Configuring WebSphere Application Server

The following sections outline the procedures for configuring Oracle BPM on WebSphere Application Server.
Note: The following procedures assume that you have already configured your IBM WebSphere Application Server installation. If you are configuring a Oracle BPM to work in a clustered environment, it is assumed your environment contains the following configuration:
  • Each node of your cluster is running a separate physical host. This helps to ensure high availablilty.
  • Your cluster is associated with a cell that can be used as a deployment target.

  1. Installing Oracle BPM Deployer
    The Oracle BPM Deployer is a J2EE application that simplifies the procedures for deploying, starting, and stopping the Oracle BPM web applications using J2EE.
  2. Adding Authentication Data for JDBC
    Before creating JDBC datasources, you must define the authentication information for the JDBC connections.
  3. Creating a New JDBC Provider
    You must create and configure a new JDBC provider to use the JDBC drivers provided by BEA.
  4. Creating a JDBC Datasource for Directory Database
    After creating a JDBC Provider, you must create a JDBC datasource to provide database connectivity to Oracle BPM applications. The following procedures show you how to create a JDBC datasource for the Oracle BPM directory database.
  5. Creating a JDBC Datasource for the Engine Database
    After creating a JDBC datasource for the directory database, you another JDBC resource to provide database connectivity to Oracle BPM applications for the Oracle BPM engine database.
  6. Creating a WebSphere JMS Bus
    You need to provide a JMS service to Oracle BPM applications. This procedure shows you how to configure WebSphere Application Server's Embedded JMS service. Other external JMS providers may be used. Check the Installation Guide for compatibility information.
  7. Creating JMS Resources
    You need to define a JMS Queue Connection Factory, a Queue, a Topic Connection Factory and a Topic for Oracle BPM applications.
  8. Configuring a Work Manager
    You need to create a Work Manager configuration in WebSphere to provide asynchronous transaction processing capabilities to Oracle BPM Engine.
  9. Configuring JVM Properties
    You must to configure each WebSphere Server to use additional system properties when launching the Java Virtual Machine.
  10. Restarting WebSphere Servers
    After configuring all the needed resources in your WebSphere installation, you must re-start all your WebSphere Servers, Node managers and Deployment manager.
  11. Setting Oracle BPM properties for WebSphere
    You must configure your Process Engine with some WebSphere-related properties via Oracle BPM Process Administrator.
  12. Preparing Oracle BPM Applications
    Some of the Oracle BPM applications need additional configuration changes before deploying them into WebSphere.
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