File based Coherence configuration for Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle SOA Suite comes with embedded Oracle Coherence - data grid software used to improve communication in the cluster. Customer is not intended to change configured internal caches, and cannot use this Coherence software for his own purposes. On the other hand, customer may need to update cluster layer technical parameters to adjust them to the environment. One of recommended configuration steps is switching from default multicast, UDP based, cluster discovery and communication protocol, to TCP based, unicast mode. Enabling Well Known Addresses (WKA) is a technical activity that does the switch. This document describes how to do this with receipt of moving configuration to files. 

Off-line SOA Suite configuration

Configuration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g is based on runtime interaction with MBeans. Document describes how to configure SOA Suite in off-line mode using EAR application archive and standard Oracle MDS libraries. 

JEE application and MDS provisioning

This article uncovers how standard JEE EAR file caring MAR archive populates MDS during deployment process. Presented information was used to implement off-line configuration of SOA Suite 11g.

MAR deployment lifecycle

ADF application shipped with MAR file automatically deploys meta-information to associated MDS - details are described in article "JEE application and MDS provisioning". This document focus on MAR deployment's life cycle and related records written into MDS database.