Oracle Fusion Middleware for JD Edwards

Oracle Open World 2009: Hands-on Labs

2009-10-09T00:44:08Z

Oracle Fusion Middleware enables you to build services that enable interactive dashboards, collaboration, data transformation, and integration with applications. In the Oracle Fusion Middleware for Applications hands-on labs, experience firsthand how you can build new services and integrate with applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications using Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Application Development Framework and Oracle Application Integration Architecture.

Service-enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1

2009-07-10T23:32:49Z

In this tutorial, we show how to implement native web services integration to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne from Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1.

There are several new features in Fusion Middleware 11g that enable the creation of Service Oriented Architectures with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications and to develop business processes and composite applications using the relevant Fusion Middleware technology.

New features include:

Simplified development experience via support for Service Component Architecture and the SOA Composite Editor (JDeveloper)
Enhanced human workflow offers new JSF based rich client framework, ADF task flow forms and integration with Microsoft Office
WebCenter Spaces to facilitate efficient interaction and collaboration among project teams
Unified management and monitoring capability, including end-to-end instance tracking across all service engines
Automated upgrade path from 10g
Robust performance and scalability via the underlying WebLogic Application Server infrastructure

While a detailed discussion (or the list) of the new features is outside the scope of this discussion, this whitepaper talks about "What's new in Oracle SOA Suite 11g".]]> Tutorial overview

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne supports native web services and exposes a number of functions as Business Services. We show how BPEL makes a service call out to a JD Edwards web service to retrieve the customer credit information. The resulting data is then transformed to output only the fields of interest.

Software Used

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apps 8.12 with Tools 8.97
Oracle SOA Suite version 11gR1 (available for download from OTN)
Oracle JDeveloper version 11gR1 (available for download from OTN)

Implementation

The main process steps are:

Generate a WSDL in EnterpriseOne for Customer Credit information*
Create a synchronous BPEL process to consume this WSDL.
Transform the resulting output from getCustomerCreditInfo operation into the desired format.

Note:

We assume step #1 has already been executed. Details on exposing a web service and generating the corresponding WSDL are available here.
The WSDL and the schema used in steps #2 and #3 are available here and here.

Collaborate 09: Free Hands-on Labs (AIA, SOA, IdM, BPA, BI Apps) for Oracle Applications

2009-04-09T07:34:15Z

Are you interested in Oracle’s Middleware, AIA or BI Apps offerings together with Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel)? Join us for one of our FREE Hands-on Workshops at Collaborate 09, to learn how you can leverage Oracle Fusion Middleware, AIA and BI Apps in your existing Oracle Applications environments today. We have 8 different hands-on labs, led by Oracle Experts, including:

- Service-enable Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- Service-enable PeopleSoft with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- Service-enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- Service-enable Siebel CRM with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- AIA: Best Practices Integration to Oracle Applications using AIA Foundation Pack
- BPA: Model and Automate Oracle Applications' Processes using BPA Suite
- BI Apps: Dashboard and Reports using Oracle Business Intelligence Applications for E-Business Suite
- IdM: Automate, Secure, and Audit Your E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Applications with Oracle Identity Management

The hands-on labs are offered Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (9 total sessions), and are open to all registered Collaborate attendees but require additional reservations here.

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/dialogue/dlgpage.jsp?p_ext=Y&p_dlg_id=4136274&src=2931347&Act=69

Come along, and you will also have a chance to win an iPod Shuffle at each Workshop.

Regards
-Juliana Button

Live Webcast: 25-March "Leveraging SOA with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne"

2009-03-17T04:52:11Z

Please join us for a live Webcast on Wednesday March 25th @ 9AM PDT, "Leveraging SOA with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne". In this Webcast, we will provide an overview of how you can leverage SOA with your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application today to help you integrate with your other applications, and streamline your business processes using Oracle SOA Suite.

See the invite for all the details. Be sure to enrol today!

Also, just a reminder to make use of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. The Best Practice Center provides technical, hands-on content geared to JDE Developers and Technologists to show you how to start creating SOA with your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications today. (This Center is on the Oracle OTN website, and no additional registration is required).

We hope you can join us for the Webcast next week.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware

2009-02-20T21:38:14Z

At the dinner table the other night one of my kids asked me, “Dad, what is it exactly that you do for your job?” To which my wife echoed, “Yeah, what do you do, exactly?” The answer isn’t a short one. I’m a product manager. My day is usually chopped into small slices of product planning, prioritizing features, writing requirements, talking with customers and partners, explaining things to field personnel, and dozens of other “interrupt-driven” activities. After fifteen minutes of explaining what I do each day the entire family was bewildered to boredom. So my son tried a different angle: “What’s the best thing about your job?” That one is easier to answer, straight and to the point: the best thing about my job is seeing our customers succeed using the products we build.

Take Arcturus Realty Corporation for example. They manage millions of square feet of real estate across Canada. They are putting JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle technology to good use to make their business run better. Their adoption of Oracle technology wasn’t so much a “Big Bang” as it is a step-by-step journey toward increasing return-on-investment. Back in 2001 their predecessor company started off like so many other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers running JD Edwards OneWorld Xe on the IBM iSeries platform. Sound familiar? By 2006, in response to some market and economic turmoil (sound familiar?) Arcturus was given the mandate to drastically reduce their IT cost structure. As a short-term step, they migrated their JDE E1 implementation to x86 hardware running Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server. To save additional cost they also decided to let a partner, AITO Solutions Ltd., host their infrastructure. By 2007, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne’s adoption of Oracle technology was mature and mainstream, and the Oracle Technology Foundation licensing was very attractive. At that point Arcturus, as we say, “went Red Stack” by converting their entire JDE E1 infrastructure to Oracle technology, including Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database, and Oracle Internet Application Server. But that was just the beginning of the journey. John Chung, Arcturus’ VP of IT, has that enviable combination of technical aptitude and imagination. Before long he was drafting (quite literally on a cocktail napkin at Collaborate 2008!) plans to implement additional Oracle Fusion Middleware components, such as Oracle BPEL PM and Oracle BI Publisher, to streamline some burdensome business processes. From the plateau of a successful pilot project, John can see the panorama of possibilities for follow-on projects using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Now John is running out of cocktail napkins.

Who are some other JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers who are employing Oracle technology to meet their business challenges? Perhaps the best catalog of success stories is held in the proceedings from past conferences such as Oracle OpenWorld and Quest Collaborate. These are the customers who come forward to freely share their success stories with their peers. Some are simply using Oracle Database and Oracle Internet Application Server to satisfy basic JDE E1 infrastructure prerequisites. Others are reaching deeper into the Oracle Fusion Middleware portfolio, for example, leveraging Oracle SOA Suite components with JDE E1 Business Services to streamline integrations. I find it fascinating to peruse the conference archives to see just how innovative JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers can be. If you have an implementation of JDE E1 with Oracle Fusion Middleware, I encourage you to share your story with your peers at a local user group, a regional gathering, or one of our big annual events.

So, to all our customers who are already benefitting from using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with underlying Oracle technology, thanks for making my job satisfying. And to all our customers who are in the process of implementing, or just contemplating using Oracle technology with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, thanks for giving me a reason to hurry into work tomorrow.

Integrating JD Edwards Enterprise One and Oracle Service Bus

2008-12-15T16:08:29Z

The recent BEA acquisition augments Oracle SOA Suite with BEA's AquaLogic Service Bus (henceforth referred to as the Oracle Service Bus). OSB offers a lightweight Enterprise Service Bus to connect, mediate and manage interactions between heterogeneous services and legacy applications. The go-forward strategy is to offer a unified service bus architecture that combines the respective strengths of the (existing) Oracle Enterprise Service Bus and the (newer) OSB, in addition to providing an automated upgrade path for existing customers.

In this tutorial, we demonstrate some of the core OSB features.

]]> Tutorial overview

The core OSB features showcased are:

Connectivity, via the ability to access and integrate applications using a standards based approach (SOAP).
Messaging and Routing: Once connectivity is established, incoming data and messages are routed to their appropriate destination. Routing decisions are usually based on headers, content or other external rules.

We show how Oracle Service Bus makes a service call out to a JD Edwards Enterprise One web service. OSB then routes the response to the appropriate business service, using content based routing (CBR). Two sample payload files (customer-a and customer-b) are provided for reference.

Use Case

Incoming loan applications at a financial services company are routed through OSB to determine the appropriate business service to process the application, depending on the applicant’s credit limit.

OSB makes a service callout to JD Edwards Enterprise One to obtain the applicant's credit limit. If the credit limit is <= $100k, the application is routed to the “regular-loan” business service for processing; all other applications are routed to the “jumbo-loan” business service.

The tutorial uses a file system to represent the two business services.

Implementation

The main steps in the process are:

Generate and publish the WSDL for the JD Edwards web service.
Implement CBR in the Oracle Service Bus and define the relevant business services: regular-loan and jumbo-loan.
Implement an OSB service callout to the JD Edwards web service; route the response containing the credit limit using CBR to the appropriate business service.

Upon successful execution, the messages are routed to the appropriate business service.

Live Webcast: 4-November "JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle Fusion Middleware"

2008-10-29T03:14:49Z

Please join us for a live Webcast on Tuesday, November 4th 2008 9AM PDT, "JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle Fusion Middleware". In this Webcast, we will provide an overview of how you can leverage Oracle Fusion Middleware with your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application today to deploy your JD Edwards EntepriseOne environment on the Oracle Red Stack, how to integrate with your other applications using Oracle BPEL Process Manager, provide Single Sign-on using Oracle Identity Management, and much more. This 45 minute webcast will provide a demonstration and opportunity for interactive Q&A.

See the invite for all the details. Be sure to enrol today!

We hope you can join us.

Missed OpenWorld? Check out the Presentations ...

2008-10-23T06:29:46Z

For those of you that didn't make it to OpenWorld we have published some of the papers most relevant to using Oracle Fusion Middleware with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne:

S299210: Getting the Most out of your Technology Stack for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

S299219: Simplifying JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Security with Oracle Identity Management and Security

S299220: Leveraging Oracle SOA Suite for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Integration

S299221: JDE EnterpriseOne Integration Strategy

S299694: Oracle Application Integration Architecture and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Hope you find these useful.

OpenWorld: Oracle Fusion Middleware and JD Edwards Sessions

2008-09-22T16:12:55Z

As we are all running for OpenWorld this week, just wanted to take the opportunity to share with you some of the highlights to book into your OpenWorld schedule from a Fusion Middleware/JDE EnterpriseOne perspective.

Hands-On Labs
The following sessions give you an opportunity to get some hands-on experience with the JD Edwards and Oracle Fusion Middleware. These sessions were a hit at the OAUG Collaborate conference earlier in Denver
Hands-on Lab: Service-Enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
· Session S299798: Tuesday, Sept 23: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate A3
Hands-on Lab: Hands-on Lab: Building JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Business Services
· Session S300865: Tuesday, Sept 23: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
· Session S300865: Tuesday, Sept 24: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate A1
Hands-on Lab: Hands-on Lab: Modernize Your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Reports with Embedded Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
· Session S300865: Tuesday, Wed 24: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate A1
Hands-on Lab: Hands-on Lab: Modernize Your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Reports with Embedded Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
· Session S300865: Tuesday, Wed 24: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate A1
Sessions
Session: Getting the Most Out of Your Technology Stack for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
· Session S299694: Mon, Sept 22: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
· Location: Intercontinental Hotel Grand Ballroom B/C
Session: Oracle Application Integration Architecture for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
· Session S299694: Tue, Sept 23: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
· Location: Intercontinental Hotel Grand Ballroom A
Session: Best Practices for Integrating with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Products
· Session S299221: Wed, Sept 24: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
· Location: Intercontinental Hotel Grand Ballroom C
Session: Simplifying JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Security with Oracle Security
· Session S299219: Thursday, Sept 25: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
· Location: Intercontinental Hotel Grand Ballroom B
Session: Leveraging Oracle SOA Suite for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Integration
· Session S299220: Thursday, Sept 25: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
· Location: Intercontinental Hotel Grand Ballroom C

We look forward to meeting you in person at one of the sessions, or stop by the Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications Demo Pod in the Exhibition Hall.

Welcome to Oracle Fusion Middleware for JD Edwards Blog

2008-09-04T20:38:08Z

Welcome! In this blog we will bring together experts from JD Edwards and Fusion Middleware to help you understand how to enhance and extend JD Edwards applications using Fusion Middleware today. Togethor with the Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center for JD Edwards this blog will help provide insight into how to service-enable JD Edwards Business Services, Master Business Functions, Z-Tables and Events and then build integrations, business processes and composite applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware technology such as BPEL Process Manager, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Activity Monitoring, Application Development Framework (ADF) and WebCenter.
For information on the vision for the Best Practice Centers, check out the AppCast hosted by Cliff Godwin SVP Application Development, Oracle