Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Grupo Farmacos is the leading distributor of medical equipment and medicine in Mexico, and services customers across the public and private sectors. In order to support its diverse business operations, the company built a high-performance virtualized infrastructure in the cloud. Access this on demand webcast for an in-depth look at how Grupo Farmacos implemented Oracle's engineered systems and middleware to: Consolidate its architecture to control costs and improve...

I had to estimate the effort for decoding a Base64 encoded message. Honestly A reminder to self (and for others working in the dark spheres of lowest level integration). Python / WLST You can easily decode a Base64 message in Python. With WebLogic installed this obviously is working with WLST (also in offline mode). No imports, no nothing, no questions asked: ‘Base64Encoded_String’.decode(‘base64′) Online (I am tempted to write PaaS ) For a quick I-need-to-get-this-decoded...

Oracle Developer Cloud Service is included as a free entitlement with Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Messaging Cloud Service. The Developer Cloud Service includes all the tools you need to support the team development lifecycle. There are popular open source tools such as Git, Maven and Hudson. There's also task management, code reviews and a wiki. The easiest way to experience the Oracle Developer Cloud Service is through a trial of the Oracle Java Cloud Service -...

LDAP servers can be configured to use as authenticator in Weblogic Server. In order to efficiently use an LDAP server, it must be possible to uniquely identify LDAP objects. GUID (global universal identifier) attributes can be used as unique identifier for an LDAP object. There are several specific and some more generic LDAP authentication providers available for Weblogic Server. The specific authentication providers have default GUID (global universal identifier) attributes...

Integrate Applications for Oracle Sales Cloud Follow Integration Use Cases Build an application Build the data model Secure Oracle Sales Cloud integrations Extend Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle Java Cloud Service Build a service application that integrates with Oracle Sales Cloud Build a mobile application that integrates with Java Cloud Service Integrate a user interface Work with custom object web services Create outbound web service calls Work with attachments Use web services Use...

I'm about to embark on a journey that explores the use of WebLogic Server within a DevOps regime.  My first port of call for this journey will be using Chef. A loose travel itinerary is: Setting up an environment to explore the basic operations of Chef - using the Chef Development Kit (ChefDK) Exploring the basics of how Chef works to install Java and WebLogic Server on a single node Installing and examining some of the existing cookbooks that are available for Java and WebLogic...

I was working recently on integrating ADF 11.1.2.4 and BPM 11.1.1.7 environments. This worked pretty well, all configuration was done based on my previous blog post for similar topic, only previous ADF and BPM versions - BPM 11g R1 Worklist Integration (Hacking Experiment) Into Non-SOA ADF 11g R2 Domain. Goal of this post is to describe dynamic ADF form approach associated with BPM process human task.BPM payload contains additional element called voInstanceName. This element...

We have just released Coherence 12.1.3.0.1, (Patch 18378184) which is the first patch set on top of 12.1.3.  As part of this patch there are a few updates to the Coherence JVisualVM Plugin that improve the range of functionality that we can support, a couple of UI tweaks as well as addressing an issue monitoring Coherence clusters in WebLogic Server environments. The feature highlights are: 1. Added a tab for displaying information about Elastic Data 2. Added a tab for display...

Today one of the Adminservers failed to re-start and was flooding the AdminServer.out with multiple EmbeddedLDAP java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException messages per second. I do admit, this is not the first article about how to recover from this issue, and probably not the last. Although i was able to Google multiple articles and blogs on this exception, all of the suggested solutions left me with a seed embedded LDAP. The good news is that  by default a backup is made of...