Delete Files from MDS Oracle SOA BPM 11G

When you create files in Composite and deploy to MDS, those files would be available in MDS and later if you change your thoughts and those files are no longer required for the project. So if you delete those files and re-deploy Composite, you will get Resource exception / File not found exception /.



There are various ways to remove files from MDS. How ever following is the simple and easy to remove..

Approach 1:
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1. Check whether the server is UP and Running or not. It should be Up and Running.

2. Go to the File directory in DOS / where the Oracle Home recited.
as an example, C:\Oracle\SOA\Oracle_SOA1\common\bin

3. If you are in DOS/ Windows then type  wlst.cmd
if Unix machine then   ./wlst.sh

 Prompt will get changed to wls:/offline>

4. connect to the SOA Server with the below command

connect('username', 'password', 't3://Host :port')

Example:
connect('weblogic', 'welcome1', 't3://localhost:7001')

5. execute the below command
 deleteMetadata(application='Application-Name', server='Soa Server-Name', docs='absolutePath')

Example:
deleteMetadata(application='XYZ_rev1.0',server='BPM1_domain',docs='/deployed-composites/xsl/*')

deleteMetadata(application='soa-infra',server='AAAServer',docs='/deployed-composites/default/XYZ_rev1.0/businessCatalog/ABCModule/**')

Once operation executed, you will see the prompt below:

Note: The asterisk (*) represents all documents under the current directory. The double asterisk (**) represents all documents under the current directory and also recursively includes all documents in subdirectories

Approach 2:
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1. Follow steps from 1 to 3 from the above.

2. execute below command:
sca_removeSharedData('http:// SOA Host:Port', 'directory', 'User Name', 'password')

 Example:sca_removeSharedData(‘http://localhost:7001’, ‘interfaces’, ‘weblogic’, ‘welcome1’)


Hope these approaches helps you! 

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