Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

I have completed my OOW'16 session [CON2388] today. For those of you who could not attend it, check slides online (I will post sample code later, read more about the session here): Get the slides here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog...

WLSDM SOA Monitoring, Diagnostics & Report Modules SOA Smart Dashboards Monitoring BPEL Engine (Only 11g) BPEL Engine Dashboard (Historical – Only 11g) Monitoring Composite Performance Monitoring Callback and Invoke Monitoring Composite Faults Monitoring Deployed Composites Trend Summarizing Composite List & Endpoint URIs SOA Notifications and Alarms BPEL Engine Notifications Composite Performance Notifications Callback and Invoke (DLV_MESSAGE) Notifications Composite Faults and Errors...

OSB Configuration files allow the developer to manage environment specific values during deployment.  FlexDeploy supports the use of these configuration files and extends them to using tokens in the configuration file that will get replaced with configured properties from FlexDeploy.   This way we do not need to generate a customization file for every environment where we are going to deploy the project.  We can have one configuration file that will work across environments. My...

The FREE WebLogic starter pack allows you to use the FULL set of WebLogic classes, defined types and custom types provided in the wls_install and the wls_config modules on ten named nodes for three months. This allows you to test the modules in your own environment and see how they help you to take control of your WebLogic configuration. To use the Oracle software you need a separate license provided by Oracle Inc. Check the Oracle price list to buy a valid license for...

There is no doubt that web [Rest] APIs have become extremely popular and its usage has gone well beyond just building APIs in support of mobile apps. We can see the adoption of resource-oriented architectures (ROA) by probably all SaaS vendors who provide out-of-the-box APIs as the means to connect and interact with their cloud applications. Take for example the Oracle Cloud. To discover and consume publicly available Oracle SaaS APIs, all one need to do is browse the Oracle...

One of the interesting tidbits, somewhat hidden away in Thomas Kurian’s keynote presentation last week at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, is a new member of the Oracle PaaS Cloud Services family called Oracle Functions (or at least that seems to be the working title). Oracle Functions are serverless applications that are run on the Oracle PaaS infrastructure when one of its triggering events has been published. The next screenshot shows a function as part of a stack. A stack by the way...

There is no doubt that web [Rest] APIs have become extremely popular and its usage has gone well beyond just building APIs in support of mobile apps. We can see the adoption of resource-oriented architectures (ROA) by probably all SaaS vendors who provide out-of-the-box APIs as the means to connect and interact with their cloud applications. Take for example the Oracle Cloud. To discover and consume publicly available Oracle SaaS APIs, all one need to do is browse the Oracle...

You can use scripts to facilitate the management of WebLogic Server and reduce the manual tasks you have to do. Examples of these scripts are scripts to automate start and stop of Admin and Managed Servers of WebLogic Server. In this post I will provide the scripts I use and you can download them here: scripts.zip These are the scripts that I use to start WebLogic Server in my Linux VM.One of them is a Shell script to start Node Manager and AdminServer, and the other is a...

The source of competitive advantage and value that an organization delivers to its end customers is increasingly defined by the software “systems” that underpin them. As a result, organizations find themselves in a digital race, where the speed at which IT can reliably deliver new features and innovations is what sets them apart from their competition. In an industrial company, avoid software at your own peril . . . a software company could disintermediate GE someday, and...