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Oracle® Application Server Release Notes and New Features
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Release 3 (10.1.3.4)
Part Number E12523-05
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Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
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Conventions
1
What's New in the
Release Notes and New Features
?
1.1
Chapter 3, "Installation Issues"
1.2
Chapter 4, "General Management and Security Issues"
1.3
Chapter 6, "Oracle Business Activity Monitoring"
1.4
Chapter 15, "Oracle Content DB Issues"
2
Introduction
2.1
Latest Release Information
2.2
Purpose of this Document
2.3
Operating System Requirements
2.4
Certification Information
2.5
Licensing Information
3
Installation Issues
3.1
IPv6 Not Supported
3.2
DHCP Warning Message with Static IP Addresses (Vista and Windows 2008)
3.3
Installer Hangs When It Tries to Restart OPMN (Vista and Windows 2008)
4
General Management and Security Issues
4.1
Windows Shortcut to createASInstance Command Ignores Input
4.2
Clarification on Output to opmnctl status Command
4.3
Starting and Stopping Requires Administrator Privileges (Vista and Windows 2008)
4.4
New Features
4.4.1
Multiple Application Server Instances
5
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
5.1
Installation, Deinstallation, and Upgrade Issues and Workarounds
5.1.1
Password Displays in Clear Text During Deinstallation
5.1.2
Passwords Appear in Clear Text in /tmp Directory After Running IRCA.SH
5.1.3
BPEL Process Instances Do Not Display in Oracle BPEL Control when Using Oracle Database Lite
5.1.4
Task Details Application Does Not Start in a Standalone, Middle Tier-Based Installation
5.1.5
Applications Sometimes Do Not Start After Applying Patch 10.1.3.4
5.2
Modeling and Design-Time Issues and Workarounds
5.2.1
Use an XA Data Source for the BPELPM_CONNECTION_POOL Setting
5.2.2
Associating Oracle Internet Directory with Oracle BPEL Process Manager
5.2.3
Do Not Enable Single Sign-On for deploy_service
5.2.4
Correlation Set Property Alias Gets Overwritten from the Designer
5.2.5
Configuring Oracle BPEL Process Manager to Invoke a Service in UDDI
5.2.6
Minimum List of JAR files Required when Using the BPEL Java Client API
5.3
Deployment and Run-Time Issues and Workarounds
5.3.1
Oracle BPEL Worklist Application Undeploy Option Not Supported in Oracle Enterprise Manager
5.3.2
Increasing the nonFatalConnectionMaxRetry Property Value to 5
5.3.3
BPEL Process Deployment Fails (Vista and Windows 2008)
5.4
Transformation Issues and Workarounds
5.4.1
Parser Error When Opening the XSLT Mapper in Design Time
5.5
Workflow and Worklist Issues and Workarounds
5.5.1
Using SSL with Oracle Internet Directory and the Oracle BPEL Worklist Application
5.5.2
Configuration Requirements for Active Directory or Other LDAP Servers Not Using the uid Attribute in the Schema
5.5.3
Standard Views in the Oracle BPEL Worklist Application Do Not Work when Human Workflow is Configured with Active Directory
5.5.4
Cannot Approve Workflow Instances After Upgrading to 10.1.3.4
5.5.5
Use the Default E-Mail Client for Actionable E-Mails
5.5.6
Workflow Updates for a Case Agnostic User Directory
5.5.7
Identity Service Configuration Properties are Case Sensitive
5.5.8
Use Different E-Mails for Human Workflow and Notification End Users
5.5.9
Case Sensitivity for E-Mail Protocols in the ns_emails.xml Files
5.5.10
Old Payload Mapping Remains After Re-editing the Task
5.5.11
Removing or Changing the Passwords of Default User Accounts
5.6
Notification Issues and Workarounds
5.6.1
SSL Is Not Supported and the UseSSL element Is Not Used
5.6.2
Pager and Fax Channels Are Not Supported
5.6.3
Changes Needed for Demonstrating the Notification Service
5.6.3.1
To Demonstrate Outgoing Notifications Only
5.6.3.2
To Demonstrate Actionable Notifications
5.6.4
Debugging the Notification Service
5.7
Oracle BPEL Control, Oracle BPEL Server, and Oracle BPEL Admin Console Issues and Workarounds
5.7.1
Errors Display When Initiating Test Instances for a Deployed BPEL Process with JDK 6
5.7.2
Oracle BPEL Control Error Message Displays when 10.1.3.1 Completed Instances are Viewed in 10.1.3.4
5.7.3
Fault Policy Changes Do Not Require a Restart of Oracle BPEL Server
5.7.4
Using Oracle BPEL Process Manager When Oracle BPEL Server is SSL-Enabled
5.7.5
Back Up Domain Data Before Deleting Domains in Oracle BPEL Admin Console
5.7.6
Cannot Use Mozilla Firefox with Change All List for Setting Logging Levels in Oracle BPEL Admin Console
5.7.7
Cannot View Sensor Data in Oracle BPEL Control Activity Sensor Reports
5.7.8
Access to Oracle BPEL Control Can Fail the First Time With Single Sign-On
5.7.9
Oracle BPEL Control Shows Output Data Incorrectly for the toCDATA Function
5.8
Globalization and Multibyte Character Issues and Workarounds
5.8.1
Configuring HTTP GET and POST for Multibyte Data
5.9
Documentation Errata
5.9.1
Passwords in Samples Directory Documentation
5.9.2
Resilient Flow Sample Documentation is Incomplete
5.9.3
Reassign To Action Description in Oracle BPEL Process Manager Developer's Guide
5.9.4
Incorrect Syntax for Configuring the TCP Listener for Synchronous Services
5.9.5
BPEL Test Suite OnMessage Event Does Not Support Synchronous Operations
5.9.6
Changing the HTTP Port for Oracle BPEL Process Manager
5.9.7
Messages in an Operation
5.9.8
Property serviceProperties is Missing a Description
5.10
New Features
5.10.1
Changes to Locations of Functionality in Oracle BPEL Control
5.10.2
Configuration Properties in Oracle BPEL Control
5.10.2.1
New Properties
5.10.2.2
Reintroduced Properties
5.10.2.3
validateXML and dspMaxRequestDepth Properties
5.10.2.4
Obsolete Properties
5.10.3
Threads Tab Removed from Oracle BPEL Admin Console
5.10.4
Dispatcher Queue Visibility and Usability Improvements
5.10.5
Statistic Collection and Instance Level Viewing Improvements
5.10.6
Automatic Recovery of Messages
5.10.7
Statistics Collection for Diagnostic Purposes
5.10.8
XML Validation of Input Payloads
5.10.9
Encryption and Decryption Properties for BPEL Payloads
5.10.10
Automatically Changing URLs and Properties for Development, Test, and Production Environments
5.10.10.1
Overview of a BPEL Deployment Plan
5.10.10.2
Overview of Use Cases for a Deployment Plan
5.10.10.3
Creating and Using a Deployment Plan
5.10.11
Changes Made to Deployment Descriptor Properties in 10.1.3.3 and 10.1.3.4
5.10.12
Fault Management Behavior When the Number of Instance Retries is Exceeded
5.10.13
Asynchronous Audit Trail
6
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
6.1
Configuring ESB for Invoking UDDI Service
6.2
JMS Exception Thrown While Increasing the Number of Deferred Listeners
6.3
Space in ESB System Name Results in Invalid Web Service URL
6.4
Wrong Service Endpoint Opens While Testing ESB Web Service
6.5
BPEL Process Fails to Load After Upgrade to 10.1.3.4
6.6
Support for Streaming Attachment and RPC Encoded Web Service
6.7
Deploying ESB Repository Using Ant Script Does Not Create Correct Oracle RAC Data Source
6.8
ESB Logging Enhancement
6.9
ESB Enabled to Pick Run-Time Protocol
6.10
ESB Server Does Not Load After Applying the 10.1.3.4 Patch
6.11
10.1.3.4 OC4J_SOA Container Never Shuts Down Gracefully
6.12
ESB Points to Incorrect Instance and Throws Exceptions
6.13
Direct Invocation from ESB Routing Service Fails When BPEL Process Is Called
6.14
Resetting of ESB Repository Not Supported
6.15
Unable to Register ESB Project Having SOAP Attachment Web Service
6.16
Running SOA Stress Test Throws OutOfMemory Exception
6.17
Instances Are Not Seen Immediately After Processing
6.18
Reset Script Drops ESB Repository Tables
6.19
ESB Service Calling Secured Web Service Fails After Upgrading to 10.1.3.4
6.20
ESB Run-Time Throws Exception While Enabling Synchronous Error Handling
6.21
Disabling One Service Affects Other Routing Rules in the Project
6.22
XRef Functions with Double Quotation Marks Do Not Work
6.23
HTTPS Invocation of WSDL Using UDDI Throws Exception
6.24
ESB Processes Same File Twice When Run Against Oracle RAC Planned Outages
6.25
Login to ESB Control Fails for Oracle Lite Database with Windows Basic Installation
6.26
Imported Domain Value Maps Are Not Displayed in ESB Control
6.27
Failed Instance Gets Retried Indefinitely in an ESB Synchronous Scenario
6.28
SOAP Headers Are Not Passed Through by ESB When XSL Transformation Is Present
6.29
Server Continuously Throws Error Messages
6.30
Inability to Override Transaction=Participate Property in ESB
6.31
ESB Error Handling Enhancement
6.32
Issues Solved in This Release
6.32.1
lookupPopulatedColumns() Function Does Not Return Empty Nodeset
6.32.2
BPEL Not Able to Invoke Multioperational ESB Service
6.32.3
Invoking an EJB from ESB Throws ClassCastException
6.32.4
Invoking a .Net 3.0 SOAP Service Exposed by an ESB Endpoint Throws Exception
6.32.5
Request Headers Are Not Passed Through to the Outbound Header
6.33
New Features
6.33.1
Support for User-Defined Extension Functions in ESB
6.33.2
Endpoint Property Allows Any User to Enter Any Name
6.33.3
Support for Resequencing in ESB
6.33.4
Enabling Import of Multipart WSDL in JDeveloper ESB Designer
6.33.5
ESB Ant Deployment Feature
7
Oracle Web Services Manager
7.1
Support for SOAP 1.2
7.2
Limit Increased for Importing Web Services from a UDDI Registry
7.3
Registering Web Services with the Oracle WSM Gateway Whose WSDL Imports Other WSDLs or XSDs
7.4
Registering Web Services with the Oracle WSM Gateway Whose WSDL Includes Other WSDLs and XSDs Using <include> Statements
7.5
Cannot Display Some Languages in Web Browsers
7.6
Accessing a SOAP-Based Web Service as a Non-SOAP XML-Based Web Service Using Oracle WSM Gateway
7.7
Command-Line Interface for Purging Policies
7.8
Command-Line Interface for Exporting Oracle Web Services Policies
7.9
Using Microsoft Active Directory for Web Services Manager Control Authentication
7.10
Namespace Optimization Causes Message Verification to Fail with AXIS 1.1 and 1.4 Clients
7.10.1
Description of the Limitation
7.10.2
Workaround for AXIS 1.1 Agents
7.10.3
Workaround for AXIS 1.4 Agents
7.10.3.1
Making the Custom Step Available to the Oracle WSM Components
7.10.3.2
Adding the Java Class to the Oracle WSM Applications
7.10.3.3
Adding the Generic Message Update Step to the Policies
7.11
Correction to Documentation of Extract Credentials Policy Step
7.12
New Features
7.12.1
Support for AXIS Agents
7.12.2
Cloning Oracle Web Services Manager
7.12.3
Migrating Oracle Web Services Components and Policies
8
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
8.1
Supported Platforms
8.1.1
Server Platforms Supported
8.1.2
Client Platforms Supported
8.2
Microsoft Excel 2007 is Not Supported
8.3
Installing Against an 11g Database is Not Supported
8.4
Configuring IIS on Vista to Send Report Links or Pages
8.5
Click Apply and OK More Than Once in Surface Prompt Tab
8.6
Warning During Installation on Microsoft Windows 2008
8.7
Compilation Error on Launching Start Page After Successful Patch Install
8.8
New Features
8.8.1
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Server External Data Source Type Available
8.8.2
Oracle 11g Database Supported
8.8.3
Microsoft Windows 2008 Supported
9
Oracle HTTP Server
9.1
Using Oracle Containers for J2EE Plug-in with iPlanet Web Server
9.1.1
Install a Standalone Oracle HTTP Server Instance
9.1.2
Configure Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server to Work with Oracle Containers for J2EE Plug-in
9.1.3
Install Oracle Containers for J2EE Plug-in for iPlanet Web Server
9.1.4
Configure Oracle Containers for J2EE Plug-in
9.1.5
Create the opii.conf File
10
Oracle Application Server Integration B2B
10.1
B2B–BPEL Integration: 10.1.3.4 Download Available from Metalink
10.2
B2B–ESB Integration: 10.1.3.4 Download Available from Metalink
11
Oracle Application Server Packaged-Application Adapter
11.1
MaxTransactionSize
Should be Limited for Oracle Database Adapter
11.2
Oracle Database Adapter Loses Record When Processing Master-Detail Adapter During Failover
11.3
Adapter Clustering Fails When Two or More Cluster Groups are Configured for the BPEL Processes
11.4
New Features
11.4.1
Native Format Builder Wizard New Features
11.4.1.1
Escape Character
11.4.1.2
Top-Level and Field-Level Validations
11.4.2
Oracle Application Server Adapter for Files/FTP New Features
11.4.2.1
Support for Copying, Moving, and Deleting Files by Using an Outbound Service
11.4.2.2
Support for FTPS (FTP over SSL) in Linux
11.4.2.3
End of Line Characters Handling in File and FTP Adapters in Linux
11.4.2.4
Processing of Files by Their Last Modified Time in File Adapter
11.4.3
Oracle Application Server Adapter for Java Message Service New Features
11.4.3.1
Mapped Message Feature
11.4.3.2
Certification with Weblogic JMS and Active MQ
11.4.4
Oracle Application Server Adapter for Advanced Queuing New Features
11.4.4.1
DequeueTimeout
Property
11.4.4.2
Support for Multiple Inbound Dequeue Threads
11.4.5
Oracle Application Server Adapter for Database New Features
11.4.5.1
Pure SQL - XML Type Support
11.4.6
Oracle Application Server Adapter for MQSeries New Features
11.4.6.1
Using MQSeries Message Character Set for Translation
12
Oracle Containers for J2EE
12.1
Applications Share HTTP Client Static Memory
12.2
JAZNMigration Tool Does Not Migrate ADFPrincipal Type Correctly
12.3
Configuration Issues When Using an External LDAP Provider
12.4
For AIX and Linux on POWER: Process Does Not Start With JDK 1.4.2
12.5
For HP-UX and Solaris Operating System (x86) Only: OC4J Process Does Not Start With JDK 1.4.2 ()
12.6
For HP-UX PA-RISC (64-Bit): Attempts to Run JAZN Migration Tool with JDK 1.6 Fails
12.7
New Features
12.7.1
Attribute in orion-web.xml to Enable or Disable URL Rewriting
12.7.2
Improved Proxy Session Support
13
Oracle Business Rules
13.1
Oracle Rules SDK StoreException Thrown: Error Accessing File
13.2
MultipleInheritance Exceptions with Imported XML Schemas
13.3
New Features
13.3.1
Variable Summary Page with Updated Value Field
13.3.2
Definitions Tab with Schema File Browser Button Added
13.3.3
Supports XPATH Set to FALSE by Default for XML Schema Imported with JAXB
13.3.4
Support for Inline Editing for Variable Values
14
Oracle WebCenter Suite
14.1
Rerunning a Page that Uses Oracle WebCenter Adapter for EMC Documentum
14.2
Running the Predeployment Tool from a Root Directory
14.3
Upgrading a Custom OC4J
14.4
New Features
14.4.1
Oracle Content Server-Based Data Control
14.4.2
Discussion Forums
15
Oracle Content DB Issues
15.1
Oracle Content DB Web Folders not Supported (Vista and Windows 2008)