Installing SAP Adapter on SOA 11gR1 PS3 (11.1.1.4)

First and foremost to clarify the naming conventions set by Oracle for SOA 11g versioning...

11g R1 PS1 - 11.1.1.2 

11g R1 PS2 - 11.1.1.3

11g R1 PS3 - 11.1.1.4

Now 11.1.1.4 version of SOA comes with a lot of bug fixes, performance enhancements (JRockit JVM instead of Sun JDK) and additional features. "Seeing is believing !" so decided to install this and check the performance gains. Now the tricky part was with the installation of SAP adapter on top of this.

Oracle documentation is again messed up with regards to installing this. Couldn't locate a direct URL from OTN to download the installer file. It seems the 11.1.1.4 version for the adapter installer isn't released yet and the SAP adapter updates for 11gR1 PS3, have been released as an OPatch. 

So incase you are looking for installing the iway adapters (SAP, Siebel, PSFT, JDE adapters) follow the below approach:

1. Install the 11g PS2 version of adapter. For this you need to apply the patch 10207507 which is nothing but copying the ApplicationAdapter.zip inside thirdparty folder and unzipping it.


2. Download the latest OPatch version i.e  p6880880_112000_Linux-x86-64


3. Download the patch 11880221 from metalink to upgrade the exisiting PS2 install to PS3 version. Steps for applying this patch are as under:  
               a.  set MW_HOME 
               b.  set ORACLE_HOME
               c.  set OPatch in PATH
               d.  Apply the OPatch by running below command:

opatch apply -jre {path of Jrockit jre} -invPtrLoc $ORACLE_HOME/oraInst.loc