Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Oracle API Cloud Services - Part I: Web APIs: A Pillar of Digital Transformation Oracle ACE Rolando Carrasco's article introduces Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, and shows how it is used to publish, deploy, and apply policies to APIs. Read the article. Introduction to Oracle Messaging Cloud Service Oracle ACE Associate Phil Wilkins examines the Oracle Messaging Cloud Service (OCMS) web API, and also looks at the cool moves OMCS can throw that give messaging a 21st century...

The following demos will highlight some various use cases for Fishbowl’s Intelligent Chatbot called Atlas. Returning product pricing and availability information from Oracle E-Business Suite Retrieving construction related project information from Procore Clinical trial interactions using voice Employee Self-Service Looking up the weather in various cities Verifying number of PTO days left Searching for documents in Oracle WebCenter Content Customer Self-Service Account management...

Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) has been renamed to Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), so this blog series about ABCS continues as a blog series about VBCS. In this blog I will explain how to call a REST endpoint and create a Business Object based on this REST Service. There are several ways to do this, but I will start with the most basic one. The data that we get from the REST service will only be presented (read-only), we will not send updates/posts to...

Thomas Kurian, Oracle president of product development, has mapped out the technology path ahead for Oracle, and it includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, chatbots, and new human interfaces. During a keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Kurian said these emerging technologies now fit into the vision Oracle has had since it started building its cloud offerings more than a decade ago: Let anyone, anywhere in the world, access the power of all...

We as old-fashioned SOA/BPM Suite developers, are used to test deployed services using tools like SoapUI. In this blog post, we will show you how to start a Process in the Oracle Process Cloud from the SOAP UI interface. On premises with SOA or BPM we used to start by obtaining the required wsdl from the Enterprise Manager. However, for PCS there is no such thing as an Enterprise Manager, so how do we get the WSDL?In the top right corner of the PCS Composer there is a...

The Oracle Management Cloud is a very broad platform for every developer or Ops to get out all the information that is needed. This is why this platform is an ideal one to be used in a DevOps strategy. Why? It has so many features to do analysis from both a developers perspective as an operations perspective. Combine these two and your team will act faster in detecting and solving issues, or even be pro active about possible bottlenecks in applications. One of the zillion...

We as old-fashioned SOA/BPM Suite developers, are used to test deployed services using tools like SoapUI. In this blog post, we will show you how to start a Process in the Oracle Process Cloud from the SOAP UI interface. On premises with SOA or BPM we used to start by obtaining the required wsdl from the Enterprise Manager. However, for PCS there is no such thing as an Enterprise Manager, so how do we get the WSDL?In the top right corner of the PCS Composer there is a...

GlassFish 5.0 represents the reference implementation of Java EE 8. We can dockerize Java EE 8 applications by using a GlassFish base image, such as the official oracle/glassfish. The Dockerfile of a zero-dependency Java EE 8 application looks like follows: FROM oracle/glassfish:5.0 COPY target/application.war $GLASSFISH_HOME/glassfish/domains/domain1/autodeploy/ A Docker container of that image starts the application server and auto-deploys our application. application.war is...

When the order comes in, payment needs to be made first before we start preparing the pizza. Our order payment process supports three possible payment options: Creditcard: obviously a commonly accepted payment option Cash: although we are a very tech-savvy company we would also like our old-fashioned customers to be able to pay the pizza with cash money Deferred payment: our most trusted customers can pay their order in a deferred way.  Deferred payment means the...