Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Conversations between human beings and computers have been a mainstay of science fictions movies for decades. Remember the HAL 9000 in director Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking 1968 epic "2001 - A Space Odyssey?" Remember Joshua, the computer in the 1983 hit "War Games?" Remember Kirk and Spock issuing verbal commands to the Starship Enterprise's onboard computer? In the second decade of the 21st century, conversational interfaces have transcended fiction to become a reality,...

In my earlier post about purging the Oracle SOA product database, I mentioned that this is one of the most critical tasks when it comes to ensuring the stability and performance of SOA/BPM Suite production environments. Read the 1st part here This means that you should never neglect this or expect it to magically take care of itself. So let’s take a look at a couple of extra tips to get a better grip on this: In 12c we have auto-purge, which can be configured and scheduled from...

  Learn how to integrate an external Jenkins build server with Oracle Developer Cloud Service to run builds when commits are pushed to the Oracle Developer Cloud Service project Git repository. Get the tutorial here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner...

  1. Is the connectivity agent necessary for the EBS Adapter even when my services are deployed inside DMZ and publically accessible. No. The connectivity agent is only required when EBS REST services are not available on public internet. 2. Can I connect to EBS database from ICS and invoke PL/SQL procedures? Yes, you can use DB adapter. However, JDBC connections are not allowed by ICS so the connectivity agent is required to connect to EBS database 3. Is it required for the...

In a previous post I described how to do Continuous Integration & Delivery from Oracle Developer Cloud to Oracle Application Container Cloud on simple Node applications: Automating Build and Deployment of Node application in Oracle Developer Cloud to Application Container Cloud. In this post, I am going to extend that very simple application with the functionality to count requests. With every HTTP request to the application, a counter is incremented and the current counter...

In the second release of 2017 (17.2.5) ICS will introduce the capability of importing and using custom functions. These functions are created using JavaScript and can be used in transformations, expressions and as a action in Orchestrations. In this definitive guide I will go through all ins and outs of this new capability. Custom functions – a new pillar of ICS In our book we talked about the pillars of ICS; Connections, Integrations, Lookups, Agents, Adapters and Packages....

  A familiar story: · Develop a Node application with one or more developers · Use Oracle Developer Cloud Service to organize the development work, host the source code and coordinate build jobs and the ensuing deployment · Run the Node application on Oracle Application Container Cloud I have read multiple tutorials and blog posts that each seemed to provide a piece of puzzle. This article shows the full story – in its simplest form. We will: · Start a new project on Developer Cloud...

Dear Developer Partner Community, Hands-on training material and presentations from the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2018 are available at the community workspace (membership required).Please use this material to update your team and customers on the latest Oracle PaaS services including blockchain, machine learning and the microservices architectures. Congratulations to all partners for your PaaS customer success, congratulations to the PaaS Partner Community Awards 2018 win...

I get quite a lot of questions about the user roles available in ICS. Some of the questions relate to user access to data. For example, how do I prevent developers seeing payload values, such as credit card number. The starting place for eliciting such information should be the ORCL docs - here I read Read the complete article here. PaaS Partner Community For regular information on business process management and integration become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for...