Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

If you've been using Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service before and you logged in again this week, you probably noticed that some things have changed - that's because we just rolled out a brand new version with many new features for you to explore. Here is a list of some of the key features in our June release available to you today: Data visualization with charts and gauges You can now add charts and gauges to your pages to visualize data in meaningful ways. Just drag new...

Oracle’s BI application Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is the choice to provide Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) users with business insights of all running processes and applications. Due to the fact that in a standard Oracle FMW infrastructure multiple applications are hosted on which different user groups are operating one can imagine that not all information should be accessible by all users. At this point user roles and permissions become an important topic...

In the last release of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator (Oracle MAX) and Location Services were released. In my first technical post about MCS 2.0 I am going to focus on Oracle MAX, the new tool that allows us to create applications without coding, and that will enable business users, and people that doesn't know about programming, to build applications easily. This is a 2 part post where you can find: Oracle MAX: Building my first...

In the last release of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator (Oracle MAX) and Location Services were released. In my first technical post about MCS 2.0 I am going to focus on Oracle MAX, the new tool that allows us to create applications without coding, and that will enable business users, and people that doesn't know about programming, to build applications easily. This is a 2 part post where you can find: Oracle MAX: Building my first...

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...