Oracle Application Server Service Registry : Installation

Oracle Service Registry is UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) version 3 compliant platform for publishing, categorizing and discovering Web Services. Oracle Service Registry is component of Oracle Fusion Middleware and can be installed with Oracle SOA Suite.

In today’s post we are going to cover installation of Oracle Service Registry.

  • Download Oracle Service Registry from Here
  • Oracle Service Registry is Java Application that can be installed in any Java EE compliant container (like OC4J)
  • Java version 1.5 and higher should already be installed and Java executable should be in PATH for user installing Oracle Service Registry.
    (check if java is in path or not by typing which java, else include java in path using export PATH=$PATH:<java_location>)
  • This post install Oracle Service Registry in same ORACLE_HOME as of SOA Suite ORACLE_HOME
  • Unzip Oracle service registry software oracle-service-registry-10.1.3.zip & start installation as
    java -jar oracle-service-registry-10.1.3.jar


Click on Next button and then in next screen
select Standalone Registry

In Installation Directory screen, enter directory where Oracle SOA Suite is already installed (ensure that user installing Service Registry has write permission on directory)

In next configuration screen provide, SMTP details

Provide Administrator Account Details in below configuration screen.

Note* Keep Username admin only(If you change Username your installation will fail – Bug in 10.1.3.1 Service Registry Software)

Select Create Schema in next screen (Create User uddiuser in database using sql command)
create user uddiuser identified by <password>;
grant connect,resource to uddiuser;

Provide Database connection details (database in which Cluster Registry schema UDDIUSER is created)

Provide jar file name (under middle tier of SOA Suite) which contain class file to connect to database ( $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes12_g.jar )

Select Application Server type (I am installing Service Registry under Oracle 10g 10.1.3 SOA Suite). Select as per your Application Server installation type.

Provide Application Server details (To know your opmn port, check in $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/conf/opmn.xml – Default opmn port is 6003)

After successful installation, you should get page with URL to access Oracle Service Registry


URL for Oracle Service Registry

Registry Control  http:// hostname.domain:port/registry/uddi/web
Registry Service Control   http:// hostname.domain:port/registry/uddi/bsc/web

(Username/Password is same as oc4j username (oc4jadmin)/password on which Service Registry is deployed)

Issues encountered

If you use Administrator Username different from admin (at Administrator Account Configuration Screen)

Error Message   [java] [java] WARNING: application_core.com.systinet.uddi.util.limit.LimitChangesProcessorImpl – An exception getting the default xsl transformer tModel has occurred. [java] [java] EXCEPTION: <dispositionReport xmlns=”urn:uddi-org:api_v3″> [java] [java] <result errno=”10210″> [java] [java] <errInfo errCode=”E_invalidKeyPassed”>Cannot find TModel with key uddi:systinet.com:limit:defaultmessageemailxslt !</errInfo>

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