Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

In an effort to simplify the population of existing composites on a server into FlexDeploy projects, we have provided a utility to extract composites from a SOA server into a comma delimited file. This file can then be the basis for a spreadsheet that can be loaded directly into FlexDeploy, through the use of templates, and all of the composite projects can be created in seconds. I will talk about templates in another blog post. The composite extraction from a SOA server can...

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service has a lot of options which allows it to integrate with other services and systems. Since it runs JavaScript on Node.js for custom APIs, it is very flexible. Some features allow it to extent its own functionality such as the Firebase configuration option to send notifications to mobile devices, while for example the connectors allow wizard driven integration with other systems. The custom API functionality running on a recent Node.js version ties it...

Introduction This article is targeted at Oracle Service Bus (OSB) developers and architects who want to learn/validate their strategies for avoiding service call failures within their integration pipelines. Having dual roles as architects and developers the authors have seen many projects in which the developer or the architect didn’t design or implement a good exception/failure management strategy. This article will streamline a series of strategies to avoid such failures. Some...

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....