Because of the version level my previous customer was on, I mostly worked with the 12.2.1.2 version of the BPM QuickStart. Recently I started at an other customer that is still on SOA Suite 11g. Since I'm looking into upgrading those the latest 12c version, I installed BPM QuickStart 12.2.1.3 again.

Doing a patch search on support.oracle.com, I found out that juli 17th, 2018, a SOA BundlePatch on 12.2.1.3 was released. It's patch 28300397.

The readme shows quite a list of bugs solved. The version of JDeveloper and the main components stay unaffected. The version changes are shown in the extensions. The vanilla, unpatched, JDeveloper shows:

And the patched JDeveloper shows:

Since it's been a year already since 12.2.1.3 was released (august 2017, if I recollect correctly), this bundle patch is welcome.

By the way, the reason that I was looking into the patches, was that I created a few .xsl files to pre-upgrade our 11g projects. And the didn't reformat properly. JDeveloper behaves strangely, apparenlty it does not recognize an .xsl file as xml. When you copy and paste it into an .xml file it does format properly. I think I have to dig into the preferences to see if this can be tweaked.


To install it, unzip the patch. I'm used to create a patches folder within the OPatch folder in the Oracle Home:
And unzip the patch in to that folder. Because the unzip functionality in Windows is limited to 256 characters in the resulting path names, it is advised to use a tool like 7Zip. Since I use TotalCommander for about everything, (file related that is), I get a neat dialog mentioning this and allowing me to keep the names.

Make sure you have closed JDeveloper.

Then open a command window and navigate to the patches folder:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.285]
(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd \oracle\JDeveloper\12213_BPMQS\OPatch\patches\28300397

C:\oracle\JDeveloper\12213_BPMQS\OPatch\patches\28300397>set ORACLE_HOME=C:\oracle\JDeveloper\12213_BPMQS

First set the the ORACLE_HOME variable to the location where you installed JDeveloper, C:\oracle\JDeveloper\12213_BPMQS in my case.

Using opatch apply you can apply the patch:

c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\OPatch\patches\28300397>..\..\opatch apply
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 13.9.2.0.0
Copyright (c) 2018, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
   from           :
OPatch version    : 13.9.2.0.0
OUI version       : 13.9.2.0.0
Log file location : c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2018-09-17_12-05-54PM_1.log


OPatch detects the Middleware Home as "C:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS"

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...
OPatch continues with these patches:   28300397

Do you want to proceed? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y
All checks passed.

Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.
(Oracle Home = 'c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS')


Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y
Backing up files...
Applying interim patch '28300397' to OH 'c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS'
ApplySession: Optional component(s) [ oracle.mft, 12.2.1.3.0 ] , [ oracle.soa.workflow.wc, 12.2.1.3.0 ] , [ oracle.integ
emina, 2.0.4.0.1 ] , [ oracle.mft.apachemina, 2.0.4.0.1 ] , [ oracle.bpm.plugins, 12.2.1.3.0 ] , [ oracle.oep.examples,
 12.2.1.3.0 ]  not present in the Oracle Home or a higher version is found.

Patching component oracle.soa.all.client, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.integration.bam, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.rcu.soainfra, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.rcu.soainfra, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.soacommon.plugins, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.oep, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.integration.soainfra, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.integration.soainfra, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.soa.common.adapters, 12.2.1.3.0...

Patching component oracle.soa.procmon, 12.2.1.3.0...
Patch 28300397 successfully applied.
Log file location: c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2018-09-17_12-05-54PM_1.log

OPatch succeeded.

c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\OPatch\patches\28300397>

Answer 'y' on the questions to proceed and if the oracle home is ready to be patched. And with  opatch lsinventory you can check if the patch (and possibly others) is applied:

c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\OPatch\patches\28300397>..\..\opatch lsinventory
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 13.9.2.0.0
Copyright (c) 2018, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS
Central Inventory : C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
   from           :
OPatch version    : 13.9.2.0.0
OUI version       : 13.9.2.0.0
Log file location : c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2018-09-17_12-11-19PM_1.log


OPatch detects the Middleware Home as "C:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS"

Lsinventory Output file location : c:\Oracle\JDeveloper\12213_SOAQS\cfgtoollogs\opatch\lsinv\lsinventory2018-09-17_12-11-19PM.txt

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Local Machine Information::
Hostname: V2W1-MAKKER.ONT.OTA.IND.MINBZK.NL
ARU platform id: 233
ARU platform description:: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (64-bit AMD)


Interim patches (5) :

Patch  28300397     : applied on Mon Sep 17 12:08:10 CEST 2018
Unique Patch ID:  22311639
Patch description:  "SOA Bundle Patch 12.2.1.3.0(ID:180705.1130.0048)"
   Created on 6 Jul 2018, 01:58:16 hrs PST8PDT
   Bugs fixed:
     26868517, 27030883, 25980718, 26498324, 26720287, 27656577, 27639691
     27119541, 25941324, 26739808, 27561639, 26372043, 27078536, 27024693
     27633270, 27073918, 27210380, 27260565, 27247726, 27880006, 27171517
     26573292, 26997999, 26484903, 27957338, 27832726, 27141953, 26851150
     26696469, 27494478, 27150210, 27940458, 26982712, 27708925, 26645118
     27876754, 24922173, 27486624, 26571201, 26935112, 26953820, 27767587
     26536677, 27311023, 26385451, 26796979, 27715066, 27241933, 24971871
     26472963, 27411143, 27230444, 27379937, 27640635, 26957183, 26031784
     26408150, 27449047, 27019442, 26947728, 27368311, 26895927, 27268787
     26416702, 27018879, 27879887, 27929443

Patch  26355633     : applied on Wed Sep 12 12:00:33 CEST 2018
Unique Patch ID:  21447583
Patch description:  "One-off"
   Created on 1 Aug 2017, 21:40:20 hrs UTC
   Bugs fixed:
     26355633

Patch  26287183     : applied on Wed Sep 12 11:59:56 CEST 2018
Unique Patch ID:  21447582
Patch description:  "One-off"
   Created on 1 Aug 2017, 21:41:27 hrs UTC
   Bugs fixed:
     26287183

Patch  26261906     : applied on Wed Sep 12 11:59:11 CEST 2018
Unique Patch ID:  21344506
Patch description:  "One-off"
   Created on 12 Jun 2017, 23:36:08 hrs UTC
   Bugs fixed:
     25559137, 25232931, 24811916

Patch  26051289     : applied on Wed Sep 12 11:58:45 CEST 2018
Unique Patch ID:  21455037
Patch description:  "One-off"
   Created on 31 Jul 2017, 22:11:57 hrs UTC
   Bugs fixed:
     26051289



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OPatch succeeded.