Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Performance in service oriented environments is often an issue. This is usually caused by a combination of infrastructure, configuration and service efficiency. In this blog article I provide several suggestions to improve performance by using patterns in service implementations. The patterns are described globally since implementations can differ across specific use cases. Also I provide some suggestions on things to consider when implementing such a pattern. They are...

In a previous article, VirtualBox with SOA, BPM, OSB and BAM in 33 minutes, i described how you could quickly create a new Oracle VirtualBox image from scratch with SOA 12cR1. When following the instructions in this article you get almost the same result, only differences are that you will have SOA 12cR2 installed with Oracle StreameXplorer. Because the preparation is almost the same, follow the instructions in the VirtualBox with SOA, BPM, OSB and BAM in 33 minutes, till...

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...