Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Coherence*Web is a great feature which allows you to store your HTTP sessions in a Coherence Cluster. Doing this allows your to de-couple the HTTP sessions from your JVM’s that are running your web apps, (which can free up JVM memory) and take advantage of the RASP (Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance) capabilities of Coherence for storage. With this separation you can also more easily scale and manage and your HTTP session tier as well as utilise the wide...

Oracle released Adaptive Case Management (ACM) in 2013 as part of the BPM stack. One of the functionality we needed in a project recently, was the handling of deadlines in the context of a case. There is (currently) no out-of-the-box solution to, for example, escalate or reassign a case when a specific deadline has expired. In this blog we describe how this functionality can be created with the out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Case Management. Dealing with deadlinesConsid...

Here's a silly little issue I hit this afternoon - mostly a case of "administrator error" but a time waster nevertheless.To recap, there was a big change to Web Tier administration in 12.1.2 in that OHS is controlled with what's now called the "WebLogic Management Framework" - in short this means OHS instance configuration is handled via WLST and lifecycle (start/stop etc) by Node Manager (i.e. OPMN has gone). You have a choice of either co-locating OHS in your existing...

Oracle has just released BPM 11.1.1.7 Bundle Patch 3 which adds the out of the box web interface for Advanced Case Management and REST APIs for working with BPM. The patch is available from Oracle Support, it is patch number 18072286. The Case Management interface looks a bit like this: And here is an example of using the REST API.  You can call the REST URL (GET) http://yourserver:port/bpm/services/rest/application.wadl to get details of the available services:Read the complete...

In my previous blog I described the steps to get OpenStack on Solaris up and running. Now we'll explore how WebLogic and OpenStack can work together to deliver truly elastic Middleware Platform as a Service.Middleware / Platform as a Service goals First, let's define what PaaS should be : PaaS offerings facilitate the deployment of applications without the complexity of managing the underlying hardware and software and provisioning hosting capabilities. To break it down:-...

his blog directly follows on from part 2 on watches, so if you haven’t already read that then you should probably go and do that now. You can still create notifications without having any watches configured; you just won’t receive anything on them. In the last post, I had created two watches, one Server Log watch and one Collected Metrics watch. In this post, I will create notifications to work with these watches. What are notifications?WLDF notifications are nothing more than...

SOA Suite 12c expands Oracle‘s leadership to be the most unified and comprehensive solution for simplifying cloud, mobile, and IoT Integration. Experience those new features of SOA Suite 12c & at our launch event in 2014 hosted by IPT an Oracle Specialized Partner. The IPT SOA Suite 12c Summits takes place on August 27th in Bern and August 28th in Zürich. For details please visit the IPT Bern & IPT Zürich registration page here. Additional local SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c...

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can download the Adaptive Case Management training material from the Malta Community Forum: ACM bootcamp 02.2014. The material does not include the software image. 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...

Mobile BPM will play an increasingly important role in the relationship between businesses, customers and external partners. Consumers wantmobile apps. As a group they download more than 11,000 iPhone apps, send 168 million emails and make 700,000 Facebook posts—in one minute. Businesses need to make sure apps align with their business processes.Mobile apps require new architectural patterns and must support differing devices. Let’s take a quick look at some integration...