Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Sometimes in test conditions in rules, there may be a need to test for sums or averages of a collection of values, and these kinds of aggregated values may not be directly available as input facts. For example, in an expense report, you may want to test if the total expenses are above a certain value and then take some action. This is easy if the total value is available directly in the expense report header. What if the total value is not available in the expense report...

As Mobile continues to impact our lives, companies need a comprehensive mobile strategy to meet their current and future needs. Enterprise Mobility for Dummies explores the latest mobile trends, and the latest offerings from Oracle. This eBook will help your customers and prospects get past the jargon and hype to better understand the latest industry trends in mobility as they create a comprehensive mobile strategy that addresses their needs today while remaining flexible to...

Today I came across an exception while trying to load one of my task details (v12.2.1). Error: OracleJSP error: oracle.jsp.parse.JavaCodeException: Line # 14, oracle.jsp.parse.JspParseTagScriptlet@66e50889Error: Java code in jsp source files is not allowed in ojsp.next mode What was really strange to me was that I did not do anything different from what I used to do with previous versions.After some research I found out that this was a known issue for 12.2.1. There are two...

Looking to get your hands dirty with Mobile Application Accelerator (MAX)? The Oracle Mobile product management group would like to let you know about a new MAX hands-on tutorial. Shaping MCS APIs for MAX focuses on building Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) custom APIs for MAX applications to consume. The tutorial will take you through creating a Mobile Cloud Service custom API from a RAML document to allow your MAX application to consume data, live. The tutorial is designed...

More often than not, you will want your processes to interact with other services or processes inside or outside your enterprise. Since integration options are rather typical in Oracle Process Cloud Service, this article will help you to apply best practices for creating and managing your connections in a sustainable fashion. Process Cloud integration points Let’s say you have modelled a process in Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) for a private home loan application. Chances...

PartnerNetwork is pleased to announce that the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service 2017 Developer Essentials Exam (1Z1-346) is available in beta testing! This certification covers topics such as: Fundamentals, Mobile Backends, Platform Features, Connectors, Custom APIs, Analytics, and Management. Up-to-date training and field experience are recommended.This certification is available to all candidates, but is geared toward members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. OPN members...

How can you create  custom XPath functions in Oracle Service Bus 12c? And how can you use these in both  XSLT and XQuery? Let’s find it out. I like to show you how they’re different in behaviour. The context of my post comes from one of my projects, where we were migrating quite some (stateless) services from the SOA (BPEL) platform to Service Bus. Since our clients were already ‘virtualized’ to our clients (i.e. clients invoked them through the Service Bus), we could easily...

Learning Modular Java Programming This book targets Java developers who have a basic knowledge of application development with Java and are interested in learning the Modular Programming approach for building reusable applications that are easy to test, and thus improve overall project management. Mastering Microservices with Java Microservices are the next big thing in designing scalable, easy-to-maintain applications. It not only makes app development easier, but also offers...

In the last weeks I had the privilege to test some of our upcoming PaaS middleware solutions by myself. One of the results a full integration scenario developed by drag and drop - you can see above. It is amazing how fast, easy, nice and rich integrations, can be built by a citizen developer like myself. Hope to see you all at the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2017! #jkwc Jürgen Kress SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the...