Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

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...

In my previous article, First setup of a connection from Node.js to an Oracle Database, I demonstrated how to make a connection to a remote database using Node.js and the node-oracledb module. I used a dedicated VM with Linux 7 installed and Oracle Instantclient provided the 12.1 client libraries. Now it’s time to take it a step further. Let’s create an application container and just start it multiple time running any .js script and be able to connect to an Oracle database. I...

Measuring performance of services can be done in various ways. In this blog article I will describe a method of measuring Oracle SOA service response times with Splunk a popular monitoring tool. In order to monitor service response times with Splunk, Splunk needs to obtain its data from somewhere. In this example I’ll use the HTTP access log which I expand with a time-taken field. Disclaimer; my experience with Splunk is something like 2 hours. This might also be an...