Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Templates

Configuration Overview 1-3

1.2 Overview of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard

Before you can use Oracle Fusion Middleware products in an IBM WebSphere environment, you must create and configure the cell in which the Oracle Fusion Middleware applications will run. The Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard for IBM WebSphere simplifies the process of creating and expanding a cell for your Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. Using the wizard, you can: ■ Create new IBM WebSphere cells ■ Add Oracle Fusion Middleware products to the cell ■ Modify an existing cell ■ Add additional nodes to a cell ■ Add Application Servers and clusters to a cell ■ Configure the resources in a cell The Configuration Wizard also provides the option to modify the basic configuration that is created by the product template. For example, you can add Application Servers and clusters, change JDBC data source settings, and change deployment targets.

1.2.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Templates

The Configuration Wizard uses product templates to make it easy to add the necessary resources for an Oracle Fusion Middleware product to a cell, either when you are creating a new cell, modifying an existing cell, or federating a machine to a cell. These templates, which are Java archive JAR files that contain the files and scripts needed to add products to a cell, are automatically used when you select the Oracle Fusion Middleware products to include in the cell on the Add Products to Cell screen of the Configuration Wizard. All cells that you create include the Oracle CIE Core template, which installs the Oracle CIE Custom Service and targets it to the Administration Server in the cell. The name of the Administration Server is defined as OracleAdminServer. This template is required in an IBM WebSphere environment. When you select other products, the basic resources required by those products are also added to the cell. These may include: ■ Application Servers ■ Applications ■ Libraries ■ JDBC component schemas Caution: Do not modify the template JAR file contents in any way. Doing so can potentially create issues in your Oracle Fusion Middleware installation. Note: wsadmin , which is a command line tool that you can use to configure a cell, uses the same templates as the Configuration Wizard. See Chapter 4, Using wsadmin to Configure Oracle Fusion Middleware, for more information about wsadmin. 1-4 Configuration Guide for IBM WebSphere Application Server ■ JDBC data sources ■ JMS resources, such as connection factories, topics, and queues ■ Services ■ Custom services ■ Resource adapters The product template for a particular product defines which resources are automatically targeted to the Application Servers defined in the template, as well as the resources that are targeted to the Administration Server and Deployment Manager. For more information about Oracle Fusion Middleware templates, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Templates in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Domain Template Reference, which describes the templates for WebLogic Server environments.

1.2.2 Template Information Specific to IBM WebSphere