Recent Posts by Antony Reynolds

Oracle IDCS is the core identity management system for many of Oracle PaaS services and can also be used with Fusion Applications. As such it is often useful to be able to manipulate identity information from within OIC. In this post I will show how to connect to IDCS from within OIC. One use case for this was the training that Oracle Integration PMs deliver. We create unique user ids for each training, and also have a need to unlock user accounts during training. By creating...

Well it is update time again, and we have new features for you and a new release cycle. New features include a New Home Page, Data Stitch and new Adapters. The new release cycle will provide a more predictable update for your instances. Release Cycle We are introducing a new release cycle into Oracle Integration. We will be releasing new functionality every 3 months, in February, May, August and November. We are doing this to make it easier for customers to know when their...

A few years ago my wife and I were honored to be invited to our friends promotion ceremony. By hard work, dedication and outstanding leadership he was promoted to a full Colonel in the US Air Force. Fortunately when promoting integrations between environments it is a lot less work. Environments We usually have multiple environments for our code. Some possible environments are listed below: Development for building integrations. Test for testing integrations. Production for running...

We are excited to announce improvements in how you navigate and use Oracle Integration! What: We've enhanced the navigation experience so it's quicker and easier to move around Oracle Integration. Adjusting to a new way of navigating can be challenging the first time, but we are convinced you'll soon appreciate the improvements which should give you a faster and friendlier user experience. What’s been added? We're rolling out a consumption chart that shows how many messages you...

We often need to ensure that messages are processed in strict order, in this blog post I explain a pattern that enables this to be enforced using Oracle Integration.  The pattern also deals with the case where we need to limit the concurrency of calls to an endpoint system. This article was co-written with Glenn Mi & David Craft The Sequencing Problem The basic problem is that I may issue a stream of requests that must be executed in order, for example create account,...

New Layouts in Integration Cloud I am sure most of you have noticed that your monitor is wider than it is tall.  To take advantage of this we have a new formats available in Integration Cloud to change the way we view orchestrations. Vertical & Horizontal Layout The first new feature is the ability to switch between veritcal and horizontal layouts. If we have an orchestration we can change it between horizontal and vertical layout using the Layout button at the top of the canvas...

Identifying Integration Cloud IP Addresses In this blog post I will show how to identify IP addresses associated with Integration Cloud. The Challenge When whitelisting services we need to know their IP address.  This is easy if we need to identify the inbound address to Integration Cloud, we can just resolve the Integration Cloud hostname to get the IP address of the Integration Cloud load balancer to be whitelisted for inbound traffic to integration Cloud.  This is useful if...

High Availability with Oracle Integration Connectivity Agent You want your systems to be resilient to failure and within Integration Cloud Oracle take care to ensure that there is always redundancy in the cloud based components to enable your integrations to continue to run despite potential failures of hardware or software.  However the connectivity agent was a singleton until recently.  That is no longer the case and you can now run more than one agent in an agent group. Of...

Verifying Your White List is Working A lot of customers require all outbound connections from systems to be validated against a whitelist.  This article explains the different types of whitelist that might be applied and why they are important to Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).  Whitelisting means that if a system is not specifically enabled then its internet access is blocked. The Need If your company requires systems to be whitelisted then you need to consider the following...