Oracle Fusion Application Installation brief overview

Background
Oracle Fusion Application is best feature mix of e-business suite, jd edwards and peoplesoft integrated with Fusion Middleware products.

Installation of Fusion Application would mean installation of Fusion application components and all the fmw products.

Oracle has simplified install and configure by means of automated installation and configuration along with install validation. Oracle call this automation as provisioning.

Installation process. 
So Provisioning basically means installing various oracle products, configuration them to work with each other using oracle supplied special software(framework/life cycle managment tools)

A Framework software executes the installation, configuration and validation of all the required software components.

All the required inputs for installation/configuration and gathered in step called "creating responce file", This is the first step after installation of framework/life cycle managment tools software installation.

you would invoke resonponce file creation step using provisiongWizard and supply inputs in interview phase, after which a responce file is created. This will will be supplied during Applicaiton provisioning phase.

Application provisiong phase runs in below order.

Preverify
Install
Preconfigure
Configure
Configure Secondary
Post Configure
Startup
Validation.

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