience problems when accessing the Fusion Middleware Control pages used to manage the Oracle Identity Management components.

Specifically, an error similar to the following appears in the Administration Server log files:

[ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default
(self-tuning)'] [userId: <anonymous>] [ecid:
0000In^zrbUF8DQ6ubU4UH1D1qXF00000s,0] [APP: em] [[
oracle.adf.controller.ControllerException: ADFC-00025: The ADF controller has
not been successfully initalized.

If you experience this problem, restart the Administration Server. After the restart, you should be able to log in and access the Fusion Middleware Control pages.

3.1.13 Disk Space Considerations When Using Fusion Middleware Control to Scale Out Oracle BI EE

The section "Using Fusion Middleware Control to Scale System Components," in the Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, explains how to how to manage the capacity of your Oracle BI EE deployment using Fusion Middleware Control.

When you use the features described in this section, note that the number of servers and hosts you define will have an impact on the amount of disk space required for your Oracle BI EE installation. Be sure to monitor the disk space on your systems when scaling out your environment. Keep in mind that additional log file activity will also result when you scale out your environment.

3.2 Documentation Errata

This section describes documentation errata. It includes the following topics:

- Section 3.2.1, "Search Unavailable for Some Embedded Administrator's Guides"

- Section 3.2.2, "Patching Section in the Fusion Middleware Control Online Help is Not Supported"

3.2.1 Search Unavailable for Some Embedded Administrator's Guides

Search is unavailable for the following embedded administrator's guides in the Fusion Middleware Control help system:

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Identity Federation

- Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Content Server for installations with Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite

3.2.2 Patching Section in the Fusion Middleware Control Online Help is Not Supported

The Fusion Middleware Control online help system includes the contents of the Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. In the Fusion Middleware Control online help, this guide includes Section 17.11, which describes patching the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. This functionality is not supported in Release 11.1.1.5. The section is not included in the version of the guide that ships with Oracle BI EE or that is posted on the Oracle Technology Network.

4 Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability and Enterprise Deployment

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle Fusion Middleware high availability and enterprise deployment. It includes the following topics:

- Section 4.1, "General Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 4.2, "Configuration Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 4.3, "Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS"

- Section 4.4, "Documentation Errata"

Note:
This chapter contains issues you might encounter while configuring any of the any of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products for high availability or an enterprise deployment.
Be sure to review the product-specific release note chapters elsewhere in this document for any additional issues specific to the products you are using.

4.1 General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes general issue and workarounds. It includes the following topics:

- Section 4.1.1, "Secure Resources in Application Tier"

- Section 4.1.2, "mod_wl Not Supported for OHS Routing to Managed Server Cluster"

- Section 4.1.3, "Only Documented Procedures Supported"

- Section 4.1.4, "SOA Composer Generates Error During Failover"

- Section 4.1.5, "Accessing Web Services Policies Page in Cold Failover Environment"

- Section 4.1.6, "Considerations for Oracle Identity Federation HA in SSL Mode"

- Section 4.1.7, "Online Help Context May be Lost When Failover Occurs in High Availability Environment"

- Section 4.1.8, "ASCRS Cannot be Used to Create a Database Resource for the Oracle Database Console Service on Windows"

- Section 4.1.9, "Changes to Rulesets May Not be Persisted During an Oracle RAC Instance Failover"

- Section 4.1.10, "Manual Retries May be Necessary When Redeploying Tasks During an Oracle RAC Failover"

- Section 4.1.11, "Timeout Settings for SOA Request-Response Operations are Not Propagated in a Node Failure"

- Section 4.1.12, "Scale Out and Scale Up Operations Fail"

- Section 4.1.13, "Harmless SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException Can be Received in a SOA Cluster"

- Section 4.1.14, "WebLogic Cluster WS-AT Recovery Can Put a Server into a 'Warning' State"

- Section 4.1.15, "Very Intensive Uploads from I/PM to UCM May Require Use of IP-Based Filters in UCM Instead of Hostname-Based Filters"

- Section 4.1.16, "Worklist Application May Throw Exception if Action Dropdown Menu is Used During a Failover"

- Section 4.1.17, "ClassCastExceptions in a SOA Cluster for the SOA Worklist Application"

- Section 4.1.18, "Use srvctl in 11.2 Oracle RAC Databases to Set Up AQ Notification and Server-side TAF"

- Section 4.1.19, "Oracle I/PM Input Files May Not be Processed Correctly During an Oracle RAC Failover"

- Section 4.1.20, "Failover Is Not Seamless When Creating Reports in Oracle BI Publisher"

- Section 4.1.21, "Failed to Load Error Appears in Layout View When Oracle BI Publisher Managed Server is Failed Over"

- Section 4.1.22, "When Scheduling an Oracle BI Publisher Job, a Popup Window Appears After Managed Server Failover"

- Section 4.1.23, "Cannot Save Agent When Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Server Fails Over"

- Section 4.1.24, "Patch 10094106 Required for SSO Configuration in an Enterprise Deployment"

- Section 4.1.25, "Installing Additional Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer Instances After Upgrading Oracle Single Sign-On 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g"

- Section 4.1.26, "JMS Instance Fails In a BI Publisher Cluster"

- Section 4.1.27, "Null Pointer Exception Error Window Opens during Approving Task When Failover Occurs"

4.1.1 Secure Resources in Application Tier

It is highly recommended that the application tier in the SOA Enterprise Deployment topology and the WebCenter Enterprise Deployment topology is protected against anonymous RMI connections. To prevent RMI access to the middle tier from outside the subset configured, follow the steps in "Configure connection filtering" in the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help. Execute all of the steps, except as noted in the following:

1. Do not execute the substep for configuring the default connection filter. Execute the substep for configuring a custom connection filter.

2. In the Connection Filter Rules field, add the rules that will allow all protocol access to servers from the middle tier subnet while allowing only http(s) access from outside the subnet, as shown in the following example:

nnn.nnn.0.0/nnn.nnn.0.0  * * allow
0.0.0.0/0 * * allow t3 t3s

4.1.2 mod_wl Not Supported for OHS Routing to Managed Server Cluster

Oracle Fusion Middleware supports only mod_wls_ohs and does not support mod_wl for Oracle HTTP Server routing to a cluster of managed servers.

4.1.3 Only Documented Procedures Supported

For Oracle Fusion Middleware high availability deployments, Oracle strongly recommends following only the configuration procedures documented in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide and the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guides.

4.1.4 SOA Composer Generates Error During Failover

During failover, if you are in a SOA Composer dialog box and the connected server is down, you will receive an error, such as Target Unreachable, 'messageData' returned null.

To continue working in the SOA Composer, open a new browser window and navigate to the SOA Composer.

4.1.5 Accessing Web Services Policies Page in Cold Failover Environment

In a Cold Failover Cluster (CFC) environment, the following exception is displayed when Web Services policies page is accessed in Fusion Middleware Control:

Unable to connect to Oracle WSM Policy Manager.
Cannot locate policy manager query/update service. Policy manager service
look up did not find a valid service.

To avoid this, implement one the following options:

- Create virtual hostname aliased SSL certificate and add to the key store.

- Add "-Dweblogic.security.SSL.ignoreHostnameVerification=true" to the JAVA_OPTIONS parameter in the startWeblogic.sh or startWeblogic.cmd files

4.1.6 Considerations for Oracle Identity Federation HA in SSL Mode

In a high availability environment with two (or more) Oracle Identity Federation servers mirroring one another and a load balancer at the front-end, there are two ways to set up SSL:

- Configure SSL on the load balancer, so that the SSL connection is between the user and the load balancer. In that case, the keystore/certificate used by the load balancer has a CN referencing the address of the load balancer.
The communication between the load balancer and the WLS/Oracle Identity Federation can be clear or SSL (and in the latter case, Oracle WebLogic Server can use any keystore/certificates, as long as these are trusted by the load balancer).

- SSL is configured on the Oracle Identity Federation servers, so that the SSL connection is between the user and the Oracle Identity Federation server. In this case, the CN of the keystore/certificate from the Oracle WebLogic Server/Oracle Identity Federation installation needs to reference the address of the load balancer, as the user will connect using the hostname of the load balancer, and the Certificate CN needs to match the load balancer's address.
In short, the keystore/certificate of the SSL endpoint connected to the user (load balancer or Oracle WebLogic Server/Oracle Identity Federation) needs to have its CN set to the hostname of the load balancer, since it is the address that the user will use to connect to Oracle Identity Federation.

4.1.7 Online Help Context May be Lost When Failover Occurs in High Availability Environment

In a high availability environment, if you are using online help and a failover occurs on one of the machines in your environment, your context in online help may be lost when the application is failed over.

For example, the online help table of contents may not remember the topic that was selected prior to the failover, or the last online help search results may be lost.

No data is lost, and your next online help request after the failover will be handled properly.

4.1.8 ASCRS Cannot be Used to Create a Database Resource for the Oracle Database Console Service on Windows

In Patch Set 2 of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) release, a new feature was added to Application Server Cluster Ready Services (ASCRS) to enable users to create an ASCRS database resource for the Oracle Database Console service. Using ASCRS to create an ASCRS database resource is described in the "Creating an Oracle Database Resource" section of the "Using Cluster Ready Services" chapter in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide.

This feature works on UNIX, because the Oracle Database Console can be CFC enabled on UNIX.

However, on Windows, there is no CFC support for the Oracle Database Console service. Therefore, you cannot use ASCRS to create a database resource for the Oracle Database Console service on Windows.

4.1.9 Changes to Rulesets May Not be Persisted During an Oracle RAC Instance Failover

When you update rulesets (used in Human Workflow or BPEL) through the Worklist configuration UI or the SOA Composer application during an Oracle RAC instance failover, the new rule metadata may not get persisted to the database. In this case, you will need to perform a manual retry. However, you can continue to use the older version of metadata without any errors.

4.1.10 Manual Retries May be Necessary When Redeploying Tasks During an Oracle RAC Failover

When redeploying tasks with large number of rules during an Oracle RAC instance failover, a manual retry may be needed by the end user occasionally.

4.1.11 Timeout Settings for SOA Request-Response Operations are Not Propagated in a Node Failure

In an active-active Oracle SOA cluster, when a node failure occurs, the timeout settings for request-response operations in receive activities are not propagated from one node to the other node or nodes. If a failure occurs in the server that scheduled these activities, they must be rescheduled with the scheduler upon server restart.

4.1.12 Scale Out and Scale Up Operations Fail

The scale out and scale up operations performed on your environment after re-associating the local file based WLS LDAP store with an external LDAP store will fail. To avoid this failure, follow the steps below before performing a scale up or scale out operation.

1. Edit the setDomainEnv.sh file located under the DOMAIN_HOME/bin directory and add the "-Dcommon.components.home=${COMMON_COMPONENTS_HOME}" and "-Djrf.version=11.1.1" variables to the the file.

2. These variables should be added to the "EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES". For example:

EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES="-Ddomain.home=${DOMAIN_HOME}
-Dcommon.components.home=${COMMON_COMPONENTS_HOME} -Djrf.version=11.1.1
.
.
.

3. Save the file and proceed with the scale out or scale up operation.

4.1.13 Harmless SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException Can be Received in a SOA Cluster

The following SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException can be received in a SOA cluster:

[TopLink Warning]: 2010.04.11 14:26:53.941--UnitOfWork(275924841)--Exception
[TOPLINK-4002] (Oracle TopLink - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3.0):
Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException:
ORA-00001: unique constraint (JYIPS2RC4B49_SOAINFRA.SYS_C0035333) violated
.
.
.

This is not a bug. In a cluster environment, when the messages for the same group arrive on both the nodes, one node is bound to experience this exception for the first message. The application is aware of this exception and handles it properly. It does not break any functionality.

This exception can also come on a single node after you restart the server and send the message for the existing group. Again, this exception will be experienced on the very first message.

In summary, this exception is within the application design and does not impact any functionality. It is for this reason that you do not see this exception logged as severe in the soa-diagnostic logs.

Toplink does, however, log it in its server logs.

4.1.14 WebLogic Cluster WS-AT Recovery Can Put a Server into a 'Warning' State

In certain WebLogic cluster process crash scenarios, WS-AT recovery will result in stuck threads that put the server into a "warning" state. WS-AT data recovery is successful in these cases despite the fact that the logs display "failed state" messages, due to the fact that commit acks are not being processed correctly for this scenario (this issue does not occur when the scenario involves the rollback of the transaction). While the server may continue to function in this "warning" state, the threads will continue to be stuck until the transaction abandonment timeout (which defaults to 24 hours) is reached. The workaround is to restart the server, which removes the stuck threads and "warning" state. A patch for this issue can be obtained from Oracle Support.

4.1.15 Very Intensive Uploads from I/PM to UCM May Require Use of IP-Based Filters in UCM Instead of Hostname-Based Filters

The "Adding the I/PM Server Listen Addresses to the List of Allowed Hosts in UCM" section in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite and the "Adding the I/PM Server Listen Addresses to the List of Allowed Hosts in UCM" section in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide describe how to add hostname-based filters for Oracle I/PM managed server listen addresses to the list of allowed hosts in Oracle UCM.

When using hostname-based filters in Oracle UCM (config.cfg file) a high latency/performance impact may be observed in the system for very intensive uploads of documents from Oracle I/PM to Oracle UCM. This is caused by the reverse DNS lookup that is required in Oracle UCM to allow the connections from Oracle I/PM servers. Using hostname-based filters is recommended in preparation for configuring the system for Disaster Protection and to restore to a different host (since the configuration used is IP-agnostic when using hostname-based filters). However if the performance of the uploads needs to be improved, users can use instead IP-based filters. To do this:

1. Edit the file /u01/app/oracle/admin/domainName/ucm_cluster/config/config.cfg and remove or comment out:

SocketHostNameSecurityFilter=localhost|localhost.mydomain.com|ecmhost1vhn1|ecmhost2vhn1

AlwaysReverseLookupForHost=Yes

2. Add the IP addresses (listen address) of the WLS_IPM1 and WLS_IPM2 managed servers (ECMHOST1VHN1 and ECMHOST2VHN1, respectively) to the SocketHostAddressSecurityFilter parameter list as follows:

SocketHostAddressSecurityFilter=127.0.0.1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|X.X.X.X|Y.Y.Y.

where X.X.X.X and Y.Y.Y.Y are the listen addresses of WLS_IPM1 and WLS_IPM2 respectively. Notice that 127.0.0.1 also needs to be added as shown above.

3. Restart the UCM servers.

4.1.16 Worklist Application May Throw Exception if Action Dropdown Menu is Used During a Failover

If you use the Oracle Business Process Management Suite Worklist application Actions dropdown menu to take action on a task while a failover is in progress, an exception similar to the following may be thrown:

<oracle.adf.view.rich.component.fragment.UIXInclude> <ADF_FACES-10020> <Tear
down of include component context failed due to an unhandled e
xception.
java.util.NoSuchElementException
at java.util.ArrayDeque.removeFirst(ArrayDeque.java:251)
at java.util.ArrayDeque.pop(ArrayDeque.java:480)
at
oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.context.ApplicationContextManagerImpl.popContext
Change(ApplicationContextManagerImpl.java:66)
.
.
.

In this case, the approval or rejection of the task does not go through.

To work around this problem, use either of these approaches:

- Instead of using the Actions dropdown menu to take action on the task, use the TaskForm to take action.

- Do a refresh after the error message. Then take the action again using the Actions dropdown menu.

4.1.17 ClassCastExceptions in a SOA Cluster for the SOA Worklist Application

ClassCastExceptions may arise in a SOA cluster for the Oracle SOA Worklist application (java.lang.ClassCastException: oracle.adf.model.dcframe.DataControlFrameImpl is reported in the logs). As a result, the Worklist application state may not be replicated to other managed servers in the cluster. The Worklist application and the corresponding user sessions will be usable after the exception is thrown, but any failovers to other servers in the cluster will not succeed.

There is no workaround to this problem.

To solve this problem, download the patch for bug 9561444, which solves the problem. Follow these steps:

1. To obtain the patch, log into My Oracle Support (formerly OracleMetaLink) at the following URL:
http://support.oracle.com

2. Click the Patches & Updates tab.

3. In the Patch Search section, enter 9561444 in the Patch ID or number is field, and enter your platform in the field after the and Platform is field.

4. Click Search.

5. On the Patch Search page, click the patch number in the Patch ID column. This causes the page content to change to display detailed information about the patch.

6. Click Download to download the patch.

4.1.18 Use srvctl in 11.2 Oracle RAC Databases to Set Up AQ Notification and Server-side TAF

Because of a known issue in 11.2 Oracle RAC databases, it is required to use srvctl to set up AQ notification and server-side TAF. Using DBMS_SQL packages will not work as expected.

Here is an example use of srvctl:

srvctl modify service -d orcl -s orclSVC -e SELECT -m BASIC -w 5 -z 5 -q TRUE

In the example:

orcl - Database Name

orclSVC - Service Name used by middleware component

SELECT - Failover type

BASIC - Failover method

5 - Failover delay

5 - Failover retry

TRUE - AQ HA notifications set to TRUE

Please refer to the Oracle 11.2 Oracle database documentation for detailed information about this command usage.

4.1.19 Oracle I/PM Input Files May Not be Processed Correctly During an Oracle RAC Failover

With Oracle I/PM and Oracle UCM file processing, some files may not get loaded in UCM properly during an Oracle RAC instance failover.

The incoming files to be processed by Oracle I/PM are put into an input folder. Oracle I/PM processes the files in the input folder and then puts them into Oracle UCM, which is backed by an Oracle RAC database. Sometimes when an Oracle RAC instance failure occurs, the retry may not happen correctly and the incoming files do not get processed. These unprocessed files show up in an error folder. These unprocessed files can manually be put back into the input folder and processed.

4.1.20 Failover Is Not Seamless When Creating Reports in Oracle BI Publisher

If you create a report in Oracle BI Publisher, and a Managed Server is failed over before the report is saved, the failover might not be seamless. For example, when you attempt to save the report, the system might not be responsive.

If this occurs, click one of the header links, such as Home or Catalog, to be redirected to the Oracle BI Publisher login page. Then, log in and create and save the report again.

4.1.21 Failed to Load Error Appears in Layout View When Oracle BI Publisher Managed Server is Failed Over

In the Oracle BI Publisher layout editor, when a Managed Server is failed over, opening or creating a Web-based layout can cause the following error to appear:

Failed to load: object_name
Please contact the system administrator.

To work around this issue, close the message and click one of the header links, such as Home or Catalog, to be redirected to the login page.

4.1.22 When Scheduling an Oracle BI Publisher Job, a Popup Window Appears After Managed Server Failover

When scheduling a job in Oracle BI Publisher, after a Managed Server fails over, a large popup window appears when you click Submit that shows the HTML source for the login page.

To work around this issue, close the message window and click one of the header links, such as Home or Catalog, to be redirected to the login page. You will need to re-create the report job again.

4.1.23 Cannot Save Agent When Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Server Fails Over

If you create an agent in the Oracle Business Intelligence Web interface, and a Managed Server fails over before you save the agent, an error occurs when you try to save the agent.

To work around this issue, log out, then log back in to Oracle Business Intelligence and create the agent again.

4.1.24 Patch 10094106 Required for SSO Configuration in an Enterprise Deployment

Before you configure SSO using Oracle Access Manager 11g, as described in the chapter "Configuring Single Sign-on for Administration Consoles" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management, you must apply Patch 10094106.

If you do not apply this patch, you might get a "404 Not Found" error when you attempt to access a protected application deployed on Oracle WebLogic Server with valid credentials.

4.1.25 Installing Additional Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer Instances After Upgrading Oracle Single Sign-On 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g

This issue occurs with Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g environments that have been upgraded from using Oracle Single-Sign On 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g for authentication.

When performing subsequent Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g installations against the same environment where the initial Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 10g installation was upgraded to Oracle Access Manager, there are some requirements that must be met.

- For each subsequent Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g installation, you must maintain the original Oracle Single Sign-On 10g instance and keep it actively running--in addition to new Oracle Access Manager 11g instance--while the additional Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g installations are performed.
This is necessary because Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g cannot be installed directly against Oracle Access Manager 11g.

- After the subsequent classic installs are completed, the Oracle Single Sign-On 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g upgrade procedure must be performed again. For more information, see "Upgrading Your Oracle Single Sign-On Environment" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Identity Management.
This procedure upgrades the new Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g instance to Oracle Access Manager 11g.

Note that these considerations apply only in an environment with Multiple Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer 11g middle tiers that are installed or added to a your environment after the initial upgrade from Oracle Single Sign-On 10g to Oracle Access Manager 11g.

4.1.26 JMS Instance Fails In a BI Publisher Cluster

On rare occasions, a JMS instance is missing from a BI Publisher Scheduler cluster.

To resolve this issue, restart the BI Publisher application from the WebLogic Server Administration Console.

To restart your BI Publisher application:

1. Log in to the Administration Console.

2. Click Deployments in the Domain Structure window.

3. Select bipublisher(11.1.1).

4. Click Stop.

5. After the application stops, click Start.

4.1.27 Null Pointer Exception Error Window Opens during Approving Task When Failover Occurs

When failover occurs, a Null Pointer Exception error window may open the second time you click Approve task during the operational approval task. (The Null Pointer Exception error window always opens during failover.) The Null Pointer Exception window does not interrupt any processes and approval succeeds.

4.2 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

This section describes configuration issues and their workarounds. It includes the following topics:

- Section 4.2.1, "jca.retry.count Doubled in a Clustered Environment"

- Section 4.2.2, "Cluster Time Zones Must Be the Same"

- Section 4.2.3, "Fusion Middleware Control May Display Incorrect Status"

- Section 4.2.4, "Accumulated BPEL Instances Cause Performance Decrease"

- Section 4.2.5, "Extra Message Enqueue when One a Cluster Server is Brought Down and Back Up"

- Section 4.2.6, "Duplicate Unrecoverable Human Workflow Instance Created with Oracle RAC Failover"

- Section 4.2.7, "Configuration Files Missing after Planned Administration Server Node Shutdown or Reboot"

- Section 4.2.8, "No High Availability Support for SOA B2B TCP/IP"

- Section 4.2.9, "WebLogic Administration Server on Machines with Multiple Network Cards"

- Section 4.2.10, "Additional Parameters for SOA and Oracle RAC Data Sources"

- Section 4.2.11, "Message Sequencing and MLLP Not Supported in Oracle B2B HA Environments"

- Section 4.2.12, "Credentials not Propagated for Transport Protocols in B2B"

- Section 4.2.13, "Create a Protected Resource for Oracle Identity Navigator"

- Section 4.2.14, "Use Fully-Qualified Hostnames when Configuring Front-end Hosts in High Availability Configurations"

- Section 4.2.15, "Managed Server goes into Suspended Status After Oracle RAC Failover"

- Section 4.2.16, "Primary/Secondary Configuration Section of the Availability Tab is Not Visible"

- Section 4.2.17, "Permission Denied Error appears and Oracle Identity Manager Fails to Configure"

- Section 4.2.18, "Limitation in the Command Line Options for the OAM Configuration Tool"

- Section 4.2.19, "Server Start Parameters Not Getting Set After Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Server"

- Section 4.2.20, "Ensuring the Oracle HTTP Server Lock File is on a Local Drive"

- Section 4.2.21, "Enabling High Availability for Oracle JMS Adapter"

- Section 4.2.22, "Oracle Access Manager Servers Fail to Start"

4.2.1 jca.retry.count Doubled in a Clustered Environment

In a clustered environment, each node maintains its own in-memory Hasmap for inbound retry. The jca.retry.count property is specified as 3 for the inbound retry feature. However, each node tries three times. As a result, the total retry count becomes 6 if the clustered environment has two nodes.

4.2.2 Cluster Time Zones Must Be the Same

All the machines in a cluster must be in the same time zone. WAN clusters are not supported by Oracle Fusion Middleware high availability. Even machines in the same time zone may have issues when started by command line. Oracle recommends using Node Manager to start the servers.

4.2.3 Fusion Middleware Control May Display Incorrect Status

In some instances, Oracle WebLogic Fusion Middleware Control may display the incorrect status of a component immediately after the component has been restarted or failed over.

4.2.4 Accumulated BPEL Instances Cause Performance Decrease

In a scaled out clustered environment, if a large number of BPEL instances are accumulated in the database, it causes the database's performance to decrease, and the following error is generated: MANY THREADS STUCK FOR 600+ SECONDS.

To avoid this error, remove old BPEL instances from the database.

4.2.5 Extra Message Enqueue when One a Cluster Server is Brought Down and Back Up

In a non-XA environment, MQSeries Adapters do not guarantee the only once delivery of the messages from inbound adapters to the endpoint in case of local transaction. In this scenario, if an inbound message is published to the endpoint, and before committing the transaction, the SOA server is brought down, inbound message are rolled back and the same message is again dequeued and published to the endpoint. This creates an extra message in outbound queue.

In an XA environment, MQ Messages are actually not lost but held by Queue Manager due to an inconsistent state. To retrieve the held messages, restart the Queue Manager.

4.2.6 Duplicate Unrecoverable Human Workflow Instance Created with Oracle RAC Failover

As soon as Oracle Human Workflow commits its transaction, the control passes back to BPEL, which almost instantaneously commits its transaction. Between this window, if the Oracle RAC instance goes down, on failover, the message is retried and can cause duplicate tasks. The duplicate task can show up in two ways - either a duplicate task appears in worklistapp, or an unrecoverable BPEL instance is created. This BPEL instance appears in BPEL Recovery. It is not possible to recover this BPEL instance as consumer, because this task has already completed.

4.2.7 Configuration Files Missing after Planned Administration Server Node Shutdown or Reboot

The following information refers to Chapter 10, "Managing the Topology," of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle SOA Suite.

When performing a planned stop of the Administration Server's node (rebooting or shutting down the Admin Server's machine), it may occur that the OS NFS service is disabled before the Administration Server itself is stopped. This (depending on the configuration of services at the OS level) can cause the detection of missing files in the Administration Server's domain directory and trigger their deletion in the domain directories in other nodes. This can result in the framework deleting some of the files under domain_dir/fmwconfig/. This behavior is typically not observed for unplanned downtimes, such as machine panic, power loss, or machine crash. To avoid this behavior, shutdown the Administration Server before performing reboots or, alternatively, use the appropriate OS configuration to set the order of services in such a way that NFS service is disabled with later precedence than the Administration Server's process. See your OS administration documentation for the corresponding required configuration for the services' order.

4.2.8 No High Availability Support for SOA B2B TCP/IP

High availability failover support is not available for SOA B2B TCP/IP protocol. This effects primarily deployments using HL7 over MLLP. For inbound communication in a clustered environment, all B2B servers are active and the address exposed for inbound traffic is a load balancer virtual server. Also, in an outage scenario where an active managed server is no longer available, the persistent TCP/IP connection is lost and the client is expected to reestablish the connection.

4.2.9 WebLogic Administration Server on Machines with Multiple Network Cards

When installing Oracle WebLogic Server on a server with multiple network cards, always specify a Listen Address for the Administration Server. The address used should be the DNS Name/IP Address of the network card you wish to use for Administration Server communication.

To set the Listen Address:

1. In the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, select Environment, and then Servers from the domain structure menu.

2. Click the Administration Server.

3. Click Lock and Edit from the Change Center to allow editing.

4. Enter a Listen Address.

5. Click Save.

6. Click Activate Changes in the Change Center.

4.2.10 Additional Parameters for SOA and Oracle RAC Data Sources

In some deployments of SOA with Oracle RAC, you may need to set additional parameters in addition to the out of the box configuration of the individual data sources in an Oracle RAC configuration. The additional parameters are:

1. Add property oracle.jdbc.ReadTimeout=300000 (300000 milliseconds) for each data source.
The actual value of the ReadTimeout parameter may differ based on additional considerations.

2. If the network is not reliable, then it is difficult for a client to detect the frequent disconnections when the server is abruptly disconnected. By default, a client running on Linux takes 7200 seconds (2 hours) to sense the abrupt disconnections. This value is equal to the value of the tcp_keepalive_time property. To configure the application to detect the disconnections faster, set the value of the tcp_keepalive_time, tcp_keepalive_interval, and tcp_keepalive_probes properties to a lower value at the operating system level.

Note:
Setting a low value for the tcp_keepalive_interval property leads to frequent probe packets on the network, which can make the system slower. Therefore, the value of this property should be set appropriately based on system requirements.

For example, set tcp_keepalive_time=600 at the system running the WebLogic Server managed server.

Also, you must specify the ENABLE=BROKEN parameter in the DESCRIPTION clause in the connection descriptor. For example:

dbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(enable=broken)(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PRO
TOCOL=TCP)(HOST=node1-vip.mycompany.com)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_
NAME=orcl.us.oracle.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=orcl1)))

As a result, the data source configuration appears as follows:

<url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(enable=broken)(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PRO
TOCOL=TCP)(HOST=node1-vip.us.oracle.com)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=orcl.us.oracle.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=orcl1)))</url>
<driver-name>oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource</driver-name>
<properties>
<property>
<name>oracle.jdbc.ReadTimeout</name>
<value>300000</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>user</name>
<value>jmsuser</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>oracle.net.CONNECT_TIMEOUT</name>
<value>10000</value>
</property>
</properties>

4.2.11 Message Sequencing and MLLP Not Supported in Oracle B2B HA Environments

Message sequencing and MLLP are not supported in Oracle B2B high availability (HA) environments.

4.2.12 Credentials not Propagated for Transport Protocols in B2B

The Oracle FMW credential store maintains usernames and passwords that you define for Transport protocols. If you use the default file store for these credentials, changes you make to usernames and passwords do not propagate across nodes. You must use a central LDAP for these credentials to be synchronized across nodes in a cluster, as described in, and required by, the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide and Enterprise Deployment Guides.

4.2.13 Create a Protected Resource for Oracle Identity Navigator

To create a protected resource for Oracle Identity Navigator, log in to the Oracle Access Manager console at http://admin.mycompany.com/oamconsole using the oamadmin account. Then proceed as follows:

1. From the Navigation window expand: Application Domains > IDMDomainAgent.

2. Click Resources.

3. Click Create on the tool bar below the Browse tab).
Enter the following information:

- Type: http

- Host Identifier: IDMDomain

- Resource URL: /oinav

4. Click Apply.

5. From the Navigation window expand: Application Domains > IDMDomainAgent >Authentication Policies.

6. Click Protected HigherLevel Policy.

7. Click Edit on the tool bar below the Browse tab.

8. In the Resources box, click +.

9. From the list, select the resource /oinav.

10. Click Apply.

11. From the Navigation window expand: Application Domains > IDMDomainAgent >Authorization Policies.

12. Click Protected Resource Policy.

13. Click Edit on the tool bar below the Browse tab.

14. In the Resources box, click +.

15. From the list, select the resource /oinav

16. Click Apply.

4.2.14 Use Fully-Qualified Hostnames when Configuring Front-end Hosts in High Availability Configurations

Oracle recommends using the full name of the host, including the domain name, when configuring front-end hosts in Oracle Fusion Middleware high availability configurations. Use the host's full name instead of using only the host name.

For example, if myhost is the name of a frontend host in a high availability configuration, set the frontend host URL to the fully-qualified hostname, such as myhost.mycompany.com as DNS or local host name resolution files (for example, /etc/hosts) define.

4.2.15 Managed Server goes into Suspended Status After Oracle RAC Failover

The Managed Server wls_ods(x) can enter a suspended status in the following situations:

- A database connection in the data source is wrong or not complete.

- The host is not a fully-qualified host for the database.

To correct the status of the Managed Server wls_ods(x):

1. Under the data source, verify that the database connection is correct and complete with the domain.

2. Under the data source, verify that the host name for the database is a fully- qualified hostname with the domain.

3. Verify the connection by selecting the Test button.

4.2.16 Primary/Secondary Configuration Section of the Availability Tab is Not Visible

During the system component scale out process, the Primary/Secondary Configuration section in the Availability tab of the Capacity Management page in Fusion Middleware Control may not be visible in the browser. This issue occurs when you perform the scale out process using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7.0.5730.11.

To avoid this issue, do not use the browser Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7.0.5730.11 to scale out; use another browser such as Google Chrome.

4.2.17 Permission Denied Error appears and Oracle Identity Manager Fails to Configure

When you run Oracle Identity Manager configuration, the error java.io.FileNotFoundException: soaconfigplan.xml (Permission denied may appear and Oracle Identity Manager configuration might fail.

To workaround this issue:

1. Delete the file /tmp/oaconfigplan.xml.

2. Start the configuration again (OH/bin/config.sh).

4.2.18 Limitation in the Command Line Options for the OAM Configuration Tool

Oracle Access Manager configuration does not support the use of complex resource definitions, such as /.../* in the command line. Instead, complex resources must be included in a uri_file, which is in turn specified in the command line.

4.2.19 Server Start Parameters Not Getting Set After Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Server

After scaling out Oracle Business Intelligence, Server Start parameters are not getting set correctly. To work around this issue, update the Server Start parameters for the scaled out BI Managed Server to include the following:

-Dserver.group=obi arguments

4.2.20 Ensuring the Oracle HTTP Server Lock File is on a Local Drive

If you configure an Oracle instance for Oracle HTTP Server 11g on shared storage, such as NAS, NFS, or SAN storage, you must ensure that the lock file is created on a local drive instead of the shared drive. If you do not do this, Oracle HTTP Server might experience performance problems. Perform these steps to point the LockFile directive at a local file system:

1. Stop the OHS instances on WEBHOST1 and WEBHOST2.

2. Open the file ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs_name/httpd.conf in a text editor.

3. Find the LockFile directive, configured under both the prefork and worker MPM configuration blocks in the httpd.conf file. It looks like this:

LockFile ORACLE_INSTANCE/diagnostics/logs/COMPONENT_TYPE/COMPONENT_NAME/http_lock

4. Change the LockFile directive under the appropriate MPM configuration to point to a local file system, for example:

LockFile /local_disk/path/http_lock

5. Restart Oracle HTTP Server.

6. Verify that the http_lock file exists in the directory specified by the LockFile directive.

4.2.21 Enabling High Availability for Oracle JMS Adapter

When the Oracle JMS adapter communicates with multiple servers in a cluster, the adapter's connection factory property FactoryProperties must list available servers. If it does not list servers, the connection establishes to only one random server. If that particular server goes down, no further messages are processed.

To verify that the adapter's JCA connection factory that you use, for example eis/wls/Queue, contains the required properties:

1. Log into your Oracle WebLogic Server console. To access the console, navigate to http://servername:portnumber/console.

2. Click Deployments in the left pane for Domain Structure.

3. Click JMSAdapter under Summary of Deployments on the right pane.

4. Click the Configuration tab.

5. Click the Outbound Connection Pools tab and expand oracle.tip.adapter.jms.IJmsConnectionFactory to see the configured connection factories.

6. Click the specific instance you are using (for example, eis/wls/Queue). The Outbound Connection Properties for the connection factory opens.

7. Click Lock and Edit.

8. In the FactoryProperties field (click on the corresponding cell under Property value), enter the following:

java.naming.factory.initial=weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory;
java.naming.provider.url=t3://soahostvhn1:8001,soahos2tvhn1:8001;java.naming.security.principal=weblogic;java.naming.security.credentials=weblogic1

9. Click Enter, save the changes, and then activate them.

Update the deployment in the console:

1. Click Deployments and select the JMS Adapter.

2. Click Lock and Edit then Update.

3. Select Update this application in place with new deployment plan changes (A deployment plan must be specified for this option.) and select the deployment plan saved in a shared storage location; all servers in the cluster must be able to access the plan).

4. Click Finish and activate the changes.

4.2.22 Oracle Access Manager Servers Fail to Start

In an Identity Management deployment, if you have configured your Administration Server to listen on a virtual host, then in hardware configurations with multiple network cards, Oracle Access Manager managed servers might not start. You might see an error in the log files pertaining to not being able to join the coherence cluster. If this occurs, change the coherence host for Oracle Access Manager from the virtual IP address to the local host where the Administration Server is running.

To do this:

1. Locate the file DOMAIN_HOME/config/fmwconfig/oam-config.xml on the Administration Server host. (Make a backup copy of this file.)

2. Search for the entry:

<Setting Name="Instance" Type="htf:map">
<Setting Name="AdminServer" Type="htf:map">

In this definition block, find an entry that looks like this:

<Setting Name="CoherenceConfiguration" Type="htf:map">
<Setting Name="LocalHost" Type="htf:map">
<Setting Name="Key" Type="xsd:string">oam.coherence.localhost</Setting>
<Setting Name="Value" Type="xsd:string">ADMINVHN.mycompany.com</Setting>
</Setting>

3. Update ADMINVHN to the local host name, for example:

<Setting Name="CoherenceConfiguration" Type="htf:map">
<Setting Name="LocalHost" Type="htf:map">
<Setting Name="Key" Type="xsd:string">oam.coherence.localhost</Setting>
<Setting Name="Value"Type="xsd:string">IDMHOST1.mycompany.com</Setting>
</Setting>

4. Save the file and restart the Administration Server and OAM managed servers.

If you later fail over the Administration Server to another host, update this entry to the host where the server is now located. Then shut down all OAM managed servers and restart the Administration Server and OAM managed servers.

4.3 Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS

If JMS messages and transaction logs are stored on an NFS mounted directory, Oracle strongly recommends that you verify the behavior of a server restart after abrupt machine failures. Depending on the NFS implementation, different issues can arise post failover/restart. You can verify the behavior by abruptly shutting down the node hosting the WebLogic servers while they are running. If the server is configured for server migration, it should start automatically in the failover node after the corresponding failover period. If not, you can manually restart the WebLogic Server on the same host after the node completely reboots. If Oracle WebLogic Server does not restart after abrupt machine failure, the following errors may appear in the server log files:

<MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss a z> <Error> <Store> <BEA-280061> <The persistent
store "_WLS_server_soa1" could not be deployed:
weblogic.store.PersistentStoreException: java.io.IOException:
[Store:280021]There was an error while opening the file store file
"_WLS_SERVER_SOA1000000.DAT"
weblogic.store.PersistentStoreException: java.io.IOException:
[Store:280021]There was an error while opening the file store file
"_WLS_SERVER_SOA1000000.DAT"
at weblogic.store.io.file.Heap.open(Heap.java:168)
at weblogic.store.io.file.FileStoreIO.open(FileStoreIO.java:88)
...
java.io.IOException: Error from fcntl() for file locking, Resource
temporarily unavailable, errno=11

This error occurs because the NFS system does not release the lock on the stores. WebLogic Server maintains locks on files that store JMS data and transaction logs to protect from potential data corruption if you accidentally start two instances of the same WebLogic Server. Because the NFS storage device does not become aware of machine failure in a timely manner, the storage device does not release the locks. As a result, after abrupt machine failure followed by a restart, any subsequent attempt by WebLogic Server to acquire locks on the previously locked files may fail. See your storage vendor documentation for additional information on the locking of files stored in NFS mounted directories on the storage device.

If it is not reasonably possible to tune locking behavior in your NFS environment, use one of the following two solutions to unlock the logs and data files:

Solution 1

Manually unlock the logs and JMS data files and start the servers by creating a copy of the locked persistence store file and using the copy for subsequent operations. To create a copy of the locked persistence store file, rename the file then copy it back to its original name. The following sample steps assume that transaction logs are stored in the /shared/tlogs directory and JMS data is stored in the /shared/jms directory.

cd /shared/tlogs
mv _WLS_SOA_SERVER1000000.DAT _WLS_SOA_SERVER1000000.DAT.old
cp _WLS_SOA_SERVER1000000.DAT.old _WLS_SOA_SERVER1000000.DAT
cd /shared/jms
mv SOAJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT SOAJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT.old
cp SOAJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT.old SOAJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT
mv UMSJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT UMSJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT.old
cp UMSJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT.old UMSJMSFILESTORE_AUTO_1000000.DAT

With this solution, the WebLogic file locking mechanism continues to protect against accidental data corruption if multiple instances of the same servers are accidently started. However, you must restart the servers manually after abrupt machine failures. File stores create multiple consecutively numbered.DAT files when they store large amounts of data. You may need to copy and rename all files when this occurs.

Solution 2

You can also use the WebLogic Server Administration Console to disable WebLogic file locking mechanisms for the default file store, a custom file store, a JMS paging file store, and a Diagnostics file store, as described in the following sections.

WARNING:

With this solution, since the WebLogic locking is disabled, automated server restarts and failovers should succeed. Be cautious, however, when using this option. The WebLogic file locking feature is designed to help prevent severe file corruptions that can occur in undesired concurrency scenarios. If the server using the file store is configured for server migration, always configure the database based leasing option. This enforces additional locking mechanisms using database tables, and prevents automated restart of more than one instance of the same WebLogic Server. Additional procedural precautions must be implemented to avoid any human error and to ensure that one and only one instance of a server is manually started at any give point in time. Similarly, extra precautions must be taken to ensure that no two domains have a store with the same name that references the same directory.

Disabling File Locking for the Default File Store

To disable file locking for the default file store using the WebLogic Server Administration Console:

1. If necessary, click Lock & Edit in the Change Center (upper left corner) of the Administration Console to get an Edit lock for the domain.

2. In the Domain Structure tree, expand the Environment node and select Servers.

3. In the Summary of Servers list, select the server you want to modify.

4. Select the Configuration > Services tab.

5. Scroll down to the Default Store section and click Advanced.

6. Scroll down and deselect the Enable File Locking check box.

7. Click Save. If necessary, click Activate Changes in the Change Center.

8. Restart the server you modified for the changes to take effect.

The resulting config.xml entry will look like the following:

<server>
<name>examplesServer</name>
...
<default-file-store>
<synchronous-write-policy>Direct-Write</synchronous-write-policy>
<io-buffer-size>-1</io-buffer-size>
<max-file-size>1342177280</max-file-size>
<block-size>-1</block-size>
<initial-size>0</initial-size>
<file-locking-enabled>false</file-locking-enabled>
</default-file-store>
</server>

Disabling File Locking for a Custom File Store

To disable file locking for a custom file store using the WebLogic Server Administration Console:

1. If necessary, click Lock & Edit in the Change Center (upper left corner) of the Administration Console to get an Edit lock for the domain.

2. In the Domain Structure tree, expand the Services node and select Persistent Stores.

3. In the Summary of Persistent Stores list, select the custom file store you want to modify.

4. On the Configuration tab for the custom file store, click Advanced to display advanced store settings.

5. Scroll down and deselect the Enable File Locking check box.

6. Click Save. If necessary, click Activate Changes in the Change Center.

7. If the custom file store was in use, you must restart the server for the changes to take effect.

The resulting config.xml entry will look like the following:

<file-store>
<name>CustomFileStore-0</name>
<directory>C:\custom-file-store</directory>
<synchronous-write-policy>Direct-Write</synchronous-write-policy>
<io-buffer-size>-1</io-buffer-size>
<max-file-size>1342177280</max-file-size>
<block-size>-1</block-size>
<initial-size>0</initial-size>
<file-locking-enabled>false</file-locking-enabled>
<target>examplesServer</target>
</file-store>

Disabling File Locking for a JMS Paging File Store

Follow these steps to disable file locking for a JMS paging file store using the WebLogic Server Administration Console:

1. If necessary, click Lock & Edit in the Change Center (upper left corner) of the Administration Console to get an Edit lock for the domain.

2. In the Domain Structure tree, expand the Services node, expand the Messaging node, and select JMS Servers.

3. In the Summary of JMS Servers list, select the JMS server you want to modify.

4. On the Configuration > General tab for the JMS Server, scroll down and deselect the Paging File Locking Enabled check box.

5. Click Save. If necessary, click Activate Changes in the Change Center.

6. Restart the server you modified for the changes to take effect.

The resulting config.xml file entry will look like the following:

<jms-server>
<name>examplesJMSServer</name>
<target>examplesServer</target>
<persistent-store>exampleJDBCStore</persistent-store>
...
<paging-file-locking-enabled>false</paging-file-locking-enabled>
...
</jms-server>

Disabling File Locking for a Diagnostics File Store

To disable file locking for a Diagnostics file store using the WebLogic Server Administration Console:

1. If necessary, click Lock & Edit in the Change Center (upper left corner) of the Administration Console to get an Edit lock for the domain.

2. In the Domain Structure tree, expand the Diagnostics node and select Archives.

3. In the Summary of Diagnostic Archives list, select the server name of the archive that you want to modify.

4. On the Settings for [server_name] page, deselect the Diagnostic Store File Locking Enabled check box.

5. Click Save. If necessary, click Activate Changes in the Change Center.

6. Restart the server you modified for the changes to take effect.

The resulting config.xml file will look like this:

<server>
<name>examplesServer</name>
...
<server-diagnostic-config>
<diagnostic-store-dir>data/store/diagnostics</diagnostic-store-dir>
<diagnostic-store-file-locking-enabled>false</diagnostic-store-file-locking-
enabled>
<diagnostic-data-archive-type>FileStoreArchive</diagnostic-data-archive-type>
<data-retirement-enabled>true</data-retirement-enabled>
<preferred-store-size-limit>100</preferred-store-size-limit>
<store-size-check-period>1</store-size-check-period>
</server-diagnostic-config>
</server>

4.4 Documentation Errata

This section describes documentation errata. It includes the following topics:

- Section 4.4.1, "Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide"

- Section 4.4.2, "Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter"

- Section 4.4.3, "Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management"

- Section 4.4.4, "Documentation Errata for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence"

- Section 4.4.5, "Documentation Errata Affecting Multiple Enterprise Deployment Guides"

4.4.1 Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide

This section contains Documentation Errata for Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide.

It includes the following topic:

- Section 4.4.1.1, "Latest Requirements and Certification Information"

4.4.1.1 Latest Requirements and Certification Information

Several manuals in the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g documentation set have information on Oracle Fusion Middleware system requirements, prerequisites, specifications, and certification information.

- The latest information on Oracle Fusion Middleware system requirements, prerequisites, specifications, and certification information can be found in the following documents on Oracle Technology Network:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_certification.html

This document contains information related to hardware and software requirements, minimum disk space and memory requirements, and required system libraries, packages, or patches.

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Certification information at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_certification.html

This document contains information related to supported installation types, platforms, operating systems, databases, JDKs, and third-party products.

4.4.2 Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter

This section contains Documentation Errata for Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

It includes the following topics:

- Section 4.4.2.1, "Link to Section 8.1.3 is Missing"

- Section 4.4.2.2, "Additional Information for Discussions Forum Mulitcast to Unicast Conversion"

- Section 4.4.2.3, "Additional Discussion Connection Properties Explained in Administration Guide"

4.4.2.1 Link to Section 8.1.3 is Missing

In Section 8.1, "Configuring the Discussion Forum Connection" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter, the link to section 8.1.3, "Creating a Discussions Server Connection for WebCenter From EM" is missing.

4.4.2.2 Additional Information for Discussions Forum Mulitcast to Unicast Conversion

In section 6.14, "Converting Discussions Forum from Multicast to Unicast" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter, the following information is missing from Step 3:

Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2 for WLS_Services2, swapping WCHost1 for WCHost2, and WCHost2 for WCHost1 as follows:

-Dtangosol.coherence.wka1=WCHost2 -Dtangosol.coherence.wka2=WCHost1
-Dtangosol.coherence.localhost=WCHost2 -Dtangosol.coherence.wka1.port=8089
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka2.port=8089

4.4.2.3 Additional Discussion Connection Properties Explained in Administration Guide

For additional Discussions Server connection properties associated with the procedure in Section 8.1.3 "Creating a Discussions Server Connection for WebCenter From EM" of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter, refer to section 12.3.1, "Registering Discussions Servers Using Fusion Middleware Control," in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

4.4.3 Documentation Errata for the Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management

This section contains documentation errata for Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management.

It includes the following topics:

- Section 4.4.3.1, "Set -DDomainRegistrationEnabled=true when Starting Node Manager"

- Section 4.4.3.2, "Ignore Empty Section in the Oracle Virtual Directory Chapter"

4.4.3.1 Set -DDomainRegistrationEnabled=true when Starting Node Manager

The November 2010 edition of Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management failed to mention that, prior to starting the Node Manager that controls the WebLogic Administration Server, you must set -DDomainRegistrationEnabled=true. For example:

export JAVA_OPTIONS=-DDomainRegistrationEnabled=true

4.4.3.2 Ignore Empty Section in the Oracle Virtual Directory Chapter

In the November 2010 edition of Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management, Section 8.1.1 in Chapter 11, "Extending the Domain with Oracle Virtual Directory is an empty section." Please ignore it.

4.4.4 Documentation Errata for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

This section contains documentation errata for Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence.

It includes the following topics:

Section 4.4.4.1, "Additional Step Must be Performed After Setting the Location of the BI Publisher Configuration Folder"

Section 4.4.4.2, "Corrections to the Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog Section"

4.4.4.1 Additional Step Must be Performed After Setting the Location of the BI Publisher Configuration Folder

After restarting Oracle BI Publisher when specifying the location of the configuration folder, as described in Section 6.5.3.1, "Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Publisher Configuration Folder," you must copy the XML configuration file for Oracle BI Publisher from the Managed Server to the Administration Server location. Oracle BI Publisher reads its configuration from the Administration Server central location rather than from the Managed Server's configuration directory when the Managed Servers are restarted.

To do this, on APPHOST1, copy the file xmlp-server-config.xml from:

ORACLE_BASE/admin/domain_name/mserver/domain_name/config/bipublisher

to:

ORACLE_BASE/admin/domain_name/aserver/domain_name/config/bipublisher

4.4.4.2 Corrections to the Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog Section

The "Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog" section of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence should be replaced by the following section:

Each Presentation Services instance loads the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog from the catalog location specified in Fusion Middleware Control.

Perform the following steps:

1. Copy your existing (locally published) Oracle BI Presentation Catalog to the shared location. An example of a locally published catalog is:

ORACLE_INSTANCE/bifoundation/OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent/
coreapplication_obipsn/catalog/SampleAppLite

You must perform this step before designating the Catalog Location from Fusion Middleware Control.

If you plan to use the SampleAppLite catalog mentioned as an example in this section as the shared catalog, make sure to copy it from APPHOST1.

2. Log in to Fusion Middleware Control.

3. Expand the Business Intelligence node in the Farm_domain_name window.

4. Click coreapplication.

5. Click Deployment, then click Repository.

6. Click Lock and Edit Configuration.

7. Specify the Catalog Location for the shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.
In a Windows environment, specify a UNC path name.

8. Click Apply.

9. Click Activate Changes.

4.4.5 Documentation Errata Affecting Multiple Enterprise Deployment Guides

This section describes documentation errata that affects multiple Enterprise Deployment Guides. Any Enterprise Deployment Guide that have the documentation errata issue discussed in the release notes below should be updated as specified in that release note.

It includes these topics:

- Section 4.4.5.1, "Sections on Configuring Oracle Coherence for SOA Composites Need Fixes"

- Section 4.4.5.2, "Updates are Needed to Steps for Testing Server Migration"

- Section 4.4.5.3, "Steps for Updating Data Sources for Server Migration Need Updates"

- Section 4.4.5.4, "Clarification of the Procedure for Configuring the Analytics Collectors"

- Section 4.4.5.5, "Correction to Table 2-2, "Ports Used""

- Section 4.4.5.6, "WebLogic Versions May Not Be Current in Enterprise Deployment Guides"

4.4.5.1 Sections on Configuring Oracle Coherence for SOA Composites Need Fixes

Several Enterprise Deployment Guide manuals have a "Configuring Oracle Coherence for Deploying Composites" section that includes a Note like the following:

Note:
The Coherence cluster used for deployment uses port 8088 by default. This port can be changed by specifying the -Dtangosol.coherence.wkan.port startup parameter.

This Note should read as follows:

Note:
The Coherence cluster used for deployment uses port 8088 by default. This port can be changed by specifying a different port (for example, 8089) with the -Dtangosol.coherence.wkan.port and -Dtangosol.coherence.localport startup parameters. For example:
WLS_SOA1 (enter the following into the Arguments field on a single line, without a carriage return):

-Dtangosol.coherence.wka1=soahost1vhn1
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka2=soahost2vhn1
-Dtangosol.coherence.localhost=soahost1vhn1
-Dtangosol.coherence.localport=8089
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka1.port=8089
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka2.port=8089

WLS_SOA2 (enter the following into the Arguments field on a single line, without a carriage return):

-Dtangosol.coherence.wka1=soahost1vhn1
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka2=soahost2vhn1
-Dtangosol.coherence.localhost=soahost2vhn1
-Dtangosol.coherence.localport=8089
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka1.port=8089
-Dtangosol.coherence.wka2.port=8089

4.4.5.2 Updates are Needed to Steps for Testing Server Migration

Several Enterprise Deployment Guide manuals have one or more subsections that describe how to test server migration.

The following Note should appear at the end of every section on testing server migration:

Note:
After a server is migrated, to fail it back to its original node/machine, stop the managed server from the Oracle WebLogic Administration Console and then start it again. The appropriate Node Manager will start the managed server on the machine to which it was originally assigned.

4.4.5.3 Steps for Updating Data Sources for Server Migration Need Updates

Several Enterprise Deployment Guide manuals have one or more subsections that describe how to update the data sources used for leasing when you configure server migration.

The following text appears in the instructions on how to update data sources for leasing as part of server migration configuration:

Use Supports Global Transactions, One-Phase Commit, and specify a service name for your database

That text should appear as follows:

Data sources do not require support for global transactions. Therefore, do not use any type of distributed transaction emulation/participation algorithm for the data source (do not choose the Supports Global Transactions option, or the Logging Last Resource, Emulate Two-Phase Commit, or One-Phase Commit options of the Supports Global Transactions option), and specify a service name for your database.

4.4.5.4 Clarification of the Procedure for Configuring the Analytics Collectors

Section 6.4.16, "Configuring the Analytics" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide contains content that indicates that you must configure an analytic collector cluster. In fact, there is no need to configure the collectors themselves. Instead, the procedure in this section explains how to configure the Oracle WebCenter Spaces servers to communicate with the analytic collectors.

Further, for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0), clustered analytics collectors are not supported for collecting WebCenter events.

4.4.5.5 Correction to Table 2-2, "Ports Used"

In Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence, Chapter 2, "Database and Environment Preconfiguration," Table 2-2 lists the ports used in the Oracle Business Intelligence topology. The following additional information should be included in the table above the row containing "Database Access:"

- Type: Database access for BI Server and BI Publisher JDBC Data Sources

- Firewall: FW1

- Port and Port Range: Listening port for client connections to the listener.

- Protocol/Application: SQL*Net

- Inbound/Outbound: Both

- Other Considerations and Timeout Guidelines: Timeout depends on all database content and on the type of process model used for BI.

Note:
This issue was fixed in the E15722-03 revision of Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence.

4.4.5.6 WebLogic Versions May Not Be Current in Enterprise Deployment Guides

The version numbers for Oracle WebLogic Server that appear in some of the Enterprise Deployment Guides may not be updated. The correct WebLogic version for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.5.0 is 10.3.5.0.

Part II

Oracle Development Tools

Part II contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 5, "Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)"

- Chapter 6, "Oracle TopLink"

5 Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)

The latest known issues associated with Oracle JDeveloper and Application Developer Framework (ADF) are available on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/index-101256.html.

For more information and technical resources for Oracle JDeveloper and Application Developer Framework (ADF), visit the product center on the Oracle Technology Network at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/overview/index.html.

6 Oracle TopLink

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle TopLink. It includes the following topics:

- Section 6.1, "General Issues and Workarounds"

6.1 General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes general issue and workarounds. It includes the following topic:

- Section 6.1.1, "TopLink Object-Relational Issues"

- Section 6.1.2, "TopLink Workbench Issues"

- Section 6.1.3, "Oracle Database Extensions with TopLink"

- Section 6.1.4, "Allowing Zero Value Primary Keys"

- Section 6.1.5, "Managed Servers on Sybase with JCA Oracle Database Service"

- Section 6.1.6, "Logging Configuration with EclipseLink Using Container Managed JPA"

- Section 6.1.7, "Grid Cache requires CacheLoader"

6.1.1 TopLink Object-Relational Issues

This section contains information on the following issues:

- Section 6.1.1.1, "Incorrect outer join SQL on SQLServer2005"

- Section 6.1.1.2, "UnitOfWork.release() not Supported with External Transaction Control"

- Section 6.1.1.3, "Returning Policy for UPDATE with Optimistic Locking"

- Section 6.1.1.4, "JDBC Drivers returning Timestamps as Strings"

- Section 6.1.1.5, "Proxy Authentication with Oracle Containers for Java EE (OC4J) Managed Data Sources"

- Section 6.1.1.6, "Unit of Work does not add Deleted Objects to Change Set"

6.1.1.1 Incorrect outer join SQL on SQLServer2005

TopLink generates incorrect outer join for SQL Server v2005. The outer join syntax generated is correct for earlier versions of this database. To work around this limitation, reconfigure the database compatibility (refer to the SQLServer documentation for details). Alternatively, you can use a custom TopLink database platform.

6.1.1.2 UnitOfWork.release() not Supported with External Transaction Control

A unit of work synchronized with a Java Transaction API (JTA) will throw an exception if it is released. If the current transaction requires its changes to not be persisted, the JTA transaction must be rolled back.

When in a container-demarcated transaction, call setRollbackOnly() on the EJB/session context:

@Stateless
public class MySessionBean
{    @Resource
SessionContext sc;

public void someMethod()
{
...
sc.setRollbackOnly();
}
}

When in a bean-demarcated transaction then you call rollback() on the UserTransaction obtained from the EJB/session context:

@Stateless
@TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.BEAN)
public class MySessionBean implements SomeInterface
{
@Resource
SessionContext sc;

public void someMethod()
{
sc.getUserTransaction().begin();
...
sc.getUserTransaction().rollback();
}
}

6.1.1.3 Returning Policy for UPDATE with Optimistic Locking

The returning policy, which allows values modified during INSERT and UPDATE to be returned and populated in cached objects, does not work in conjunction with numeric version optimistic locking for UPDATE. The value returned for all UPDATE operations is 1 and does not provide meaningful locking protection.

Do not use a returning policy for UPDATE in conjunction with numeric optimistic locking.

The use of returning policy for INSERT when using optimistic locking works correctly.

6.1.1.4 JDBC Drivers returning Timestamps as Strings

TopLink assumes that date and time information returned from the server will use Timestamp. If the JDBC driver returns a String for the current date, TopLink will throw an exception. This is the case when using a DB2 JDBC driver.

To work around this issue, consider using a driver that returns Timestamp (such as COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver) or change the policy to use local time instead of server time.

Another option is to use a query re-director on the ValueReadQuery used by the platform:

ValueReadQuery vrq = new ValueReadQuery(
"SELECT to_char(sysdate, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSSSS') FROM DUAL"
);
vrq.setRedirector(new TSQueryRedirector());
...
class TSQueryRedirector implements QueryRedirector
{
public Object invokeQuery(DatabaseQuery query, Record arguments, Session session)
{
String value = (String)session.executeQuery(query);
return ConversionManager.getDefaultManager().convertObject(
value, java.sql.Timestamp.class
);
}
}

6.1.1.5 Proxy Authentication with Oracle Containers for Java EE (OC4J) Managed Data Sources

Proxy authentication does not work with OC4J managed data sources. Instead of using the data source provided by the application server, you must create a data source yourself.

Refer to the "Configuring Oracle Database Proxy Authentication" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle TopLink for more information.

For example, replace this code:

login.setConnector(
new OracleJDBC10_1_0_2ProxyConnector(
((JNDIConnectorlogin.getConnector()).getName()
)
);

with the following:

oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource ds = new oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource();
ds.setUser("MyMainUser");
ds.setPassword("MyPassword");
ds.setUrl("jdbc:oracle:thin:@MyServer:1521:MyDb");
login.setConnector(new OracleJDBC10_1_0_2ProxyConnector(ds));

6.1.1.6 Unit of Work does not add Deleted Objects to Change Set

When accessing the change set of a Unit of Work to determine what has changed, objects that are pending deletion (such as uow.deleteObject( ) and uow.deleteAllObjects( )) will not be returned from the result set.

The objects pending deletion are only available through the Unit of Work getDeletedObjects call.

6.1.2 TopLink Workbench Issues

This section contains information on the following issues:

- Section 6.1.2.1, "Accessibility"

- Section 6.1.2.2, "Running the TopLink Workbench on Windows OS"

6.1.2.1 Accessibility

Due to an issue with Sun JDK 1.6, if NullPointExecption error dialog is generated when saving a file, the error dialog window is not in focus.

6.1.2.2 Running the TopLink Workbench on Windows OS

Due to an issue with certain configurations and versions of Windows operating systems, users that launch the TopLink Workbench with the workbench.cmd file may receive a dialog that states: Could not find the main class. This occurs because the classpath specified contains a directory path which has periods in it. The workaround is to rename the offending directory or change the classpath to use directory paths which do not contain periods.

6.1.3 Oracle Database Extensions with TopLink

This section contains information on the following issue:

- Section 6.1.3.1, "Template JAR for Spatial and XDB Support in Oracle WebLogic Server"

6.1.3.1 Template JAR for Spatial and XDB Support in Oracle WebLogic Server

To fully support Oracle Spatial and Oracle XDB mapping capabilities (in both standalone Oracle WebLogic Server and the Oracle JDeveloper integrated WebLogic Server), you must use the toplink-spatial-template.jar and toplink-xdb-template.jar to extend the WebLogic Server domain to support Oracle Spatial and XDB, respectively.

To extend your WebLogic Server domain:

1. Download the toplink-spatial-template.jar (to support Oracle Spatial) and toplink-xdb-template.jar (to support Oracle XDB) files from:

- http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/toplink/111110/toplink-spatial-template.jar

- http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/toplink/111110/toplink-xdb-template.jar

2. Use Table 6-1, "To Support Oracle Spatial" or Table 6-2, "To Support Oracle XDB" to determine which files to copy.

Table 6-1 To Support Oracle Spatial

Copy this file

From...Foot 1

To...Foot 2

sdoapi.jar

<ORACLE_DATABASE_HOME>/md/jlib

<WEBLOGIC_HOME>/server/lib

Footnote 1 These are the default locations. Your actual location may vary depending on your specific environment, installed options, and version.

Footnote 2 When using Oracle JDeveloper integrated WebLogic Server, the <WEBLOGIC_HOME> is located within the <JDEVELOPER_HOME> directory.

Table 6-2 To Support Oracle XDB

Copy this file

From...Foot 1

To...Foot 2

xdb.jar

<ORACLE_DATABASE_HOME>/rdbms/jlib

<WEBLOGIC_HOME>/server/lib

xml.jar

<ORACLE_DATABASE_HOME>/lib

<WEBLOGIC_HOME>/server/lib

xmlparserv2.jar

<ORACLE_DATABASE_HOME>/lib

<WEBLOGIC_HOME>/server/lib

ori18n-mapping.jarFoot 3

<ORACLE_DATABASE_HOME>/jlib

<WEBLOGIC_HOME>/server/lib

Footnote 1 These are the default locations. Your actual location may vary depending on your specific environment, installed options, and version.

Footnote 2 When using Oracle JDeveloper integrated WebLogic Server, the <WEBLOGIC_HOME> is located within the <JDEVELOPER_HOME> directory.

Footnote 3 Use orai18n-mapping.jar for Oracle Database 11.2 and higher.

Note:
Although the actual JAR file may be named differently in your From directory, the file must be named as shown, when copied to the To directory.

3. Launch the Config Wizard (<WEBLOGIC_HOME>/common/bin/config.sh (or .bat).

4. Select Extend an existing WebLogic domain.

5. Browse and select your WebLogic Server domain.
When using JDeveloper with integrated WebLogic Server, the typical WebLogic Server domain location may be similar to:

- In Windows environments: %APPDATA%\JDeveloper\systemXX.XX.XX.XX\DefaultDomain
where XX.XX.XX.XX is the unique number of the product build.

For Windows platforms, you must enable the Show hidden files and folders folder option.

- In non-Windows environments, the default location is under the current user's default home directory: <$Home>/DefaultDomain

Refer to the Oracle JDeveloper documentation for details.

6. Select Extend my domain using an existing extension template.

7. Browse and select the required template JAR (toplink-spatial-template.jar for Oracle Spatial, toplink-xdb-template.jar for Oracle XDB).

8. Complete the remaining pages of the wizard.

6.1.4 Allowing Zero Value Primary Keys

By default, EclipseLink interprets zero as null for primitive types that cannot be null (such as int and long) causing zero to be an invalid value for primary keys. You can modify this setting by using the allow-zero-id property in the persistence.xml file. Valid values are:

- true – EclipseLink interprets zero values as zero. This permits primary keys to use a value of zero.

- false (default) – EclipseLink interprets zero as null.

Refer the EclipseLink User's Guide at http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/UserGuide for more information.

6.1.5 Managed Servers on Sybase with JCA Oracle Database Service

When using a JCA service with the Oracle Database adapter in a cluster to perform database operations on a Sybase database, the managed nodes in the cluster process the messages and may attempt to perform duplicate operations.

Because supported versions of Sybase do not support Oracle TopLink record locking, Sybase allows the duplicate operation attempts.

6.1.6 Logging Configuration with EclipseLink Using Container Managed JPA

By default, EclipseLink users in container managed JPA will use the Oracle WebLogic Server logging options to report all log messages generated by EclipseLink. Refer to "Configuring WebLogic Logging Services" in Oracle® Fusion Middleware Configuring Log Files and Filtering Log Messages for Oracle WebLogic Server.

To use the EclipseLink native logging configuration, add the following property to your persistence.xml file:

<property name="eclipselink.logging.logger" value="DefaultLogger"/>

6.1.7 Grid Cache requires CacheLoader

An oracle.eclipselink.coherence.integrated.EclipseLinkJPACacheLoader must be configured for entities configured as Grid Cache to ensure the necessary TopLink Grid wrapper class is generated.

Part III

Web Tier

Part III contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 7, "Oracle HTTP Server"

- Chapter 8, "Oracle Web Cache"

7 Oracle HTTP Server

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle HTTP Server. However, there are no known issues at this time.

8 Oracle Web Cache

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle Web Cache. It includes the following topics:

- Section 8.1, "Configuration Issues and Workarounds"

8.1 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

This section describes configuration issues and their workarounds. It includes the following topics:

- Section 8.1.1, "Reset the Random Password Generated When Installing Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer"

- Section 8.1.2, "Running Oracle Web Cache Processes as a Different User Is Not Supported"

8.1.1 Reset the Random Password Generated When Installing Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer

For enhanced security, no default hard-coded passwords are used for managing Oracle Web Cache.

When you install the Oracle Web Tier installation type, the Oracle Universal Installer prompts you to choose a password. The Web Cache Administrator page of the Oracle Universal Installer prompts you to enter a password for the administrator account. The administrator account is the Oracle Web Cache administrator authorized to log in to Oracle Web Cache Manager and make configuration changes through that interface.

When you install Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer, the prompt for the administrator password is missing. Instead, the Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer install type uses a random value chosen at install time.

Regardless of the installation type, before you begin configuration, change the passwords for these accounts to a secure password. If you are configuring a cache cluster, all members of the cluster must use the same password for the administrator account.

To change the password, use the Passwords page of Fusion Middleware Control, as described in "Configuring Password Security" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Web Cache.

8.1.2 Running Oracle Web Cache Processes as a Different User Is Not Supported

Running Oracle Web Cache as a user other than the installed user through the use of the webcache_setuser.sh setidentity command is not supported.

Specifically, you cannot change the user ID with the following sequence:

1. Change the process identity of the Oracle Web Cache processes in the Process Identity page using Oracle Web Cache Manager (Properties > Process Identity).

2. Use the webcache_setuser.sh script as follows to change file and directory ownership:

webcache_setuser.sh setidentity user_ID

user_ID is the user you specified in the User ID field of the Process Identity page.

3. Restart Oracle Web Cache using opmnctl.
Oracle Web Cache will start and then immediately shut down.

In addition, messages similar to the following are displayed in the event log:

[2009-06-02T21:22:46+00:00] [webcache] [ERROR:1] [WXE-13212] [logging] [ecid: ]
Access log file /scratch/webtier/home/instances/instance1/diagnostics/logs/WebCache/webcache1/access_log could not be opened.
[2009-06-02T21:22:46+00:00] [webcache] [WARNING:1] [WXE-13310] [io] [ecid: ]
Problem opening file /scratch/webtier/home/instances/instance1/config/WebCache/webcache1/webcache.pid (Access Denied).
[2009-06-02T21:22:46+00:00] [webcache] [ERROR:1] [WXE-11985] [esi] [ecid: ]
Oracle Web Cache is unable to obtain the size of the default ESI fragment page
/scratch/webtier/home/instances/instance1/config/WebCache/webcache1/files/esi_fragment_error.txt.
[2009-06-02T21:22:46+00:00] [webcache] [WARNING:1] [WXE-11905] [security]
[ecid: ] SSL additional information: The system could not open the specified file.

For more information about the webcache_setuser.sh script, see "Running webcached with Root Privilege" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Web Cache.

Part IV

Oracle WebLogic Server

Part IV contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 9, "Oracle WebLogic Server"

9 Oracle WebLogic Server

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle WebLogic Server. It includes the following topics:

- Section 9.1, "General Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.2, "Administration Console Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.3, "Apache Beehive Support Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.4, "Clustering Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.5, "Configuration Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.6, "Connector (Resource Adapter) Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.7, "Console Extensions Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.8, "Core Server and Core Work Manager Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.9, "Deployment Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.10, "EJB Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.11, "Examples Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.12, "HTTP Publish/Subscribe Server Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.13, "Installation Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.14, "Java EE Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.15, "JDBC Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.16, "JMS Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.17, "JNDI Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.18, "JSP and Servlet Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.19, "JTA Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.20, "Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.21, "Monitoring Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.22, "Node Manager Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.23, "Operations, Administration, and Management Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.24, "Oracle Kodo Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.25, "Protocols Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.26, "RMI-IIOP Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.27, "Security Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.28, "SNMP Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.29, "Spring Framework on WebLogic Server Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.30, "System Component Architecture (SCA) Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.31, "Upgrade Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.32, "Web Applications Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.33, "WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.34, "Web Server Plug-Ins Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.35, "Web Services and XML Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.36, "WebLogic Tuxedo Connector Issues and Workarounds"

- Section 9.37, "Documentation Errata"

Note:
For a list of bugs that are fixed in WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.5), enter the following document ID in the Search Knowledge Base field. You must enter the entire document ID.
1302753.1

9.1 General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.1.1, "Oracle WebLogic Server Version Number"

- Section 9.1.2, "Oracle ojdbc14.jar File Has Been Changed to ojdbc6.jar"

- Section 9.1.3, "Strong Password Enforcement May Cause Issues With WLST Offline Scripts"

- Section 9.1.4, "In Turkish Locale, MDS Initialization Fails"

- Section 9.1.5, "Administration Server Reports a 'Too Many Open Files' Message on the EM Console"

9.1.1 Oracle WebLogic Server Version Number

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g contains Oracle WebLogic Server 11g. The version number of Oracle WebLogic Server is 10.3.5.

9.1.2 Oracle ojdbc14.jar File Has Been Changed to ojdbc6.jar

The Oracle ojdbc14.jar file has been changed to ojdbc6.jar, for use with JDK 5 or 6. As a result, any explicit references you make to ojdbc14.jar must be changed to ojdbc6.jar.

9.1.3 Strong Password Enforcement May Cause Issues With WLST Offline Scripts

With the implementation of strong password enforcement (8 character minimum with one numeric or special character) in this release of WebLogic Server, existing scripts could potentially encounter issues.

Workaround

Use either of the following workarounds to bypass the new password restrictions.

- Set the BACKWARD_COMPAT_PW_CHECK environment variable to true.

- Include the -Dbackward.compat.pw.check=true option when invoking WLST.

Oracle recommends that you change passwords to comply with the new password requirements, as this variable and option will be removed in a future release of WebLogic Server.

9.1.4 In Turkish Locale, MDS Initialization Fails

Any applications that use an MDS repository cannot be deployed or run with the JAXB version bundled with WebLogic Server as null values are returned for attributes named id.

Workaround

Start the server in English locale.

9.1.5 Administration Server Reports a 'Too Many Open Files' Message on the EM Console

The WebLogic Server Administration Server reports a Too Many Open Files message on the Enterprise Manager (EM) console when the maximum number of file descriptors configured for the Administration Server is less than 65535.

Workaround

Increase the number of file descriptors within the shell and restart the WLS Administration Server within that shell. The command to increase the number of file descriptors (nofiles) differs across Operating Systems and shells but it's usually done with the ulimit command on UNIX platforms so consult the man pages for ulimit.

Execute the following command to determine the maximum number of file descriptors currently configured:

cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

If the value is less than 65535, perform the following steps:

1. Edit the file /etc/security/limits.conf with root permission:

> sudo vi /etc/security/limits.conf

2. Append the following two lines, using a value of 65535 or greater:

3. *                soft    nofile          65535
*                hard    nofile          65535

4. Start a new terminal session.

5. Execute the limit descriptors command to verify that descriptors has been increased to the specified value (at least 65535).

> limit descriptors
descriptors  65535

9.2 Administration Console Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.2.1, "Console Help Viewer Does Not Display Help Table of Contents or Search"

- Section 9.2.2, "Cached JDBC Information is not Displayed"

- Section 9.2.3, "Pressing Browser Back Button Discards Context"

- Section 9.2.4, "Unsupported Work Manager Configurations Can Be Created"

- Section 9.2.5, "Server Status Table Reflects Inconsistent Information"

- Section 9.2.6, "Exceptions When Defining a Security Policy for an EJB"

- Section 9.2.7, "Administration Console Does Not Always Reflect External Changes Made in a Deployment Plan"

- Section 9.2.8, "Oracle OCI Driver Support"

- Section 9.2.9, "Data Takes a Long Time to Display on the Metric Browser Tab"

9.2.1 Console Help Viewer Does Not Display Help Table of Contents or Search

The WebLogic Server Administration Console help is displayed without the Help Contents appearing in the left pane or a functional search.

Workaround

Disabling the SIP and WTC l10n console extensions resolves this issue. In the banner toolbar region at the top of the right pane of the Console, select Preferences > Extensions. Select the check box next to sipserver-console-ext-l10n and wtc-l10n, click Disable and restart the Administration Server.

9.2.2 Cached JDBC Information is not Displayed

Information about cached JDBC statements is not displayed on the JDBC Monitoring pages.

9.2.3 Pressing Browser Back Button Discards Context

After a page flow completes in the Administration Console, it forwards to a different page, typically a table.

Pressing the browser Back button at this point results in an attempt to load the last JSP file in the completed assistant. At this point, all of the context for this assistant is discarded.

Workaround

Oracle recommends that you do not use the browser Back button to step back into an assistant once changes are cancelled or finished, and that you do not go back to a previous step in an assistant. Instead, use the navigation links and buttons in the Administration Console.

9.2.4 Unsupported Work Manager Configurations Can Be Created

The Administration Console permits the creation of Work Manager configurations that are not supported and do not function as intended. Incorrect Work Manager configurations may result in a number of exceptions being recorded in the server logs, most commonly 'Validation problems were found' exceptions while parsing deployment descriptors.

Workaround

Follow the guidelines described in the online help for Work Manager configurations. Specifically, you can only assign one request class to any given Work Manager, and that request class must be of the same or a broader scope than the Work Manager. You should not assign an application-scoped request class to a global Work Manager, and you should not create more than one application-scoped request class for an application-scoped Work Manager.

Correcting the Work Manager configurations to match the documented constraints resolves these issues.

9.2.5 Server Status Table Reflects Inconsistent Information

The Server Status table on the Cluster: Monitoring: Summary page includes two default columns: Primary and Secondary Distribution Names. These fields do not always reflect all of the replication statistics that are collected and displayed on the Cluster: Monitoring: Failover page, depending on the replication scenario.

Please refer to the Cluster: Monitoring: Failover page for definitive information.

9.2.6 Exceptions When Defining a Security Policy for an EJB

When defining security policies in the Administration Console for an EJB deployment that references types defined in a separate library deployment, exceptions can be observed if that library deployment is not available to the Console.

Workaround

All library deployments should be targeted at the WebLogic Server Administration Server as well as any Managed Servers needed to support referencing applications. This will ensure that when defining policies, the Console will have access to those library deployments so that referenced types can be class-loaded as needed.

9.2.7 Administration Console Does Not Always Reflect External Changes Made in a Deployment Plan

The Administration Console does not always reflect external changes made in a deployment plan. If a change is made in a deployment plan outside of the Console (for example, using Workshop, editing the plan text files directly, or updating a deployment with a new plan using WLST or webLogic.Deployer) while a Console user is also viewing that deployment plan, the Console user will not see those changes.

Workaround

Navigate to a configuration page for a different deployment, then navigate back to the original deployment again.

9.2.8 Oracle OCI Driver Support

The Oracle OCI driver is no longer explicitly listed as a preconfigured driver type in the Administration Console.

Workaround

The Oracle OCI driver remains a supported driver for application data connectivity, consistent with prior releases of Oracle WebLogic Server. However, users must now specify all required configuration properties manually, including the data base username.

9.2.9 Data Takes a Long Time to Display on the Metric Browser Tab

When using Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) to display data on the Metric Browser tab of the Monitoring Dashboard, it takes an unusually long time for the data to display, and during this time, the page is unresponsive. The amount of time it takes to display data on this tab depends on the size of the domain.

Workaround

If you need to display data on the Monitoring Dashboard > Metric Browser tab, open the Administration Console in a supported web browser other than IE 7, such as Internet Explorer 8 or greater, Firefox 3 or greater, or Safari 4 or greater.

9.3 Apache Beehive Support Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Apache Beehive Support issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.4 Clustering Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issue and workaround:

- Section 9.4.1, "Threads Are Blocked on Cluster Messaging in Unicast Mode"

9.4.1 Threads Are Blocked on Cluster Messaging in Unicast Mode

When using Unicast mode for cluster communication, many threads are blocked on cluster messaging, which may result in cluster members having difficulty sending heartbeat messages. In this situation, some cluster members drop out from the cluster and may take some time to rejoin the cluster.

Workaround

Set the following system property to resolve this issue:

-Dweblogic.unicast.HttpPing=true

9.5 Configuration Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.5.1, "Directory For a Non-Existent Server Name Is Created"

- Section 9.5.2, "Abnormal Behavior in Terminal Window After Entering WebLogic Password"

- Section 9.5.3, "Creating and Updating Domains Takes Too Long"

- Section 9.5.4, "Password Field Is Not Editable When Configuring a New Domain"

9.5.1 Directory For a Non-Existent Server Name Is Created

If you attempt to connect to the WebLogic Server Administration Server with a non-existent server name, a directory for the non-existent server name is created under the domain_name/servers directory.

Workaround

Specify a valid server name when connecting to the Administration Server.

9.5.2 Abnormal Behavior in Terminal Window After Entering WebLogic Password

After pressing Ctrl-C to terminate the startManagedWebLogic.sh process immediately after entering the WebLogic password, abnormal behavior may be experienced in the terminal window. For example, when pressing Return, the prompt is tabbed instead of going to the next line, and any characters that are entered at the prompt are not displayed in the terminal.

Workaround

Either close the current xterm and start a new one, or enter stty echo into the xterm.

9.5.3 Creating and Updating Domains Takes Too Long

It can take a long time to create or update WebLogic Server domains when:

- Installing WebLogic Server on UNIX or Linux operating systems if the Server Examples are included in the installation.

- Using the WebLogic Server Configuration Wizard to create or update a domain.

- Using WLST to create or update a domain.

Workaround

Set the CONFIG_JVM_ARGS environment variable to the following value:

-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom

9.5.4 Password Field Is Not Editable When Configuring a New Domain

On Linux systems, when creating a new domain in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard, the Password and Confirm Password fields are sometimes not editable, and you cannot enter a password to create a domain.

Workaround

There are two ways to work around this issue:

- To work around the issue each time it happens, click the Close Window X button in the upper right corner of the Configuration Wizard. In the confirmation dialog that appears, click No to return to the Configuration Wizard. You can then enter and confirm the password for the domain.

- To fix this issue permanently:

1. Kill all scim processes. For example:
kill `pgrep scim`

2. Modify (or create) the file ~/.scim/config to include the following line (case-sensitive):
/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = true

3. If you are running VNC, restart the VNC server.

4. Run the Configuration Wizard again.

9.6 Connector (Resource Adapter) Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Connector (Resource Adapter) issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.7 Console Extensions Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Extensions issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.8 Core Server and Core Work Manager Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.8.1, "Threads Become Stuck While Waiting to Get a Connection"

- Section 9.8.2, "Using IPv6-Formatted Addresses"

- Section 9.8.3, "Server Cannot Be Started After a Whole Server Migration"

- Section 9.8.4, "Object State is not Retained After Renaming Field"

- Section 9.8.5, "Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order"

- Section 9.8.6, "Servers Configured to Listen on a Host Name Are Listening on a Different Host Name After Startup"

- Section 9.8.7, "Administration Server or Node Manager Cannot Track the Status of a Managed Server"

- Section 9.8.8, "Multicast Traffic Observed to be Unreliable During or After a Network Partition"

9.8.1 Threads Become Stuck While Waiting to Get a Connection

When a machine that is hosting one of the Managed Servers is abruptly shut down, a network cable is pulled, or its network interface card has issues, and any server attempts communication with that managed server, threads become stuck waiting to get a connection.

Workaround

This can currently be resolved by using a private flag:

-Dweblogic.client.SocketConnectTimeoutInSecs

and setting an appropriate timeout value that will release the thread attempting to make the connection and allow the request to fail quickly.

9.8.2 Using IPv6-Formatted Addresses

When using an IPv6-formatted address for WebLogic Server, the URL should include square brackets ('[' and ']') for the host address. Otherwise, WLST may fail to connect to the running server.

Workaround

Add square brackets to the host address. For example:

t3://[fe80:0:0:0:203:baff:fe2f:59e5]:9991

9.8.3 Server Cannot Be Started After a Whole Server Migration

If the WebLogic Server Administration Server is down when a Whole Server Migration occurs for a clustered server, and the server migrates to a machine on which it was never run before, the server cannot be started on the new machine.

Workaround

Use one of the following workarounds for this issue:

- Ensure that the Administration Server is up when the server migration is being performed.

- Use a shared disk/NFS for all the migratable servers in the cluster.

9.8.4 Object State is not Retained After Renaming Field

When FastSwap is enabled in a J2EE application, you can make certain types of changes to Java classes during development and expect to see the change without re-deploying, with all instance states of the Java object being retained.

One type of change that does NOT retain the object state is that when a field name is changed, it is treated as follows:

- the field with old name is deleted

- the field with new name is added

Thus, in this case, any state in the old field is not carried over to the renamed field.

Using the Workshop or FastSwap ant task, you may see a FastSwap operation completed successfully message, even when an instance field name change causes a value reset.

Workaround

You should expect an instance value to be reset when you change a field name.

9.8.5 Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order

The following conditions can cause very frequent JNDI updates, and as a result, JMS subscribers may encounter a java.naming.NameNotFoundException:

1. Unicast messaging is being used for cluster communication.

2. The JMS topic connection is set with setReconnectPolicy("all").

3. JMS durable subscribers on topic are created and removed very frequently.

Workaround

To fix this issue, a new property, MessageOrderingEnabled, has been added to the ClusterMBean. This property forces unicast messages to be processed in strict order. By default, this property is not enabled. To enable the property, add the following line manually to the <cluster> element in config.xml.

<message-ordering-enabled>true</message-ordering-enabled>

9.8.6 Servers Configured to Listen on a Host Name Are Listening on a Different Host Name After Startup

When using a host name to specify configuring the listen address on the WebLogic Server Administration Server or a Managed Server, machines that are configured with multiple Ethernet cards may listen on a different host name after startup. For example:

- The machine has 3 Ethernet cards

- Card 1 is mapped to hostname1-s (DNS registered host name)

- Card 2 is mapped to hostname1-i (DNS registered host name)

- Card 3 is mapped to hostname1 (actual node's host name)

- You configure the server to listen on hostname1

- After starting the server, it is listening on hostname1-s because Windows resolves the actual node's host name to the first enabled Ethernet card address

Workaround

Use one of the following three workarounds for this issue:

1. Use the IP address, instead of the host name, as the listen address of the WebLogic Server Administration Server. On Managed Servers, use the IP address as the listen address, or configure the actual physical host name to the first Ethernet card in the machine.

2. Add the following entry to the C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on the machine:
<ip_address> <hostname>

3. Change the order of the network cards in the machine so that the card with the actual node's host name is Card 1.

9.8.7 Administration Server or Node Manager Cannot Track the Status of a Managed Server

If you start a managed server by providing an incorrect WebLogic Server Administration Server URL from the command line (that is, the Administration Server cannot be reachable at the provided URL), the managed server will start in Managed Server Independence (MSI) mode.

In this case, neither the Administration Server nor Node Manager can track the status of the managed server. The Administration Console will show the status of the managed server as UNKNOWN, but the server will actually be RUNNING in MSI mode.

9.8.8 Multicast Traffic Observed to be Unreliable During or After a Network Partition

During or after a network partition that causes a server migration to take place, multicast traffic has been observed to be unreliable. For example, one node may be receiving multicast traffic, but traffic originating from this node is not received on other nodes in the network. As a result, the migrated servers are not added to the cluster because their heartbeats were not received.

Workaround

Currently, the only known workaround is to use unicast cluster messaging.

9.9 Deployment Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.9.1, "security-permission Element is not Available in weblogic-application.xml"

- Section 9.9.2, "Extraneous String Values Interpreted as File Specification"

- Section 9.9.3, "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is Displayed"

- Section 9.9.4, "The restore Method Does Not Update the DConfig Bean With Plan Overrides"

- Section 9.9.5, "config-root <directory> not found Warning Is Displayed When Applying a Plan"

- Section 9.9.6, "Deployment Task Fails When a Large Application File Is Deployed"

- Section 9.9.7, "Application State Is Not Updated If the Server Starts in MSI Mode"

- Section 9.9.8, "Attempting to Redeploy an Application Fails if the Application is Already Deployed Using a Different Source File Location"

9.9.1 security-permission Element is not Available in weblogic-application.xml

The security-permission element is available in the weblogic.xml and weblogic-ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptors, but is not available in the weblogic-application.xml descriptor. Therefore, in an Enterprise application, you can only apply security policies to JAR files that are EJBs or Web applications.

9.9.2 Extraneous String Values Interpreted as File Specification

The weblogic.Deployer tool interprets any extraneous string values between command-line arguments as a file specification. For example, if you enter the command:

java weblogic.Deployer -activate -nostage true -name myname -source c:\myapp\mymodule

the tool attempts to activate a file specification named true, because the -nostage option takes no arguments and true is an extraneous string value.

9.9.3 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError is Displayed

While using the WebLogic Server Administration Console with applications or EJBs deployed on a Managed Server that depend on a deployed library, you may encounter a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.

Workaround

The WebLogic Server Administration Console needs access to any shared library deployments so that Java data types and annotations can be processed. Therefore, all shared library deployments should always be targeted to the WebLogic Server Administration Server in addition to any Managed Servers or clusters.

9.9.4 The restore Method Does Not Update the DConfig Bean With Plan Overrides

The restore method does not correctly update the DConfig Bean with the plan overrides. For example, given the following steps:

DeployableObject dObject =
WebLogicDeployableObject.createDeployableObject(new File(appName));
DeploymentConfiguration dConfig =
WebLogicDeploymentManager.createConfiguration(dObject);
dConfig.restore(new FileInputStream(new File(plan)));

the plan does not correctly override the DConfig Bean.

Workaround

Specify the plan when initializing the configuration for the application. For example:

helper = SessionHelper.getInstance(
SessionHelper.getDisconnectedDeploymentManager());
helper.setApplication(app);
helper.setPlan(new File(plan));
helper.initializeConfiguration();

9.9.5 config-root <directory> not found Warning Is Displayed When Applying a Plan

If you use the Administration Console to make configuration changes to an application, a deployment plan will be generated. If external descriptors are generated as part of the deployment plan, they are placed in the config root plan directory. This directory will be set in the deployment plan 'config-root' attribute.

If no external descriptors are required, the config root directory will not be created, and a warning is displayed when you apply the deployment plan. This results in the following warning in the server output:

<Warning <WWebLogicDescriptorWL> <BEA-2156000><"config-root" C:\deployments\plan was not found>.

Workaround

Create the plan directory manually.

9.9.6 Deployment Task Fails When a Large Application File Is Deployed

When a large application file is deployed using the upload option, the deployment task fails with the following error:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

To resolve this issue, a new system property, weblogic.deploy.UploadLargeFile, has been added. If you see this issue, include this flag in the java command you use to launch a deployment client.

If you are using the WebLogic Server patch releases 10.3.2, or 10.3.3, this flag is not needed.

9.9.7 Application State Is Not Updated If the Server Starts in MSI Mode

A managed server will start in MSI mode if the WebLogic Server Administration Server is not available when the managed server starts. If you start the Administration Server later, the managed server will connect to the Administration Server. However, the state of each application deployed to the managed server is not updated to reflect the state of the applications on the managed server. Each application's state is displayed as NEW or PREPARED in the WebLogic Server Administration Console.

Workaround

There are two workarounds for this issue:

- Start the Administration Server before starting the managed server, or

- Redeploy the application after starting the Administration Server.

9.9.8 Attempting to Redeploy an Application Fails if the Application is Already Deployed Using a Different Source File Location

If you initially deployed an application using one source file location, then attempt to redeploy the application using a new location for the source file, the deployment fails with the following exception:

New source location <new_source_file_path> cannot be configured deployed to
configured application, <application_name>. The application source is at
original_source_file_path. Changing the source location is not allowed for a
previously attempted deployment. Try deploying without specifying the source.

This is due to a WebLogic Server deployment restriction. Once you specify the source file for a deployment, you cannot change it on a redeployment.

Workaround

Undeploy the application before attempting to redeploy it using a new source file location.

9.10 EJB Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.10.1, "Primary Key in Oracle Table is CHAR"

- Section 9.10.2, "No Available Annotation That Enables Creation of a Clusterable Timer"

- Section 9.10.3, "Kodo's MappingTool Cannot Generate Schemas"

- Section 9.10.4, "Extensions to the JPA Metadata Model Can Only Be Specified Via Annotations"

- Section 9.10.5, "Lookup Method Injection Not Supported by Spring"

- Section 9.10.6, "Deserializing a JDO PersistenceManagerFactory in a Managed Environment May Fail"

- Section 9.10.7, "Indexes Not Always Created During Schema Creation"

- Section 9.10.8, "OpenJPA throws an exception when @Id fields are also annotated as @Unique"

- Section 9.10.9, "Cache Hit and Miss Counts May Rise Unexpectedly"

- Section 9.10.10, "Open JPA Tries to Create a Table Even if the Table Exists"

- Section 9.10.11, "EJB Applications Fail During Serialization"

- Section 9.10.12, "Non-Transactional Message-Driven Bean Container Can Fail to Provide Reproducible Behavior For Foreign Topics"

9.10.1 Primary Key in Oracle Table is CHAR

The primary key in an Oracle table is a CHAR but the query field in the SQL table is a VARCHAR2.

Workaround

Change the database schema from CHAR to VARCHAR2. Using CHAR as a primary key is not recommended for the Oracle database.

9.10.2 No Available Annotation That Enables Creation of a Clusterable Timer

There is no annotation for EJB3 beans or Ejbgen that enables creation of a clusterable timer.

Workaround

Create a weblogic-ejb-jar.xml file and put the <timer-implementation> element and corresponding values into the file.

9.10.3 Kodo's MappingTool Cannot Generate Schemas

Kodo's MappingTool cannot generate schemas for classes that use BLOBs in their primary key. BLOBs can be used in a primary key, but the schema must be defined manually. Note that support for BLOB columns in primary keys is not mandated by either the JDO or JPA specifications.

9.10.4 Extensions to the JPA Metadata Model Can Only Be Specified Via Annotations

Extensions to the JPA metadata model can only be specified via annotations, and not via a structure similar to the orm.xml file defined by the specification.

Workaround

To specify Kodo-specific metadata for your object model, either:

- use the Kodo-specific annotations, or

- convert your XML-based metadata to the JDO metadata format, which does support XML specification of extensions.

9.10.5 Lookup Method Injection Not Supported by Spring

The Weblogic Spring injection extension model doesn't support lookup method injection.

9.10.6 Deserializing a JDO PersistenceManagerFactory in a Managed Environment May Fail

Deserializing a JDO PersistenceManagerFactory in a managed environment may fail. The exception states that the javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass property is missing. Note that serializing a PersistenceManagerFactory should not generally be necessary in a managed environment.

9.10.7 Indexes Not Always Created During Schema Creation

Indexes declared at the class level are not always created during schema creation.

Workaround

Create the indexes manually after running the schema generation tools.

9.10.8 OpenJPA throws an exception when @Id fields are also annotated as @Unique

OpenJPA throws an exception when @Id fields are also annotated as @Unique in some databases. Database primary keys are unique by definition. Some databases implement this by creating a unique index on the column.

Workaround

Do not specify both @Id and @Unique on a single field.

9.10.9 Cache Hit and Miss Counts May Rise Unexpectedly

The cache hit and miss counts may rise unexpectedly when manipulating entities without version data. The extra cache access occurs when the EntityManager closes and all contained entities are detached. Entities without version fields appear to the system to be missing their version data, and the system responds by checking their version in the cache before detachment.

Workaround

Entities with version fields or other version strategies do not cause extra cache access.

9.10.10 Open JPA Tries to Create a Table Even if the Table Exists

When using the MySQL database, and OpenJPA is configured to automatically run the mapping tool at runtime and create tables within the default schema (for example):

<property name='openjpa.jdbc.SynchronizeMappings' value='buildSchema'/>
<property name='openjpa.jdbc.Schema' value='MySQL database name' />

OpenJPA will try to create the table even if the table already exists in the database. A PersistenceException will be thrown to indicate that the table already exists and the table creation statement fails.

Workaround

To avoid this problem, if you are using the MySQL database, don't configure OpenJPA to automatically run the mapping tool at runtime and specify the default schema at the same time.

9.10.11 EJB Applications Fail During Serialization

EJB applications that use IIOP and send JPA entities from the server to the client will fail during deserialization if the entities are Serializable (but not Externalizable) and do not declare a writeObject() method.

Workaround

Add a writeObject() method to such entity classes. The write object can be trivial:

private void
writeObject(java.io.ObjectOutputStream out)
throws IOException {
out.defaultWriteObject();
}

9.10.12 Non-Transactional Message-Driven Bean Container Can Fail to Provide Reproducible Behavior For Foreign Topics

When using multi-threaded processing for non-transactional topic Message-Driven Beans (MDBs) that specify a foreign topic (non-WebLogic) JMS, the MDB container can fail to provide reproducible behavior. For example, if a runtimeException is thrown in the onmessage() method, the container may still acknowledge the message.

Workaround

Set the max-beans-in-free-pool attribute to 1 in the deployment descriptor.

9.11 Examples Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.11.1, "Security Configuration in medrec.wls.config"

- Section 9.11.2, "HTML File not Created for StreamParser.java File"

- Section 9.11.3, "Warning Message Appears When Starting Medrec or Samples Domain"

9.11.1 Security Configuration in medrec.wls.config

The medrec.wls.config target in SAMPLES_HOME/server/medrec/setup/build.xml has a known issue with respect to security configuration.

9.11.2 HTML File not Created for StreamParser.java File

The ../xml/stax example contains two files with the same root but different extensions: StreamParser.java and StreamParser.jsp. The samples viewer build, however, creates just one corresponding HTML file, rather than two for each type of file. In this case only the StreamParser.jsp file has an equivalent HTML file; the StreamParser.java file does not.

The problem occurs because of a setting in the build.xml file that controls the behavior of java2html to generate the files for the documentation.

When using java2html, the useShortFileName="true" parameter crops off the file extensions for the source files to create the file names for the HTML output files. If two files have the same name and different file extensions, whichever HTML file is generated last will overwrite previous ones.

Workaround

Set the useShortFileName parameter to "false". This setting generates HTML files with the file extensions included in the name. The drawback to this solution is that every link that points to the HTML output file needs to be revised, regardless of whether the files in question were affected by the bug.

9.11.3 Warning Message Appears When Starting Medrec or Samples Domain

When you start the medrec or samples domains, you may see a warning message similar to this:

<Warning> <WorkManager> <BEA-002919> <Unable to find a WorkManager with name
weblogic.wsee.mdb.DispatchPolicy. Dispatch policy
weblogic.wsee.mdb.DispatchPolicy will map to the default WorkManager for the
application bea_wls_async_response>

This warning message appears in the standard output of the Console while starting a WebLogic Server sample application with an asynchronous Web Service deployed.

Workaround

The warning is harmless and can be ignored.

9.12 HTTP Publish/Subscribe Server Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.12.1, "Authentication and Authorization of the Local Client is not Supported"

- Section 9.12.2, "Event Messages Published by Local Clients Cannot Be Received"

- Section 9.12.3, "Event Messages Published By Local Clients Do Not Go Through Filters"

9.12.1 Authentication and Authorization of the Local Client is not Supported

The HTTP Publish/Subscribe server does not support authentication and authorization of the local client. The local client has full permissions to operate on channels of the HTTP Publish/Subscribe server, which means the local client can create/delete channels and publish/subscribe events from channels.

9.12.2 Event Messages Published by Local Clients Cannot Be Received

In a clustering environment, event messages published by a local client on a server can be received only by subscribed clients connected to the same server. These messages cannot be received by subscribed clients connected to other servers in the cluster.

9.12.3 Event Messages Published By Local Clients Do Not Go Through Filters

Event messages published to a channel by a local client will not go through the Message Filters configured to that channel.

9.13 Installation Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.13.1, "Sybase JDBC Drivers Not Downloaded with Upgrade Installation"

- Section 9.13.2, "Improper Rollback to Previous Installation May Occur After Exiting an Upgrade Installation Prematurely"

- Section 9.13.3, "Unable to Upgrade to WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Using Smart Update"

- Section 9.13.4, "Documentation Link in QuickStart Points to an Older Library"

- Section 9.13.5, "WebLogic Server Installer Fails With Insufficient Disk Space Error"

- Section 9.13.6, "Installation Fails with Fatal Error"

- Section 9.13.7, "Patch for NoClassDefFoundError While Using JACC in AIX and zLinux"

- Section 9.13.8, "Patch for Incompatibility of IBM JDK Transformer Factory With Security SAML in AIX and zLinux"

9.13.1 Sybase JDBC Drivers Not Downloaded with Upgrade Installation

The Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 installer does not download the Sybase JDBC drivers. When you try to upgrade an existing WebLogic Server 10.3 installation using the latest installer, it does not remove the Sybase JAR files from the original installation. The installer upgrades only the weblogic.jar file.

The Sybase JAR files (jconn2.jar, jconn3.jar, and jConnect.jar) in the /server/lib or /server/ext/jdbc/sybase directories are removed from the manifest classpath in the upgraded weblogic.jar file. Therefore, if the classpath of a WebLogic Server application does not include Sybase JAR files and only includes weblogic.jar then after the upgrade installation, the application will throw a ClassNotFoundException.

To work around this issue, explicitly add Sybase JAR files in the WebLogic Server application classpath.

9.13.2 Improper Rollback to Previous Installation May Occur After Exiting an Upgrade Installation Prematurely

When using an Upgrade installer or Smart Update to upgrade an existing WebLogic Server 10.3.x installation to WebLogic Server 10.3.4, if you abort the upgrade before completion, the installation should automatically roll back to the prior installation. This may not always occur, resulting in an unusable installation.

9.13.3 Unable to Upgrade to WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Using Smart Update

You cannot use Smart Update to download and install the WebLogic 10.3.4 release over an existing WebLogic Server 10.3.x release. Instead, you must download the appropriate WebLogic Server Upgrade installer from My Oracle Support. Search Refer to the following patch numbers:

- 11060985—WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Generic Upgrade Installer
11060966—WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Upgrade Installer for Linux 32-bit systems

11060958—WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Upgrade Installer for Windows 32-bit systems

11060943—WebLogic Server 10.3.4 Upgrade Installer for Solaris 32-bit systems

You can still use Smart Update to download and install a patch set or maintenance pack for any supported release prior to WebLogic Server 10.3.4. You can also still use Smart Update to download individual patches for any supported release, including patches for WebLogic Server 10.3.4.

9.13.4 Documentation Link in QuickStart Points to an Older Library

When you click "Access documentation online" on the QuickStart window (accessible from the Start Menu), you are taken to the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4) documentation library. The link should take you to the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5) documentation library, which is available at:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/wls.htm

9.13.5 WebLogic Server Installer Fails With Insufficient Disk Space Error

The WebLogic Server installer can fail with an insufficient disk space error, even when there is a large amount of available disk space on the file system or disk.

Workaround

Use the -Dspace.detection property in the installation command to disable the available space check. For example:

java -Xmx1024M -Dspace.detection=false -jar installer_file_name -mode=silent -silent_xml=silent.xml

or

wls1034_linux.bin -Dspace.detection=false

9.13.6 Installation Fails with Fatal Error

The installer does not verify whether sufficient disk space is available on the machine prior to completing the installation. As a result, if an installation cannot be completed due to insufficient space, the installer displays the following error message and exits:

Fatal error encountered during file installation. The installer will now
cleanup and exit!

Workaround

If this problem occurs, restart the installer using the following command:

server103_linux32.bin -log=log.out -log_priority=debug

The preceding command generates a log of the installation procedure, providing details about the exact cause of the failure. If the cause is indeed insufficient space, the log file indicates it explicitly.

9.13.7 Patch for NoClassDefFoundError While Using JACC in AIX and zLinux

In 11.1.1.5.0 Release, when JACC (Java Authorization Contract for Containers) enabled Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.5 runs using Sun-specific PrincipalComparator, which is not supported on IBM JDK. It displays the NoClassDefFoundError.

Workaround

Download and install the following patch using the Oracle Smart Update tool to resolve the issue:

Patch ID: V5GA Passcode: NPC1WPQ5

For more information about Oracle Smart Update tool, refer to the "Smart Update Tool":

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14759_01/index.htm

9.13.8 Patch for Incompatibility of IBM JDK Transformer Factory With Security SAML in AIX and zLinux

In 11.1.1.5.0 Release, incompatibility of IBM JDK transformer factory with security SAML 2.0 module shows the following incompatibility exception:

FATAL ERROR:  'org.apache.xml.serializer.utils.WrappedRuntimeException:
org.apache.xml.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler incompatible with
org.apache.xml.serializer.SerializationHandler':
org.apache.xml.serializer.ToXMLSAXHandler incompatible with
org.apache.xml.serializer.SerializationHandler
org.opensaml.xml.ConfigurationException: Configuration file does not validate
against schema at
org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.validateConfiguration(XMLConfigurator.java:33.1)

Workaround

Download and install the following patch using the Oracle Smart Update tool to resolve the issue:

Patch ID: V5GA Passcode: NPC1WPQ5

For more information about Oracle Smart Update tool, refer to the "Smart Update Tool":

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14759_01/index.htm

9.14 Java EE Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.14.1, "FastSwap May Relax the Access Modifiers of Fields and Methods"

- Section 9.14.2, "FastSwap Does Not Support Redefinition of the Entity Bean and ejbClass"

- Section 9.14.3, "Classpath Order Is Not Guaranteed When There Are Multiple JARs in an EAR File"

9.14.1 FastSwap May Relax the Access Modifiers of Fields and Methods

FastSwap may relax the access modifiers of fields and methods. Private and protected members may be made public at runtime. This changes the behavior of reflection and may affect reflection-based frameworks such as Struts.

9.14.2 FastSwap Does Not Support Redefinition of the Entity Bean and ejbClass

FastSwap does not support redefinition of the Entity bean and ejbClass (Session/MDB). Therefore, any updates to entity classes will cause redefinition errors.

Workaround

After updating an entity class, redeploy the application.

9.14.3 Classpath Order Is Not Guaranteed When There Are Multiple JARs in an EAR File

When you have an EAR file containing separate JAR files, and two or more of those JAR files have a class with the same name, it is not possible to predict from which of those JAR files WebLogic Server will instantiate the class. This is not an issue if the classes are the same, but if they are different implementations, the results are unpredictable.

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this issue.

9.15 JDBC Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.15.1, "Queries Can Take Longer When Using Data Direct 4.0 MSSQL Driver"

- Section 9.15.2, "An Attempt to Access a Remote 10.3.2 or Later WLS Data Source Fails"

- Section 9.15.3, "BLOB Data Is Not Updating in the Database"

- Section 9.15.4, "ORA-01591 Errors Occur on SOA Servers Configured to Use Multiple Oracle RAC Nodes"

9.15.1 Queries Can Take Longer When Using Data Direct 4.0 MSSQL Driver

In WebLogic Server Release 10.3.2, our OEM DataDirect drivers were upgraded to 4.0. In order for the SQLServer driver to fully handle new DBMS data types, when running in it's default configuration, queries will take longer. If application access to new data types can be limited to getString(), the following configuration workarounds will restore the performance.

Workaround

Add the following driver property to the list of driver properties for the WebLogic data source's connection pool. From the Administration Console, select the Configuration>Connection Pool tab for the data source.

For a non-XA connection pool, add:

ReportDateTimeTypes=false

For an XA connection pool, add:

ExtendedOptions=ReportDateTimeTypes=false

Alternatively, you can accomplish the same result by adding the property to the data source's XML configuration file.

For non-XA:

<jdbc-driver-params>
<properties>
<property>
<name>ReportDateTimeTypes</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>

For XA:

<jdbc-driver-params>
<properties>
<property>
<name>ExtendedOptions</name>
<value>ReportDateTimeTypes=false</value>
</property>

9.15.2 An Attempt to Access a Remote 10.3.2 or Later WLS Data Source Fails

A new system property, -Dweblogic.jdbc.remoteEnabled, has been added to JDBC in Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.2. For compatibility with prior releases of WebLogic Server, the default setting of this property is true. When this property is set to false, remote JDBC access is turned off, and such access results in an exception.

Remote access may occur explicitly in an application, or implicitly during a global (XA/JTA) transaction with a participating non-XA data source that is configured with the LLR, 1PC or Emulate XA global transaction option. The following enumerates the cases when an exception will be thrown, and work-arounds for each case (if any).

An exception occurs in the following cases. A workaround (if any) for a given case is provided.

- When a stand-alone client application uses any type of data source.

- When an application that is hosted on WebLogic Server uses any type of data source, and the data source is not configured (targeted) locally. A potential workaround is to target the data source locally.

- When accessing a same named non-XA data source with a transaction option of LLR, 1PC or Emulate XA on multiple WebLogic Server instances in the same global transaction. In this case, there are two potential work-arounds:

- Change data sources to use XA instead (this may lower performance), or

- For the 1PC/emulateXA types, change the application to ensure the data source is accessed from a single server.

- When accessing a non-XA data source with the LLR transaction option on a server that is different than the transaction coordinator. For server-initiated transactions, the coordinator location is chosen based on the first participating resource in the transaction. In this case, there are two potential work-arounds: (a) change the data source to use XA instead (this may lower performance); or (b) change the application to ensure data source access on the transaction coordinator, as described in "Optimizing Performance with LLR" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Programming JTA for OracleWebLogic Server. The latter may not be possible in some cases; for example, when an MDB application receives messages from a remote WebLogic JMS server, the transaction coordinator will always be the WebLogic server that's hosting the JMS server, but it may not be possible to move the MDB application to the same WebLogic server.

- Change the data source to use XA instead (this may lower performance), or

- Change the application to ensure data source access on the transaction coordinator, as described in "Optimizing Performance with LLR" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Programming JTA for Oracle WebLogic Server. This workaround may not be possible in some cases. For example, when an MDB application receives messages from a remote WebLogic JMS server, the transaction coordinator will always be the WebLogic Server instance that is hosting the JMS server, but it may not be possible to move the MDB application to the same WebLogic Server instance.

9.15.3 BLOB Data Is Not Updating in the Database

When using a Data Direct MSSQL driver, and using the updateBlob() and updateBinaryStream() methods to update BLOB data in RowSet objects, the data is not being updated in the database.

9.15.4 ORA-01591 Errors Occur on SOA Servers Configured to Use Multiple Oracle RAC Nodes

On SOA servers using multiple Oracle RAC database nodes, when WebLogic Server multi data sources are configured for XA and load balancing, ORA-10591 errors can occur.

Workaround

Download and apply Oracle RAC database patch 7675269 for Linux x86, Oracle Release 11.1.0.7.0. You can download this patch from My Oracle Support. Alternatively, you can download and apply patch set 9007079 for Linux x86, Oracle Release 11.1.0.7.0, which includes the patch 7675269.

9.16 JMS Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.16.1, "Deployment Descriptor Validation Fails"

- Section 9.16.2, "Exception When Multiple Producers Use the Same Client SAF Instance"

- Section 9.16.3, "Multi-byte Characters are not Supported in Store File and Directory Names"

- Section 9.16.4, "Generation of the Default UOO Name Has Changed"

- Section 9.16.5, "Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS"

- Section 9.16.6, "JMS Message Consumers Will Not Always Reconnect After a Service Migration"

- Section 9.16.7, "Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order"

9.16.1 Deployment Descriptor Validation Fails

Deployment descriptor validation fails when descriptor validation is enabled, and an EAR file contains only JMS modules.

Workaround

Make sure that there is at least one J2EE specification-compliant module in the EAR.

9.16.2 Exception When Multiple Producers Use the Same Client SAF Instance

When multiple JMS producers use the same JMS Client SAF instance (within a single JVM), depending on the timing of the JMS SAF client creation, you might receive the following exception:

Error getting GXA resource [Root exception is weblogic.jms.common.JMSException:
weblogic.messaging.kernel.KernelException: Error getting GXA resource]

Workaround

When using multiple JMS SAF client producers, try introducing a small delay between the creation of each new client.

9.16.3 Multi-byte Characters are not Supported in Store File and Directory Names

There is no support for multi-byte characters in WebLogic Store file and directory names. For instance, when the WebLogic Server name has multi-byte characters, the default store cannot be created, and WebLogic Server will not boot.

Workaround

Create WebLogic Server instances without multi-byte characters in the path name and use that path name for the default store configuration. Do not use multi-byte characters in the Weblogic Server name.

9.16.4 Generation of the Default UOO Name Has Changed

WebLogic Server 10.3.4 contains a fix for configurations that set a default unit-of-order (UOO) on a JMS regular destination, distributed destination, or template. This fix ensures that the default unit-of-order name stays the same even after a restart of the destination's host JMS server. The default UOO name is now based on the domain, JMS server, and destination names.

9.16.5 Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS

Oracle strongly recommends verifying the behavior of a server restart after abrupt machine failures when the JMS messages and transaction logs are stored on an NFS mounted directory. Depending on the NFS implementation, different issues can arise post failover/restart. For more information, see Section 6.3, "Testing Abrupt Failures of WebLogic Server When Using File Stores on NFS."

9.16.6 JMS Message Consumers Will Not Always Reconnect After a Service Migration

JMS message consumers will not always reconnect after a service migration when an application's WLConnection.getReconnectPolicy() attribute is set to all. If the consumers do not get migrated, either an exception is thrown or onException will occur to inform the application that the consumer is no longer valid.

Workaround

The application can refresh the consumer either in the exception handler or through onException.

9.16.7 Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order

Certain conditions can cause very frequent JNDI updates, and as a result, JMS subscribers may encounter a java.naming.NameNotFoundException. For more information, see Section 9.8.5, "Forcing Unicast Messages To Be Processed in Order."

9.17 JNDI Issues and Workarounds

There are no known JNDI issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.18 JSP and Servlet Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.18.1, "Deployment Plans Cannot Be Used To Override Two Descriptors"

- Section 9.18.2, "Spring Dependency Injection Not Supported on JSP Tag Handlers"

- Section 9.18.3, "503 Error When Accessing an Application With a Valid sessionid"

9.18.1 Deployment Plans Cannot Be Used To Override Two Descriptors

Deployment plans cannot be used to override the following two descriptors during deployment of a Web application or a Web module: WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml and WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence-configuration.xml. Deployment plans can otherwise be used to override any descriptor.

Workaround

Package WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml and WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence-configuration.xml (if present) along with related class files into a JAR file. The JAR file must then be placed in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the Web application or Web module. A deployment plan can be used to override the two descriptors in such a JAR file.

9.18.2 Spring Dependency Injection Not Supported on JSP Tag Handlers

With the Spring extension model enabled, WebLogic Server 10.3 or later does not support Spring Dependency Injection (DI) on JSP tag handlers for performance reasons.

Currently, WebLogic Server supports Spring DI on most Web components, for example, servlets, filters and listeners. Spring DI is not, however, presently supported on JSP tag handlers for performance reasons.

9.18.3 503 Error When Accessing an Application With a Valid sessionid

When a session is persistent and an older version of a servlet context is retired, accessing the application with a valid sessionid will cause a 503 error.

For example, the session-persistent type of a versioned Web application is 'file'. A user can access the application successfully. Later, version 2 of the application is redeployed and version 1 is retired. If the same user accesses the application, they will get a 503 error.

9.19 JTA Issues and Workarounds

There are no known JTA issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.20 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.20.1, "1.4 Thin Client Applet Cannot Contact WebLogic Server"

- Section 9.20.2, "Applications Running on Some Processors May Experience Intermittent Time Issues"

- Section 9.20.3, "JRockit JVM Appears to Freeze When Doing Long Array Copies"

- Section 9.20.4, "Serial Version UID Mismatch"

- Section 9.20.5, "JVM Stack Overflow"

- Section 9.20.6, "Using AWT libraries May Cause a JVM Crash"

9.20.1 1.4 Thin Client Applet Cannot Contact WebLogic Server

Due to a known Sun Microsystems VM bug (513552), a 1.4 Thin Client Applet cannot contact WebLogic Server 9.0 or later. This is because the VM does not distinguish correctly between a client and a server connection. The VM creates a server-type connection and caches it. It then attempts to make a client-type connection, finds the cached connection and tries to use that, but then encounters an error because clients are not allowed to use server connections.

9.20.2 Applications Running on Some Processors May Experience Intermittent Time Issues

Applications that run on RH Linux on Intel G5 processors and that also directly or indirectly use system time calls may experience intermittent time issues if the ClockSource is set to tsc (the default). The standard POSIX C gettimeofday() call, and consequently also the Java System.currentTimeMillis() and java.util.Date() calls can intermittently return a value that is approximately 4400 seconds in the future, even in a single-threaded application.

This issue is not unique to WebLogic or Java, but applies to any application running on RH Linux on Intel G5 processors. Issues can occur for applications that either explicitly make a time call using standard Java, or explicitly by using any time-based application server services.

Possible symptoms include, but are not limited to, premature transaction timeouts, unexpected expiration of JMS messages, and incorrectly scheduled timers.

If you're interested in a standalone reproducer for this problem, contact Oracle and reference bug number 8160147.

Workaround

There is no known official patch for Linux. Instead, change the clock source from tsc to hpet. After making this modification on test systems, exceptions due to invalid System.currentTimeMillis()/gettimeofday() return values were no longer seen. To change the system clock from tsc to hpet on a trial basis, perform the following steps as root:

1. Disable ntpd (if running)

2. Echo 'hpet' &gt; /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource

3. Enable ntpd

Note that this change will not survive a reboot. For more information, please see: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/813344

9.20.3 JRockit JVM Appears to Freeze When Doing Long Array Copies

The JRockit JVM appears to freeze when doing long array copies as part of unlimited forward rolling. This can happen when multiple server reboots occur due to Out Of Memory conditions.

Workaround

When booting the servers, include the following JRockit JVM flag:

-XXrollforwardretrylimit:-1

9.20.4 Serial Version UID Mismatch

A Serial Version UID Mismatch issue is encountered if you deploy an application on a latest JVM, but compiled with previous Service Release of IBM Java 6 JDK.

Workaround

To be compatible with the serialization of previously compiled applications, modify the BEA_HOME/wlserver_10.3/common/bin/commEnv.sh file to include the following command:

JAVA_OPTIONS="$JAVA_OPTIONS  -Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

Alternatively, you can use the command line option:

export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

export JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

If you intend to deploy new applications with previously compiled applications, they must be recompiled as necessary to have the same Serial Version UID.

9.20.5 JVM Stack Overflow

You might encounter a JVM stack overflow error or exception while running WebLogic Server. This issue applies to Oracle Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 5.1 on AMD64 and 64-bit Xeon platforms.

Workaround

Increase the stack size from the default 128k to 256k.

9.20.6 Using AWT libraries May Cause a JVM Crash

You might encounter a JVM crash when using GUI libraries such as AWT or javax.swing (which often delegates to AWT).

Workaround

Start the server using the following flag:

-Djava.awt.headless=true

9.21 Monitoring Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issue and workaround:

- Section 9.21.1, "MBean Attributes Not Explicitly Marked as @unharvestable Appear as Harvestable"

- Section 9.21.2, "The BEA Prefix in Message IDs Will Be Changed in a Future Release"

- Section 9.21.3, "Events Generated By the JVM Level Are Not Generated at Low Volume"

- Section 9.21.4, "WLDF Performance Issues Can Occur When JVM Events Are Enabled"

9.21.1 MBean Attributes Not Explicitly Marked as @unharvestable Appear as Harvestable

The @unharvestable tag is not being honored at the interface level. If MBean attributes are not explicitly marked as @unharvestable, they are considered to be harvestable and will appear as harvestable in the WebLogic Administration Console.

Workaround

You can explicitly mark MBean attributes as @unharvestable.

9.21.2 The BEA Prefix in Message IDs Will Be Changed in a Future Release

In an upcoming release of WebLogic Server, the current default prefix for catalog and non-catalog Message IDs will be changed from the current BEA prefix to WL.

Workaround

You should be prepared for this future change. In the interim, here are some guidelines to consider:

- Avoid depending on BEA for Message ID prefixes in scripts, filter expressions, etc.

- For log messages such as the following:

<Jan 30, 2009 12:51:49 AM CST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365>
<Server state changed to STARTING>

it is better for you to filter on 000365 and not on the BEA prefix itself.

- Your log parsing scripts should be updated to look for both BEA and WL, instead of filtering only on BEA.

9.21.3 Events Generated By the JVM Level Are Not Generated at Low Volume

In WebLogic Server 10.3.3, the default WLDF diagnostic volume setting was Off. As of WebLogic Server 10.3.4, the default diagnostic volume setting is Low Volume, and events generated by the JVM level are not being generated at the Low Volume setting in WebLogic Server 10.3.4 (JVM-level events were generated at the Low Volume setting in WebLogic Server 10.3.3). The JVM-level events are still generated at the High Volume and Medium Volume settings in WebLogic Server 10.3.4.

Workaround

Use one of the following workarounds to cause the JVM-level events to be generated:

- Increase the WLDF diagnostic volume to the Medium or High level.

- Use JRMC, JRCMD, or the JRockit command line settings to activate a separate flight recording in the WebLogic Server instance. By doing so, JVM will cause JVM events to be present at all WLDF diagnostic volume settings (Off, Low, Medium, and High).

9.21.4 WLDF Performance Issues Can Occur When JVM Events Are Enabled

When JVM events are enabled, WLDF performances issues may occur in the following situations:

- If there are no other JRockit flight recordings enabled, performance can degrade when the WLDF diagnostic volume is set to Medium or High level.

- If other JRockit flight recordings are enabled, performance can degrade at all WLDF diagnostic volume levels (Off, Low, Medium, and High).

9.22 Node Manager Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Node Manager issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.23 Operations, Administration, and Management Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Operations, Administration, and Management issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.24 Oracle Kodo Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Oracle Kodo issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.25 Protocols Issues and Workarounds

There are no known Protocols issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.26 RMI-IIOP Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issue and workaround:

- Section 9.26.1, "Ant 1.7 rmic Task Incompatibility"

9.26.1 Ant 1.7 rmic Task Incompatibility

Calls to the Ant version 1.7 rmic task automatically add a -vcompat flag, which is not compatible with rmic for Oracle WebLogic Server.

Workaround

Use either of the following workarounds if your rmic call is of the form:

rmic classname="com.bea.crmsimulation.legacyra.LegacyAdapter"
base="${module_location}/core-legacy-ra/classes"
classpath="${core.classes}" compiler="weblogic" />

- Add a stubversion

<rmic classname="com.bea.crmsimulation.legacyra.LegacyAdapter"
base="${module_location}/core-legacy-ra/classes"
classpath="${core.classes}" compiler="weblogic"
stubversion="1.2"/>

- Remove the compiler flag

<rmic classname="com.bea.crmsimulation.legacyra.LegacyAdapter"
base="${module_location}/core-legacy-ra/classes"
classpath="${core.classes}"

9.27 Security Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.27.1, "StoreBootIdentity Works Only if the Appropriate Server Security Directory Exists"

- Section 9.27.2, "Boot Time Failure Occurs With SecurityServiceException"

- Section 9.27.3, "Authentication Failure After Upgrading a Domain From WLS 6.1"

- Section 9.27.4, "InvalidParameterException Message Generated and Displayed"

- Section 9.27.5, "Enabling Both the Authentication and Passive Attributes In SML 2.0 Service Provider Services Is an Invalid Configuration"

- Section 9.27.6, "Running the WebLogic Full Client in a Non-Forked VM"

9.27.1 StoreBootIdentity Works Only if the Appropriate Server Security Directory Exists

The option -Dweblogic.system.StoreBootIdentity works only if the appropriate server security directory exists. This directory is usually created by the Configuration Wizard or upgrade tool.

However, the appropriate server security directory could be absent in domains checked into source-control systems.

9.27.2 Boot Time Failure Occurs With SecurityServiceException

A WebLogic Server instance can experience a boot time failure with a SecurityServiceException when the RDBMS Security Data Store is configured for a DB2 database using the DB2 driver supplied with WebLogic Server.

Workaround

When RDBMS Security Data Store is using the AlternateId connection property for a DB2 database, you must also set the additional property BatchPerformanceWorkaround as true when using the DB2 driver supplied with WebLogic Server.

9.27.3 Authentication Failure After Upgrading a Domain From WLS 6.1

After upgrading a domain from WLS 6.1, the WebLogic Server instance will not boot due to an authentication failure.

Workaround

A system user password must be set up in the WLS 6.1 domain before or after the upgrade process in order for the WebLogic Server instance to boot properly.

9.27.4 InvalidParameterException Message Generated and Displayed

After you configure either the Identity Provider or Service Provider services for SAML 2.0 and attempt to publish the SAML 2.0 services metadata file, an InvalidParameterException message may be generated and displayed in the Administration Console.

Workaround

When configuring the SAML 2.0 federation services for a WebLogic Server instance, be sure to enable all binding types that are available for the SAML role being configured. For example, when configuring SAML 2.0 Identity Provider services, you should enable the POST, Redirect, and Artifact bindings. When configuring SAML 2.0 Service Provider services, enable the POST and Artifact bindings. Optionally, you may choose a preferred binding.

9.27.5 Enabling Both the Authentication and Passive Attributes In SML 2.0 Service Provider Services Is an Invalid Configuration

When configuring SAML 2.0 Service Provider services, enabling both the Force Authentication and Passive attributes is an invalid configuration that WebLogic Server is unable to detect. If both these attributes are enabled, and an unauthenticated user attempts to access a resource that is hosted at the Service Provider site, an exception is generated and the single sign-on session fails.

Note that the Force Authentication attribute has no effect because SAML logout is not supported in WebLogic Server. So even if the user is already authenticated at the Identity Provider site and Force Authentication is enabled, the user is not forced to authenticate again at the Identity Provider site.

Avoid enabling both these attributes.

9.27.6 Running the WebLogic Full Client in a Non-Forked VM

If the WebLogic Full Client is running in a non-forked VM, for example by means of a <java> task invoked from an Ant script without the fork=true attribute, the following error might be generated:

java.lang.SecurityException: The provider self-integrity check failed.

This error is caused by the self-integrity check that is automatically performed when the RSA Crypto-J library is loaded. (The Crypto-J library, cryptoj.jar, is in the wlfullclient.jar manifest classpath.)

This self-integrity check failure occurs when the client is started in a non-forked VM and it uses the Crypto-J API, either directly or indirectly, as in the following situations:

- The client invokes the Crypto-J library directly.

- The client attempts to make a T3S connection, which triggers the underlying client SSL implementation to invoke the Crypto-J API.

When the self-integrity check fails, further invocations of the Crypto-J API fail.

Workaround

When running the full client in a <java> task that is invoked from an Ant script, always set the fork attribute to true.

For more information about the self-integrity check, see "How a Provider Can Do Self-Integrity Checking" in How to Implement a Provider in the Java™ Cryptography Architecture, available at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/crypto/HowToImplAProvider.html#integritycheck

9.28 SNMP Issues and Workarounds

There are no known SNMP issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.29 Spring Framework on WebLogic Server Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.29.1, "OpenJPA ClassFileTranformer Does Not Work When Running on JRockit"

- Section 9.29.2, "petclinic.ear Does Not Deploy on WebLogic Server"

9.29.1 OpenJPA ClassFileTranformer Does Not Work When Running on JRockit

The OpenJPA ClassFileTranformer does not work when running WebLogic Server on JRockit.

Workaround

Use an alternative method of applying enhancements at build time through an OpenJPA enhancer compiler; do not use the LoadTimeWeaver.

9.29.2 petclinic.ear Does Not Deploy on WebLogic Server

For the SpringSource petclinic sample, the petclinic.war deploys without any problems. The petclinic.ear will not deploy on WebLogic Server because it is not packaged correctly. A request has been sent to SpringSource to fix the petclinic.ear packaging.

9.30 System Component Architecture (SCA) Issues and Workarounds

There are no known SCA issues in this release of WebLogic Server.

9.31 Upgrade Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issue:

- Section 9.31.1, "Domains Created on WebLogic Server 10.3.1 Cannot Be Run on WebLogic Server 10.3"

9.31.1 Domains Created on WebLogic Server 10.3.1 Cannot Be Run on WebLogic Server 10.3

If you create a domain using WebLogic Server 10.3.1, then roll back to WebLogic Server 10.3, you will not be able to start the servers that you created in that domain. This is a known restriction, as the config.xml file contains references to newer schema definitions (xmlns.oracle.com) that did not exist in WebLogic Server 10.3.

9.32 Web Applications Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.32.1, "Administration Console Fails to Implement session-timeout Changes"

- Section 9.32.2, "Connection Pool Connection Reserve Timeout Seconds Value is Overridden"

- Section 9.32.3, "Database Connections Become Unstable When a PoolLimitSQLException Occurs"

- Section 9.32.4, "Web Page Fails to Open When Accessing It Using the SSL Port"

9.32.1 Administration Console Fails to Implement session-timeout Changes

If the session-timeout is configured in the web.xml file, any changes made to change the session-timeout using the Administration Console do not take effect.

Workaround

Use a deployment plan to override the session-timeout setting.

9.32.2 Connection Pool Connection Reserve Timeout Seconds Value is Overridden

When using a JDBC session, the value of Connection Reserve Timeout Seconds for a connection pool is changed to be one of the following:

- the JDBC connection timeout seconds, which is defined in the session descriptor (either in weblogic.xml or weblogic-application.xml)

- the default value of 120 seconds

Workaround

Configure jdbc-connection-timeout-secs in the session descriptor.

9.32.3 Database Connections Become Unstable When a PoolLimitSQLException Occurs

When a PoolLimitSQLException occurs during a JDBC persistence session, connections to the database become unstable, and may fail with recovery or fail without recovery. This results in the loss of session data. Either an older session or null is returned.

9.32.4 Web Page Fails to Open When Accessing It Using the SSL Port

When accessing a Web page using the SSL port, the page fails to open and the following error is reported:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to <hostname>.

You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server
administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information:

Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate
issued by the certificate authority. Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number.

Workaround

The following workaround can be used for Firefox.

If you have received this error and are trying to access a web page that has a self-signed certificate, perform the following steps in Firefox:

1. Go to Tools > Options >Advanced > Encryption tab > View Certificates.

2. On the Servers tab, remove the certificates.

3. On the Authorities tab, find the Certificate Authority (CA) for the security device that is causing the issue, and then delete it.

If you are using Internet Explorer or other web browsers, you can ignore the Warning page that appears and continue to the web page.

9.32.5 Unable to View the Output of SVG files in Internet Explorer 7

When a page using Scalar Vector Graphics is deployed and is then accessed using Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), the source is displayed instead of the page's graphic contents. This occurs in both normal and osjp.next modes.

Workaround

Application developers should avoid using SVG graphics in their applications, as it is not natively supported in IE7. If used, a warning similar to the following should be added:

All current browsers, with the exception of Internet Explorer, support SVG
files. Internet Explorer requires a plug-in to display SVG files. The plug-ins
are available for free, for example, the Adobe SVG Viewer at
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/.

9.33 WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.33.1, "Property Names Containing '.' Characters Are Not Supported by loadProperties"

- Section 9.33.2, "Invalid cachedir Created by Jython Causes WLST to Error Out"

- Section 9.33.3, "WLST returnType='a' Option Returns Child Management Objects"

9.33.1 Property Names Containing '.' Characters Are Not Supported by loadProperties

The WLST loadProperties command does not support loading a property with a name that contains "." characters. For example, if the property myapp.db.default is present in the property file, WLST throws a name exception:

Problem invoking WLST - Traceback (innermost last):
File "<iostream>", line 7, in ?
File "<iostream>", line 4, in readCustomProperty
NameError: myapp

This is a system limitation of Python and the loadProperties command. WLST reads the variable names and values and sets them as variables in the Python interpreter. The Python interpreter uses "." as a delimiter to indicate module scoping for the namespace, or package naming, or both. Therefore, the properties file fails because myapp.db.default.version=9i is expected to be in the myapp.db.default package. This package does not exist.

Workaround

Use variable names that do not have periods. This will allow you to load the variables from the property file and refer to them in WLST scripts. You could use another character such as "_" or lowercase/uppercase character to delimit the namespace.

As an alternative, you can set variables from a properties files. When you use the variables in your script, during execution, the variables are replaced with the actual values from the properties file. For example:

myapp.py
var1=10
var2=20
import myapp
print myapp.var1
10
print myapp.var2
20

This will work for one level of namespaces (myapp.var1, myapp.var2). It will not work for top level variables that share the same name as the namespace (for example, myapp=oracle and myapp.var1=10). Setting the myapp variable will override the myapp namespace.

If you need multiple levels, then you can define a package namespace using directories. Create a myapp/db/default directory with a vars.py file as follows:

var1=10
var2=20

Then import:

import myapp.db.default.vars
print myapp.db.default.vars.var1
10

You may need to add __init__.py files to the subdirectories. Refer to the Python documentation for more information on packages:

http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html

9.33.2 Invalid cachedir Created by Jython Causes WLST to Error Out

The default cachedir created by Jython 2.2 is not a valid directory. If you are using Jython directly from weblogic.jar, this causes WLST to error out.

Workaround

There are two workarounds for this issue:

- When invoking WLST, specify the -Dpython.cachedir=<valid_directory> parameter, or

- Install Jython 2.2.1 separately instead of using the partial Jython that is included in weblogic.jar.

9.33.3 WLST returnType='a' Option Returns Child Management Objects

The WLST returnType='a' option should only return attributes from the specified directory. Instead it also returns child management objects. For example:

ls('Server')
drw-   AdminServer
drw-   worker01

ls('Server', returnMap='true', returnType='a')
drw-   AdminServer
drw-   worker01

ls('Server', returnMap='true',returnType='c')
drw-   AdminServer
drw-   worker01

The ls with returnType='a' should not list any child management objects, but AdminServer and worker01 are children.

Workaround

When processing the output from ls(returnType='a'), check to see if the returned entry is a directory.

9.34 Web Server Plug-Ins Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issue:

- Section 9.34.1, "MOD_WLS_OHS Does Not Fail Over"

9.34.1 MOD_WLS_OHS Does Not Fail Over

Currently, mod_wl and mod_wl_ohs only support container level failover and not application level failover. mod_wl_ohs continues to route requests to a down application as long as the managed server is up and running. In the clustered case, requests continue to go to the container where the original session started even when the application is shutdown, typically resulting in the http error 404.

9.35 Web Services and XML Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issues and workarounds:

- Section 9.35.1, "weblogic.wsee.jaxws.mdb.DispatchPolicy WorkManager Cannot Be Found"

- Section 9.35.2, "Multiple Resize Buffer Calls Occur"

- Section 9.35.3, "Troubleshooting Problems When Applying the WebLogic Advanced Web Services for JAX-WS Extension Template"

- Section 9.35.4, "Sparse Arrays and Partially Transmitted Arrays Are Not Supported"

- Section 9.35.5, "WSDL Compiler Does Not Generate Serializable Data Types"

- Section 9.35.6, "Use of Custom Exception on a Callback"

- Section 9.35.7, "Cannot Use JMS Transport in an Environment That Also Uses a Proxy Server"

- Section 9.35.8, "clientgen Fails When Processing a WSDL"

- Section 9.35.9, "JAX RPC Handlers in Callback Web Services Are Not Supported"

- Section 9.35.10, "Message-level Security in Callback Web Services Is Not Supported"

- Section 9.35.11, "Handling of Java Method Arguments or Return Parameters That Are JAX-RPC-style JavaBeans"

- Section 9.35.12, "IllegalArgumentException When Using a Two-Dimensional XML Object in a JWS Callback"

- Section 9.35.13, "Using SoapElement[] Results in Empty Array"

- Section 9.35.14, "FileNotFound Exception When a Web Service Invokes Another Web Service"

- Section 9.35.15, "Client Side Fails to Validate the Signature on the Server Response Message"

- Section 9.35.16, "xmlcatalog Element Entity Cannot Be a Remote File or a File in an Archive"

- Section 9.35.17, "Catalog File's public Element Is Not Supported When Using XML Catalogs"

- Section 9.35.18, "Local xmlcatalog Element Does Not Work Well"

- Section 9.35.19, "JAXRPC Client Does Not Encode the HTTP SOAPAction Header With Multi-byte Characters"

- Section 9.35.20, "External Catalog File Cannot Be Used in the xmlcatalog Element of clientgen"

- Section 9.35.21, "Exceptions When Running Reliable Messaging Under Heavy Load"

- Section 9.35.22, "ClassNotFound Exception Occurs When Using wseeclient.jar"

- Section 9.35.23, "Incomplete Configuration When Adding Advanced Web Services Component to SOA Domain"

- Section 9.35.24, "Exception Occurs During Invocation of Clientside Policy Applied to a Service"

- Section 9.35.25, "WS-AT Interoperation Issues With WebSphere and WebLogic Server"

- Section 9.35.26, "First Response From an SCA Application Takes a Long Time"

- Section 9.35.27, "WsrmClient.getMostRecentMessageNumber() Always Returns Zero"

- Section 9.35.28, "WsrmClient.reset() Fails to Reset All Necessary States"

9.35.1 weblogic.wsee.jaxws.mdb.DispatchPolicy WorkManager Cannot Be Found

In some situations, warning messages are logged indicating that the weblogic.wsee.jaxws.mdb.DispatchPolicy WorkManager cannot be found, although this WorkManager is targeted to one or more of the Managed Servers in the domain.

Workaround

Use one of the following workarounds to resolve this issue.

- To prevent these warning messages, start the WebLogic Server instance with the -Dweblogic.wsee.skip.async.response=true flag. See Programming Advanced Features of JAX-RPC Web Services for Oracle WebLogic Server for more information on this flag.

- Manually target the weblogic.wsee.jaxws.mdb.DispatchPolicy WorkManager to the Administration Server.

9.35.2 Multiple Resize Buffer Calls Occur

When executing Web services client calls where Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) attachments are processed for send, multiple resize buffer calls occur..

Workaround

There is a patch available to resolve this issue. This patch can be applied only to WebLogic Server 10.3.4. It provides the system property jaxws.transport.streaming, which enables or disables streaming at the transport layer for a Web services client. Set this property to true for CPU-intensive applications that are running on a WebLogic Server instance that is participating in Web services interactions as a client, and is sending out large messages.

To obtain the patch, do one of the following:

- Contact My Oracle Support and request the patch for bug 9956275, or

- Download the patch from My Oracle Support and install it using Smart Update per the instructions in the following My Oracle Support document:
1302053.1

Search for Oracle patch number 9956275 or Smart Update patch 7Z5H.

9.35.3 Troubleshooting Problems When Applying the WebLogic Advanced Web Services for JAX-WS Extension Template

After upgrading from WebLogic Server 10.3.4 to 10.3.5, when creating or extending a domain using the WebLogic Advanced Web Services for JAX-WS Extension template (wls_webservices_jaxws.jar), you may encounter an exception during the execution of the final.py script. For complete details and a workaround, see "Troubleshooting Problems When Applying the WebLogic Advanced Services for JAX-WS Extension Template" in Getting Started With JAX-WS Web Services for Oracle WebLogic Server.

9.35.4 Sparse Arrays and Partially Transmitted Arrays Are Not Supported

WebLogic Server does not support Sparse Arrays and Partially Transmitted Arrays as required by the JAX-RPC 1.1 Spec.

9.35.5 WSDL Compiler Does Not Generate Serializable Data Types

The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) compiler does not generate serializable data types, so data cannot be passed to remote EJBs or stored in a JMS destination.

9.35.6 Use of Custom Exception on a Callback

WebLogic Server does not support using a custom exception on a callback that has a package that does not match the target namespace of the parent Web Service.

Workaround

Make sure that any custom exceptions that are used in callbacks are in a package that matches the target namespace of the parent Web service.

9.35.7 Cannot Use JMS Transport in an Environment That Also Uses a Proxy Server

You cannot use JMS transport in an environment that also uses a proxy server. This is because, in the case of JMS transport, the Web Service client always uses the t3 protocol to connect to the Web Service, and proxy servers accept only HTTP/HTTPS.

9.35.8 clientgen Fails When Processing a WSDL

clientgen fails when processing a WSDL that uses the complex type http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema{schema} as a Web Service parameter.

9.35.9 JAX RPC Handlers in Callback Web Services Are Not Supported

WebLogic Server 9.2 and later does not support JAX RPC handlers in callback Web Services.

Workaround

If JAX RPC handlers were used with Web Services created with WebLogic Workshop 8.1, then such applications must be redesigned so that they do not use callback handler functionality.

9.35.10 Message-level Security in Callback Web Services Is Not Supported

WebLogic Server 9.2 and later does not support message-level security in callback Web Services.

Workaround

Web Services created with WebLogic Workshop 8.1 that used WS-Security must be redesigned to not use message-level security in callbacks.

9.35.11 Handling of Java Method Arguments or Return Parameters That Are JAX-RPC-style JavaBeans

WebLogic Server does not support handling of Java method arguments or return parameters that are JAX-RPC-style JavaBeans that contain an XmlBean property. For example, applications cannot have a method with a signature like this:

void myMethod(myJavaBean bean);

where myJavaBean class is like:

public class MyJavaBean {
private String stringProperty;
private XmlObject xmlObjectProperty;

public MyJavaBean() {}
String getStringProperty() {
return stringProperty;
}
void   setStringProperty(String s) {
stringProperty = s;
}
XmlObject getXmlObjectProperty() {
return xmlObjectProperty;
}
void      getXmlObjectProperty(XmlObject x) {
xmlObjectProperty = x;
}
}

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this issue.

9.35.12 IllegalArgumentException When Using a Two-Dimensional XML Object in a JWS Callback

Using a two dimensional XmlObject parameter (XmlObject[][]) in a JWS callback produces an IllegalArgumentException.

Workaround

Currently there is no known workaround for this issue.

9.35.13 Using SoapElement[] Results in Empty Array

Using SoapElement[] as a Web Service parameter with @WildcardBinding(className="javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement[]", binding=WildcardParticle.ANYTYPE) will always result in an empty array on the client.

Workaround

Do not use the @WildcardBinding annotation to change the default binding of SOAPElement[] to WildcardParticle.ANYTYPE. The SOAPElement[] default binding is set to WildcardParticle.ANY.

9.35.14 FileNotFound Exception When a Web Service Invokes Another Web Service

When Web Service A wants to invoke Web Service B, Web Service A should use the @ServiceClient annotation to do this. If Web Service B needs a custom policy file that is not attached to the WSDL for Web Service B, then Web Service A will fail to run. Web Service A will look for the policy file at /Web-Inf/classes/policies/filename.xml. Since no policy file exists at that location, WebLogic Server will throw a 'file not found' exception.

Workaround

Attach the custom policy file to Web Service B, as in this example:

@Policy(uri="CustomPolicy.xml",
attachToWsdl=true)
public class B {
...
}

9.35.15 Client Side Fails to Validate the Signature on the Server Response Message

When the security policy has one of these Token Assertions, the client side may fail to validate the signature on the server response message.

<sp:WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/>
<sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token11/>
<sp:WssX509PkiPathV1Token10/>
<sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token10/>

In addition, when there are more than two certifications in the chain for X509 certification for <sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token11/> or <sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token10/> Token Assertion, the server side may fail to validate the signature on the incoming message.

A policy such as the following policy is not supported, unless the entire certificate chain remains on the client side.

<sp:AsymmetricBinding>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:InitiatorToken>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:X509Token
sp:IncludeToken='. . ./IncludeToken/AlwaysToRecipient'>

<wsp:Policy>
<sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token11/>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:X509Token>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:InitiatorToken>
<sp:RecipientToken>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:X509Token sp:IncludeToken='. . ./IncludeToken/Never'>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token11/>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:X509Token>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:RecipientToken>
. . .
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:AsymmetricBinding>

Workaround

Use either of the following two solutions:

1. Configure the response with the <sp:WssX509V3Token10/> Token Assertion, instead of WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/>. The policy will look like this:

<sp:AsymmetricBinding>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:InitiatorToken>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:X509Token sp:IncludeToken='. . ./IncludeToken/AlwaysToRecipient'>
<wsp:Policy>
WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:X509Token>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:InitiatorToken>
<sp:RecipientToken>
<wsp:Policy> sp:IncludeToken='. . ./IncludeToken/Never'>
<sp:X509Token
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:WssX509V3Token10/>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:X509Token>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:RecipientToken>
. . .
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:AsymmetricBinding>

2. Configure the response with the WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/> token assertion, but include it in the message. The policy will look like this:

<sp:AsymmetricBinding>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:InitiatorToken>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:X509Token sp:IncludeToken='. . ./IncludeToken/AlwaysToRecipient'>
<wsp:Policy>
WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:X509Token>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:InitiatorToken>
<sp:RecipientToken>
<wsp:Policy>
<sp:X509Token sp:IncludeToken='. . ./IncludeToken/AlwaysToInitiator'>
<wsp:Policy>
WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:X509Token>
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:RecipientToken>
. . .
</wsp:Policy>
</sp:AsymmetricBinding>

When there are multiple certifications in the X509 Certificate chain, WssX509PkiPathV1Token11/> or <sp:WssX509PkiPathV1Token10/> should be used, instead of <sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token11/> or <sp:WssX509Pkcs7Token10/>.

9.35.16 xmlcatalog Element Entity Cannot Be a Remote File or a File in an Archive

For the xmlcatalog element in build.xml, the location of an entity must be a file on the local file system. It cannot be a remote file (for example, http:) or a file in an archive (for example, jar:).

Workaround

If necessary, define the remote element as an entity in a catalog file instead.

9.35.17 Catalog File's public Element Is Not Supported When Using XML Catalogs

The public element in a catalog file is not supported when using the XML Catalogs feature. It is not supported to be consistent with JAX-WS EntityResolver implementation. WebLogic Server only supports defining the system element in a catalog file.

9.35.18 Local xmlcatalog Element Does Not Work Well

The local xmlcatalog element does not work well due to an Ant limitation.

Workaround

In the ant build.xml file, you have to define a local element above a clientgen(wsdlc) task when you are in the same target, or define the element out of any targets.

9.35.19 JAXRPC Client Does Not Encode the HTTP SOAPAction Header With Multi-byte Characters

The WebLogic Server Web Service JAXRPC client doesn't encode the HTTP SOAPAction header with multi-byte characters, but WebLogic Server only supports ASCII for HTTP headers.

Workaround

Change the SOAP action to ASCII in the WSDL.

9.35.20 External Catalog File Cannot Be Used in the xmlcatalog Element of clientgen

An external catalog file cannot be used in the xmlcatalog element of a clientgen task. For example, this snippet of an ant build file will not work:

<clientgen ...
<xmlcatalog>
<catalogpath>
<pathelement location='wsdlcatalog.xml'/>
</catalogpath>
</xmlcatalog>

This is a limitation of the Ant XML Catalog.

Workaround

Resource locations can be specified either in-line or in an external catalog file(s), or both. In order to use an external catalog file, the xml-commons resolver library (resolver.jar) must be in your classpath. External catalog files may be either plain text format or XML format. If the xml-commons resolver library is not found in the classpath, external catalog files, specified in <catalogpath> paths, will be ignored and a warning will be logged. In this case, however, processing of inline entries will proceed normally.

Currently, only <dtd> and <entity> elements may be specified inline. These correspond to the OASIS catalog entry types PUBLIC and URI respectively.

9.35.21 Exceptions When Running Reliable Messaging Under Heavy Load

When running a Web services reliable messaging scenario under heavy load with file based storage that has the Direct-Write synchronous write policy setting, you may encounter IO exceptions similar to the following in the WebLogic Server log:

weblogic.store.PersistentStoreRuntimeException: [Store:280029]The
persistent store record <number> could not be found

or

Could not load conversation with id uuid:<some ID> -> Conversation read
failed:
...
weblogic.wsee.jws.conversation.StoreException:
Conversation read failed: id=uuid:<some ID>
weblogic.store.PersistentStoreException: [Store:280052]The
persistent store was not able to read a record.
java.io.OptionalDataException

These exceptions are known to occur only when using Web Services reliable messaging. They indicate a failure to read a record from the file store and are considered 'fatal' data access errors.

The underlying issue causing these errors will be addressed in a future release.

Workaround

The following workarounds are available for this issue:

- Change the file store synchronous write policy to Direct-Write-With-Cache
or

- Change the file store synchronous write policy to Cache-Flush.
or

- Keep the Direct-Write synchronous write policy and add the following Java system property to your WebLogic server startup scripts:

-Dweblogic.store.AvoidDirectIO=true

Note:
The -Dweblogic.store.AvoidDirectIO system property has been deprecated in WebLogic Server 10.3.4. Oracle recommends configuring the store synchronous write policy to Direct-Write-With-Cache instead.

The Direct-Write-With-Cache option may improve performance; it creates additional files in the operating system's temporary directory by default.

The Cache-Flush and AvoidDirectIO workarounds may lead to some performance degradation; it may be possible to reduce or eliminate the degradation by configuring a different block-size for the file store.

For important information about these settings and additional options, see "Tuning File Stores" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Performance and Tuning for Oracle WebLogic Server.

9.35.22 ClassNotFound Exception Occurs When Using wseeclient.jar

Stand-alone JAX-WS clients are not supported in this release.

Workaround

Use the client-side JAX-WS 2.1 that is integrated with the Java Standard Edition Release 6 (JDK 1.6), Update 4 and later. This requires using the JAX-WS API instead of any WebLogic Server specific APIS.

Current releases of JDK 1.6 are available for download at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. For information about writing a standalone JAX WS 2.1 client application, see the JAX-WS Users Guide on the JAX-WS 2.1 Reference Implementation Web site at https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/.

9.35.23 Incomplete Configuration When Adding Advanced Web Services Component to SOA Domain

An incomplete configuration can result when you use the Configuration Wizard to add the WebLogic Server Advanced Web Services component to a newly created SOA domain. If you create a cluster that contains only the default 'out-of-the-box' soa_server1 server definition, the resulting cluster does not include the resources needed to run WebLogic Server Web Services in that cluster.

Workaround

Use either of the following workarounds for this issue:

1. While running Configuration Wizard, create a second server in the cluster:

1. On the Select Optional Configuration screen, select Managed Servers, Clusters, and Machines.

2. On the Configure Managed Servers screen, add a managed server.

3. On the Assign Servers to Clusters screen, add this server to the cluster in which the default soa_server1 server resides.

2. On the Configuration Wizard Target Services to Servers or Clusters screen, target Web Services resources (for example, WseeJmsServer, WseeJmsModule) to the cluster.

Either of these workarounds will cause the Configuration Wizard to apply the resources for the WebLogic Server Advanced Web Services component to the cluster.

9.35.24 Exception Occurs During Invocation of Clientside Policy Applied to a Service

After upgrading from WebLogic Server 10.3.1 to WebLogic Server 10.3.2 or later, if the value of the name attribute of @WebParam(header=true) is different from the Java parameter name in the JWS method, a WSDL part name exception may occur.

Workaround

Run clientgen against the service to rebuild the client artifacts.

9.35.25 WS-AT Interoperation Issues With WebSphere and WebLogic Server

Web Services Atomic Transactions (WS-AT) 1.1 interoperation using WebSphere as the client and either WebLogic Server or JRF as the service does not work.

WS-AT 1.1 interoperation does work when WebSphere is the service and either WebLogic Server or JRF is the client. In this case, interoperation works only if you have WebSphere 7 with Fix/Feature Pack 7.

9.35.26 First Response From an SCA Application Takes a Long Time

When a WebLogic Server SCA service and reference are packaged in the same SCA application, and the very first request to the deployed application arrives together with a large number of simultaneous requests, the very first response is delayed significantly, sometimes for up to 10 minutes (depending on the actual volume).

Workaround

Use one of the following two workarounds to resolve this issue:

- When SCA services and references are packaged in the same application, use local wiring whenever possible. This can be done by specifying the default property on the sca:reference, with a value equal to the name of the SCA service declared in the same Spring context file. For example:

<sca:reference name="scareference" ...  default="scaservice">

Note:
You can use this workaround only when the service is in the same composite (that is, same Spring context file) as the reference.

- Package the services and references in different applications, and use application-level Work Managers.

9.35.27 WsrmClient.getMostRecentMessageNumber() Always Returns Zero

The weblogic.wsee.reliability2.api.WsrmClient.getMostRecentMessageNumber() method is intended to return the message number associated with the most recent invocation on an RM-enabled client instance. This number should initially be 0, after the first invocation should be 1, followed by 2, and so on.

9.35.28 WsrmClient.reset() Fails to Reset All Necessary States

The weblogic.wsee.reliability2.api.WsrmClient.reset() method, which should clear any sequence context from a client instance (port or Dispatch) so that the client instance can be reused without fear of referencing the old sequence, does not clear the CLIENT_CURRENT_SEQUENCE_ID_PROP_NAME property from the client instance's request context.

9.36 WebLogic Tuxedo Connector Issues and Workarounds

This section describes the following issue and workaround:

- Section 9.36.1, "View Classes are not Set on a Per Connection Basis"

9.36.1 View Classes are not Set on a Per Connection Basis

View classes are not set on a per connection basis.

A shared WebLogic Tuxedo Connector hash table can cause unexpected behavior in the server if two applications point to the same VIEW name with different definitions. There should be a hash table for the view classes on the connection as well as for the Resource section.

Workaround

Ensure that all VIEW classes defined across all your WebLogic Workshop applications are consistent, meaning that you have the same VIEW name representing the same VIEW class.

9.37 Documentation Errata

This section describes documentation errata:

- Section 9.37.1, "Coherence Option Is Not Supported"

- Section 9.37.2, "Japanese Text Displays in Some Search Results Topics Avitek Medical Records"

- Section 9.37.3, "HTML Pages For Downloaded Libraries Do Not Display Properly"

- Section 9.37.4, "Evaluation Database Component Is Not Listed For silent.xml"

- Section 9.37.5, "Online Documentation URL Displays Earlier Version"

9.37.1 Coherence Option Is Not Supported

In the WebLogic Scripting Tool Command Reference, the nmKill, nmServerLog, nmServerStatus, and nmstart commands list Coherence as a valid option for the serverType argument. This serverType option is not supported for these commands.

9.37.2 Japanese Text Displays in Some Search Results Topics Avitek Medical Records

The samples viewer Search function may sometimes return topics that display the Japanese and English versions of some Avitek Medical Records topics simultaneously.

9.37.3 HTML Pages For Downloaded Libraries Do Not Display Properly

After extracting the WebLogic Server documentation library ZIP files that are available from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/documentation/index.html, the HTML pages may not display properly in some cases for the following libraries:

- E12840_01 (WebLogic Server 10.3.0 documentation library)

- E12839_01 (Weblogic Server 10.3.1 documentation library)

- E14571_01 (WebLogic Server 10.3.3 documentation library)

Workarounds

For library E12840-01, after extracting the E12840_01.zip library file, if the HTML pages are not formatting correctly, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the directory in which you extracted the zip file.

2. Locate the /global_resources directory in the directory structure.

3. Copy the /global_resources directory to the root directory of the same drive.

For libraries E12839-01 and E14571-01, this issue occurs only on Windows operating systems. If the HTML pages of the extracted library are not formatting correctly, try extracting the ZIP file using another extraction option in your unzip utility. For example, if you are using 7-Zip to extract the files, select the Full pathnames option. Note that you cannot use the Windows decompression utility to extract the library ZIP file.

9.37.4 Evaluation Database Component Is Not Listed For silent.xml

In the WebLogic Server Installation Guides for WebLogic Server 10.3.3 and 10.3.4, the Evaluation Database is not listed as an installable component in Table 5-1 of Chapter 5, "Running the Installation Program in Silent Mode.:" The following entry should be included in the Component Paths row:

WebLogic Server/Evaluation Database

The Evaluation Database component is automatically installed if the Server Examples component is included in silent.xml. Therefore, it does not have to be explicitly included in silent.xml. If, however, you do not install the Server Examples, but you want to install the Evaluation Database, you must include WebLogic Server/Evaluation Database in silent.xml.

9.37.5 Online Documentation URL Displays Earlier Version

In WebLogic Server 10.3.5, links to the online documentation from the Quick Start menu, Start menu, Code Examples, and Sample Applications go to the WebLogic Server 10.3.4 documentation library, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/wls.htm.

Workaround

When accessing the online documentation, use this URL for the WebLogic Server 10.3.5 documentation library, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/wls.htm.

Part V

Oracle WebCenter

Part V contains the following chapter:

- Chapter 10, "Oracle WebCenter"

10 Oracle WebCenter

This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle WebCenter. It includes the following topic:

- Section 10.1, "General Issues and Workarounds"

10.1 General Issues and Workarounds

This section describes general issues and workarounds. It includes the following topics:

- Section 10.1.1, "Using Oracle WebLogic Communications Server"

- Section 10.1.2, "Using Jive Forums Documentation"

- Section 10.1.3, "Application Role Names Cannot Include Thai Characters"

- Section 10.1.4, "Pagelet Producer Failover Support"

- Section 10.1.5, "Configuring a Client Security Policy for Oracle Content Server Connections"

- Section 10.1.6, "Importing Space Templates with Public Access"

- Section 10.1.7, "Option to Create a Portal Resource Displayed for Design-Time Task Flows"

- Section 10.1.8, "Connections Network Task Flow on System Pages Not Supported"

- Section 10.1.9, "Cannot Log In to WebCenter Spaces if Oracle BPM is Down"

- Section 10.1.10, "SQL Query with NCHAR Data Type Throws Exception"

- Section 10.1.11, "Modifying Default Resource Strings for Language Support"

- Section 10.1.12, "Setting Up WNA-Based SSO Using JDK 1.6.22 Produces an Error"

- Section 10.1.13, "Cannot Navigate to the Current Page Using Out-of-the-Box Navigation Task Flows in WebCenter Portal Applications"

- Section 10.1.14, "Login Outcome Fails to Navigate to Privileged Pages"

- Section 10.1.15, "Space Language Does Not Take Effect"

- Section 10.1.16, "Performing Security-Related Operations on Business Role Pages"

- Section 10.1.17, "Unable to Access SSL-Protected WebCenter Endpoints"

- Section 10.1.18, "Unable to Export Content to Excel by using a Custom ADF Taskflow"

- Section 10.1.19, "Errors for Activity Graph Queries When the Activity Graph Engines are Running"

- Section 10.1.20, "Page Not Found Error When Clicking Back to Portal Link"

- Section 10.1.21, "Turning Off Automatic Event Listening in WebCenter Spaces"

- Section 10.1.22, "Cannot Add Certain Task Flows on a Space Page with the Default Page Template Catalog"

- Section 10.1.23, "Search Limitations with Special Characters"

- Section 10.1.24, "Configuring the REST Server Post-Installation"

- Section 10.1.25, "Resources in WebCenter Portal Application Disappear after Redeployment of Application"

- Section 10.1.26, "Configuring a Proxy Server for External Links in Activity Stream"

- Section 10.1.27, "Installing Oracle SES 11.1.2.2"

10.1.1 Using Oracle WebLogic Communications Server

Oracle WebLogic Communications Server (OWLCS) is provided as a sample for development only. It should not be used for production deployments.

10.1.2 Using Jive Forums Documentation

Oracle WebCenter Discussions (Jive Forums) is an optional component of Oracle WebCenter. Complete documentation for Jive Forums is included for reference. However, Jive software installations and upgrades outside of the WebCenter product installation are not supported.

10.1.3 Application Role Names Cannot Include Thai Characters

In this release, application role names cannot contain Thai characters.

10.1.4 Pagelet Producer Failover Support

Oracle WebCenter Pagelet Producer supports failover in a clustered configuration. However, the in-flight data (unsaved or pending changes) is not preserved. On failover, administrators must reestablish their administrative session. End users may also need to reestablish the session if the proxy is required to have a state. If SSO is configured, credentials are automatically provided, and the session is reestablished.

10.1.5 Configuring a Client Security Policy for Oracle Content Server Connections

If your environment supports Global Policy Attachments (GPA), leave the Client Security Policy property blank when you configure the Oracle Content Server connection. The hint text and online help indicates that you must enter the value 'GPA' but this information is not correct. See also, the table "Oracle Content Server Connection Parameters" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

10.1.6 Importing Space Templates with Public Access

When a Space template with public access is imported into another instance of WebCenter Spaces, the template appears as public but the grants are not imported properly. Creating a Space based on this template by using the UI works fine, but creating a Space by using the WebService call fails with an exception.

As a workaround, in the Spaces UI, revoke the public access from the template, and then grant the public access again.

10.1.7 Option to Create a Portal Resource Displayed for Design-Time Task Flows

You can bring runtime task flows into JDeveloper, edit them, and export them back to the deployed application. However, Oracle recommends that you not expose task flows created in JDeveloper as portal resources. When you create an ADF task flow inside the /oracle/webcenter/portalapp folder, the context menu on the task flow definition file displays the Create Portal Resource option. Do not use this option to expose a design-time task flow as a portal resource. Task flows typically involve multiple files. When you export a new task flow from JDeveloper, all files may not be exported properly, and this may result in the task flow being broken post deployment.

10.1.8 Connections Network Task Flow on System Pages Not Supported

If you include the Connections Network task flow in a custom Resource Catalog and use that catalog in your application, and then try to add this task flow to a system page, you get an error. This error prevents you from editing any other task flow on the page. To work around this issue, click the Restore Default link on the system page to undo all changes made to the page, including removal of the Connections Network task flow.

10.1.9 Cannot Log In to WebCenter Spaces if Oracle BPM is Down

If the WebCenter domain has been extended using the Oracle BPM Spaces template, and Process Spaces has been installed, any attempt to log in to WebCenter Spaces throws exceptions if the Oracle BPM server is down.

10.1.10 SQL Query with NCHAR Data Type Throws Exception

When using a SQL data control, you may encounter an error if the query contains a column with the NCHAR data type. As a workaround, you can use the to_char(NCHAR_COLUMN NAME) function.

10.1.11 Modifying Default Resource Strings for Language Support

In a WebCenter Portal application, to provide language support for component properties edited at runtime, Oracle Composer enables users to edit resource strings for properties that take String values. At runtime, when you try to override the default content in the resource bundle by directly entering values in the Select Text Resource dialog, the changes do not take effect and the page may appear blank.

The workaround is to create a new resource string instead of directly entering values in the Select Text Resource dialog. To create a new resource string, use the Create link in the Select Text Resource dialog and enter the required values in the search results table. Clicking the Use button in the last column selects this string for use as the current property value. For information, see the "Edit Resource Strings" section in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle WebCenter."

10.1.12 Setting Up WNA-Based SSO Using JDK 1.6.22 Produces an Error

Setting up Windows Native Authentication-based single sign-on using SUN JDK 1.6.22 produces an error. Use the jrockit JDK instead of the Sun JDK, or contact Oracle Support to get a backport request for bug 10631797.

10.1.13 Cannot Navigate to the Current Page Using Out-of-the-Box Navigation Task Flows in WebCenter Portal Applications

Navigating to the same page as the current page with the out-of-the-box navigation task flows fails in WebCenter Portal applications.

The workaround for this issue is to extend the CustomPortalNavigation class and register it in web.xml.

1. Create a new Java class in your Portal project that extends oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.PreferencesBean.
For example:

package portal;

import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.PreferencesBean;

public class CustomPortalNavigation extends PreferencesBean {
public CustomPortalNavigation () {
super();
}
}

2. Register this new Java class in web.xml with the navigation framework as a CustomPortalNavigation as follows:

<context-param>
<param-name>
Oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.CustomPortalNavigationImpl
</param-name>
<param-value>portal.CustomPortalNavigation</param-value>
</context-param>

10.1.14 Login Outcome Fails to Navigate to Privileged Pages

If an application is configured to automatically navigate to a page that is accessible only to authenticated users, login to the application fails to navigate to the target page. The browser either shows an empty popup or 404 error.

The workaround for this issue is as follows:

1. Create a Java class in the application that extends the framework's CustomViewHandler and overload the getActionURL method, for example:

package portal;

import java.beans.Beans;
import javax.faces.application.ViewHandler;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.SiteStructure;
import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.SiteStructureContext;
import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.SiteStructureResource;
import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.SiteStructureUtils;
import oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.handler.CustomViewHandler;

public class ApplicationViewHandler extends CustomViewHandler {

public ApplicationViewHandler(ViewHandler viewHandler) {
super(viewHandler);
}

/*
* Extend to address issue with bug 11076967 involving login
*/

@Override
public String getActionURL(FacesContext fctx, String viewId) {
String urlStr = viewId;

if (Beans.isDesignTime()) {
return m_baseHandler.getActionURL(fctx, urlStr);
}

// Only perform the pretty url lookup if the request was from our
// navigation processAction
if (isRequestDrivenByNavigation(fctx)) {
SiteStructure model =
SiteStructureContext.getInstance().getCurrentModel();
if (model != null) {
SiteStructureResource resource = model.getCurrentSelection();
if (resource != null) {
// Bug 11076967
// Only translate to pretty URL if the viewId is that of the
// resource.
// There is a usecase (bug 11076967) where the viewId is
// the login_success outcome in which case, we shouldn't touch it
String resourceViewId = findTargetViewId(fctx, resource);
if (resourceViewId != null &&
resourceViewId.equals(viewId))
urlStr = "/" +
SiteStructureUtils.encodeUrl(resource.getPrettyUrl());
}
}
}

// Get the base handler to tag on anything else that might be needed
// which includes the _adf.ctrl-state
String ret = m_baseHandler.getActionURL(fctx, urlStr);

return ret;
}
}

2. Register the above view handler with JSF in faces-config.xml, replacing the existing oracle.webcenter.portalframework.sitestructure.handler.CustomViewHandler entry:

<faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">
<application>
<default-render-kit-id>oracle.adf.rich</default-render-kit-id>
<view-handler>portal.ApplicationViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>
...

10.1.15 Space Language Does Not Take Effect

If users change their language preference, it overrides the language selected for the Space. To display the language selected for the Space, users must clear the browser cookies and reload the Space.

10.1.16 Performing Security-Related Operations on Business Role Pages

Seeded business role pages, such as Activities and Spaces, are available to all users by default. Currently, the WebCenter Spaces UI does not provide a means of performing security-related operations on seeded business role pages. This means you cannot hide seeded business role pages from all users through the WebCenter Spaces UI. However, there is a workaround:

1. Export the pages.xml files for anonymous-role and authenticated-role from MDS.

exportMetadata(application='webcenter',server='WC_Spaces',toLocation='/scratch/mdsdump',
docs='/oracle/webcenter/page/scopedMD/s8bba98ff_4cbb_40b8_beee_296c916a23ed/role/anonymous-role/pages.xml')
exportMetadata(application='webcenter',server='WC_Spaces',toLocation='/scratch/mdsdump',
docs='/oracle/webcenter/page/scopedMD/s8bba98ff_4cbb_40b8_beee_296c916a23ed/role/authenticated-role/pages.xml')

2. Go through these pages.xml files and, based on your requirement, mark business role pages hidden or shown:

<!-- Business Role Pages -->
<pageDef
id="Page_2eb852ac_10f5902cb2f__7ff7"
contentMRef="/oracle/webcenter/page/scopedMD/s8bba98ff_4cbb_40b8_beee_296c916a23ed/businessRolePages/ActivityStreamMainView.jspx"
shared="false"
hidden="false"
/>...

- Set hidden="true" for the pages that should not be shown.

- Set hidden="false" for pages that should be shown.

3. Upload the changed files back to the repository.

importMetadata(application='webcenter',server='WC_Spaces',fromLocation='/scratch/mdsdump',
docs='/oracle/webcenter/page/scopedMD/s8bba98ff_4cbb_40b8_beee_296c916a23ed/role/anonymous-role/pages.xml')
importMetadata(application='webcenter',server='WC_Spaces',fromLocation='/scratch/mdsdump',
docs='/oracle/webcenter/page/scopedMD/s8bba98ff_4cbb_40b8_beee_296c916a23ed/role/authenticated-role/pages.xml')

10.1.17 Unable to Access SSL-Protected WebCenter Endpoints

An Oracle WebCenter Source (for searching WebCenter Spaces objects, such as lists, pages, Spaces, and people connections profiles) currently cannot access SSL-protected WebCenter endpoints. Oracle is working on a patch for this.

10.1.18 Unable to Export Content to Excel by using a Custom ADF Taskflow

In a WebCenter Portal application that contains a custom ADF taskflow that enables you to generate a downloadable Excel spreadsheet, the export operation may fail when you click the Export to Excel button for the first time. If you encounter this problem, try to export the content to Excel again.

10.1.19 Errors for Activity Graph Queries When the Activity Graph Engines are Running

The process of building and storing similarity scores for Activity Graph can consume a large amount of temporary and undo table space when the size of the graph grows large. To prevent errors, ensure that the temporary and undo tablespaces assigned to the Activities schema are configured to auto-extend.

10.1.20 Page Not Found Error When Clicking Back to Portal Link

The Back to Portal link redirects to http://server:port/contextroot. The default value in web.xml for this is /index.html and the default value in index.html redirects to ./faces/pages_home. If there is no pages_home node in the selected default navigation model for the application, this results in a page not found error. To resolve this issue, update web.xml and index.html to reflect the structure of your application.

If your application uses dynamically created navigations at runtime, it is advisable to change the landing page to be a .jsp page. This enables you to drive the actual node to redirect to within the navigation from a backing bean. The bean can either choose to go to the first navigable page, or can navigate to a node based on an external ID. In the latter case, you must set the external ID in the navigation model.

10.1.21 Turning Off Automatic Event Listening in WebCenter Spaces

In WebCenter Spaces, when a portlet is added to a page, the portlet binding is configured to automatically listen for parameters and events generated on the page. Currently, there is no way to turn off this automatic parameter and event listening in the WebCenter Spaces UI.

To turn off automatic parameter and event listening:

1. Export the Space.

2. In JDeveloper, open the page definition for the page containing the portlet.

3. Edit the portlet binding to set the listenForAutoDeliveredPortletEvents and listenForAutoDeliveredParameterChanges attributes to false:

<portlet id="p2_1"
...
listenForAutoDeliveredPortletEvents="false"
listenForAutoDeliveredParamtersChange="false"
...
/>

4. Import the Space back into WebCenter Spaces.

10.1.22 Cannot Add Certain Task Flows on a Space Page with the Default Page Template Catalog

When using the Default Page Template Catalog (for example, when editing page templates), users are unable to add the following task flows to a Space page:

- All Saved Searches

- Similarly Tagged Items

- Tags

- Tag Cloud

- Tag Cloud Related Items

- Publisher

This is due to a missing single quote in the attr.text attribute, which causes a parse exception when the task flow is added to a page.

The workaround is to edit the Default Page Template Catalog to add the missing quotes. For example:

1. Log on as an administrator.

2. Navigate to the Administration - Resources - Resource Catalogs page.

3. With the Default Page Template Catalog selected, click Edit - Copy.

4. With this new (copied) catalog selected, select Edit, and for each of these entries (under either the Tagging and Searching group or the Social and Communications group), do the following:

1. Select the entry and click Edit (pencil).

2. Click the Options tab, and add the missing single quote in the attr.text attribute; for example, ['TAGS.TITLE'].

5. Click OK, then OK again to save and close the catalog.

6. Back on the Administration - Resources - Resource Catalogs page, select this new catalog, and click Edit - Show to make it available.

7. Navigate to the Administration – Configuration page.

8. In the Resources section, select this new catalog for the following:

- Resource Catalog for Page Templates in Spaces

- Resource Catalog for Page Templates in Home Space

9. Click Apply to save these changes.

10.1.23 Search Limitations with Special Characters

Several special characters are filtered out in WebCenter search. For example, when you search for the keyword Q2$Total, WebCenter does not return the wiki page named Q2$Total in search results.

With Oracle SES, the following special characters are not recognized:

! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) + = [ ] { } | ; ' \ " , < > / ? ` ~

With WebCenter live search, the hyphen [-] and wildcard [*] characters additionally are not recognized.

10.1.24 Configuring the REST Server Post-Installation

For certain features of the WebCenter REST server to work correctly when using a REST client like the Oracle WebCenter iPhone application, the flag WLForwardUriUnparsed must be set to ON for the Oracle Weblogic Server Plugin that you are using.

- If you are running Apache in front of Weblogic Server, add this flag to weblogic.conf.

- If you are running Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) in front of Weblogic Server, add this flag to mod_wl_ohs.conf.

The examples below illustrate the possible configurations for both of these cases.

For more information about how to configure Weblogic Server Plugins, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Web Server 1.1 Plug-Ins with Oracle WebLogic Server.

Example 1: Using <location /rest> to apply the flag only for /rest URIs (recommended)

<Location /rest>
# the flag below MUST BE set to "On"
WLForwardUriUnparsed    On

# other settings, example: WebLogicCluster or WebLogicHost & WebLogicPort

# set the handler to be weblogic
SetHandler weblogic-handler
</Location>

Example 2: Applying the flag to all URIs served by Oracle Weblogic Server

<IfModule mod_weblogic.c>
# the flag below MUST BE set to "On"
WLForwardUriUnparsed    On

# other settings, example: WebLogicCluster or WebLogicHost & WebLogicPort
WebLogicCluster johndoe02:8005,johndoe:8006
Debug ON
WLLogFile             c:/tmp/global_proxy.log
WLTempDir             "c:/myTemp"
DebugConfigInfo       On
KeepAliveEnabled ON
KeepAliveSecs  15
</IfModule>

10.1.25 Resources in WebCenter Portal Application Disappear after Redeployment of Application

If a WebCenter Portal application has been customized at runtime to add new resources through the Resource Manager, those new resources are lost after a new deployment or a redeployment of the same application.

Any new pages created at runtime that use the lost resources are still available even though the resources themselves are no longer available in the Resource Manager.

This issue happens when the application version or the redeployment version is changed during the redeployment of the application, either using Fusion Middleware Control or WLST. It can also happen on redeployment when the generic-site-resources.xml file has been changed at design time (for example, by creating new resources).

This issue occurs because the generic-site-resources.xml file is overwritten on redeployment.

To work around this issue, you must manually add the mds-transfer-config.xml file to the application.

Note:
Any resources created at design time must be manually added to the runtime application before redeploying the application.

1. Download the mds-transfer-config.xml file from the following location:
https://support.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DownloadAttachment.jspx?attachid=1343209.1:mdstransferconfig

2. Extract the MAR file (for example AutoGeneratedMar.mar) from the EAR file.

3. In the extracted MAR file directory, create a new directory, called META-INF, and copy the mds-transfer-config.xml file to the new directory.

4. Update the MAR file with META-INF\mds-transfer-config.xml, for example:

jar -uvf AutoGeneratedMar.mar META-INF\mds-transfer-config.xml

5. Update the EAR file with the updated MAR file:

jar -uvf YourApp.ear AutoGeneratedMar.mar

6. Redeploy YourApp.mar.

10.1.26 Configuring a Proxy Server for External Links in Activity Stream

You must configure a proxy server if you want to display external links in Activity Stream task flows. Both the RSS service and the Activity Stream

service share the same proxy server settings. For information, see "Setting Up a Proxy Server for External RSS News Feeds" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter.

10.1.27 Installing Oracle SES 11.1.2.2

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) release 11.1.2.2 now is available and is recommended as the Oracle SES release to use with WebCenter release 11.1.1.5.

Download Oracle SES from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/search/oses/downloads/index.html. No additional Oracle patches are required with Oracle SES release 11.1.2.2.

Note:
Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter describes required steps for installing Oracle SES that involve unzipping the webcenter_search_ses_plugins.zip file to add several WebCenter jar files to Oracle SES. This zip file is not necessary with Oracle SES release 11.1.2.2.

For more information, refer to the Oracle SES Online Documentation Library 11g Release 1 (11.1.2.2) available here on OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/search/oses/documentation/ses-096384.html

Part VI

Oracle SOA Suite and Business Process Management Suite

Part VI contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 11, "Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite, and Common Functionality"

- Chapter 12, "Web Services Security and Administration"

11 Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite, and Common Functionality

To view the latest known issues associated with Oracle SOA Suite, BPM Suite, and related SOA technologies, go to Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/docs/soa-aiafp-knownissuesindex-364630.html. These known issues documents include the following products:

- Oracle Adapter for Oracle Applications (Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter)

- Oracle AIA Foundation Pack

- Oracle Application Adapters for Oracle WebLogic Server

- Oracle Application Server Legacy Adapters

- Oracle B2B

- Oracle BPEL Process Manager

- Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

- Oracle Business Process Management

- Oracle Business Rules

- Oracle Complex Event Processing

- Oracle Enterprise Repository

- Oracle Human Workflow

- Oracle Mediator

- Oracle Service Bus

- Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite Common Functionality

- Oracle Technology Adapters

12 Web Services Security and Administration

This chapter describes issues associated with Web services security and administration, including Oracle Web Services Manager. It includes the following topics:

- Section 12.1, "Using Multibyte User Credentials with wss_http_token_* Policy"

- Section 12.2, "Importing Custom Policies Before Attaching and Deploying to a Service Application"

- Section 12.3, "Performing a Bulk Upload of Policies"

- Section 12.4, "Reviewing Policy Configuration Override Values After Detaching a Client Policy"

- Section 12.5, "Removing Post-deployment Customizations"

- Section 12.6, "Reviewing Localization Limitations"

- Section 12.7, "When Using WLST to Import a Security Policy, the Same Policy May Be Repeatedly Imported"

- Section 12.8, "Identity in WSDLs Is Not Used for Enforcement with ADF DC Applications"

- Section 12.9, "JVM limitation for Kerberos Token Policy with Message Protection Policy"

- Section 12.10, "Fusion Middleware Control Does Not List Policies When Two Servers Are SSL Enabled (Two-way SSL)"

- Section 12.11, "Web Service Test Page Cannot Test Input Arguments Bound to SOAP Headers"

- Section 12.12, "Possible Build Label Version and Date Discrepancy On the Policy Validation Page"

- Section 12.13, "When Adding SAML Issuer From Fusion Middleware Control the jps-config.xml File Is Incorrectly Updated"

- Section 12.14, "Patching of Patch Set 1 WebLogic Server Web Services Attached to Custom Polices With Patch Set 3 Oracle WSM Policy Manager"

- Section 12.15, "Custom Policy Fails When an Empty Subject Is Passed"

- Section 12.16, "Possible Limitation When Using Custom Exactly-one Policies"

- Section 12.17, "Ignore "Services Compatibility" Error for Security Policies Used Between Oracle WSM and WebLogic Server"

- Section 12.18, "Compatible Policies Not Returned When Using JDeveloper Wizard to Attach Oracle WSM Policies to Web Service Client"

- Section 12.19, "SAML Bearer Token Policies Now Signed by Default"

- Section 12.20, "Policyset Containing Invalid PolicyRef Causes Application to Fail"

- Section 12.21, "Security Policies do not Work on Subscriber Mediator Component"

- Section 12.22, "Policy Table Might not Show Attached Policies For Some Locales"

Note:
See also Section 9.35, "Web Services and XML Issues and Workarounds."

12.1 Using Multibyte User Credentials with wss_http_token_* Policy

In this release, multibyte user credentials are not supported for the wss_http_token_* policies. If multibyte user credentials are required, use a different policy, such as wss_username_token_* policy. For more information about the available policies, see Appendix B "Predefined Policies" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Security and Administrator's Guide for Web Services.

12.2 Importing Custom Policies Before Attaching and Deploying to a Service Application

It is recommended that you import custom policies before attaching and deploying them to a service application.

If you deploy an application with policies that do not exist in the Metadata Store (MDS), and subsequently import the policies, you need to restart the server for the policy attachment count to be updated.

12.3 Performing a Bulk Upload of Policies

When performing a bulk import of policies to the MDS repository, if the operation does not succeed initially, retry the operation until the bulk import succeeds.

For the most part, this can occur for an Oracle RAC database when the database is switched during the metadata upload. If there are n databases in the Oracle RAC database, then you may need to retry this operation n times.

For more information about bulk import of policies, see "Migrating Policies" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Security and Administrator's Guide for Web Services.

12.4 Reviewing Policy Configuration Override Values After Detaching a Client Policy

If you attach a policy to a client, override policy configuration values, and subsequently detach the policy, the policy configuration override values are not deleted. When attaching new policies to this client, ensure that you review the policy configuration override values and update them appropriately.

12.5 Removing Post-deployment Customizations

When the connections.xml file is changed after deployment using the AdfConnection MBean, the complete connection is saved as a customization. This means that changes to the connection in a redeployed application are overwritten by the customization.

When you use Fusion Middleware Control to make changes to an application's connections.xml file after deployment, a new connections.xml file is created as a customization and stored in the MDS repository. This customization persists for the life of the application. Therefore, if you redeploy the application, the customized connections.xml file continues to be applied as a customization on the application.

To allow the redeployed application's connections.xml file to be applied without the prior customization (from Fusion Middleware Control), you must explicitly remove the connections.xml customizations from the MDS repository.

For example, if you deploy an application with a Web services data control, then use Fusion Middleware Control to attach the 'username token client policy', and subsequently detach the policy. Then, you return to JDeveloper to edit the application and attach the 'http token client policy', and redeploy the application. When you view the application using Fusion Middleware Control, you see that it is not using the 'http token client policy' that you attached. That is because it is using the customized connections.xml file that you previously created using Fusion Middleware Control.

If you remove the connections.xml customizations from the MDS repository, the application will use the its own connections.xml file.

12.6 Reviewing Localization Limitations

The following information is supported in English only in this release of Oracle Enterprise Manager:

- All fields in the policy and assertion template except the orawsp:displayName field.

- If using the ?orawsdl browser address, the orawsp:description field.

- In the System MBean browser, the Description field in the oracle.wsm.upgrade Mbean.

12.7 When Using WLST to Import a Security Policy, the Same Policy May Be Repeatedly Imported

When WLST is used to import a security policy, be aware that the same policy may be repeatedly imported.

12.8 Identity in WSDLs Is Not Used for Enforcement with ADF DC Applications

For ADF DC applications, the identity extension in a WSDL (for example, the certificate published in the WSDL), cannot be used as a recipient certificate for message protection policies. Instead, either the recipient key alias (declarative configuration override) or the default recipient key alias specified in the policy are used.

12.9 JVM limitation for Kerberos Token Policy with Message Protection Policy

Within a JVM, the Kerberos acquire key works fine when there is only a single Web service principal. If there are additional Web service principals within the same JVM, the acquire key returns null. When a Web service and client exist in different JVMs, this is no longer an issue.

12.10 Fusion Middleware Control Does Not List Policies When Two Servers Are SSL Enabled (Two-way SSL)

When a Managed Server is Two-way enabled SSL (for example, a SOA server hosting Oracle WSM Policy Manager over Two-way SSL) and the Administration Server hosting Fusion Middleware Control is correctly configured to access the Two-way SSL-enabled Managed Server, Fusion Middleware Control still does not list the Oracle WSM policies.

12.11 Web Service Test Page Cannot Test Input Arguments Bound to SOAP Headers

For Web services that have any input arguments bound to SOAP headers, the Test Web Service page in the Fusion Middleware Control console cannot show the message. Therefore, such operations cannot be tested with the Test Web Service page.

For example, if the input for a multi-part WSDL is viewed through Fusion Middleware Control, and one input argument is bound to a SOAP header, the composite instance fails with the following exception because the other part of the message was missing in the input:

ORAMED-01203:[No Part]No part exist with name "request1" in source message

To resolve such an issue, select XML View for Input Arguments and edit the payload to pass input for both parts of the WSDL.

12.12 Possible Build Label Version and Date Discrepancy On the Policy Validation Page

The build label and date information on the Policy Manager Validation page represent the repository information and the version of the Policy Manager. The build label represents the Policy Manager build that populated the repository and the date is the date that the repository was last refreshed. If the repository is not refreshed during a sparse installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1 PS2, the information will not change. Note that a typical installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1 PS2 does not refresh the repository either.

12.13 When Adding SAML Issuer From Fusion Middleware Control the jps-config.xml File Is Incorrectly Updated

In release 11g R1 (11.1.1.1.0), when you try to add or edit a trusted issuer from the Fusion Middleware Control console, then the jps-config.xml file is incorrectly updated. As a workaround for this issue, Oracle recommends upgrading to 11g R1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0).

12.14 Patching of Patch Set 1 WebLogic Server Web Services Attached to Custom Polices With Patch Set 3 Oracle WSM Policy Manager

Due to a new feature in 11g R1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0), the "Shared policy store for Oracle Infrastructure Web services and WebLogic Server Web services", WebLogic Server Web services now utilize the Policy Manager by default to retrieve policies from the MDS repository. In Patch Set 1, WebLogic Server Web services used classpath mode by default.

After patching your Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 software installation to Patch Set 2, if you have attached a custom Oracle WSM policy to a WebLogic Server Web service, you need to make sure your custom policy is stored in the MDS repository. Note that only custom policies in use need to be migrated. All seed policies will be available in the MDS repository out-of-the-box.

To migrate policies to the Metadata Services (MDS) repository, see "Maintaining the MDS Repository" in the Security and Administrator's Guide for Web Services.

12.15 Custom Policy Fails When an Empty Subject Is Passed

If an empty subject is passed to a custom policy, it fails with a generic error. To work around this issue, you can create and set an anonymousSubject inside the execute method of the custom step. For example:

javax.security.auth.Subject subject =
oracle.security.jps.util.SubjectUtil.getAnonymousSubject();
context.setProperty(oracle.wsm.common.sdk.IMessageContext.SECURITY_SUBJECT,subject)

Note that in this example the context is of Type oracle.wsm.common.sdk.IContext

12.16 Possible Limitation When Using Custom Exactly-one Policies

In some cases, there can be a limitation when using custom Exactly-one policies. For a set of assertions within the exactly-one policy, if a request message satisfies the first assertion, then the first assertion gets executed and a response is sent accordingly. However, this may not be the desired behavior in some cases because the request may be intended for the subsequent assertions.

For example, you may have a client policy that has Timestamp=ON and a service exactly-one policy that has a wss11 username token with message protection assertions: the first has Timestamp=OFF; the second has Timestamp=ON. Therefore, the first assertion in the service exactly-one policy is not expecting the Timestamp in the request, yet the second assertion does expect it. In this case, the first assertion gets executed and the response is sent with no Timestamp. However, the client-side processing then fails because it expects the Timestamp that was sent in the request.

This limitation can exist with any cases where a client policy expects a greater number of elements to be signed and a service policy does not.

12.17 Ignore "Services Compatibility" Error for Security Policies Used Between Oracle WSM and WebLogic Server

Fusion Middleware Control may display a false error message when verifying compatibility of service policies. This incompatibility message is shown when using Enterprise Manager to attach an Oracle WSM Security client policy. Upon clicking the Check Services Compatibility, a message states that policies are incompatible despite the fact that these might be compatible.

Workaround:

If WSM policies are attached at the Web service endpoint, use the corresponding client policy. For example, if the service has wss11_saml_or_username_token_with_message_protection_service_policy, wss11_saml_token_with_message_protection_client_policy or wss11_username_token_with_message_protection_client_policy will work at the client side. If non-WSM policies are attached to the Web Service, see the Interoperability Guide for Oracle Web Services Manager for information about the corresponding client policy and attach it.

12.18 Compatible Policies Not Returned When Using JDeveloper Wizard to Attach Oracle WSM Policies to Web Service Client

During design time, the JDeveloper Wizard's option for Attaching Oracle WSM Policies to Web Service Clients might not return any compatible policies. This can occur due to one of the following reasons:

- There are no compatible client policies corresponding to the service policies published in the WSDL.

- In some cases, when you are trying to determine the compatible client policies in version 11.1.1.4 of JDeveloper running with Fusion Middleware Control Enterprise Manager that correspond to the service policies published in the WSDL of the Web service in version 11.1.1.3 or earlier.

Workaround:

Disable the Show only the compatible client policies for selection option in the JDeveloper Wizard. This will list all the client policies.

If Oracle WSM policies are attached to the Webs service, use the corresponding client policy. For example, if the service has the policy wss11_saml_or_username_token_with_message_protection_service_policy, it is safe to assume that wss11_saml_token_with_message_protection_client_policy or wss11_username_token_with_message_protection_client_policy will work at the client side.

If WSM policies are not attached to the Web service, refer to the Interoperability Guide for Oracle Web Services Manager for instructions on determinant the corresponding client policy and attaching it.

12.19 SAML Bearer Token Policies Now Signed by Default

A new property, saml.enveloped.signature.required, is available when configuring wss_saml_token_bearer_over_ssl policies (both client and service). In previous releases, the SAML bearer token was unsigned by default. In the current release, the SAML bearer token is signed because the default value for the saml.enveloped.signature.required property is true.

To retain the behavior of the previous release, set the saml.enveloped.signature.required property to false in both the client and service policies. The SAML bearer token is signed using the domain sign key, but it can be overridden using the keystore.sig.csf.key property set in the bearer client policy.

The affected policies are:

- wss_saml20_token_bearer_over_ssl_client_policy

- wss_saml_token_bearer_over_ssl_client_policy

- wss_saml20_token_bearer_over_ssl_service_policy

- wss_saml_token_bearer_over_ssl_service_policy

12.20 Policyset Containing Invalid PolicyRef Causes Application to Fail

A policy set containing a policy reference referring to a non-existent policy causes failure of the application startup.

To start up the application, perform either of the following steps:

1. Delete the policy set containing invalid policy reference.

2. Remove the non-existing policy reference by modifying the policy set. Explicitly enable the policy set, which is disabled when a referenced policy is not found.

12.21 Security Policies do not Work on Subscriber Mediator Component

Component Authorization denyall policy does not work at subscriber mediator component. Authorization policy works for other normal mediator component cases.

12.22 Policy Table Might not Show Attached Policies For Some Locales

Select the Web service application in Fusion Middleware Control and navigate to the Web service endpoint. Attach a policy to the endpoint in the Attach/Detach page. Sometimes the Directly Attached Polices table might not display the attached policies for the following locales: zh-cn, zh-tw, ja, pt-br, es, fr, ko.

As a workaround, enlarge the columns.

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