Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Dear WebLogic Partner Community member, Thanks for an amazing Oracle OpenWorld 2014 In case you did not attend OpenWorld 2014, make sure you watch the keynotes on-demand. Congratulations to our community partners around the world who almost won all awards (EMEA, Global, NAS, Innovation Awards…)! Special thanks to Amis for their excellent job in Europe. In the case you missed OOW14 make sure you attend the OTN Virtual Technology Summit November 18th 2014 and organize for...

As the ADF Architecture TV series draws to a close with just a few episodes left to publish, Oracle's ADF product management team is still dedicated to creating external training to assist customers in building their ADF applications. We are pleased to release a series of videos on the ADF Insider Essentials YouTube channel to cover ADF Business Components Application Module pooling. This progressive-learning set of videos introduces the basic pool settings, passivation &...

Introduction With the recent release of SOA Suite 12c, it seems appropriate to give a quick rundown of some of the new features and improvements made to it from the last release. For those of you who don’t know, SOA Suite is a software collection (or suite, if you prefer) that can be used together to realise a Service-Oriented Architecture.What’s New?Oracle have implemented loads of new features and improvements in this latest release, far more than this blog could...

This session outlines how to effectively test Java EE APIs on GlassFish like JSF, Servlet, CDI, EJB 3, JPA, WebSocket and JAX-RS. Java EE includes a number of new features that enhance testability like generic dependency injection, CDI @Alternative, portable extensions, embedded containers and JSF project stages.Using these features and best of breed tools like JUnit and Arquillian it is possible to perform unit, integration, system and functional testing for Java EE APIs at...

Yesterday , its an release of Fusion Middleware 12.1.3. The focus is mainly on SOA Suite 12c and WebLogic 12.1.3.For interesting point of Jdeveloper 12.1.3.Main Features -Enhanced Maven Support -> New ADF “oracle-adffaces-ejb” archetype introduced to enable creating a basic ADF application using ADF Faces and EJB from Maven. -> JDeveloper now supports creating a project from an archetype which takes parametersNew DVT components -> Chart solutions -> New Gauges ->Thematic Map...

Thanks to Vivek for all his blog posts about SOA Suite 12c: Get started with SOA Suite 12c Create required schemas for MFT Enterprise Scheduler Share artifacts using SOA design time mds Debugger in SOA Suite 12c Thanks to Vivek for all his blog posts about SOA Suite 12c: With the release of Oracle SOA 12c, Oracle introduces SOA Debugger in Jdeveloper which helps developer to test and debug the composite. This makes developer life really easy. Earlier in 11g we follow below...

IntroductionSkinning the UI of an Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) used to be very time consuming, since the process would usually involve first modifying the skin (CSS) file and then running the simulator to see the results. When developing web applications that are to be visualized in a browser, the task is not so difficult. There are many tools that are available. For example, most browsers come with some sort of a debugging plugin (e.g. Firebug), which will...

This second in a blog series on "What's New in SOA Suite 12c" focuses on another new feature of this major release of Oracle SOA Suite. In Oracle SOA Suite 11g, the user interface was unified across most of the components with the exception of Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Event Processing. When I talk to existing customers and Oracle technical specialists, I hear a wide range of responses when asked "What is your favorite feature of Oracle SOA Suite 12c". Cloud and Mobile...

IntroductionOracle has released Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF), the new cross-platform development framework for mobile applications that supersedes ADF Mobile. Oracle A-Team has upgraded its Mobile Persistence Extension to work with Oracle MAF. This mobile persistence extension adds significant value to Oracle MAF: it allows easy consumption of RESTful services, and provides a complete persistence layer that allows you to use the mobile application in offline...