Andreas' Adventures

I bumped into a problem with the installation of the SOASuite 10.1.3.1.0 today. The problems arise when the initial run of the Universal Installer choked on the OPMN config assistant. Actually this assistant just stops, reloads and starts the opmn. Big deal - unless your system is slow. The opmnctl will hit a timeout. So far - so good. Just quit the installer, cleaned up a little bit and tried to rerun the configToolsCommands. The opmn ran without a glitch. Now the problems started. There is just one assistant left - the Oracle WebServices Inspection Language CA. But this crashed immediately with the following errors: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher at gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0) at _Jv_ThreadRun(java.lang.Thread) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0) at _Jv_RunMain(java.lang.Class, byte const, int, byte const, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0) at __gcj_personality_v0 (/home/oracle...

I use VMWare a lot. So I end up with a lot of virtual machines on my 500GB external hard disk (the old one with 250 GB was full). Normally I gave the VM instances self-descripting names like rh3_as10infra which is fine for me as I know what's on them. However I'm just preparing an VM instance that will be distributed to other people that need to have an Oracle playground without the hassle of installing it themselves. So I found out (with some help from a colleague) that in the notes section of the VMWare Server you can just add some valuable information. Have a look at this example: This will enable those people to get their machines up and running without asking me a lot of questions.