Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

Join us on Thursday, April 22 to learn how you can transform your architecture into an efficient, scalable, and cost-effective solution with Oracle’s iPaaS options. Our team will illustrate the process, methodology, and technology involved in moving Oracle SOA Suite to the Cloud with AST’s proven Transcend methodology, which has been used to modernize integration platforms for dozens of customers across industries. We’ll be joined by one of our customers who will discuss...

If you need to view the Insights data for a Digital Assistant and at the same time also view the events for its constituent skills, you can export the data to a CSV file and create your own reports from there. You also can automate the export, which gives you a way to monitor how well an ODA is functioning at certain time intervals, for example. You do this making by REST calls to the Insights for Skills API from a script, as described in this topic. The section below is an...

We can poll files at regular intervals from a remote ftp/sftp server location using Oracle JCA adapter for FTP, with help of GET operation. We can integrate oracle JCA FTP adapter with BPEL, mediator, or OSB 12c. In this article, we will be creating one OSB project that will demonstrate polling of files from remote FTP location using FTP adapter and writing the files to our local server location Note: Using JDeveloper 12c (12.2.1.4). Pre-requisites: Connection factory configured...

In today’s enterprise, users must expect to multitask in order to achieve higher productivity. Thus, tasks and lists of tasks become necessary features of most enterprise applications-such as ERP, HCM or CRM--for improving user productivity. Tasks can range from simple to-dos that remind the assignee about activities outside the application to approvals for HR, finance or sales transactions.                          Enterprise users commonly must deal with multiple task...

Sometimes small nuggets turn out to be more valuable than the bigger ones. Hope this is one of those little tips that you will enjoy and use. So in this quick tip I explain how you can add character shortcuts to values lists in Oracle Digital Assistant. The trick is to use Apache FreeMarker expressions in a System.CommonResponse component. The System.CommonResponse component can be used to display list of values and card layouts from arrays and lists. For the sample, I...

Introduction: Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 was released on Sep 27, 2019, and is the latest SOA release in the market. The complete upgrade process is listed in Oracle SOA Upgrade Documentation, however, it is too exhaustive and a bit hard to follow. https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/fusion-middleware/12.2.1.4/fupss/preface.html#GUID-97108791-B395-4339-824C-2E8404C54DAD Hence, to simplify the upgrade exercise, I have divided it into several activities that are explained in...

Kotlin, which was originally developed by JetBrains, is an open source programming language compatible with Java and therefore the Android Java SDK. This article explain how you build Android mobile applications that integrate Oracle Digital Assistant chatbots using Android Studio and Kotlin. Following the instructions in this article, or downloading the sample code, you get a simple Android applications that exposes a chat messenger widget you can configure with a skill or...

A customer recently told me they would like to get away from having to print, envelope and post mark thousands of invoices manually every month. Even though we have changed their invoicing process to an electronic one for most of their customers years ago by sending out emails through Oracle SOA Suite, they still had a considerable amount of customers insisting on printed invoices delivered by post. Let’s have a look at how we managed to get away with that paper. Starting Point T...

Answer intent uses machine learning to understand a user question and return a single answer. The QnA framework used earlier used elastic search instead, which didn't offer the same level of confidence as NLP. For this reason, the QnA framework always showed several possible question / answer pairs that would match a user message. Although the answer to a question that is returned by answer intents has a high confidence, some customers have expressed their preference for the...