Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

In Oracle BPM 12c, when you have a priority activity that you need to be resolved at a specified time to fulfill your SLA (Service Level Agreement), you can escalate it. Let’s learn how to do it! As a starting point, I will use the BPM application created here: Creating BPM Process with BPM Composer. I created three users: peter, bruce and clark. Clark is the manager of Bruce, and Bruce is the manager of peter. In the process, add a new swimlane and change the role to Process...

On my previous post, the first part of this series, I've shown to you how to quickly get started with WebLogic on Docker. You've learned how to create a base Docker image with WebLogic and Oracle JDK installed, and then how to create a second image that contains a configured WebLogic domain. Today's post will break down and explain what happens behind the scenes of that process Note: for the sake of history and keep this blog post useful in the future, I will refer to the...

The May edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics: • Fusion Middleware & PaaS Summer Camps • Call for Papers Oracle OpenWorld & Java One • SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast May 31st 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/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle...

I recently came across a very interesting discussion on the Oracle BPM forum which stimulated my interest for investigation; how to suppress the human task custom outcomes from the action bar in the BPM Workspace application in 12c! When you deploy a BPM process or a BPEL service that includes a human task component, the BPM Workspace will automatically include in its action bar the custom outcomes that you have defined on your human task. In the image above it's assumed that...

As a weblogic administrator the interaction among the application server and the database is often strong. In fact, according to Confio Software (2013) approximately 70% of applications’ performance problems are caused by the dataWith the development of partitions on Weblogic, Oracle has developed an infrastructure that is similar to containers and that takes advantage of the Weblogic server’s capacities such as clustering, transaction management and security [1]. These are...

In the previous post, we created a simple BPM process using BPM Composer. Now, let’s improve our process including a Service Call to save the employees added. For this, we will need to do some changes. Download the sample application: MyProject.zip Go to Business Catalog. Add a new Service and call it as CreateEmployeeService. I’m using the service that I created here: Expose Application Module as SOAP Web Service. Add a Service Task activity between the Initiator activity...

On the heels of the extremely well received FlexDeploy 3.0 release at Oracle OpenWorld in October 2015, Flexagon today announced FlexDeploy 3.1 is now available. With 3.0 users saw enhancements for Oracle Cloud, test automation, E-Business Suite, and Fusion Middleware. FlexDeploy 3.1 provides additional support for Fusion Middleware and Cloud PaaS, additional plugins for test automation, and usability improvements. FlexDeploy is a DevOps and Application Release Automation...

Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is an interesting addition to Oracle BPM Suite which has been introduced in 11.1.1.7. Adaptive Case Management is suitable to model complex work-flows in which there is no set order of activities taking place. This allows more control to the end user on what to do when.When a case is started, it is a running process in the SOA infrastructure. The main component is Oracle Business Rules which governs (among other things) the availability of...

It is not an exaggeration to say Adam Bien is pretty close to a "household name" in the Java world. Adam is a long time Java enthusiast, author of quite a few popular books, Java Community Process (JCP) expert, Oracle ACE Director, official Oracle Java Champion and JavaOne conference Rock Star award winner. Adam most recently won the JCP member of the year award. His blog is amongst the most popular for Java developers. Adam recently took WebLogic 12.2.1 for a spin and was...