みなさん、こんにちは。OTN事務局の徳道です。

先週末から一気に寒くなってきましたね。

「そろそろ冬支度をしなくては！」

と思い私の頭に最初に浮んだのはスノーボードのワックス掛けです。

ベースワックス、滑走ワックスを数回塗り、磨き上げて、満足＾＾

・・・ではなく （^_^;) 滑る日を心待ちに・・・。

では、今日もFusion Middleware部門10月1日～10月31日の集計結果をご紹介します！

8月に3位にランクインしていたOracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition Oneが4位に返り咲き！ちなみに9月はOracle WebLogic Server 9.2 MP3に次いで6位でした。
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Recently wile working on a project I came across a challenging script to write, the default behaviour of OpenScript is to record the parameters sent to the server and then play them back once correlated, meaning that if we have extra navigations we need to create them manually, so lets take at an example from a PeopleSoft implementation where depending on the client account that we used during an iteration we would have 1 or more parameters, the interface looked like the picture below with 2 parameters:

Note the null parameter in which we state that we would like all the matching values that we find in the HTML page to be stored as list of variables in the script, meaning that it will give us a list of all the parameters that it finds matching that regular expression.

I like to add the the parameters where easily identified as they used the following HTML;

OK once we have the list we know how many parameters we need to update, we can get that number with the following code:

Ok now we have 2 lists one with all the parameters and another one (empty at the moment) containing the parameters that have been updated, also we know how many navigations we need to reproduce to update each parameter.

Next we will need a method to update that list, we will place that just after the finish method in the script and call it findInParams

We are now ready to start building the navigations, first of all we will need to loop the step to generate lsSens.length number of navigations, we will use a for loop for that

Then we need to create an array to store all the parameters, the array size will be the number of static parameters + the new parameters found * 2 as there are 2 parameters to update in each case.

Even that using an ArrayList would have been easier for performance reasons I have chosen an Array, not that ArrayLists are slower but Arrays are still faster.

Then we will start assigning the static parameters to the array.

PeopleSoft needs to now which parameter is being updated so we will need to update this parameter with the value from the loop.




Then we need to finish adding the static navigations

and finally we will update the array with our new parameters, we will keep a count to update the array index and use a for loop to store the new parameters in the array:

Then we need to update the parameters that have been processed:





Then update the parameter that we are currently working on and add it to the isDone list

and finally set the rest of parameters to its original value.






We now have an array with all the parameters that we need to send to the server, first we need to close the for loop that updates the array as we do not need it any more:

}

Then we finally need to post that navigation substituting the list of parameters with the array that we just created.

Remember to close the first loop

}

And we now have a navigation that will be executed x times with x number of parameters each time !!!!

Probably the most important lessons learnt from the script are the fact that we can get a list of matching regular expressions:

And also that we can substitute the parameters for a List of some type e.g we can change that:

For that:



Making it possible to build a dynamically generated list of parameters.

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The chatter about the show on the InterWebs is slowing down a bit, but we still found some interesting reading about your experiences at Oracle OpenWorld 2009. If you haven't been featured in our Around the World series, take this opportunity to add your two cents in our comments section.

Tweeters Attending OOW09
Before the show, we told you about—and added ourselves to—the list George Woods put together of Twitter users headed to Oracle OpenWorld 2009. Now that Twitter has released its Lists feature to all users, George has turned his list into a Twitter List. Follow it to keep in touch with all the great connections you made at the show.

Open World Wrap Up
Debra Lilley has been itching to talk about Fusion Applications. Now—finally—she can. But she also shares her overall impressions of the 2009 event. Check out both posts to get the perspective of the Deputy Chairman of the UKOUG.

Meeting My Fans
One of our favorite attendees at this year's show was Stanley, The ACE Vest. His agenda was very busy, including an Unconference session, despite recent surgery. But that didn't keep him away from his fans. See who shares a love for both Stanley and the great blue yonder. (Editor's note: Has anyone else noticed Stanley and Debra have similar writing styles?)

Oracle Usability Labs—A Day In The Life
Project Manager (and self-confessed BBQ King) Floyd Teter landed in San Francisco a few days before the start of Oracle OpenWorld for some preshow business he promised would "rock in the extreme." He wasn't kidding. Turns out, he spent the day at our Usability Lab here on campus. Take a look at what got him away from the BBQ grill a few days early.

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さて本日（もう昨日ですね）三井住友銀行様におけるセキュリティ機能の実装事例を発表させて頂きました。Oracle Database VaultやOracle Advanced Security、仮想プライベートデータベース（VPD)などを美しく実装した、非常に優れた事例です。

Oracle Database Vault provides the following default realms to protect the SAP application and data within the database:

• Application Protection Realms for ABAP™ and the Java stacks: Protects all the sensitive SAP business data against unauthorized access from the privileged database users, and maintains the integrity of the SAP database structures;


• Application Administration Realm for BR*Tools: Securely protects the integrity of all Oracle Database objects such as tables and indexes that are used by the BR*Tools and guards against unauthorized changes from other privileged database users;


• Application Protection Realm for Admin Roles: protects SAP administration roles including SAPCONN, SAPDBA, SAPCRED, and SAPSYS from being granted except by the authorized administrator, and provides separation of duty; and,


• Application Credential Protection Realm: protects the SAP application credential data from any unauthorized access or changes by privileged database user, and enhances separation of duty.

Using the certified Oracle Database Vault command rules for SAP, organizations can also ensure that database users cannot by-pass SAP application security features and access SAP application data directly using ad-hoc database query tools. Customers can further customize these default rules and add rules to address additional security requirements. Oracle Database Vault comes with numerous pre-defined command rule factors such as time of day, day of week and system address, and organizations can build custom factors using the Oracle Database Vault API.

SAP application data can be further protected using Oracle Advanced Security, which was previously certified for SAP. Oracle Advanced Security provides Transparent Data Encryption to prevent unauthorized access to SAP application data outside the database, and complements Oracle Database Vault protection for SAP application data within the database.

Download a free, evaluation version of Oracle Database Vault (terms, conditions and restrictions apply) and the Oracle Database Vault for SAP Resource Kit which includes demos, step-by-step tutorials, and more info to get you started.

The experience in my opinion may make this Facebook's killer app (though my wife's obsession with Cafe World, makes me wish I had paid more attention to Flash development back when it first emerged).

The reason is that - I simply clicked on the Facebook icon on the site I was accessing. And because I happened to be logged into Facebook at the time - I I was granted access. If you are not logged in, you are presented with the familiar Facebook login in a screen. And it then connects you - NO REDIRECTS.

I fell out of my chair. I didn't think that would be possible. But yet, there it was.

And of course the Connect process is potentially prone to phishing attacks but we've been dealing with those for a long time now. So even if you were a bank and wanted to use Facebook Connect -if you combined it with an anti-fraud solution like Oracle Adaptive Access Manager including potential secondary pin (so you would have 2-factor authentication without needing to manage millions of additional passwords) - it's not any less secure than current systems.

I'm not sure of the technology behind it. And I know that the bulk of my friends on Facebook - wouldn't care. And if I was running a consumer-facing business that needed authentication for whatever reason - I would strongly consider rolling the dice on just supporting Facebook Connect backed up with traditional local accounts. And tell the other big-guns out there - if you want to play in my space - you have to give me an experience like Facebook Connect.

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Plus it will post anything - blogs, photos, video, audio (the latter as attachments). And it supports autoposting which hopefully will make it easier for me to post more frequently. It also means duplicate blogging but that's ok - because it means I can have an IDM blog that is hosted on Oracle and one that is not in case I need the latter in the future.

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三井住友銀行がオラクルのデータベース製品の
セキュリティオプションである「Oracle Database Vault」と、
アクセス制御機能である「Virtual Private Database」を活用し、
投資銀行部門のEUC*基盤に対する厳密なアクセス制御と
データ保護を実現しました。

*EUC（エンド・ユーザー・コンピューティングの略）：
企業内のコンピュータシステムを利用して実際に業務を行う
エンドユーザが自らシステムの構築や運用・管理に積極的に携わること。

三井住友銀行では、投資銀行部門の業務特性を考慮した
IT戦略について検討チームを組成の上、インフラに関する
将来あるべき姿としてのグランドデザイン（全体像）の策定を
行ってきました。

検討チームの結論としては、投資銀行部門にとっては
開発スピードを重視したインフラの構築が必要ということになり、
基幹システムとは別に、EUC基盤を構築することになりました。

しかし、投資銀行部門は、M&Aアドバイザリーの案件情報など、
機密性が要求されるデータを取り扱うケースもあることから、
三井住友銀行のIT企画セクションでは、IT部門のシステム
保守要員であっても、閲覧してはいけない内容を見えないように
するための高度なセキュリティ対策が必要になると判断しました。

本事例の特長は、情報漏洩を防ぐために必要なセキュリティ対策の
効果的なアプローチと、「見せる必要のない人には見せない、触らせる
必要のない人には触らせない」という方針に基づいたアクセス管理の実装です。

発表資料はこちらをご覧ください。
さらに詳しい内容は事例カタログをご覧ください。

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