Deinstalling Oracle SOA Suite from your system involves the following:

Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware

Removing the Oracle SOA Suite Schemas

Deinstalling Oracle SOA Suite

Deinstalling Oracle WebLogic Server

Removing the Oracle Home Directories

Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware

Stop the WebLogic Managed Servers.

On UNIX:

1.     Go to $Middleware_Home/user_projects/domains/domain_name/bin

2.     Execute ./stopManagedWeblogic.sh managed_server_nanme

(Example: - ./stopManagedWeblogic.sh soa_server1

On Windows:

3.     Use stopManagedWeblogic.cmd scripts

Stop WebLogic Administration Server.

On UNIX:

1.     Go to $Middleware_Home/user_projects/domains/domain_name/bin

2.     Execute ./stopWeblogic.sh

(Example: - ./stopWeblogic.sh

On Windows:

1.     Use stopWeblogic.cmd scripts

Removing the Oracle SOA Suite Schemas

Run the Repository Creation Utility (RCU) to drop the Oracle SOA Suite schemas from your database.

Go to RCU Utility Home and invoke and Follow the instructions below to drop the SOA Suite schemas:

On UNIX:

./rcu

On Windows:

rcu.bat

1. Welcome Screen --------Click Next.

2. Create Repository Screen-----Select Drop---------Click Next.

3. Database Connection Details Screen-----Provide the credentials to connect to your Oracle database-----------Click Next.

A "Checking Prerequisites" screen will appear. If there are errors, some details about the error will be displayed on the Database Connection Details Screen. Fix the error messages and click Next again.

After the checking is complete with no errors, click OK to dismiss the screen.

4. Select Components Screen--------------Select the prefix and schemas you want to drop from the repository---------Click Next.

5. Summary Screen----------Click Drop--------Click Close.

Deinstalling Oracle SOA Suite

Go to the SOA_ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin directory and start the deinstaller.

On UNIX:

./runInstaller -deinstall -jreLoc JRE_LOCATION

On Windows:

setup.exe -deinstall -jreLoc JRE_LOCATION

Note:- On Windows systems, we can also start the deinstaller from the

Start menu by selecting Programs > Oracle SOA 11g - Home1 > Uninstall.

Deinstalling Oracle WebLogic Server

Go to the $WebLogic_Home/uninstall directory.

On UNIX:

./uninstall.sh

On Windows:

uninstall.cmd

Note:- On Windows systems, you can also start the deinstaller from the Start menu by selecting Programs > Oracle WebLogic > Uninstall Oracle WebLogic.

Removing the Oracle Home Directories

Manually remove the middleware Home directory and all sub-directories. For example,

On Windows systems, you must also manually remove the program groups from the Start Menu\Programs folder. As an example (the folder names and program group names on your system may be different), you might remove the following from

C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs:

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.1.0

Oracle SOA 11g - Home1

Oracle WebLogic