An Environment Instance, as its name suggests, is simply an association between one environment and one instance. The Environment Instances were created automatically when we associated the instance to environments. The association can then be used to assign endpoints and provide values for any properties mapped to those environment instances (through workflows or plugin operations).

In this guide we created BuildInstance and BuildSOA instances and associated them to the Build environment. On the deployment side, we created two instances (ADF1 and SOA1) and associated them to the Development environment. So in total we have four environment instances.

To view the Environment Instances that have been established select Topology from the menu and click on Topology Overview from the left menu.

Notice that the instances created are represented as rows and that the environments created are represented as columns. Where an instance and an environment intersect is known as an environment instance. The intersection cell show green dot, if all the properties configured, otherwise it shows yellow dot. Click on the green or yellow dot to view/configure properties and endpoints.

Locate the Endpoints tab and Click on to associate endpoints to that environment instance.

Drag the Build Endpoint which you configured in an earlier step (on the right), and drop in the middle it to the selected endpoints.

Click the Apply button to save the changes, and then click the Properties tab to allow entry of properties required for this environment instance.


We have associated an operation of the JDeveloper plugin to the Build instance. This plugin operation requires a property to be configured on the environment instance. Enter a value for the required property and then click the Save button to save your changes and return to the list of environment instances.

Note that the BuildInstance/Build environment instance now has green dot as configuration of properties completed.

Repeat the steps above to configure the endpoints and required properties for the BuildSOA/Build (Endpoint for SOA Admin Server host, ADF1/Development and SOA1/Development environment instances. In this case, you will need to configure properties for the plugin operations associated with those instances.

Note that for the BuildSOA/Build environment instance, you can associate it to the same endpoint that you will use for the DeploySOA/Development endpoint. From a SOA build perspective we simply need the libraries of any SOA Suite installation.

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