Setting up Oracle Policy Automation

This post is based on Oracle Policy Automation (OPA) release 10.4.4.

The server and client software can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/apps-tech/policy-automation/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=null

• Oracle Policy Modeling (282MB) : Client tool used to develop OPA rules and screens.
• Oracle Policy Automation runtime components for Java (76MB): Runtime components which are required to be deployed on the Weblogic server. These are web-determinations.war and determinations server and document-generation-server.

To deploy rules on the Weblogic server
1. Explode the determinations-server.war. This can be renaming the .war file to .zip file.
2. Copy rules in the .zip format from \\Development\output to \user_projects\domains\base_domain\servers\AdminServer\upload\determinations-server\WEB-INF\classes\rulebases. (This is the folder from where you will pick the jar for deployment on weblogic server.)
3. Zip the META-INF and WEB-INF folders into determinations-server.zip file. Note there is no determinations-server folder required to embed the 2 folders. If this is done then the determination-server gives and authorization error when tested during runtime.
4. Rename the determinations-server.zip to determinations-server.war.
5. Deploy the war file as an application on the weblogic server console – Deployments.