Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Matt Brasier, C2B2 Head of Consulting and the co-author of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook (Packt Publishing) discusses Oracle SOA Suite monitoring in this 2 Minute Oracle Technology Network Tech Tip recorded at the UKOUG Tech15 Conference. Watch the video here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account...

End of February the DOAG held its annual DevCamp in Bonn, Germany. One big part of the DevCamp was a session or better a couple of session about the Oracle Developer Cloud Service and how to use it. This part shows some general information about the Oracle Cloud. In the next part we show how to migrate an existing application to the cloud and how to use some of the available tools of the Development cloud. The Developer Cloud Service (DCS) was introduced last year and became...

Circuit Breaker is a new resiliency feature in 12.2.1 that helps to simplify operations and ensure system stability when downstream endpoints become unavailable. This post is meant to be a quick introduction to this new feature so you can start testing it out. Circuit Breaker overview Circuit Breaker enables you to configure the system to automatically suspend upstream endpoints when a downstream system is down or unreachable from a SOA composite. This prevents faults from...

Introduction To build functional and performant mobile apps, the back-end data services need to be optimized for mobile consumption. RESTful web services using JSON as payload format are widely considered as the best architectural choice for integration between mobile apps and back-end systems. At the same time, many existing enterprise back-end systems provide a SOAP-based web service application programming interface (API). In this article series we will discuss how Oracle...

Oracle SOA Suite 12c is new version of SOA Suite tool from Oracle. Oracle has introduced lot of new features in this new version. This new version is based upon 4 themes as show below. First two themes (Developer productivity and Industrial SOA) comes as outcome of user/developers feedback and other two themes (Mobile and Cloud) introduced as per industry trend. SOA 12c Themes Developer Productivity This theme is outcome of the community that currently using SOA Suite 11g....

An usual requirement when working with Oracle Mobile Application Framework and Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is implement the login against Oracle MCS. In this post I am going to show you how to configure Oracle MCS as an authentication provider in Oracle MAF.Creating a Realm A realm is a security context for a ser of users. We can have only one realm for each Mobile Backend, but we can have multiple Mobile Backend using the same realm. Using one or more realm in MCS will depend...

This is my last post of the year. Strangely this was the year with less posts here in Oracle Radio. And not only that, but I started to do it in English. Since 2007 I’ve been feeding this blog in Spanish, but for some specific posts I just decided to do it in English to get to a greater audience. So what about to upgrade to Oracle SOA Site 12.2.1? Is the name of this post.For the last 7 weeks or so I’ve been upgrading, together with one of my colleagues, around 5 domains of...

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Ok, so there you have it: I just don’t like the Mediator. I don’t really know why. But now that it’s in the open, let’s discuss it. I often see a pattern where a composite with a synchronous operation is implemented with a Mediator and BPEL component: I think that in most of these cases, it would be better to either leave out the Mediator component completely. Or replace it with a BPEL component that is run transient, i.e. in-memory. This article discusses some of the aspects...