Undeploying a SOA Composite when Soa-Infra is Down

This post describes about how to manage the composites when the server was down.

I have faced "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" issue while restarting the server.Later on I came to know that  SOA Server getting down because of one error-ed composite.I googled the same thing and find out the solution as below.

One of the deployed composites is causing a problem. If you know which one it is, you can undeploy it then try to restart the server. If not and this is not a production installation, you can undeploy all composites and deploy them one by one again to verify which one is causing the problem.
As the server (soa-infra) is not running, you cannot use the Enterprise Manager to undeploy the composites. You can follow the instructions in the following note to undeploy composites while soa_infra is down:

Check the SOA logs and determine which composite is causing the problem and then follow the below process to undeploy the composite by editing deployed-composites.xml:

1. Download and copy the ShareSoaInfraPartition.ear file to                                               $MIDDLEWARE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin

2. cd to $MIDDLEWARE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin
and   run wlst.sh

3.connect()     and provide the username, password and server URL

4. run the below command to deploy ShareSoaInfraPartition.ear

deploy('ShareSoaInfraPartition','ShareSoaInfraPartition.ear',upload='true')

5. Now run the below command by changing the "toLocation" ('/fmw11g/fmw1115/Middleware' is some location path on SOA machine)

exportMetadata(application='ShareSoaInfraPartition',server='AdminServer',toLocation='/fmw11g/fmw1115/Middleware',docs='/deployed-composites/deployed-composites.xml')

6. A deployed-composites folder will be created at "toLocation" path with deployed-composites.xml in it

7. Delete the composite which is causing the problem and save the file

For example, the MediatorTest composite:

composite-series name="default/MediatorTest" default="default/MediatorTest!1.0"
composite-revision dn="default/MediatorTest!1.0" state="on" mode="active" location="dc/soa_58b98be8-9ec8-41af-composite dn="default/MediatorTest!1.0*soa_58b98be8-9ec8-41af-bb83-590f6004d1aa" deployedTime="2011-11-17T09:01:54.750+05:30"

8. Now run the below command by changing the "fromLocation" (this should be the same location as previous)

importMetadata(application='ShareSoaInfraPartition',server='AdminServer',fromLocation='/fmw11g/fmw1115/Middleware',docs='/deployed-composites/deployed-composites.xml')

9. Now bounce your server and the composite will not be deployed by SOA when it comes up and hence that should bring your soa-infra up.

You can download  ShareSoaInfraPartition.ear from the below link.
https://support.oracle.com/epmos/main/downloadattachmentprocessor?attachid=1380835.1%3AEARFILE&docType=HOWTO&action=download