Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

I know that this is quite an extremist title, and my colleagues will surely get a good laugh out of it since we actually just had some quite interesting experiences with SAF. That being said, this post is not intended to bash this technology or to say it does not work (because it actually does); it’s just that if you look at the current technological landscape there are so much better options, and at least for me, from an Architectural point of view, it would be really...

  Introduction The process of deploying SOA Projects to Oracle SOA Cloud Services (SOACS) can be significantly simplified and streamlined using the Oracle Developer Cloud Services (DevCS) by facilitating the inbuilt Maven and GIT repositories. This article is a walk-through on how create a SOA Project in JDeveloper and get it deployed on SOACS using DevCS. It is based on Windows, but other operating systems work in a very similar way. The following graphic shows the simplified...

The year 2017 is the year that Oracle's WebLogic Application Server has become 20 years old. Started by the founder Paul Ambrose with his company WebLogic he released the first version called "Tengah". Read the complete article 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 Oracl...

Vikas Anand (Senior Director, Product Management, SOA Suite/Integration Cloud Service, Oracle) and Ram Menon (Product Manager, Oracle Integration Cloud Service) join OTN TechCast host Bob Rhubart for a discussion about meeting SOA and integration challenges on-prem and in the cloud. Watch the video here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea...

  Let’s clear about this: Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) is NOT a replacement of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (OEM CC) or even an equivalant. Rumours are that this will  be Oracle’s policy in a far away future, but in the meantime we focus on what they do best. OEM CC is a product for a complete management solution for your Oracle environment, OMC for monitoring and, most of all,  analyse the monitored data in your Oracle environment. Oracle made it possible to...

  Decisions, decisions. Can't figure out whether to go with Oracle SOA Cloud Service or Integration Cloud Service? No worries! Oracle ACE Robert van Mölken helps you sort it out in this informative 2 Minute Tech Tip. Watch the video here. Additional Resources SOA Cloud Service in a Nutshell [Article] Help! What Integration Solution is Best for Me? Choosing the Right Integration PaaS | Robert van Mölken [Video] Want to see more 2 Minute Tech Tips? Click here. Can you deliver a...

  In a previous blog on OCCS, I covered the steps required to provision the service. As an input to the OCCS Service provisioning I was prompted to specify the number of worker nodes I required, which for my example I set to be two. Having provisioned the service, I can now start to build and run my Docker images on these worker nodes. As part of the provisioned service, I have a node dedicated to the Container Console which provides a nice web User Interface that allows me to...

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  Overview WebSocket: the standard WebSocket is an IETF standard recognized by RFC 6455 and has the following key characteristics which make it great fit for real time applications Bi-directional: both server and client an initiate a communication Full duplex: once the WebSocket session is established, both server and client can communicate independent of each other Less verbose (compared to HTTP) A deep dive into the protocol is out of scope of this blog. Please refer to the RFC...