Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

End-to-end monitoring of BPEL process instances acro ss composite borders is a great feature of Oracle SOA/Business Process Management Suite 11g. It is shown in nearly every PreSales presentation and when you were used to know SOA Suite 10g or to work with other kinds of distributed, heterogenous systems it is a real improvement. But when you implement large process chains you might realize that the newly won process transparency can raise new challenges. Imagine you have a...

When you upgrade to SOA Suite PS6 (11.1.1.7) you acquire a new set of Diagnostic Dumps in addition to what was available in PS5. With more than a dozen to choose from and not wanting to run them one at a time, this blog post provides a sample script to collect them all quickly and hopefully easily. There are several ways that this collection could be scripted and this is just one example.What is Included: wlst.properties: Ant Properties build.xml soa_diagnostic_script.py: Python...

The Oracle University (not OPN)"Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Administration I" certification exam (1Z1-133) is now available in beta testing at the greatly discounted rate of $50 USD. Passing this exam results in the new certification: Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Administrator.Oracle WebLogic Server sets the industry standard for Java application servers, and the "Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) - Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Administrator"...

C2B2 consultant Matt Brasier, co author of the "Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook" (2013, Packt Publishing) discusses performance tuning challenges and best practices. Watch the video here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner...

The following are the top 10 documents that are linked to SRs as solutions, for Weblogic Server J2EE issues, during the last quarter. 1118264.1 WLS 10.3: Intermittent XA error:XAResource.XAER_RMERRWebLogic server keeps track of the usage of XA resources. If none of the outstanding requests to the resource was replied in the last maxXACallMillis ms, the resource is declared unhealthy. In this state, XAER_RMFAIL is returned to all requests to the resource without actually making...

Say we want to add (or start) managed server instances when running an application, for example, when the number of open sessions reach a certain value. For this value we have calculated that the memory consumption is beyond a level, such that the garbage collection is affected. By adding (or starting) a new server we balance the load (the number of sessions with its corresponding memory consumption) across multiple servers. By using the WebLogic Diagnostic Framework, we can...

One of the greatest challenges to implementing SOA has in fact nothing to do with the intrinsic complexity behind a SOA technology platform. It is widely recognized that the real difficulty lies in dealing with people and processes from different parts of business and aligning them to deliver enterprise wide solutions. This is not only true in the case of SOA architectures but rather a challenge faced in systems design in general. As it has been nicely put by Conway’s law: “or...

IoT will be the next game changer. We’re entering a world, where Billions of devices will be able to play in role in higher level processes. There will be many more machines using our todays internet than humans will do. This is a summary of an Openworld session on Oracle IoT strategy. IoT Definition from Wikipedia:Equipping all objects in the world with minuscule identifying devices could be transformative of daily life. For instance, business may no longer run out of stock...

This presentation accompanies a hands-on-lab session in which Puppet will be used to automatically provision Oracle WebLogic Server. Puppet is a tool to automate configuration management. Together with Chef it's one of the more popular configuration management tools at the moment. Puppet allows you to describe the desired (to-be) state of your servers by declaring resources. These declarations can describe user accounts, security settings, packages, directories, files,...