Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service allows you to implement Custom API using node.js. This is a powerful feature as it allows you to use any of the existing node.js modules in your implementation. In this post I am going to show you how to create and download a PDF file that will contain the weather information for the provided city, that we will get calling a REST Connector. If you don't know how to create a REST Connector check this post: Oracle Mobile Cloud Service: Create an API...

I recently had the opportunity to see version 12.2.1 of Oracle's SOA Suite in action--and I can say it offers some very nice features that we developers have been waiting for. These features will make our lives much easier, especially when working with Cloud integrations, using REST and locating failures in BPEL instances. These are some of the new features: JavaScript support for SOA Composites and OSB Pipelines.Besides REST support for OSB and BPEL (which comes from a...

The Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) team-enablement product management group (yes, it is a mouthful) is happy to announce the availability of a range of content covering the MCS newly minted Location Based Services (LBS), to assist you in understanding and promoting this new MCS feature. To get you started we have 6 new YouTube videos covering the key use cases, core concepts and how to integrate LBS into iOS, with Android videos due soon: Introduction to Location...

Enterprise mobility is here to stay, but many customers are still bound to their desktops due to the lack of a mobile solution. Either that, or existing mobile solutions cannot be easily extended or customized to satisfy unique and demanding business requirements, may also lack “mobile first” capabilities such as push notifications, offline/sync and location services, nor offer insights into the effectiveness of the mobile strategy. To add to the complexity, ERP installations...

The November edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics: Community Resources Managed Service Provider Partner Program SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcasts November 29th 2016 For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. For the latest SOA & BPM Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required) SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a...

SOA principles drive new focus. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a topic of conversation among IT professionals since before phones got smart and the word cloud referred to something other than airborne water vapor. While the basic concept of SOA hasn’t really changed, perceptions and practices around implementing SOA continue to evolve. Services are everywhere, and with this burst of cloud, mobile, and API initiatives, SOA couldn’t be in better shape. Rolando...

You'll be happy to know that new version of Jdeveloper and ADF is out - Jdeveloper 12.2.1.1 Though it looks like a minor version but there are lots of beauties added in this , lots of new componenet introduced , many bug fixed JUnit is now bundled with Jdeveloper , you need not separately download extensionNew Data Visualization Components - You can now make your ADF Application more interactive with new DVT components introduce in Jdeveloper 12.2.1.1Picto Chart- To represent...

I have heard that APEX supports REST so I decided to try this out on my SOA CS environment's DB CS instance. AS per usual, I studiously avoided reading any documentation. This should be simple, right? I created a simple table Customers - Now, as luck would have it I locked my ADMIN APEX user out. This I fixed as follows - ssh into the DB CS machine start sqlplus conn system/yourPwd@yourSOADB; alter session set current_schema = APEX_050000; select user_id, substr(user_name, 1,10),...

Oracle has released a new version 12.2.1.1, not just and ADF version, it is a new release for all Oracle Fusion Middleware products. Although this could be seen as a minor release, it comes with lots of new features in ADF Business Components, mainly in REST support, and Data Visualization Tools among others, as well as a lot of bug fixes. There are many new enhancements to Gauge components, we can now set a title, border and also set the indicator wider that the plot area. Re...