Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3) bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new features. Most of them are quite spectacular, but at the same time all are useful. A release to persuade potential buyers and a lot more to please users of the product. In addition to adding new features supporting emerging industry trends like cloud and mobile, Oracle SOA Suite 12c also provides many new features and enhancements around developer...

I had a post about the solution to suppress ADF LOV Like operator and prevent LOV popup loading when user is typing existing value - Suppressing ADF LOV Like Operator Filtering. Thanks to a blog reader, there was one use case found, when Like operator was not suppressed properly. This is fixed now and I would like to post updated sample application here. Additional method is overridden in LOV VO implementation class - applyViewCriteria(ViewCriteria, boolean). Besides...

Having been delivering SOA projects for over a decade, I’ve come across many tools some of which I hate and avoid using them (unless a client demands so)  and others that have made my life easier when delivering projects. The below table is a recollection of tools I have used or come across which  I find useful and recommend SOA/API practitioners to use or at least evaluate. Enjoy :) SDLC Tool Name Description + Links Project/Scrum Management and Collaboration Jira Jira when used...

In a previous blog post I talked about scoping breakpoints for debugging purposes, next to scoping breakpoints JDeveloper has more interesting debugging features to offer. I created a simple example to show both the watchpoint as well as the beep functionality. To illustrate this, I created a page with an inputText and a button, both bound to a backingBean. Now imagine that I want to halt execution everytime the bean field value changes. I can simply right-click the field and...

Introduction SOA Suite 12c added a new component: Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS). ESS provides the ability to run different job types distributed across the nodes in an Oracle WebLogic Server cluster. Oracle Enterprise Scheduler runs these jobs securely, with high availability and scalability, with load balancing and provides monitoring and management through Fusion Middleware Control. ESS was available as part of the Fusion Applications product offering. Now it is...

In earlier versions of the Enterprise Manager it was already possible to recover faulted instances of web services. Like for instance when a service that the instance depends on is down, the instance will throw a fault and stop processing. When the underlying service is up again, you could go back to the faulted instance and use recovery to have it continue from the step it faulted on. Now with the introduction of 12c the Error Hospital in the Enterprise Manager supports Bulk...

Configure ADF12c application to work with log4j2 One of our customers had the requirement to use log4j 2 in his ADF 12c application. When executing his code To resolve this issue you can configure your ADF12c application to use a specific implementation of DocumentBuilderFactory. This is quite simple and straightforward. Just configure your weblogic specific deployment descriptor tor use com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl as application’s...

In recent previous articles I have discussed the use of Vagrant and Puppet for the automated creation of Virtual Machines, for example with various Oracle software components completely installed into them. In this article, I am merely the consumer of goodies. Edwin Biemond published on GitHub the complete set of Vagrant and Puppet configuration files for creating VMs with the SOA Infra database (Oracle Database 11.2.0.4, populated with the RCU installer) and the SOA Suite...

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse provides a number of different options when it comes to deploying your Oracle MAF applications. This video walks you through some of the production deployment settings when deploying to an Android device. Watch the YouTube video here. 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...