Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

SOA Suite 12c introduces Maven support to build and deploy artifacts. Oracle has provided extensive documentation on this. Also there already are plenty of blog posts describing how to do this. I will not repeat those posts (only shortly describe the steps). What I couldn’t find quickly enough though was how to deploy artifacts from an artifact repository to an environment. This is a task often done by provisioning software such as Puppet or Jenkins. Sometimes though you want...

You have installed OTD (Oracle Traffic Director), configured nodes and created an instance. Now you want to set up an OTD active standby failover. First you will need a virtual IP address. Log in to EMOC (Enterprise Manager OPS Center) and allocate a virtual IP for use in the OTD failovergroup. Go to the accounts Networks setting and press the icon Allocate vIP from vNet in the section Public Networks. Choose your number of vIPs you want. Read the complete article here. WebLogic ...

According to the SOA Suite 12c documentation, an idempotent activity is an activity that can be safely retried. It means if your BPEL Process fails, a rollback operation will be executed and all data won’t be persisted in the database. OK, but sometimes you want to persist some data even your BPEL Process fails. How can you achieve it? Set the operation as nonidempotent and the Dehydration will occur after this operation. In this post, you will learn how to set an operation...

The title of this blog may seem a bit cryptic…. In this article I’d like explain some basics of the the SSL implementation in WebLogic. This blog is meant for people who are not familiar with SSL, especially in combination with WebLogic. In my experience, SSL is usually a bit of a black box for many junior and medior administrators who work with middleware, so I will try to clarify some of it in special relation to WebLogic. To understand this, there are also some generic...

The July edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics: Middleware sales kits GSE Demo Systems: ICS + PCS and JCS and Mobile Cloud Service Fusion Middleware Innovation Award With this new format we will update you on the highlights of our partner news every month. For further information please read latest edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community newsletter here. Watch the video here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite...

SOA 12c is the most important release of Oracle's flagship integration product set that we've seen for 5 years (when 11g was launched). Oracle has also now produced the first SOA 12c bundle patch-set (12.1.3.0.1) so in my opinion any new SOA installations should definitely be using 12c, and existing 11g users should be seriously considering upgrading to take advantage of the many new features. For administrators what is particularly nice about this release is that a lot of...

This blog expands on an article by Frank Munz on stuck thread handling – I advise reading his post first, especially if you are having trouble dealing with stuck threads. What prompted me to write this bit was a question I was asked by one of our customers: “So stuck threads are a signal that some backend system is misbehaving. How can we monitor the number of stuck threads in WebLogic server?” Searching online, the first few pages in Google come up with administrators asking...

Within our implementation framework at AVIO, we use an Agile methodology called Scrum.  We have found this to be a great fit for Oracle Fusion Middleware projects in the SOA, BPM and WebCenter space — especially when projects seek to improve or bring innovative new approaches to an organization. If you are new to Agile and Scrum, check out this great video which covers some of the key concepts: Agile methodologies like Scrum have several benefits over traditional...

We are happy to announce the availability of the FlexDeploy Community Edition! This edition has all features enabled and is absolutely no cost – no license fees, no support fees, for as long as you want to use it. If a decision is made to grow beyond the Community Edition to Standard or Enterprise, it’s simply a matter of uploading new keys. Enjoy the power and flexibility of FlexDeploy, our DevOps and Continuous Delivery solution for Oracle and non-Oracle technologies. For...