Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Oracle Visual Builder Studio offers an improved experience for packaging and deploying Visual Applications. We now offer declarative built-in tasks that let you package and optimize your app, deploy it (either stage or live version), and manage the data stored in the app. These declarative tasks are based on an updated set of Grunt tasks available for Visual Builder, which can also be leveraged in other CI/CD platforms. One of the nice features of Visual Builder Studio is that...

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In a previous blog article I introduced the Microprocess Architecture. The article below discusses the consequences of maintaining, managing and running applications that are build according to this architecture. We are applying the Microprocess Architecture to some 4 Dynamic Process applications that are being built with the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) for some one and a half year already, but none of them went production so far. We can clearly see the benefits of...

Pull to Refresh is a common touch interaction pattern in mobile apps where by placing your finger on the device and dragging down you get an updated set of data onto your device. In this blog we show how to add this user interaction to your mobile Visual Builder app using a component from the Visual Builder component exchange. The component exchange in Visual Builder contains various components that you can add to your development environment and apps. To add a component...

Oracle Digital Assistant lives in the cloud where it uses universal time (UTC) for all date operations. Dependent on where you live in this world, the timezone offset of your local time compared to UTC varies. For Germany, where I am based in, the timezone offset is 2 hours that Germany is ahead of UTC (or 7200000 ms). UTC is a common date and time reference used in many applications and software products. However, the user local time is often needed, for example if there are...

What data is generated by Process in Oracle Integration Large volumes of data are generated during the life of each process instance. This data collected can be broadly divided into two. Instance data and Analytics data. Instance Data:    This is instance specific data generated at each step during execution. It includes the payload, comments, execution and audit information.  Analytics Data:   Additional system metrics and user defined business metrics are also collated and...

Value-list entities in Oracle Digital Assistant are limited in the number of values they can hold even if they are created as dynamic entities. Reality is that customers look for a way to extract entities from a large set of data values that easily may be in the hundreds of thousand records.In this article we explain how this requirement can be achieved with the Oracle database and Oracle Data Rest Services (ORDS). A YouTube video is available for this article that shows the...

In this article I discuss the Micro Process feature in the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). With some price I can take credit for being the name giver of this feature, which makes applying the Microprocess Architecture in OIC a bit simpler. But even when you are not applying that architecture, it still is a feature worth being aware of. A few releases ago the Micro Process feature has been introduced in the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). Simply put, it provides a convenience...

Answer intent in Oracle Digital Assistant uses Trainer Tm, a machine learning model, to understand how users ask for a particular answer. Unlike other systems that map an answer to one or more questions in order to retrieve the answer, the machine learning based system learns from examples (utterances) allowing it to produce answer with high confidence. Also, by using Trainer Tm as the machine learning model in Oracle Digital Assistant, answer intents use the same...