Install Maven generated WAR file to Tomcat 7/8

Install Oracle REST Data Services for Oracle Apex in Apache Tomcat 7

1) Download Oracle REST data services from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-services/downloads/index.html

2) Unzip the content of the ZIP directory

3) Rename the ords.war to apex.war if you want the URL in the format of http://hostname/apex

mv ords.war apex.war

4) Before you configure the WAR file you will need to specify where the config files should be kept. Create a directory where you want the config files to be kept. Suppose its in /home/oracle/apex_config

5) Run the following:

java -jar apex.war configdir "/home/oracle/apex_config"

6) Next run the setup, it will write the config files to directory specified in parameter in step 5 above:

java -jar apex.war setup

7) Copy this apex.war file to <<tomcat home>> /webapps directory

8) Copy the Apex Images to <<tomcat home>>/webapps/images directory and rename this directory to i so the path to images directory is <<tomcat home>>/webapps/i

9) Startup Tomcat

Increase JVM Free Memory for Apache Tomcat 6

1) Go to $CATALINA_HOME/bin

2) Create a file setenv.sh (in Linux) or setenv.bat (in Windows)

3) Enter the line:

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

4) Restart the server

5) Go to your Tomcat manager >> Complete Server Status and verify if the memory has increased or not.

This will increase free memory available and avoid having the Out of Memory error.