BI Publisher 10g on Weblogic 10.3.4 : Common Error

If you are trying to use BI Publisher 10g on Weblogic Server 10.3.4 it is very likely you have missed one important step in your installation.

In the Release Notes (search for "BI Publisher Deployments to WebLogic 10.3 Require Additional Setting at Startup")
It clearly explains that we have to update the Weblogic Startup script to make WLS aware of the toplink libraries (which in the case of OC4J it is already included) for the scheduler to work:

Locate the startup script as follows:

/weblogic_home/user_projects/domains/base_domain/bin/startWebLogic.sh

Add the following setting:

-Dtoplink.xml.platform=oracle.toplink.platform.xml.jaxp.JAXPPlatform 

As in the picture

This setting is required to enable BI Publisher to find the TopLink JAR files to create the Scheduler tables.