Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

This article describes how to develop a straightforward custom assertion that can be used as part of custom OWSM policy to be attached to Web Services in WebLogic, such as services exposed by SOA Composite applications and Service Bus projects as well as custom JAX-WS or ADF BC Web Services. The custom assertion that I demonstrate here reports the execution of web service operations to a JMS Destination and/or the system output. It shows how to access property values set on...

We are happy to announce the availability of FlexDeploy 2.1, extending an already robust DevOps solution for automating the build, deploy, test, and release lifecycle for Oracle and non-Oracle software.  This new release offers additional features which help speed the delivery of high quality software, including Cloud, Continuous Integration, and Dashboards.  FlexDeploy 2.1 Summary of Enhancements Supports FlexDeploy running on the Oracle Java Cloud Service Perform Build,...

In this video is demonstrated how you can customize the weblogic console by adding Books, Pages and Porlets displaying SLA Information related to the domain. Watch the video 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 Twitter LinkedIn Forum Wi...

Organic community events have been on the rise for the last few years at Oracle OpenWorld (OOW). If you will be at OOW this year, come join the fun (and crazy). On Saturday October 24th, go on a bike tour guided by Oracle's PL/SQL and Cycling Guru, Bryn Llewellyn. Since either Facebook or Storify isn't cooperating very nicely right now, I'm putting the Event Link & Visit the event page here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member...

Any IT organization sooner or later has to deal with such thing as Continuous Delivery (CD). They realize that there are various environments such as development, QA, support, UAT, production, etc. and there are a number of different systems working in those environments. At some point managing all that stuff manually becomes just impossible and should be automated. There is a plenty of available tools on the market allowing you to automate build and deploy processes. This is...

First please request access to our middleware GSE demo systems here Global Sales Engineering (GSE) is proud to announce the availability of both the EM Cloud Control 12c Framework Administration SV2 (Sales Version 2) demo and the EM Cloud Control 12c WLS (WebLogic Server) Provisioning and Patching SV2 demo. These two related product demos showcase the latest 12.1.0.7 plug-in releases for Database & Fusion Middleware. Highlights of each demo Framework Administration Demo Overview...

In a recent project (developed using SOA Suite 11g) one of the requirements was to filter out certain lines of an order as these lines should not be forwarded to the business partners. In a first version we looped over all lines of the order and used a transformation activity within the loop to add each line to the response element. In case the line should not be added to the response we just ignored it. The loop looked like this: The actual process contained more logic but for...

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast series features a four-part discussion of Docker and Virtualization. The genesis for this program was a blog post about Docker on Oracle Fusion Middleware architect Mark Nelson’s RedStack blog, a post Mark co-wrote with fellow Fusion Middleware architects Edwin Biemond and Joel Nation. Mark and Edwin are panelists for this discussion, as are Fusion Middleware architect Jim Clark, Oracle ACE Director and Fusion Middleware expert Lucas Jellema,...

In this article I will talk about my first conclusions and my point of view regarding Microservice Architectures. As there is still quite a lot of confusion and debate out there on this topic, I will try to describe with my own words what Microservice Architecture is, how does it differ from typical Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and what design principles and practices governs it.What is a Microservice Architecture? In the article http://martinfowler.com/articles/micros...