Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Reading parts of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C" by James W. Grenning inspired me to take another look at this area and look for something new,  fresh and powerful for use in the SOA world.  I don't think we need much convincing on the importance of  automated test coverage (if someone does, please read the first chapter of the book mentioned above, especially the section on "Physics of TDD" that tries to quantify the high long-term costs of "Debug later...

Have you upgraded to Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.1 and can’t find the Partitions configuration any longer? Between Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.0 and 12.2.1.1 Partitions have been renamed to SOA Folders. Why would Oracle do this in a minor update? Good question, one reason could be to prepare for multitenancy. In WebLogic multitenancy, they use the name Partitions for the multitenant “areas”, so using Partitions several places meaning different things could be rather confusing. Read the...

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) provides the Sync Client SDK and its supporting Data Offline API for caching MCS custom and REST resources in an efficient, uniform and transparent way. The Sync Client SDK, along with the Storage SDK, also provides support for caching storage objects. Description of the illustration data_offline_arch.png As a mobile app developer, you can leverage the Sync Client SDK technologies to do the following: · Enable the user to continue to use the...

  Earlier in 2016, the Integration Analytics service type was released as part of the Oracle SOA Cloud Service.  The Integration Analytics service type includes Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight, which allows customers to track business milestones and gather real-time metrics without coding changes to applications.  You can find out more about Insight in the Oracle Cloud here, and on-premises here. In the latest release of SOACS, a new REST API is being announced...

When your Oracle Mobile Cloud Service APIs are being accessed by a remote server, it is important you manage cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) We ran into this issue when we were building the solution for the Oracle cloud day. The MCS APIs were accessed by a Web Application that was hosted on a different domain, not on our Oracle PaaS domain. When calling an API from the application, we received the error:XMLHttpRequest cannot load: [request url]. Response to...

  We all hear about automation, bots, IoT, self-driving cars, microservices, and cyborgs, but how could this all work without APIs? APIs will continue to play an increasingly important role in making this world a reality. Come hear from our team of futurists about their vision of how the digital landscape will evolve and the role that API Management will have in this brave new world. Presented by Luis Weir, Principal, Oracle Ace Director, Capgemini, at Oracle OpenWorld 2016. Ge...

Thanks to Oracle A-Team, I had a chance to work with Chatbots. 3 pure NodeJS applications, on couple of Oracle Cloud platforms and Facebook messenger, and my chatbot was running. Let me explain, the architecture a bit. To start with, following is the simple representation of how it works. Message Platform Server : Is a NodeJS application, deployed on Oracle Application Container cloud, acts as a channel between Facebook Messenger and the chatbot engine. It simply converts the...

  Digital transformation is on it’s way and the industry is required to adopt the new concepts and techniques, like the Internet of things (IoT), Cloud and Enterprise Mobility. Due to the chances provided by that, new business models arise, which need to be evaluated by company’s to not lose valuable market shares and to stay in touch with the competitors. One topic, which is essential and thus is a key enabler in the context of a successful digital transformation strategy, is...

When you need to extend your SaaS application you may use PaaS solutions to do it! In this blog post I will use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) and Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator (MAX) to create a mobile application for my Oracle Sales Cloud. Download the packages: paas4saas-with-mcs-and-max.zip. First of all we need to create a new Mobile Backend. Go to Menu > Applications > Mobile Backends.Click “New Mobile Backend” button to create a new Mobile Backend and name it...