Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Already a year has passed since I wrote about WebLogic and Fusion Middleware provisioning with Puppet. In this year provisioning got a great boost with the popularity of DevOps and provisioning tools like Puppet, Chef or in combination with  Vagrant & Oracle VirtualBox. Provisioning without tooling can be hard for companies when they also do their own development or have many applications with its own lifecycle. For example applications can have different database vendors/...

As part of the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2014 we offer hands-on Coherence 12c Bootcamp The conference is ONLY for Oracle Partners, for details please visit our registration page! Trainer: Maciej Gruszka, Senior Principal Product Manager at OracleAgenda Highlights Basic knowledge in Java and JavaEE Understanding the Application Server concept Basic knowledge in older releases of WebLogic Server Technical Requirements: Laptop 6 GB RAM Pentium 4 CPU with minimal 1.6 GHz...

The Situation I just looked at a problem at a customer site installing WebLogic 12.1.2 in a VirtualBox environment. WebLogic 12.1.2 uses - unlike all previous versions of WebLogic - the Oracle Unified Installer (OUI) which first of all seemed to be the problem. The Problem Here is what happened in detail: The installation failed because the OUI installer is checking the prerequisites and reports all CPUs with 0 MHz. For sure, this is not good enough (even with all the clever...

I have heard from a couple of customers recently asking about BPM audit table growth, specifically BPM_AUDIT_QUERY. It led me to investigate the impact of the various audit levels in SOA/BPM on these table and to propose options to them. It is important to note up-front that BPM is a human-centric workflow application and therefore should be expected to audit often and in detail the reality is that business users probably will want to know who did what and when, and also who...

To get access to the demo environment please contact Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)! Global Sales Engineering (GSE, formerly DSS) is happy to announce the availability of BPM (Business Process Management) 11.1.1.7 Solutions. This demo includes 3 scenarios that highlight the most popular features of BPM 11.1.1.7. Highlights Business Led Process Composition User Interface Design using Oracle Web Forms Step through the Business Process using Player Call to Action Check out this 2-minute vi...

A while ago Oracle released its new version of WebLogic Server 12.1.2 with lots of new cool features such as dynamic clustering and elastic JMS. Now there have been a lot of improvements from an administrative point of view, nevertheless JMS version is still at 1.1 (already since 2002!) Version 2.0 is out but not for this release yet. For doing some testing I didn’t have an Oracle database present, so why not use WebLogic’s embedded database Derby? Derby Database configurationIf...

Late present from Oracle to start in 2014. A new version of BPM Suite 11.1.1..7 with the Adaptive Case Management User Interfaces is available for download. To access the software please login to www.support.oracle.com and search for Patch 17767877: CASE UI IN WORKSPACE The software is controlled availability. For partners with ACM opportunities we can make the software available. Please contact us via twitter www.twitter.com @soacommunty or raise a support request.  Send us...

The organization structure and user properties (for parametric roles) can be loaded/updated via APIs. APIs will give you an idea of how initial population could work from an external format. Synchronization/updates would be more complex. Document for APIs is here. IBPMOrganizationService Provides APIs to access Organization Unit, Business Calendar, Busienss Holiday, Extended user Properties People query and BPM-Application Roles. This interface defines following methods: Search...

It’s a fact that Weblogic domains are dynamic in nature, especially when SOA components are involved. Out of the box Cloud Control does not update the target list of a Weblogic domain. Ofcourse you can manually trigger a refresh of the Weblogic domain, but it would be much better to automate this procedure. Automation can be achieved by enabling the ‘refresh domain’ job per domain. Go to a domain and under the ‘General’ tab, click on the ‘Weblogic Domain Refreshed’ date. To...