Title
Redeploying the OJMS Adapter due to "Unable to find/read file META-INF/ra.xml"
Date
2010-01-28

Summary
Upon startup of Oracle SOA Suite, the OC4J_SOA OPMN logs were showing errors related to the OJMS adapter:
    10/01/28 19:17:50 WARNING: ApplicationStateRunning.loadConnectors Exception loading connector OjmsAdapter : Unable to find/read file META-INF/ra.xml in /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/j2ee/oc4j_soa/connectors/OjmsAdapter/OjmsAdapter archive (IO Error: No such file or directory)
The adapter, configured in $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/config/oc4j-connectors.xml is also configured correctly:
    <connector name="OjmsAdapter" path="OjmsAdapter.rar">   <config-property name="lookupMethod" value="resourceProvider"/>   <config-property name="resourceProviderName" value="COX_AQJMS_POOLED_DS"/> </connector>
Details
1. If you have a backup of the adapter JAR and oc4j-ra.xml, then simply use the following commands to redeploy the adapter manually: 

mkdir -p $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/connectors/OjmsAdapter/OjmsAdapter
cp OjmsAdapter.rar $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/connectors/OjmsAdapter/OjmsAdapter
cd $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/connectors/OjmsAdapter/OjmsAdapter
unzip OjmsAdapter.rar
mv $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/connectors/OjmsAdapter/OjmsAdapter/OjmsAdapter.rar $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/connectors/OjmsAdapter
mkdir $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/application-deployments/default/OjmsAdapter
cp /tmp/oc4j-ra.xml $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/application-deployments/default/OjmsAdapter
opmnctl restartproc process-type=oc4j_soa

Ahmed Aboulnaga
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