Deploying Marketing Operations on WebLogic

Use the following guidelines for deploying Marketing Operations on WebLogic.

About this task

  • HCL® Marketing Software products customize the JVM used by WebLogic. You might create a WebLogic instance dedicated to HCL Marketing Software products if you encounter JVM-related errors.
  • Do not install more than one Marketing Operations application under the same WebLogic domain.
  • Verify that the Software Developement Kit (SDK) selected for the WebLogic domain you are using is the Sun SDK by looking in the startup script (startWebLogic.cmd) for the JAVA_VENDOR variable. It should be set to JAVA_VENDOR=Sun. If it is set to JAVA_VENDOR=BEA, JRockit has been selected. JRockit is not supported. To change the selected SDK, refer to the WebLogic documentation.

Complete the following steps to deploy Marketing Operations to WebLogic:

Procedure

  1. If your operating system is AIX®, extract the Marketing Operations WAR file, delete the xercesImpl.jar file from WEB_INF/lib directory, and recreate the WAR file.
    If the installer combined products in an EAR file, you must first extract that file to obtain the WAR file, and you must recreate the EAR file.
  2. If you are configuring WebLogic to use the IIS plug-in, review the WebLogic documentation to determine whether you have additional requirements.
  3. From the bin directory under your WebLogic domain directory, locate and open the setDomainEnv script in a text editor. Scroll to the JAVA_OPTIONS property, and add the following entries. Use a space to separate entries.

    • -Dplan.home=<IBM_IMS_Home>\<MarketingOperations_Home>

      Where <IBM_IMS_Home> is the path to the top-level HCL® directory and <MarketingOperations_Home> is the path to the directory where you installed Marketing Operations. Typically this directory is IBM_IMS/MarketingOperations.

    • -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
  4. Save and close the file.
  5. Restart WebLogic.
  6. Deploy Marketing Operations as a web application module: select plan.war.
  7. Start the deployed web application.