WebCenter on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Just finished installing WebCenter 11.1.1.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Note: -- this is *not* a supported configuration, I just did as a quick test environment!!!!

The steps are not much different from what I posted before, but you will get a lot of complaints during the initial system/environment checks. I decided just to ignore all the complaints from the Installer, and continue with the install.

This time, I used the newly released WebLogic Server 10.3.3, Repository Content Utility (rcu) 11.1.1.3, Oracle XE 10.2.0.1.1, and WebCenter 11.1.1.2 (you must install this before you can apply the 11.1.1.3 patch).

After installing WebCenter 11.1.1.2, and before applying the patch, I decided to start all servers to check the status of the install.
Both WLS_Admin, and WLS_Services started fine, but WLS_Spaces failed with the following error:

(........ initialization messages .........)
<May 12, 2010 10:36:50 AM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STANDBY>
<May 12, 2010 10:36:50 AM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STARTING>
[[Cjava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/wsdl/Definition
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2547)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2557)
at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1410)
at weblogic.ejb.container.dd.xml.EjbAnnotationProcessor.getImplementedInterfaces(EjbAnnotationProcessor.java:1687)
at weblogic.ejb.container.dd.xml.EjbAnnotationProcessor.processSessionAnnotations(EjbAnnotationProcessor.java:447)
at weblogic.ejb.container.dd.xml.EjbAnnotationProcessor.processAnnotations(EjbAnnotationProcessor.java:310)
at weblogic.ejb.container.dd.xml.EjbAnnotationProcessor.processAnnotations(EjbAnnotationProcessor.java:180)
at weblogic.ejb.container.dd.xml.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.processStandardAnnotations(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:344)
at weblogic.ejb.container.dd.xml.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:204)
at weblogic.ejb.spi.EjbDescriptorFactory.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorFactory.java:93)
at weblogic.ejb.container.deployer.EJBModule.loadEJBDescriptor(EJBModule.java:1242)
at weblogic.ejb.container.deployer.EJBModule.prepare(EJBModule.java:395)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.prepare(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:199)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow$1.next(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:507)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:41)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow.prepare(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:149)
at weblogic.application.internal.flow.DeploymentCallbackFlow.prepare(DeploymentCallbackFlow.java:45)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:1221)
at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:41)
at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:367)
at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:58)
(........ bunch of errors .........)

Did a quick search, and found out a copy of wsdl4j.jar under
$DOMAIN_HOME/servers/WLS_Spaces/tmp/_WL_user/oracle.webcenter.jive.dependency/38f82s/APP-INF/lib/wsdl4j.jar
I copied under $DOMAIN_HOME/lib and tried starting WLS_Spaces again, but it failed with exact same error message.

Looking at the output from server start, notice the line that reads:

<May 12, 2010 10:35:55 AM EDT> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000395> <Following extensions directory contents added to the end of the classpath:
/opt/wls/user_projects/domains/base_domain/lib/mbeantypes/csp-id-asserter.jar:/opt/wls/user_projects/domains/base_domain/lib/wsdl4j.jar>

shows after the line that sets the classpath, and the line with the java ..... weblogic.Server ... not sure if this could be the problem -- classpath being set too late?

In any case, I just edited setDomainEnv.sh to make sure it would include wsdl.jar

# add the following line ....
POST_CLASSPATH=${DOMAIN_HOME}/lib/wsdl4j.jar${CLASSPATHSEP}${POST_CLASSPATH}

# BEFORE this line
if [ "${POST_CLASSPATH}" != "" ] ; then
    if [ "${CLASSPATH}" != "" ] ; then
        CLASSPATH="${POST_CLASSPATH}${CLASSPATHSEP}${CLASSPATH}"
        export CLASSPATH
    else
        CLASSPATH="${POST_CLASSPATH}"
        export CLASSPATH
    fi
fi

Now WLS_Spaces started correctly, and I was able to login to WebCenter Spaces pages.

Again -- this is not supported, so I'm not sure what errors could still be ahead when I try more things.
In any case, I'll now try to setup the SAML-based Single Sign-on and will post the results here.