Today at the Oracle Fusion Middleware Summer Camp in Lisboa I experienced some SIGSEGV JVM crashes. It happened when trying to use JDeveloper 12.1.3 under MacOS  with the SOA Suite Development installer – right after the installation when starting up the server from within JDeveloper. (Most of the experienced SOA Suite developers went the beaten path using Windows).

My installation used a fairly recent JDK 1.7_45, but SOA Suite 12c is supported on MAC OS only for a single user development installation starting with JDK 1.7_51.

Upgrading to JDK 1.7_65 and recreating the JDeveloper default domain fixed the issue.

Give it a try! It’s the best time to explore the brand new SOA Suite 12c features – now even natively on a MAC.