Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

C2B2’s WebLogic As a Service GCloud offering gives you a fully supported; fully managed WebLogic 11g or WebLogic 12c instance on the Amazon EC2 cloud. We provide you with full administration access to your WebLogic instance to deploy any applications you wish. We provide full 24/7 operational support for your WebLogic instance and application helping you with triage, diagnosis and fix of production issues which are impacting your service. We can provide you with a...

Looking for some summer reading? Sure, you could get engrossed in the latest bestseller, but how will that help you when your day at the beach, or on the patio, or just laying in an undersized plastic pool in your driveway is over? Just because you've slathered yourself with sunscreen is no reason not to beef up your technical knowledge while you're trying to keep cool. With that in mind, here are three absolutely free excerpts from recent technical books.Creating Domains with...

Oracle WebLogic Server instances are the foundation for Java EE applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, including SOA, BPM, and so on. But even as important as Oracle WebLogic Server instances are for organizations, there are no out-of-the-box scripts for booting Oracle WebLogic Server instances automatically when the server itself boots.Jon Petter Hjulstad and I will during our presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 (CON3633) discuss why you should have standardized boot...

Yesterday WebLogic 12.1.3 was finally released. First of all congratulations to the team at Oracle for getting this release out of the door! :) Among the big news is that WebLogic 12.1.3 is now a mixed Java EE 6/EE 7 server by (optionally) supporting several Java EE 7 technologies like JAX-RS 2.0. Next to this there are a ton of smaller changes and fixes as well. One of those fixes concerns the standard authentication system of Java EE (JASPIC). As we saw some time back, the...

Finally Oracle SOA Suite 12cR1 (12.1.3.0.0) is out (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pressrelease/soa-suite-12c-062614).Having implemented all versions of SOA Suite (10.1.3.1-5, 11.1.1.1-7) I am particularly more exited about this new release as I was when its predecessors were launched. And this is because unlike the previous releases, these versions is releases in the middle of major trends such as cloud computing, mobile integration, Internet of Thins, Machine to...

Details CentOS 6.5 vagrant box Puppet 3.5.0 Vagrant >= 1.41 Oracle Virtualbox >= 4.3.6 Download & Add the all the Oracle binaries to /software edit Vagrantfile and update the software share to your own local folder. wlsdb.vm.synced_folder "/Users/edwin/software", "/software" jrf2admin2.vm.synced_folder "/Users/edwin/software", "/software" Vagrant boxes vagrant up wlsdb vagrant up jrf2admin2 Read the complete article here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member...

It’s quite common in a service oriented landscape that a newer version of a service is required. For instance due to new functionality for 1 service consumer which brakes the contract for the other consumers. JDeveloper 12c has a cool feature helping us to clone a Service Bus project. Right-click on the project and select Service Bus -> Clone Determine the name of your clone target, for instance a version 1.1 of your current project: Read the complete article here. SOA & BPM...

Oracle has finally announced 12c, so now everybody can get their hands on it. One of the new features is that Oracle Service Bus development is integrated into Oracle jDeveloper Studio. One way to get started quickly is by simply importing your 11g service bus sources into 12c. First export your 11g sources, either from the Servicebus Console or Eclipse (OEPE): Then, this sbconfig.jar is easily imported into the new Oracle jDeveloper Studio 12c (as expected): The wizard flow...

This blogpost quickly describes the usage of the Oracle SOA Suite 12.1.3 Quick Start Installer for developers. After download and extracting the fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soaqs_Disk1_1of1.zip file from the Oracle website you will find 2 JAR files in the archive. 18-06-2014 22:39 2.060.922.907 fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart.jar 18-06-2014 22:38 1.125.261.418 fmw_12.1.3.0.0_soa_quickstart2.jar Funny detail, both JAR files are dated 18-06 so it seems the package was ready a week before the...