Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

Apache CXF is a services framework that is the open source evolution of IONA Celtix and Codehaus XFire, hence the name CXF. CXF has extensive support for Web Service standards WS-*, JAX-WS and JAX-RS APIs etc. but the focus of this article is on the CXF web service client proxy factory and running it in a WebLogic web app implementing a REST service. As a demonstration we will build a service using JDeveloper that invokes an Oracle BPM process with a message start service...

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The Oracle Business Process Composer application is designed to allow you to easily create, edit, and manage BPM projects. With the BPM Composer, the Business Analyst can model, test and simulate a process before implementing it. Let’s create a simple process! Start your BPM Domain and go to BPM Composer. http://HOST:PORT/bpm/composer Create a new BPM Project. In the process, change the Default Role to Process Owner. Add an Initiator between Start and End Events. Read the...

The third and last set of events are referred to as "Intermediate Events" and as the name implies they can occur between the start events and end events. "Intermediate Events" are sub-classified into two groups, "Catch Events" and "Throw Events"."Catch Events" can occur anywhere in the middle of the process and what they do is that they block the process for specific conditions. We do have a variety of "Catch Event" activities such as a "Catch Message", a "Catch Timer" and a...

Zero Downtime Patching enables a convenient method of updating production applications on WebLogic Server without incurring any application downtime or loss of session data for your end-users.  This new feature may be especially useful for users who want to update multiple applications at the same time, or for those who cannot take advantage of the Production Redeployment feature due to various limitations or restrictions. Now there is a convenient alternative to complex...

So there you are: a production error was reported … in your code (of all places) … but no one knows what release the code came from? Wouldn’t it be great if it was easy to link deployed composites to their Subversion location and revision? This article show an approach based on ‘Subversion keywords expansion’. This is illustrated with the following steps: Add properties to the composite.xml file Set Subversion keywords for composite.xml Query the deployed composite with wlst Solve...

Introduction Multi-tenancy (MT) is the main theme of the WebLogic Server 12.2.1 release. It enhances the Oracle Platform for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) use cases. The main benefits of WebLogic multi-tenancy are increased density, tenant isolation, and simplified cloud configuration and management. This article introduces multi-tenancy support for WebLogic JMS, the messaging component in WebLogic Server. Key MT Concepts Some of you may have...

Adaptive Case Management has rich APIs to retrieve the events that transpired within a case instance. Here is an example of using case events and some important tips. This information applies to Oracle BPM 11g and 12c. Create a java class with a main method to retrieve the case audit events Some key tips: 1. Passing a null value for TEventType will retrieve all the case events just like the default view on the case workspace. Passing a specific value retrieves only those...

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