Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The recent Leanpub publication NetBeans Platform for Beginners: Modular Application Development for the Java Desktop by Jason Wexbridge and Walter Nyland provides an introduction to and coverage of the NetBeans Platform. I review the PDF version of NetBeans Platform for Beginners that was last updated on 26 March 2014 in this post. NetBeans Platform for Beginners features over 350 pages of content divided into ten chapters and three major parts. Although the authors address Ne...

When using Oracle BPEL it is often desirable to allow a certain amount of configuration of the process flow at runtime. To allow configuration, properties/preferences/parameters can be used. These can be implemented in various ways. Lucas Jellema has described a method in the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook (http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-SOA-Suite-Handbook-Press/dp/0071608974page 252) for system parameters which uses Business Rules. In this blog post, I compare three other...

Special THANKS from the whole Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community to the AMIS team for sharing the excellent middleware content at their blog the last 10 years! All the best practice and tips, tricks and hints helped us to grow the middleware business together and make our joint customer successful. AMISis one of your key middleware partners with Middleware Specializations in ADF, WebLogic, Application Grid, Suite Suite and BPM Suite. We acknowledged the AMIS...

This patch includes the Adaptive Case Management UI - patch #18072286 - Download (via Oracle support) With this patch the ACM UI is now available without needing the controlled patch If you have already applied the ACM patch (17767877),  this will be rolled back automatically when you apply the BP3 patch This patch also makes available the REST API (URI  /bpm/services/rest/application.wadl) Please let us know if you work on an ACM opportunity / project! SOA & BPM Partner Community F...

A little while ago I got a very nice challenge play around with the ADF client-side framework. The customer had a table where users could multi-select via an extra column with checkboxes. Header of that column also contained a checkbox to select or deselect everything at once. For example: It was implemented using autoSubmit and partialTriggers. Due to the roundtrip to the server the response time was low when having a lot of rows. To speed it up, I was asked to look if...

When a Oracle SOA or BPM workflow task is assigned to a role and/or group, a user may acquire the task to work on it. Once the task is acquired, other users are not able to work on that specific task. In the Oracle SOA-INFRA, used by both SOA Suite and BPM Suite, there is a feature called ‘task auto release’ which allows to configure the duration before tasks are automatically released and made available for all other users again. In Enterprise Manager go to soa-infra ->...

Here is my experiences with installing Forms and Reports 11.1.2.2.0 on Red Hat 6 (64-bit) using Java 7. Overview Documentation Download the software Prepare the OS Install Java Patch Java Install Weblogic server 10.3.6 Install the latest Weblogic PSU Using WebLogic Server with JDK 7 Install Forms/Reports version 11.1.1.2.0 Patch Forms/Reports Configure Forms/Reports Homes overview Verifying the installation Missing boot.properties Moving Applications home Set Java memory parameters Node...

THANKS to all SOA Community Partners for the excellent SOA Suite 12c launch. It was an amazing 50 hours of an almost around the clock twitter storm! It was worth waiting a long time for the SOA Suite 12c release the first feedback is superb! Special thanks to the Amis team who publish a whole series – or a book of blog post about SOA Suite 12c! We now have the opportunity to convert this SOA Suite 12c storm in joint business! Make use of our SOA Suite 12c launch...

Following my previous post Using ADF BC Declarative Built-in Rules: Collection Validator I would like to cover another declarative build-in rule, the "Unique Key Validator".The "Unique Key Validator" is an entity level validator that ensures that primary key values for an entity object are always unique. For example, in the Employees table in the HR schema you can create a "Unique Key Validator" on the "EMPLOYEE_ID" (since this is the primary key) to ensure that an employee...