Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

In several of my projects for Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Fusion Middleware Environments a main topic is the monitoring.Oracle provides with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control are really powerful solution to monitor Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Fusion Middleware Environments, but the disadvantage is the huge license cost for the necessary Management Packs for Oracle WebLogic / Fusion Middleware. Moreover in many small to midrange sized environments the...

· Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1 New Features Published in February 2016, the #1 article for 2016 was written by Oracle ACE Associate Sandra Flores, a SOA architect. The article presents an illustrated overview of the 12.2.1 release of Oracle SOA Suite. Read the article. · Oracle Cloud Integration In the #2 position, this 4-part article series by Oracle ACE Director Joel Perez and ACE Arturo Viveros was published in January 2016. Written for architects and IT managers, the article...

If you are worried about your password showing up in clear text in the startup scripts, you can use the storeUserConfig command to generate encrypted userconfigFile and a userKeyFile that you can then use in the „nmConnect“ and „connect“ command. Place there two files on the protected place and decide to set right permissions Create storeUserConfig for the Node Manager Start wlst via the shell script $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh: /u01/app/oracle/product/FMW/Oracle...

  The September issue of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update is a special edition from the PaaS Summer Camps 2017. The video contains two key topics: PaaS training resources PaaS showcases For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn.  For the latest SOA & BPM Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required). SOA & BPM Partner...

Several Weblogic components like EJBs, Datasources and Queues are accessed using JNDI-lookups. In default Weblogic configurations, the JNDI-Tree can be accessed without any kind of authentication. This is far from ideal, because any process, inside or outside the Weblogic container is capable of invoking these components. Only Datasources have an extra layer of security and can only be used remotely by activating the property “weblogic.jdbc.remoteEnabled”. In this blog entry I...

  A few weeks before the first ever Oracle sponsored Maker Faire, I was experimenting with some of the cognitive (vision) recognition APIs available. Google Vision API, Watson Visual Recognition and Microsoft Computer Vision API are some of the biggest players in this field right now. After testing all of them I found the idea of Microsoft’s CaptionBot really compelling: Upload an image to the CaptionBot and it will try to come up with a coherent caption based on a mashup of...

  Oracle recently made their ‘Kafka on Cloud’ service available: the Event Hub cloud service – offered as part of the Big Data Compute Cloud Service. In this article, I will briefly show the steps I went through to get up and running with this service. To be frank, it was not entirely intuitive – so this may be handy the next time I have to do it or perhaps when you are struggling. One obvious point of confusion is the overloaded use of the ‘service’ – which is applied among...

  Jeremy Ashley, Group Vice President of the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team, appears on both big and small screens as he discusses the role of user experience in our work lives in this round-up of recent videos, articles, and posts: Web Summit in Lisbon: CloudMovesTV caught up with Jeremy at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, in November for an interview about how technology is influencing the user experience, and what Oracle is doing about it. For a more...

Microservices as an architectural style as well as scalable and manageable cloud infrastructure are the foundation for modern and flexible business applications. Therefore, Oracle invested heavily in maturing its Cloud portfolio and providing services to support development and operations of such applications. One Oracle cloud service aimed at these kind of applications is “Oracle Application Container Cloud Service” (ACC). It provides a simple Docker based environment in...