Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Every now and then you might want to store some configurations in simple configuration files and use them as OSB Resources in pipelines. In most cases OSB functionality is sufficient to fulfil your requirements. However sometimes you might not be able to get to your goal directly. Recently, I had to retrieve a list of all values in a specific domain column within a Domain Value Map (DVM). As DVMs are primarily used to map one domain value to one or multiple other domains,...

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is setup around different personas. When you login to MCS you see a list of roles. The Mobile App developer is the developer that is creating a mobile application and is using APIs that are exposed in MCS. The Service developer is the developer that creates the APIs, connectors etc.This distinction is very useful: it helps in making sure the documentation is targeted to the right people and the content is organized in a way that makes sense for...

Join us in our ongoing 'Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform’ webcast series to learn more about the transformative Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) based cloud platform services. The first presentation of the series will cover the vision of the Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform and the value it adds to your business. In this session you will learn about: The vision for Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform that extends Autonomous capabilities across the entire Oracle...

Join our Oracle Developer Meetup in London on June 25th 2018. Have you ever thought that you needed to be a programmer to do stream processing and build streaming data pipelines? Think again!Companies new and old are all recognising the importance of a low-latency, scalable, fault-tolerant data backbone, in the form of the Apache Kafka® streaming platform. With Kafka, developers can integrate multiple sources and systems, which enables low latency analytics, event driven...

Executive Overview PaaS customers, in the past, have been able to provision their instances only over the flat network of Oracle Public Cloud (OPC). However, at present, support for PaaS computes with IP networks has been released. As a result, customers now have a choice to provision PaaS instances, e.g. SOA Cloud Service (SOACS), MFT Cloud Service (MFTCS) or Database Cloud Service (DBCS), using IP networks. This option clearly comes with 2 distinct advantages. Firstly, there...

“Stakeholders are the invisible third rail of user requirements gathering and successful IT adoption in the enterprise. Forget about them and you may be badly shocked!” Ultan O’Broin (@ultan) looks at suitable chatbot use cases for the cloud enterprise and then how to approach designing them right. Image licensed from iStock Chatbots: Your New #BFF in Work OK, let’s nail this one. Chatbots are not about automating humans out of the #lovemyjob world of job satisfaction. But, they ar...

When working with Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) SOAP Connections, it is common to upload a WSDL file when configuring the Connection Properties: The focus of this blog is how to retrieve/recover the WSDL in the event the original file is not available. This can be accomplished in several ways that include an on-line and/or off-line approach. Regardless of the approach, it is important to understand that when the WSDL file is uploaded it is added to the connection as...

Oracle Intelligent Bots with Oracle Mobile Cloud Services gives you the ability to create an artificially intelligent bot that can converse with your users, to determine their intent and perform actions. This playlist covers everything you need to know to start building your own bot. Watch the videos here. Developer Partner Community For regular information become a member in the Developer Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN...

Introduction Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) provides file handling capabilities through technology adapters and other application-specific adapters. This post focuses on the most commonly used file handling methods in ICS, using FTP, File and REST adapters and some techniques to tackle advanced file handling requirements. Information in this post is applicable to release 17.2.5 of ICS. File handling in ICS FTP adapter is widely used for transferring and process files. It...