Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The power and water division of a major industrial manufacturer sought to bring sorely needed order and efficiency to a lengthy and chaotic month-end closing process. Our Client’s Needs Our client’s four-day month-end closing process required manually running ten to fifteen different programs for each subledger and each general ledger set, for each organizational unit configured in EBS. This meant that all these programs had to be run nearly 150 times times for each month-end...

One of the new features introduced in a recent monthly update of Oracle Developer Cloud Service is the advanced code search box you can see at the top right when you look at your Git repositories. This is a separate search functionality from the regular project artifacts search the box does in the other section of DevCS. This search functionality is language aware, supporting a variety of languages including Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It scans and indexes your code to...

Business Process Management (BPM) is an important part of many organizations. Many experts agree that BPM is not only important for business operations, it is a necessary component for handling change. There can be changes in assignments, changes in back-end systems and changes in workflow are just some examples. However when changes occur, it has been up to IT to implement and up to the business managers to manage the fallout. We all know change is painful, and the more we...

This blog covers CI/CD for a Java application deployed on Oracle Application Container Cloud which uses Oracle Database Cloud via its declarative Service Binding feature We will focus on setting up and configuring Oracle Developer Cloud Service to achieve end-to-end DevOps and specifically look at Continuous Deployment to Application Container Cloud Using Oracle Maven repository from Developer Cloud Service The scenario depicted here will be used as a reference Quick background He...

  Internet of Things (IOT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices“), buildings, and other items-embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.(source Wikipedia). If you have not watched movie I.T, must watch it today and you will get to the feelings of Smart-Home concept and how heavily used IOT is showing in the...

Databases play a critical role in most software project architecture. However it seems that the concepts of agile methodology, version management, and continuous delivery are somehow less mature in the world of DBAs and database developers. In this article we'll show you how to bring modern development techniques to the world of database objects and logic leveraging Oracle Developer Cloud Service. Managing SQL Scripts Lifecycle Database objects are defined through a set of SQL...

Oracle Stream Analytics (OSA) is a graphical tool that provides “Business Insight into Fast Data”. In layman terms, that translates into an intuitive web-based interface for exploring, analysing, and manipulating streaming data sources in realtime. These sources can include REST, JMS queues, as well as Kafka. The inclusion of Kafka opens OSA up to integration with many new-build data pipelines that use this as a backbone technology. Previously known as Oracle Stream Explorer,...

  You've read a bunch of online tutorials and you've managed to containerize your application. You have even exposed a port so you can reach the application from the outside world, but when you connect, you're greeted with an error page: "Cannot connect to the database". It's time to start debugging! Below you will find some methods for debugging containers, as well as some information about the crashcart tool we have developed at Oracle to make debugging easier. Related...

Simple use case……you want to connect to a customer system over the internet. The customers system has an API but requires 2-way SSL. This means we have to send a client certificate along to make sure the SSL handshake can be completed. If your server has already a server certificate installed, it will send this one along by default but the customers system won’t accept it as it is different then what it trusts. In the next section, I will explain how to add a client...