Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

By Krishna Hanumantharao Please refer Consume OData using SOA 11g post for SOA 11g version. As part of this post, we will see how to consume JSON based OData Service using SOA 12c. OData OData (Open Data Protocol), promoted by Microsoft, now an OASIS Standard,  helps service providers to expose their data using RESTful APIs. OData supports, exposing of data in two Formats, Atom and JSON. Please refer OData WebSite for information about OData. Public OData Services One of the...

The most awaited version of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (Oracle MAF 2.3.0) has been released. This is a big announcement as we can now build Windows 10 applications that can be run on any Windows 10 devices, even on computers. These are some of the new features of this release: JDeveloper 12.2.1 Oracle MAF 2.3.0 is now available in JDeveloper 12.2.1, released in November just before Oracle Open World. Windows 10 support Oracle MAF now allows to deploy the application to...

The Oracle Mobile Cloud Service team-enablement product management group is once again pleased to announce the delivery of another series of videos, this time explaining the latest Oracle Mobile Cloud Service data offline and sync capabilities. These videos can be found publically on YouTube for customers and internally on OTube for Oracle staff. As a major upgrade from the previous videos, this includes a full end-to-end discussion on how to work with these capabilities not...

Working on an Adaptive Case Management (ACM) opportunity? Read the ACM Methodology published in the Best Practices for Knowledge Workers (Digital edition) book. BPM-based solutions have brought major advances to work organization and automation. However, given BPM’s strong basis on formal workflow definition, oftentimes BPM solutions are not well suited for work scenarios where a precise workflow cannot be strictly defined. Work in such scenarios is highly dependent...

By Maarten Smeets SOA Suite 12.2.1 introduces Integration Workload Statistics. This is a powerful new feature which can be used to do performance measures. Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1 also introduces untyped JSON support and JavaScript support in composites and Service Bus. What better way to take a good look at both features by doing some performance measures using IWS on composites using untyped JSON and JavaScript! I created 4 HelloWorld BPEL processes. Two of them are...

Introduction A common way to start an Oracle BPM (Business Process Management) process instance is by exposing it as a web service and calling it from an external system, web application, or mobile application. We can also achieve this in PCS, where start events are automatically exposed as SOAP web services. PCS instances can be also started using the provided REST API. In terms of mobile development, the best practice is to consume REST/JSON web services in order to take...

There are new updates in Oracle Public Cloud portal. Now there are new Alerts which lets one set notifications for the quota usage. These notifications are both for Metered as well as Subscription based Non Metered PaaS services. Below are the steps to set Alerts and notifications in Cloud Public Portal for PaaS Services. Step 1 : On the Dashboard, Click on Estimated Balance of the services for which you want to set new alert. Step 2 : Check the Amount for Database Public Cloud...

Introduction Among many new features added for 12.2.1 version of Oracle Fusion Middleware (announcement link) and demoed at this year's recently concluded Oracle Open World, I'm particularly excited about brand new diagnostics feature of Oracle SOA Suite called IWS Reports - being the lead designer and implementer of this project. IWS stands for Integration Workload Statistics and is intended to provide Oracle DB AWR like diagnostics for SOA applications. At high level, IWS can...

XSLT View is one of two graphical views provided by the new 12c XSLT Editor.  (For a quick introduction to the graphical views in the 12c XSLT Editor see here.) XSLT View provides the ability to edit any XSLT file graphically. It is intended for XSLT developers who have a general understanding of XSLT and have written XSLT source code in a text editor. XSLT View is effectively a graphical source view. It has many advantages over editing XSLT source in a text editor.  Many...