Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Norway Post AS, founded in 1647, is the Norwegian postal service. The company, owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, manages mail distribution throughout the country and has businesses in other parts of the Nordic region. In 2002, Norway Post changed its corporate structure to become a joint-stock company in preparation for Norwegian postal market deregulation. Challenges Streamline operations and reduce costs, including IT expenses for the company's...

To be able to code more than the most basic WLST scripts for WebLogic you should have reasonably good Python skills. Fortunately there are many good and free resources to get started. Note that WLST as of WLS 12.1.2 is using Python 2. Here is a list of recommendations to learn more Python and become better a WLST: A gentle Python video tutorial by MIT Open Courseware (better suited for the non-developers): Core Elements of a (Python) Program. Python Standard Library Maybe the...

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Coherence is am in-Memory Data Grid solution that provides predictable scalability for mission-critical applications, continuous data availability, and transactional integrity. Coherence 12c (12.1.2) Update [ PPT][ 12 min Youtube JUL 2013] Managed Coherence Servers 1A: Overview [ 17 min video JUL 2013] 1B: Deeper Dive [ 27 min YouTube video AUG 2013] 2: Tooling [ 8 min video JUL 2013] 3: Maven Integration [ 9 min video JUL 2013] Coherence Live Events [ 32 min video JUL 2013] Coh...

The last few weeks I was busy re-writing of my puppet WLS module so it fully supports the power of Puppet 3 (thanks for more than 4000 downloads on puppet forge and all the github downloads).With Puppet 3 we now can use Hiera, Iterations and Lambdas expression. This does not sound like a big change but with Hiera and the new Puppet Language features, I can define big WebLogic Domains without losing maintainability ( Got one customer with 5 Clusters, 25 Managed + JMS servers,...

SOA and User Interfaces A cabal of SOA experts addresses the challenges of developing user interfaces in a service oriented architecture, and describes how Thomas Erl's UI Mediator pattern can help. Read the article. BPM Auditing Demystified Mark Foster's article illustrates "simple changes to the BPM audit settings which can prove beneficial in certain business situations." Read the article. Podcast: Audience Q&A with Cloud Expert Panel This three-part program the live...

In this post, we will show how to create automation scripts in order to set-up middleware environments. Preparation As an example, we will use the Oracle Service Bus. In the example, we will use the following software JRockit WebLogic Server Oracle Service Bus Repository Creation Utility First, we have to decide how the directory structure will look, for example. Installation To silent install JRockit, we need the following XML file - See more here! WebLogic Partner Community For...

Alignment between IT and business has hovered near the top of “Top CIO Priorities” surveys for years - but this elusive goal can be difficult to attain. The accelerating pace of business change and the exploding rate of technology innovation only make matters worse, as does the fact that business strategies and goals vary by functional perspectives, making IT-business alignment a multivariable equation.Lines of business (marketing, sales, etc.) are increasingly bypassing IT...

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