Recent Posts by Jeff Davies

Custom Events in MCS Today I wanted to go into some detail about events in MCS. Specifically, what you can do with custom events. Many apps want to track custom events that occur on the user's mobile device. This process is well documented and a great place to get started if you want to learn about events originating on a mobile device can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/mobile-cloud/mcsra/op-mobile-platform-analytics-events-post.html   However, there are...

Validating JSON in MCS I was working with a customer the other day, trouble shooting an API that did not seem to be working when it was accessed by a MAX application. When he tested the API in MCS, everything worked fine. When he accessed that same API call from MAX, the list control was empty and the message "No data found" was displayed instead.   Fortunately, this customer noticed a small discrepancy between the JSON that was being returned by the API and the expected...

CSF Keys in MCS I recently had a customer ask me about creating a connector from Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) to Oracle Financials in the cloud. Creating a connector to Oracle Financials is a quick process and involves the creation of a CSF key. What is a CSF Key? CSF stand for Credential Store Framework. This framework, built into MCS, allows you to create and store multiple credentials for use by MCS. In this case, we want to store a basic authorization credential in MCS so MCS...

Oracle has released the much anticipated Mobile Cloud Service (or MCS for short). Unlike other cloud offerings, MCS is focused not only on providing enterprise quality Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), but also providing easy to use tools for business professionals to analyze and mine data about the usage of the MBaaS. Over the next few days, I will introduce you to the various features and design patterns of MCS so that you have a solid understanding of the product and...

Recently, Gigaom Research (a research and analyst firm) took a look at the state of cross-platform mobile development. Their list of vendors included Oracle, SAP, IBM and a few others. They divided their criteria for judging the mobile cross-platform development solutions into five, “Disruption Vectors”. Each of these vectors received a weight:   Talent crunch (33%) Iteration Acceleration (22%) Fragmentation (20%) Trend Spotting (15%) Destabilization (10%)     Across all of these...

Coming up at the end of October I will be hosting a training event for Oracle partners in Chicago. If you are interested in attending this event, you will need to sign up for the 4 day class (Oct 28 - 31) using this link: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=59578:10:2904353352509201::::RND_ID,ID_WORK:G1QCNTJH7Y,941 You will need an account on Oracle.com, but they are free and quick to setup. In the course we will cover:   Oracle Service Bus - service enabling enterprise...

Hands-On-Lab 9303 at Oracle Open World On Wednesday, October 1st, 11:45 AM I will be hosting a hands-on lab at the Hotel Nikko in Ballroom II. In this lab you will build a mobile client that can consume a REST service that provides a list of products. Next we will go into that REST service and modify it to provide products not only from our existing product catalog, but also products from our newly acquired company. The result will be REST service that provides an...

With the release of Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.0 and SOA Suite 12c comes a new version of the Oracle Service Bus 12c. In my past 2 blogs I’ve written about several new features in the 12c release that I really enjoy. In thing blog, I’ll introduce you to another new and very useful feature in Service Bus - disabling actions! In the past, any action that you put into a Service Bus message flow (now called Pipelines in 12c) would be executed. This meant that if you put...

In my last blog entry I showed you two of my favorites features in Service Bus 12c (included in Oracle Mobile Suite 12c and SOA Suite 12c). In this blog, I'll mention another new feature that is very powerful, giving enterprises the ability to create standardized service implementations. This feature is named, "Templating". What is a template? A template is a structured Service Bus pipeline. It allows your company to create standard service implementations. The users of these...