Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Everything has limitations. And 2 Minute Tech Tips are 2 minutes only. Strict rules. Anyway, you missed a lot of the good stuff that I recorded in Manly Australia, i.e. the introduction of the 2 minute tech tip about Zero Downtime (ZDT): Why I was standing on Manly Beach, the wildlife story about sharks that stopped me from having a bath, furthermore some whales (real whales! – not a Docker whale this time) and all the crazy things that happened while we recorded. Watch the...

  Learn the latest about Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Foundation, SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus infrastructure management. Oracle Ace Michel Schildmeijer tells all during a two-day workshop in January. Enrich your knowledge and learn all about the various layers and engines that together make up the SOA and OSB Engine (and more). In-company, or at the Qualogy offices in Rijswijk. The workshop is a two-day event, and is suitable for Senior Administrators with at...

  WebLogic Server allows you to customize your access.log. This can be very powerful if you want to monitor for example service response times in a tool like Splunk (see here). When working with SOAP services though, especially those with many operations, it can be insufficient to monitor services to the level of the individual endpoint. You want to also know with which intent the endpoint is called. In this blog I will show how this can be achieved. Extended Log File Format...

  Most organizations when migrating to Oracle SOA 12c or Oracle BPM 12s choose to perform a side-by-side upgrade, as it: requires zero downtime, supports all SOA and BPM components, allows for a phased migration, involves significantly less risk. This involves provisioning a new instance of SOA 12c, replicating the configurations from your 11g platform and migrating and deploying your code. Once ready, you then switch over from 11g to 12c. Most organizations fail to maintain...

  Applications and framework libraries running on WebLogic produce logging at various levels: error, warning, information, debug (fine and finer). WebLogic allows us to specify what level of logging should be written to the log files. Under normal circumstances administrators will probably require no more than error or perhaps warning level. In times of problematic behavior when more detailed analysis is required, we may want to switch to finer grained logging output. It is...

  Objective: To have a basic level of authentication on web services (especially where there's no transport layer security) without having to pass clear text passwords in the WS Security headers. Background: The concepts are fairly generic but this post is highly Oracle Fusion middleware/SOA Suite specific. There can be complex decision tree (see [1]) involved when selecting the 'appropriate' level of security for any system. As security involves trade-offs between cost,...

At our Community workspace (community membership required) we made two new presentations available: · Oracle Application Container Cloud customer presentation (ppt format) Wercker – Continuous Integration and Delivery of Docker: Release often and consistently to container registries and production-grade clusters 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...

  ADF is a rich web client framework that internally uses plenty of JavaScript to power rich UI components, partial page rendering and other aspects of the user experience. Although ADF is largely declarative and focused mainly on the (Java) server side for creating the user interface, there is a lot to be gained with ADF Faces from using JavaScript. A richer, faster and leaner user experience can be achieved, functionality is sometimes much harder or even virtually impossible...

  Here another short tech tip Another issue I encountered is not yet identified at MOS, not in the context I encountered it. The error was written to the logs every minute: <Error> <oracle.wsm.resources.policymanager> <WSM-02084> <Access denied. Permission "oracle.wsm.security.PolicyManagerPermission" is required to access the wsm policy manager "UsageTracker" method "recordUsage".> The only MOS reports on this was partially applicable for my situation: Bug 23279489 : WSM-02084...