Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

Some time ago I was having a discussion about the setup of a SOA project on which a former colleague was about to work on. The purpose of this project was to implement a synchronous service API for a third party systems to integrate with. This API needed to conform to a B2B standard (written some ten years ago) and in their particular case, it would need to provide data from their legacy ERP system. The API description consists of several different ‘business operations’ where...

Dear WebLogic and Developer Partner Community, The annual PaaS Partner Community Forum will take place March 27th & 28th & 29th 2016 Croatia. Architects, Practice Managers, Consultants and Developers get the latest PaaS updates from the Oracle Product Management Team. Join us for a week full of keynotes, breakouts, hands-on sessions, community day and networking opportunities. Container Cloud Service is gaining further traction, try it yourself! To develop Cloud applications...

The Oracle Service Bus has built in features to poll an IMAP of POP3 mail account. There are loads of excellent blog posts that exactly describe how to do it. However, when the mail server happens to be a Microsoft Exchange server, things become shady. Exchange’s IMAP implementation tends to be not really that compatible, and the server log will fill up with stacktraces such as: Of course we can connect using the Exchange Web Services (EWS) using the OSB, but that is loads of...

Reconfirming for the Java community that Oracle “has a very clear plan” for the next Java Enterprise Edition, Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s president of product development, has outlined a number of forthcoming improvements to the foundational application development platform. As customers shift to cloud deployments and adopt microservice application architectures, the Java platform must be modernized to “be viable in the new world” of cloud computing, Kurian said last week in an...

1. Start your Oracle Developer Cloud Service by following the instructions in Accessing Oracle Developer Cloud Service Using the Web Interface. 2. Provide your identity domain, user name, and password, and click Sign In. 3. On the Welcome page, click New Project. 4. On the first page of the New Project dialog box, enter a name for the project, such as My Web Application. In the Description field, enter a description, such as Web Application. Select Private for the Security setti...

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community, The annual PaaS Partner Community Forum will take place March 27th & 28th & 29th 2016 Croatia. Architects, Practice Managers, Consultants and Developers get the latest PaaS updates from the Oracle Product Management Team. Join us for a week full of keynotes, breakouts, hands-on sessions, community day and networking opportunities. Oracle SaaS solutions can be tailored to the customer’s user experience by branding, flexfields or workflow...

In this blog post, I will provide a general introduction of REST, explain some of the choices made and lay some of the ground work. The second part of this blog series will discuss the token management part while the third and final part describes the actual creation of the SOAP services providing the proxy to the external REST APIs. With the introduction of SOA Suite 12c, the Oracle JCA REST adapter was introduced for use in both SOA and Service Bus 12c. This enables SOA...

The aim of this manual is to show how useful is the Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics to find the root cause of a thread deadlock in Java. First of all, it is necessary to create a generator of deadlocks. In this case I’ve made a little web application whose goal is to generate thread deadlocks. The code of this application was downloaded from [1]. The program is very simple as you can see: Dead lock generator called WebDeadLockV2.0 The thread deadlocks generators is deployed on...

For anyone who has done performance and load testing in Oracle SOA suite, you know it can be frustrating and time consuming. However, our lives have just gotten much easier! Originally, quite a bit of manual work was needed to find or calculate how long composites took, what the problematic components were, and why instances just took too long. Fortunately, Oracle has introduced a new monitoring tool, Integration Workload Statistics (IWS). This tool creates a report very...