Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

I know I’m a bit late on this article, but my presence in the Middle East had more (positive) impact than I anticipated, so I got tied up at work. Anyway, let’s finally start to use Oracle’s BPM Composer to model our “Request a parking space” process. As the Akino Fishing Co is a series focused on the Business User, we’ll try to keep our articles as Zero-Code as possible. Finally… Hands-on! We’ll start by logging on to BPM Composer Oracle BPM Composer Login Screen After logging in...

Oracle WebLogic Server has quite a number of log files that are generated which naturally tend to grow over time. Without any type of log rotation, archiving, or purging set up, your file system can be filled up rather quickly and eventually pose stability issues to your application environment. Listen from someone who has seen it all–if your file system is full, your application will likely hang and in-flight transactions impacted. Fortunately, setting up your environment to...

The parallel gateway enables you to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, allowing your process to follow several unconditional paths in parallel. When your process token reaches a parallel gateway activity, the parallel gateway will create a token for each outgoing parallel sequence flow. Your process will wait until all tokens have arrived at the parallel gateway merge activity before resuming with the rest of the activities.You should be very careful with the parallel...

Node Manager is an important utility when running WebLogic in a production environment. Most people pay little attention to the Node Manager, but when problem arises, it is a little bit late to figure out what Node Manager is and what it does. This article is not a full introduction to Node Manager, but will describe some best practices for common real life situations and issues, and share some tips and tricks gathered over the years. If you would like a full introduction to...

Make sure you read our White Paper: What’s New in Oracle BPM 12c - PDF. 12.1.3 Bundled Patch 1 (BP1), is planned for BPM Suite 12c in Q1 2015. In the case you are working on a BPM 12c project please make sure that you reach out to myself to get Oracle support. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you...

In a previous post i wrote how to Secure Coherence communications for FMW SOA by enabling SSL through a Coherence override file. Setting up SSL involves setting up a keystore and truststore which are protected by a passsword. To access the key- and truststores Coherence retrieves the required passwords from the elements in the Coherence override files. Currently Coherence does not support encryption of these password element values. A possible solution to prevent clear-text...

Missed our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015? Make sure you get the latest update in our  SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast. We will give you an update on our SOA Suite 12c, Integration Cloud Service offerings and our community activities Speakers:Vikas Anand Jürgen Kress Schedule: May 8th 2014 16:00-16:45  CET (Berlin time)Attendance Information: Join Webcast or dial in Call ID: 4070776  and Call Passcode: 333111 Austria: +43 (0) 192 865 12Belgium: +32 (0) 240...

The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is excited to invite you to the next Virtual Technology Summit on May 5th, 2015 (9:00 am PT to 12:30pm PT*). Learn first hand from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, and Oracle product experts, as they share their insight and expertise on using Oracle technologies to meet today’s IT challenges. Learn through Hands on Labs and Technical Presentations / Demo’s. Java: 20 Year Anniversary!Java technologies are celebrating 20 years of innovation...

The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is excited to invite you to the next Virtual Technology Summit on May 5th, 2015 (9:00 am PT to 12:30pm PT*). Learn first hand from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, and Oracle product experts, as they share their insight and expertise on using Oracle technologies to meet today’s IT challenges. Learn through Hands on Labs and Technical Presentations / Demo’s. Java: 20 Year Anniversary!Java technologies are celebrating 20 years of innovation...