Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

We are happy to announce the availability of FlexDeploy 2.1, extending an already robust DevOps solution for automating the build, deploy, test, and release lifecycle for Oracle and non-Oracle software.  This new release offers additional features which help speed the delivery of high quality software, including Cloud, Continuous Integration, and Dashboards.  FlexDeploy 2.1 Summary of Enhancements Supports FlexDeploy running on the Oracle Java Cloud Service Perform Build,...

WebLogic Server (WLS) 12.2.1 introduces a new datasource type that uses the Oracle Universal Connection Pool (UCP) as an alternative connection pool.  The UCP datasource allows for configuration, deployment, and monitoring of the UCP connection pool as part of the WLS domain.  It is certified with the Oracle Thin driver (simple, XA, and replay drivers). The product documentation .  The goal of this article  is not to reproduce that information but to summarize the feature...

The Raspberry Pi isn't pastry! It's a tiny, fully programmable computer you can use in all manner of IoT projects. In his second 2 Minute Tech Tip Oracle ACE Director Luc Bors gives a quickie introduction to setting up this remarkable little device. Luc's tip is a precursor to the IoT Hackathon in Utrecht, NL on September 15–16, 2015. Click here for more information. If you want a more in-depth introduction to setting up your Raspberry Pi, check out Luc's blog post: IoT...

As part of our communities we do offer free PaaS accounts (only for partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In case you are not part of EMEA please contact your local partner manager): · Java Cloud Service & Mobile Cloud Service PaaS Demo Accounts (WebLogic Community membership required) · Integration Cloud Service & Process Cloud Service PaaS Demo Accounts  (SOA Community membership required) Watch the GSE Overview Video! Get an overview of what GSE is and how you can use GSE...

Our little family wish’s you all a Merry Christmas. Get some time to rest with your family. Enjoy your traditional Christmas meal with a good bottle of wine. Whish you a great start in 2016 and see you all in Valencia! Bandit & Jürgen WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle...

Maven is a commonly used build system for java projects. It provide benefits ranging from standardizing project layouts, to automated dependency fetching, to automated builds and Maven.  Oracle provides a pretty comprehensive document outlining how to build and create Oracle SOA and BPM projects using Maven. See this article that documents some simple steps to get up and running using Maven. However, when running my first Maven project I encountered some unexpected errors....

Good monitoring is knowing how your systems and application are doing at past, present and future time. There are many  monitoring tools & solutions at the market, all with pro’s and cons. Building monitoring takes time and effort but in the end gives you the benefit of less disturbance and more guarantee of business continuity. At the customers I work for, I often implemented Oracle’s Enterprise manager 12c Cloud Control to build a monitoring framework. In this blog I will...

Oracle OpenWorld 2015 market an important point for Oracle as all the Oracle PaaS services are in production, more are announced and integration starts. Let us start from the beginning of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) journey for Oracle; at last years OpenWorld Oracle announced several PaaS services in advance of availability. Based on Java Cloud Service, which is available for more than a year, Oracle grow the portfolio within the last 12 months. With the majority in the...

MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) is incredibly hard... to find practical information about, on SoapUI and OSB. There are loads of articles. Like: Sending attachment: MTOM / XOP vs SWA and inline attachment, by Steve Djajasaputra Osb 10gR3 and SwA and Mtom, by Roger van Kimmenade, this is about sending messages using MTOM. But unfortunately the WSDL's are not XML-encoded and therefor only visible in the page-URL. But I need to process documents that are send...