Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Introduction The last few years I’ve been working in several SOA related projects, small projects as well as quite large projects. Almost all of these projects use a Canonical Data Model (CDM). In this post I will explain what a CDM is and point out what the benefits are of using it in an integration layer or a Service Oriented (SOA) environment. What is a Canonical Data Model? The Canonical Data Model (CDM) is a data model that covers all data from connecting systems and/or...

  Introduction This post focuses on the creation, configuration and tuning of an initial SOA Suite 12.2.1.1.0 Domain. The WebLogic Server is a necessary requirement, and must already be installed. For instruction how to install the WebLogic Server 12.2.1.1 please refer to my previous post:  WebLogic Server 12.2.1.1.0: Installation on the Linux OS The following tasks will be implemented: Preparing the Operating System for the installation of the WebLogic Server 12.2.1.1,...

  1. Overview Rubicon Red MyST delivers automated platform provisioning and continuous delivery for Oracle Middleware, enabling users to deliver a consistent and reliable platform in minutes. MyST also provides infrastructure independence; enabling customers to deploy consistent middleware platforms across all infrastructure types: on-premise and various cloud providers including Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post we will show how to provision an Oracle SOA...

  Introduction At my current project incoming data files, located at a third party FTP server, have to be read using SFTP. Despite of several blog posts and the FTP Adapter documentation of Oracle, it took us a full day to get a working SFTP configuration. I use this blogpost to document this for myself in case I have to do it again, and for others who need to do (about) the same. Prerequisite First of all start with ensuring that no firewall is blocking traffic from the...

  Oracle Database Cloud Service provides two offerings, Database as a Service and Database Schema Service. In this example, I will be creating sample business process using Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) and expose RESTful webservices on the Oracle Database Cloud Service (Oracle Database Cloud - Database Schema Service). PCS will invoke DBaaS over REST API exposed at DBaaS and provides response to the PCS. In the following step I have quickly created RESTful service in the...

As part of the book Best Practices for Knowledge Workers (digital edition) we published an Adaptive Case Management Methodology. The proposed ACM Methodology is based on the five phases, which covers typical software engineering disciplines: Business Modeling, Visualization, Analysis, Design and Implementation. New software artifact models for ACM user interfaces (ACM Workspace) and ACM solution analysis and design (ACM Canvas) are also among the contributions of this work....

  Companies have been using workflow and content management for many, many years. In IT we got used to the term Business Process Management (BPM) whenever we spoke of automated process execution. Not so strange since the term BPM was adopted by all the major software vendors and has received a lot of attention as “the” way to achieve process automation and integration. There are however many different definitions of BPM, where some are technical and others are business...

Node.js has much to offer in the enterprise. But implementing Node.js in that context can be easier and more effective with the help of Oracle's Application Container Cloud service. Oracle ACE Associate Maarten Smeets, an integration consultant with AMIS, explains in this 2 Minute Tech Tip. Watch the video here. Additional Resources Soaring through the Clouds – Part 6: Lightweight Application Container Cloud Service for Rich API Implementation with Node.js Video: Tsymbalenko and...

  Docker has undergone a dramatic evolution in only the last couple of years. From virtually unknown in 2014, it still seemed to be a exotic, niche open source solution when WebLogic was certified on Docker in early 2015. Nowadays this is different. End of 2016 it has become very common to explore new software by just running an official Docker image from Docker hub. CI / CD pipelines are often built on Docker for repeatability. Docker is one of the key building blocks...