Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

I thought cloud computing would do away with acronym-laden technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Can’t you just sign up for applications run in a public cloud? You can, but what happens when you want to integrate that shiny new cloud app with your existing applications and data? That integration has its own term—hybrid cloud—and for most enterprises, it’s the new norm. More than 65% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud technologies...

In a recent article, I discussed the deployment of a simple Node.js application to the Oracle Application Container Cloud. I take this one step further in this article: I extend the node.js application to connect to a DBaaS instance using the Oracle node.js Database Driver and expose a REST API to retrieve data (departments, if you want to know). This figure illustrates what this article describes: The steps we go through in this article are: Create the Node.js application with...

SOA 12.2.1 provides support for end-to-end JSON and Javascript. We don’t have do internal mapping between XML and JSON as in 12.1.3. As part of this post, let us implement a simple REST service to demonstrate this new feature – End to End JSON with Javascript. Let us create a very simple SOA Composite which exposes a JSON based REST interface, manipulates the values using Javascript and calls an external JSON based service. Rest Service External JSON Service Setup For external...

This article describes my first steps with the fairly new Oracle Application Container Cloud [Service]. At this point in time, Oracle Application Container Cloud includes Oracle Java SE Cloud Service, which lets you deploy Java applications to the Oracle Cloud, and Oracle Node Cloud Service, which lets you deploy Node.js applications to the Oracle Cloud. In the near future, support will be add for different types of applications, such as Ruby, Python, and PHP. Through...

SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – May 31st 2016 Real-Time Integration Business Insight Attend our May edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on May 31st at 16:00 CET. Real-Time Integration Business Insight - Business Analytics: Friendly, Powerful, Immediate During this session, we will be joined by Simone Geib from the Oracle Service (SOA) & Cloud Integration Product Management team. Simone will introduce Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight, a new...

We are pleased to announce the availability of the 16.2.1 release of Application Development platform with Java Cloud Service, Application Container Cloud Service, and Developer Cloud Service. This April release marks a major milestone, we saw the addition of a number of features, enhancements, and integrations.  This release is so big we've even had to add a Table of Contents to this email! Table of Contents Java Cloud Service  Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.2.1) with Java...

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community, Registration for our sixth edition of the PaaS & Fusion Middleware Summer Camps VI August 29th – September 2nd 2016 in Lisbon Portugal is open. Please read the registration page careful before you register. This year we offer five different hands-on training on PaaS & IaaS, Enterprise Connectivity (SOA), Mobile and Mobile Cloud Service, Java Cloud Services & WebLogic 12.2.1 and Internet of Things (IoT). Like all our past conferences we will...

· Call for Papers: Session proposals are being accepted for future OTN Virtual Technology Summit events. Submit your proposal for Middleware track sessions in the OTN Virtual Technology Summit Middleware Ideas Space, part of the OTN Community Platform. · VTS Replay Library: Registration for the next OTN Virtual Technology Summit will open soon. But in the meantime you can watch replays of all the sessions from the July 2015 and September 2015 events in the VTS Replay Library....

Here is a quick overview of some of the new features of Oracle SOA 12.2.1 that we are excited about. We are looking forward to using the new features with our customers; they will provide significant benefits! Integration Workload Statistics in EM Workload metrics are very useful for high volume implementations. BPEL 10g had some of these metrics and they were not available in SOA 11g. Now we can search and view these metrics in EM. Workload metrics help in planning capacity of...