Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

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...

Last year I created a few OSB services with the asynchronous request response message exchange pattern. OSB does not support this out of the box, since OSB is in fact synchronous in nature. Although OSB supports the WS - Addressing namespaces, you need to set the WS-Addressing elements programmatically. Since OSB is synchronous the request and response flows in the Asynchronous Request/Response pattern are completely seperated implemented from eachother. That means that in the...

Many companies are struggling to keep up with constant shifts in technology and at the same time address rapid changes in the business. As organizations strive to create greater efficiency and agility with the aid of new technologies, each new business-led project may further fragment IT systems and result in information inconsistencies across the organization. Because data is an essential input for all processes and business objects, these irregularities can undermine the...

For this tip I decided to extend the example given in this amazing post in Andrejus Blog about Geo Location using ADF Mobile and create a place locator using Google Places API , using this integration you can add new features to your applications to show specific Google Maps search into them, like restaurants for example. Before starting make sure that you: Have your own browser API created from Google’s API console as described here. Already enabled the Places API service from...

Being able to exchange data among internal applications as well as with external partners and government agencies has always been a difficult task. Lacking a comprehensive integration strategy, many organizations find themselves creating new or customized solutions for each new business challenge. This splintered approach invariably leads to a heterogeneous environment that is difficult to manage and costly to operate - which is why a large percentage of IT budgets are spent...

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...

For an organization to respond in real-time it needs to acquire or develop systems that can respond in real-time. Such systems need to be able to rapidly determine that a response is required and determine also what the appropriate and relevant response should be - they need to decide when and how to act. These kinds of decision-making systems are known as Decision Management Systems. To ensure that a response is delivered in real-time, more event-centric Decision Management...

The ADF Architecture TV channel is a training course to extend customers' knowledge in ADF, it is not a marketing or promotional exercise from Oracle Corporation. If you've arrived on this episode by Googling in, please make sure to look at all of the content on the TV channel rather than taking this episode as a standalone topic. Watch the videos on Youtube: Development - Error Handling - Lifecycle Errors, Business Services Design - Designing for Internationalization -...

Much has been said about Oracle SOA Suite 10g (or JCaps) upgrades to 11g and how features map between both versions. There is also plenty of information online about this topic both official and unofficial. It’s not news to many that for example SOA Suite 10g is currently in extended support and product will enter sustaining support by the end of 2014 (I will explain more about what extended and sustaining support means later in the blog). However one fact remains truth: There...