I recently installed several Fusion Middleware servers on Solaris 11 Intel from a client PC that was provided to me. I installed the OFM on JDK7. It was running Windows 7 and had the Xming X-server installed. I noticed that when using the Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard (a.k.a. the domain creation wizard), the GUI didn’t work at all.
If you for example come to this screen, and, use browse to select a folder, you can’t change the domain name anymore.
Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard screenshot
Further on in the wizard, at the cluster configuration screens, you can’t edit the server names etc. Which is pretty annoying.
After some fiddling with it, and trying to reproduce it on my own Solaris 11 environments, I noticed that this is a Windows problem with JDK 7. If you have a Linux client environment at hand, you’ll see that there is no problem at all. If you’re stuck in Windows, then a workaround is to run the OFM Configuration Wizard using JDK6.
First download and install the latest JDK6 on the server. Use the zipped distribution, because that installs easily (just unpack it). Then, go to $MIDDLEWARE_HOME/wlserver_10.3/common/bin and edit commEnv.sh. Change the JDK7 path to your JDK6 path:
# Reset JAVA_HOME, JAVA_VENDOR and PRODUCTION_MODE unless JAVA_HOME
# and JAVA_VENDOR are pre-defined.
if [ -z "${JAVA_HOME}" -o -z "${JAVA_VENDOR}" ]; then
# Set up JAVA HOME
JAVA_HOME="/home/laurens/jdk1.7.0_03"
# Set up JAVA VENDOR, possible values are
#Oracle, HP, IBM, Sun ...
JAVA_VENDOR=Oracle
# PRODUCTION_MODE, default to the development mode
PRODUCTION_MODE=""
fi
Change the JAVA_HOME to your JDK 6 JAVA_HOME. Now the OFM Configuration Wizard will work perfectly. By the way, this is not limited to Solaris 11, I could also reproduce it on OEL5u8 Linux.
Don’t forget to change commEnv.sh back afterwards! Otherwise you’ll get some awesome issues and errors 
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Laurens,
I had a similar problem with the dbca (database config assistant) in combination with Xming aswell. The dbca would just ‘hang’ at some point.
The resolution was to install the extra Xming fonts onto the windows client where Xming is installed (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/).
Could this be the same issue?
cheers, Tony
Might be related, but this issue is pure that some fields become inaccessible. Some kind of GUI objects won’t work.
I recently installed several Fusion Middleware servers on Solaris 11 Intel from a client PC that was provided to me. I installed the OFM on JDK7. It was running Windows 7 and had the Xming X-server installed. I noticed that when using the Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard (a.k.a. the domain creation wizard), the GUI didn’t work at all. It seems to be a JDK7 and Windows issue. This blog describes a quick workaround.