Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

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...

Building an Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform at customers, with various products such as SOA Suite, OSB or any other product forces you to think about security integration and implementation. In this whitepaper, I cover a basic scenario to think of and tell you how you can start securing web services making use of Oracle Web Service Manager. There’s also an explanation about how these scenarios fit in your Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastucture. Get the whitepaper here. SOA &...

Java SE 8 (JDK 8) introduced a fundamentally new way of programming in Java with the introduction of Lambda expressions. Lambda provides a simple way to pass functionality as an argument to another method, such as what action should be taken when someone clicks a button, or how to sort a set of names. Lambda expressions enable you to do this, to treat functionality as a method argument, or code as data. You may have heard about Lambda expressions, and are curious what impact it...

The challenge of integration is certainly not a new one for IT, but the cloud adds a new twist. In today's hybrid computing environments—which must incorporate public and private clouds, on-premises systems, mobile, and IoT — Cloud integration is a much more complex problem. Cloud Integration can be complicated by many factors, including standards and protocols, gateways and firewalls, multi-tenancy, and especially the need for security.Increasingly, companies are rethinking...