Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  For developers, installing a full blown local SOA Suite environment has never been a favorite (except for a select few). It is time consuming and requires you to download and run various installers after each other. If you want to start clean (and you haven’t taken precautions), it could be you have to start all over again. There is a new and easy way to get a SOA Suite environment up and running without downloading any installers in only a couple of commands without...

There is a lot of talk going on about Microservices architecture these days. Since I presented about the subject at the NLOUG Tech Experience this year, I've been getting a lot of questions and comments about it, so I've decided to make a more structured breakdown through a series of blogs. To kick things off, I will explain what Microservices architecture is, which in itself is not that simple. Definition There is no generally accepted definition of Microservices architecture....

In Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2, Integrated SOA Gateway (ISG) uses Oracle SOA Suite and its E-Business Suite Adapter for SOAP based web services. Now, with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud, you can configure ISG to use Oracle SOA Cloud Service and its E-Business Suite Adapter for SOAP based web services. What is Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud? If you are new to running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure, please refer to the Oracle E-...

After ICS POD upgraded to 18.2.3.0.0, ICS agent will not come up and throw an error "Agent Group Existence Check Failed, Recheck ICS Username, ICS Password and Proxy Username, Proxy Password or Contact Customer Support". The reason being of the issue is, ICS certificate has been changed. Certificate changes for ICS happened on the Cloud (outside of Agent). It can be mapped to 18.2.3 MLR 00. This is known Bug 28242477 logged by Oracle. To resolve this issue, the user needs to...

When moving to the cloud, and specifically when moving towards cloud-native applications, different design patterns apply when compared to the more traditional (on-premises) applications. All these cloud-native design patterns and principles have one common denominator – showing emphasis on scalability and function isolation. Where traditional applications used to be developed as big monolith solutions housing a large set of functionalities, the more modern and cloud-native...

  · Analytics, Integration, Development “Why doesn’t software manage itself?” That’s the question Oracle President Thomas Kurian’s team asked approximately seven years ago. In 2018 the answer is, “It does.” Earlier this year, Oracle launched the world’s first autonomous data warehouse. Now three more self-driving services have come online: Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud, and Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder Cloud. The...

  Introduction The objective of this blog is to introduce to the reader all available file-based options in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). The blog will cover the various tools and techniques available for developers for designing file-based integration solutions The Integration Cloud documentation does contain these in relevant sections. This blog intends to present only the file-based tools and techniques of Integration Cloud as a single point of easy reference. Note that most...

In earlier versions of JDev, skins have been created either by pure code or by using the free Skin Editor. However, since JDev 12.2.1.x the skin editor has been integrated into JDeveloper itself. A couple of questions in the ODC JDeveloper space are about how to create a skin with JDev which can be deployed as a shared library to a WebLogic Server. I gave this a try and it turned out, that you can build an ADF library jar from a skin project but you can’t use images to...

We have had a number of interesting conversations of late about the transition from ICS to OIC and to spice the discussion whether it should be OIC or Autonomous OIC. The reality of the situation is that the transition between ICS and OIC is a relatively straight forward one using the export and import tooling. The real challenge is the impact to organisations appears to be the change in licensing models as OIC works with the newer Universal Credit Model (UCM) where as ICS is...