MapViewer - Installation 10.1.3.3 on OC4J

Installation instruction of MapViewer.

• OAS/OC4J version 10.1.3.1

You can find this information in the “about” link when you are logged in Oracle Application Server (or OC4J standalone).

The name of the file is p7384506_10131_Generic.zip for the patch 5.

Unzip the archive file. You will find on it :

• the mapviewer application in an ear archive file
• the demo files in the file mvdemo.zip
• the documentation : mapviewer_doc.pdf
• the mapbuilder application : mapbuilder.jar

On OC4J or any of the web application server, install it means “deploy it”.

Go to OC4J, tab Application and click on the deploy button.

Then give the path to the archive file (mapviewer.ear).

Give a name to the next step (in our example : mapviewer)

Click next, read what you want and finish the deployement by clicking on the deploy button.

You then will see the message : The Application “mapviewer” is now being deployed.

At the end of the process, you will be able to reach the application on this URL :

http://oc4j_host:port/mapviewer/faces/home.jspx

• Copy the file mapbuilder.jar where you want. Ex : C:\Program Files\MapBuilder
• Locate the path of the java.exe file minimum jre 1.5 or later
• and create a bat file mapviewer.bat according to the paths as :

title MapBuilder
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Program Files\MapBuilder\mapbuilder.jar"

Then if you double click on it, Map Viewer - MapBuilder must launch.

• MapViewer - Installation of the demo files

You can also find in the metalink note 212581.1 some useful information but the note is a little bit outdated.