Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Fusion Applications provides several types of interfaces to facilitate integration with other applications within the enterprise and on the cloud.As one of the key integration interfaces, Fusion Applications (FA) supports SOAP services based integration, both inbound and outbound. At this point FA doesn’t provide REST API’s but it is planned for a future release. It is however possible to invoke external REST APIs from FA which we will discuss. Oracle continues to invest in...

Introduction When it comes to defining a strategy for web API security, OAG (Oracle API Gateway) and OES (Oracle Entitlements Server) together present a very interesting choice and are a very powerful combination indeed. In this post we’re going to take a look at what each component brings in (the skin) and then get our hands on actually describing the integration in detail (the guts). OAG is designed to inspect and act on various types of messages that are delivered to it or...

During this week’s OUGF 2014 Harmony conference in Haltia, Finland I presented on Oracle’s premier application development framework: ADF.ADF is the strategic application development framework for Oracle, a core element in Fusion Middleware. ADF can be used to create large scale, enterprise applications. It can be used to create entirely license free applications. It can be used to create cloud applications and also applications that can be used from all kinds of mobile...

To reap the benefits of mobility in the enterprise, CIOs will need to deliver reliable services in an environment of constant complexity and change. Organizational leaders are increasingly realizing that a robust mobile strategy will enable them to unlock their company’s full business potential. According to the 2013 Accenture Mobility CIO Survey, CIOs said mobility would provide substantial sources of new revenue and significantly improve customer interactions. 36 percent of...

I bet you are familiar with ADF Query UI having many criteria items. This may look irritatingto the users, as there are so many options to use for the search. I will describe alternative approach in this post, with MDS user persistence and personalisation involved. It might be more user friendly, to offer only few criteria items by default and allow to add other items through ADF Query advanced option, together with MDS user persistence feature enabled for personalisation....

This article will provide a live account of the three day Enterprise Mobility conference, hosted by AMIS in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Oracle ADF Product Managers Frank Nimphius and Chris Muir are the keynote speakers. They are joined by Willem de Pater, Steven Davelaar and Lancy Silveira from Oracle and Luc Bors, Frank Houweling, Paul Swiggers, Aino Andriessen and Lucas Jellema from AMIS. The presentations and demonstration during this conference cover the next step for...

To reap the benefits of mobility in the enterprise, CIOs will need to deliver reliable services in an environment of constant complexity and change. Organizational leaders are increasingly realizing that a robust mobile strategy will enable them to unlock their company’s full business potential. According to the 2013 Accenture Mobility CIO Survey, CIOs said mobility would provide substantial sources of new revenue and significantly improve customer interactions. 36 percent of...

When using the Oracle SOA Suite for web service development, chances are that you are also using an Oracle database and that you are at some point in need of a database adapter in one of your SOA composites. If that happens to be the case, you might also encounter the requirement to support multiple composite revisions and keep them as stabile as possible. This requirement leads to development of multiple SOA composite revisions, but there is only one database. What if you...

Testing services as an atomic entity can be difficult. Especially if these services are part of a call chain or call other services. Often in such cases mock services are developed to reduce test dependencies and exclude services which are not interesting to the specific test case. For example, I'm testing service A. Service A calls service B. I'm not interested in service B (or service B is maintained by another department on which I don't want to depend). I would...