Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Digital transformation is on it’s way and the industry is required to adopt the new concepts and techniques, like the Internet of things (IoT), Cloud and Enterprise Mobility. Due to the chances provided by that, new business models arise, which need to be evaluated by company’s to not lose valuable market shares and to stay in touch with the competitors. One topic, which is essential and thus is a key enabler in the context of a successful digital transformation strategy, is...

When you need to extend your SaaS application you may use PaaS solutions to do it! In this blog post I will use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) and Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator (MAX) to create a mobile application for my Oracle Sales Cloud. Download the packages: paas4saas-with-mcs-and-max.zip. First of all we need to create a new Mobile Backend. Go to Menu > Applications > Mobile Backends.Click “New Mobile Backend” button to create a new Mobile Backend and name it...

Attend our May edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on April 23rd 2017 at 17:00 CET. Oracle DMN is one of the first DMN cloud-based services to come to market. In addition to adhering to the DMN standard and its cloud-based provisioning mechanism, users and developers can assemble decisions that are accessible anywhere and anytime. Come to this session to learn more about Oracle's DMN service and its capabilities and how it can be easily leveraged within...

  In this post, I will show how you can create container for Oracle Storage Cloud Service.Oracle Storage Cloud Service container is required before we proceed further with creation of Oracle Database Cloud Service and SOA Cloud Service. You will not be able to configure SOA Cloud service until and unless we create this container. Before you proceed to this post, you need to install OpenStack client. You can refer this post to see how to install it. Follow below steps to create...

In case you have multiple Oracle WebLogic Server Domains on one Server running, you might realise the following problem: Opening 2 or more WebLogic Consoles in one Browser and switching the Browser tabs between the different WebLogic Consoles, you have to re-login all the times for your different WebLogic Consoles. This is really annoying ...The problem behind is really simple, its the WebLogic Admin Console Cookie, as for all Oracle WebLogic Admin Consoles the default Cookie...

  Earlier to this post, I have written couple of posts to get started with Oracle Cloud. In this post, I will show you how to create instance of Oracle SOA Cloud Service. There are some pre-requisites that you need to fulfill as mentioned below, before you proceed with this post. 1.  Create Oracle Storage Service Container. Refer this post to create the container if already not done. 2. Create Oracle Database Cloud Service Instance. Refer this post to create the instance for...

  Oracle provides the Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS) as part of WebLogic Server which is extremely useful if you want to obtain aggregated data of an environment in case of for example a performance test. The data which can be obtained from DMS is extensive. This varies from average duration of service calls to JVM garbage collects to datasource statistics. DMS can be queried with WLST. See for example here. On example script based on this can be found here. You can also...

  Introduction Integrating distributed systems with each other has been a challenge for many years. In the context of digital transformation, companies are using more and more Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to address standard processes, so that they can focus on improving and evolving the core business. This means even more complexity in integration, since cloud and on-premise systems need to be integrated. There are three typical integration scenarios: On-premise to...

The RESTFul Management Services within Oracle WebLogic 12c is one of the greatest features and my personal favorite. You can achieve a lot of things with the RESTFul Management Services, like creating DataSources, perform deployments, startup and shutdown Managed Servers and so on. But you also can access the different WebLogic Server Logfiles :-)Let's say your developers needs access to the Logfiles of your Oracle WebLogic Server, but you don't want to give them access...