Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

WebLogic 12.2.1 includes support for Zero Downtime Patching, providing the ability to roll out out a newly patched Oracle Home across a domain or cluster without downtime -- all initiated via WLST or the WebLogic Console. In this session we will explore the various types of roll-outs Weblogic supports including Oracle Homes, JDKs, applications as well as the ability to simply perform a rolling restart across a domain or cluster. The session will also cover how failures during...

Executive Overview With the current release of SOA Cloud Service (SOACS) a common requirement often requested is to connect to an on-premise  database from the cloud SOACS instance. SSH tunnels can be used to establish cloud to on-premise communications, allowing SOA Cloud Service to access resources from on-premise applications. Companion post : Single host SSH tunneling My colleague, Shub Lahiri has written an excellent article as well, he discusses the simpler configuration...

WebLogic 12.2.1 introduced support for Multi-Tenancy (MT) in the form of Domain Partitions, which let you slice a domain into multiple pieces that can be managed independently. This facilitates domain consolidation and provides a platform for developing SaaS applications. In this session we will introduce the key concepts of WebLogic MT support (Partitions, Resource Groups and Resource Group Templates) and show you how to configure and manage Domain Partitions. Watch the...

Integration Cloud Service Guided Learning path was created to provide the presales consultant with a detailed understanding of key product features to prepare him/her to do product demos and be involved in proof-of-concept projects. It starts with the ICS product overview and moves into technical details with short modules on: · Integrating Applications with Oracle Integration Cloud Service (4 mins) · Connecting to Applications with Oracle Integration Cloud Service (3 mins) ·...

In this post, Andy Overton presents an insight into Oracle WebLogic Work Managers, going through the basics of what they are, how they are used, and providing deeper configuration and deployment advice. Using a test project, he examines the practical application of work managers, and looks at the control you can get over request handling and prioritisation. Overview So, first of all, what are Work Managers? Prior to WebLogic 9, Execute Queues were used to handle...

· This month: Where do you fit in the Cloud?Cloud computing played a big role at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 in San Francisco, and it's likely to play a big role in your future. For that reason, two items in this newsletter will be of particular interest. The New Cloud You, an article from the latest edition of Oracle Magazine, features insight from community members on how they're handling the transition to the cloud. The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast, Cloud Architect - Rising to...

The Cloud has become an integral part of the IT Ecosystem. Organizations are moving their huge physical IT infrastructure to the Cloud for better governance, lower TCO and better ROI. This article showcases the simplicity of using Oracle Java Cloud Service (JCS), Oracle Database Cloud Service (DCS) and JDeveloper 12c  to develop, deploy and test Web Applications Use Case I have taken a simple use case of creating an HR Application to show and modify employee information. In this...

The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team is shifting its focus to the second part of our “simplicity, mobility, extensibility” story for Release 10. The linchpin to that part of the story? Increasing the participation of users. We know that if users don’t find value in the application, they won’t use it, which could cost customers time and money. Check out the posts below for more on the user experience highlights in each product family: Oracle HCM Cloud Oracle ERP...

Valuable Features: The most valuable feature is the ability to provision a platform of your choice, such WebLogic, BPM Suite and a lot of other FMW products. It's also easy to deploy a MW platform on the cloud. You don't have to worry about setting up the infrastructure; Oracle manages it. You just have to divert away existing licenses of the technology stack to the deployed platform on JCS. Improvements to My Organization: It's shortened our time to market as we don't have to...