Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

In this video we create an application for managing parking spot requests. The application pulls in information about employees and locations from the Oracle HCM Cloud REST API, then expands it with custom VBCS objects for parking spots and parking spot requests. A PCS process manages the approval process for the application. Read the complete article here. PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for...

Today I had to fix an issue in one of our ADF applications. For those of you working with ADF (as I do too occasionally) this might be valuable, so I decided to share this. The application is based on an old Oracle Forms applications and I had to implement the following functionality: FRM-41830 : List of Values contains no entries.In other words (more ADF like) : If you are about to render a List of Values and that List of Values contains no rows, just show a message instead...

There’s been a lot of talk recently about blockchains beyond its original use for supporting Bitcoin. Earlier this year, we covered a session in London where the takeaway from the panel was there are too many problems to be solved. But that was in February, and a lot has changed since then. Judging from some of the blockchain sessions at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference, the emerging potential uses for blockchain are kind of staggering. Blockchain uses a technology also...

At Oracle Open World, Oracle launched the new and exciting enterprise-grade Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service. The launch generated overwhelming interest from press, analysts, and conference attendees as evident by standing-room only attendance in nearly all Blockchain sessions. What was equally noteworthy was the tremendous interest from software developers.  The demos and hands-on labs showcased just how easy it is for any developer to work with Oracle Blockchain Cloud...

Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) release, 2.5.0 This is a major release containing a number of platform upgrades and enhancements, including the following: A NEW release of JDeveloper is required.  You need to install the MAF extension in Oracle JDeveloper 12c (12.2.1.3.0).  See Installing Oracle JDeveloper Studio in Installing Oracle JDeveloper and Installing Mobile Application Framework with JDeveloper.The embedded Cordova platform engines have been updated to...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology – a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce – has released an overview of blockchain technology, aimed to clarify the central characteristics of the technology, its limitations and common misconceptions. The document targets beginners to blockchain, specifically organizations considering adopting the technology, and those trying to move beyond the "hype" surrounding blockchain. The authors remind readers that...

Chris Hollies from Capgemini will be presenting on: An overview of Terraform and how it brings Infrastructure as Code into the Infrastructure Engineering toolkit, including: -An overview of Terraform structure, syntax, characteristics and deployment. - Support for Terraform - Sample use cases and code examples - Best practices - Complementary tooling to incorporate Terraform into a DevOps approach Phil Wilkins will be presenting on Micro Services in a Monolith World. A look at...

In our blog entries the First Step and the Second Step there was described how multiple pizza’s could be prepared using a multi-instance subprocess. Although we saw this working correctly, the subprocess was configured to prepare pizzas sequentially, see the screenshot below: However, due to the success of the Jarvis Pizzeria, new equipment was purchased. Two brand new ovens were installed, enabling the Jarvis enterprise to prepare three pizza’s simultaneously...awesome! To...

We have new tool from Oracle which can help to simplify offline logic implementation for JS apps.  In this post I will describe how to use Oracle Offline Persistence Toolkit with Oracle JET. However Offline Persistence is not constrained by JET usage only, this toolkit is available on NPM and can be integrated with other JS solutions.I should emphasise - offline toolkit primary role is to enable mobile hybrid apps to work offline. In my opinion, toolkit usage doesn't stop...