Supported Configurations: Sun Solaris

BEA WebLogic Server 9.0 and Related Products on Solaris 9

This section provides the following information:

Related Information

For information about supported database configurations, Web servers, browsers, and interoperability tools, plus BEA product support for AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0 and WebLogic Server 9.0, see:

For information about the Solaris operating system, see the following Sun Web site: http://www.sun.com/solaris.
For information about Sun's support services—If you have a support contract for the use of Solaris platforms, you may be able to obtain support for general Java issues (for example, JDK problems). See http://www.sun.com/service/support.

Configuration Requirements

Both WebLogic Server 9.0 and AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0 are supported on Sun Solaris 9 on SPARC hardware. WebLogic Server 9.0 on Solaris 9 is also supported on x86. For detailed requirements for these configurations, see the appropriate table:

Requirements for Solaris 9 on SPARC Using Sun 32-bit JDK
Requirements for Solaris 9 on x86 Using Sun 32-bit JDK

Table 13-1 Requirements for Solaris 9 on SPARC Using Sun 32-bit JDK

Operating System Version and Patches	Solaris 9
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	UltraSPARC (168 MHz)
JDK	Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 with the Java HotSpot^TM Client and Server VMs (32-bit) and all later service packs of 5.0
RAM	1 GB minimum
Performance Pack	`server/native/solaris/sparc/libmuxer.so`
BEA Product Support	WebLogic Server 9.0 AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0
Design and Development Tools	BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.0: Not supported The AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0 Data Transformation Tools: Not supported.

Table 13-2 Requirements for Solaris 9 on x86 Using Sun 32-bit JDK

Operating System Version and Patches	Solaris 9
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Xeon, Pentium II or higher, x86, and compatible chip architectures (1.1 GHz)
JDK	Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 4 with the Java HotSpot^TM Server VM (32-bit) and all later updates of 5.0.
RAM	1 GB minimum
Performance Pack	`server/native/solaris/x86/libmuxer.so`
BEA Product Support	WebLogic Server 9.0
Design and Development Tools	BEA Workshop for WebLogic Platform 9.0: Not supported

Known Issues

Serial Version UID Mismatch

A Serial Version UID Mismatch Issue may be encountered if you deploy an application on a latest JVM, but compiled with an earlier JDK release.

Workaround: To be compatible with the serialization of previously compiled applications, modify the <BEA_HOME>/Weblogic90/common/bin/commEnv.sh file to include the following command:

JAVA_OPTIONS="$JAVA_OPTIONS -Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

Alternatively, you can use the command line option:

export JAVA_OPTIONS="$JAVA_OPTIONS -Dcom.sun.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID=1.0"

Note: If you intend to deploy new applications with previously compiled applications, they must be recompiled as necessary to have the same Serial Version UID.

Known Issues for Other BEA Products

For information about known issues with BEA products supported on this configuration, including available workarounds, see the appropriate Release Notes document.

Issues related to...	Are described in...
AquaLogic Service Bus	BEA AquaLogic Service Bus Release Notes: `http://e-docs.bea.com/alsb/docs20/relnotes/relnotes.html`
WebLogic Server	BEA WebLogic Server Known and Resolved Issues: `http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs90/issues/known_resolved.html`
Installation and configuration	BEA Products Installation and Configuration Release Notes: `http://e-docs.bea.com/common/docs90/relnotes/relnotes.html`

Download and Installation Instructions

Note: These instructions are provided only for customers planning to run WebLogic Server 9.0 on Solaris 9 on x86. If you are running Solaris 9 on SPARC, you can simply follow the instructions in BEA Products Installation Guide, available at http://e-docs.bea.com/common/docs90/install/index.html.

To install WebLogic Server 9.0 on your Sun Solaris 9 on x86 configuration, complete the following steps:

Step 1: Download and Install the Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 4

Go to the Sun download site:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_04/index.html

Download the Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 4 for the Solaris on x86 platform.

Install the JDK, following the 32-bit installation instructions on the download page:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_04/install.html

Step 2: Download WebLogic Server 9.0

To download the installer for WebLogic Server 9.0, complete the following procedure:

Go to the BEA download site: http://commerce.bea.com.

For WebLogic Server 9.0, select Sun Solaris (9, 10, x86) as your operating system, and download the WebLogic Server package installer.

Now you have the components required for your installation: the Sun Java 2 JDK 5.0 Update 4 and the WebLogic Server package installer.

Step 3: Install WebLogic Server 9.0

Install WebLogic Server, following the instructions in "Starting the Installation Program on UNIX Platforms" in BEA Products Installation Guide:

http://e-docs.bea.com/common/docs90/install/start.html

In the following shell scripts, change the value of the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH so it points to the x86 directory under server/native/solaris. In other words, replace all occurrences of ${WL_HOME}/server/native/solaris/sparc with ${WL_HOME}/server/native/solaris/x86 in the following script:

${WL_HOME}/common/bin/commEnv.sh

Set the correct execution modes on the directories shown in the following command lines:

$ chmod -R +x $WL_HOME/server/native/solaris/x86/*
$ chmod -R +x $WL_HOME/server/plugin/solaris/x86/*