Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Cool news came from Oracle a couple of weeks ago: Oracle WebLogic Server is now supported on Docker!. This is very cool. Docker is a disruptive platform that ship everything inside a container (OS, Configurations, Platform, Application) and let you run it (almost) everywhere! To learn more about Docker So, WebLogic on Docker is great, but I'd like to go further and Dockerize SOA and BPM products (as Guido Schmitz made with Oracle Stream Explorer) I used Oracle's Docker...

The WebLogic Win workshop is designed to upsell your customers additional consulting services. For example to update your customers to the latest release WebLogic 12.1.3 – a great service opportunity. This workshop also contains material to showcase new functionality like Hudson, Maven, JMS and Coherence. We want to highly encourage you to run this workshop for all your customers! For more information about GSE please: · Get your GSE credentials here (both cloud and...

The brand new Oracle Stream Explorer 12c has been released today. The idea behind this product, which gives it a lot of relevance, is to bring simplicity, usability and enterprise readiness to Event Processing. We have talked before about Industrial SOA, and the impact that such concepts as: IoT, Social Media, Mobile, Fast Databring to the table. With this in mind, we have to acknowledge that enterprises nowadays, constantly find themselves dealing with huge, endless amounts...

Research firm IDC estimates that the market for platform as a service (PaaS) solutions will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 percent and reach $14 billion by 2017.1 PaaS provides application runtime, database, integration, messaging, and other services in the cloud, accelerating application development and reducing infrastructure acquisition and maintenance costs. Here are five best practices for maximizing the business value of your PaaS solutions. Get the free...

The Oracle Technology Network invites you to register for our new Virtual Technology Summit – September 16th, 9:30 am to 1:00 pm PT. It’s all about the Cloud! Hear from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions and Oracle Product Experts, as they share their insights and expertise through Hands-on-Labs, highly technical presentations and demos that enable you to master the skills you need to meet today’s IT challenges. Middleware: Middleware in the Cloud: PaaS Gets Real - The middleware...

Oracle Cloud Marketplace offers a platform for system integrators and independent software vendors to showcase their services and applications that interoperate with Oracle Applications Cloud Services. Discover the difference Oracle Cloud Marketplace can make for your business by reaching thousands of Oracle customers and growing your business. Oracle Cloud Marketplaceis an online store dedicated to marketing cloud business apps and professional services offered by Oracle...

This article describes how to develop a straightforward custom assertion that can be used as part of custom OWSM policy to be attached to Web Services in WebLogic, such as services exposed by SOA Composite applications and Service Bus projects as well as custom JAX-WS or ADF BC Web Services. The custom assertion that I demonstrate here reports the execution of web service operations to a JMS Destination and/or the system output. It shows how to access property values set on...

The Oracle Technology Network invites you to register for our new Virtual Technology Summit – September 16th, 9:30 am to 1:00 pm PT. It’s all about the Cloud! Hear from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions and Oracle Product Experts, as they share their insights and expertise through Hands-on-Labs, highly technical presentations and demos that enable you to master the skills you need to meet today’s IT challenges. Middleware: Middleware in the Cloud: PaaS Gets Real - The middleware...

Of course many readers, technologists and businesses are acutely aware of the value prop of the cloud but what about the rest of the "majority" of people who don't? If you do a search on this topic, you will mostly get links to marketing materials that are fairly high level and full of the usual buzzwords with more links to lengthy case studies. As a business technology enabler, there needs to be a simpler message or elevator pitch that is easy to understand yet convincing....