Upgrade your Oracle BPM Studio 11g (11.1.1.7)

Just in case some of you might have missed this: When Oracle BPM 11g's MLR3 came out (finally providing a basic OOTB UI for Case Management included in the Business Process Workspace application), also Oracle BPM Studio 11g (hence: Oracle JDeveloper with the extensions SOA Composite Editor and BPMN Editor) got an update:

• SOA Composite Editor: 11.1.1.7.0.00.08 → 11.1.1.7.0.00.97
• BPMN Editor: 11.1.1.7.0.0.8 → 11.1.1.7.0.0.97

For example, this upgrade includes components to work with Case Management UI, e.g. to generate case data.

Just upgrade your JDeveloper with the integrated update functionality Help > Check for updates ... and reduce the selection in step 3 to Shop upgrades only.

You cannot upgrade both extensions the same time (unless JDeveloper won't warn you on that). Make sure to first upgrade the SOA extension. (Otherwise, when first upgrading BPM, you won't be able to apply the SOA update afterwards.)

You can also download the extension sources first and upgrade the extensions with the integrated functionality Help > Check for updates ... and the Install from local file in step 2.

• Download Oracle SOA Composite Editor 11.1.1.7.0.00.97
• Download Oracle BPM Studio 11.1.1.7.0.0.97

OPatch'ing Pre-built Virtual Machine for SOA Suite and BPM Suite 11g

In March 2014, Oracle released an updated version of its Pre-built Virtual Machine for SOA Suite and BPM Suite 11g for Patchset 6 (11.1.1.7). The bundle patch 17014142 for Oracle BPM 11.1.1.7.1 is already installed. However, most of you will like to upgrade to bundle patch 17584181 directly (11.1.1.7.2). By using the installed version of OPatch in /oracle/fmwhome/Oracle_SOA1/OPatch directory, you will run into an opatch error 70:

[ Error during Patch conflict resolution for apply patch phase ] Detail: OUI-67073:OPatch failed: ApplySession failed in system modification phase... 'Current access level does not allow writing to the inventory'
OPatch will attempt to restore the system...

The reason is that the OPatch version installed in /oracle/fmwhome/Oracle_SOA1/OPatch is 11.2.0.3.5. However, for any opatch application on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.x, the most recent version of OPatch 11.1.x is recommended (at the time of writing OPatch version 11.1.0.10.3).

1. Download most recent version of OPatch 11.1.x
2. Copy it to /oracle/fmwhome/Oracle_SOA1/OPatch_11.1.0.10.3
3. Apply opatch by using absolute path:
   $ sh /oracle/fmwhome/Oracle_SOA1/OPatch_11.1.0.10.3/opatch apply

 OPatch will then work correctly.