Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

When using Oracle Autonomous API Platform, an API gets deployed to a logical gateway.  The logical gateway consists of one or more nodes which are instances of the runtime, installed on physical machines, virtual machines, or cloud infrastructure.  The gateway nodes handle the processing of the API requests, but a load balancer is still required to distribute traffic between the nodes.  When performance becomes an issue, more nodes can be added to increase throughput. ...

Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) empowers developers by providing a free and open source modular client-side toolkit based on modern JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 design and development principles. In the development of JET, Oracle believes that following standards and specifications is extremely important whenever possible, especially in the context of enterprise applications. The W3C Web Component specification is one of these standards, with the potential of enabling...

Imagine you have a service that is secured with Basic Auth or better yet OAuth2 and you would like to leverage the complete capabilities of an API Platform so you choose to create an API and deploy it to a gateway running in front of your service. When you call your service directly from within your internal network, everything works, providing you include the appropriate Authorization header that your service expects. However, when you call the API endpoint on your gateway,...

In every development cycle, developers are going to run into situations where things are not working as expected - this is where the debugging step comes into play. Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service  uses a multi-tier architecture - so it is likely that you'll end up with the need to debug code in each one of the layers. In this short demo we give you some tips on how to debug your applications. At its core, VBCS is a web UI tool, so for most of the UI layer debugging you...

This is the place to learn all about API Platform! Here you will find our repository of tutorials that are aimed to help you on your path to be an expert. What is a tutorial? A tutorial is a small lesson that walks you through the process of performing a particular task. For example Designing an API Note: Whenever there is a link, open it in a new tab (right-click->"Open Link in New Tab"). This way you will maintain your place this lab guide without having to re-orient yourself...

This is part 1 in a series of tutorials in which we learn how to create forms with Oracle Visual Builder(OVB) for a website built with Oracle Content and Experience (OCE) Sites. This article will explain how you can build a local OCE Sites component that uses REST API exposed by a business object in Visual Builder to display a simple public form on a site page that allows collecting contact details of your site visitors. Create Business Object in Visual Builder 1. Configure...

No one has achieved success with microservices just by talking about them. Unfortunately, many organizations spend a lot of time on exactly that, debating how to approach microservices. It is as though there is one perfect approach to designing and working with microservices that needs only be uncovered. In actual fact, there is no such definitive solution; even if there were, it would hold true only until changes in the organization, business objectives, technology...

In this blog we'll show you how to turn-on some more advanced capabilities in table components you add to your web pages in Visual Builder Cloud Service. Specifically we'll cover, column content formatting, column resizing & reordering, line wrapping, scroll policies, and adding more columns. One thing that is worth mentioning first is that our UI gurus are not fans of tables. In general, they would recommend you'll use the list component to show collections of records. It's...

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