Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

We are glad to announce that the following Fusion Middleware (FMW) Proactive  patches were released on January 14, 2014 Bundle Patches : Bundle patches are collections of controlled, well tested critical bug fixes for a specific product  which may include security contents and occasionally minor enhancements. These are cumulative in nature meaning the latest bundle patch in a particular series includes the contents of the previous bundle patches released.  A suite bundle patch...

Dear Middleware Experts, Hope you also had a great start in the New Year 2014! Our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum is higly booked with more than 100 registrations! If you plan to attend please register as soon as possible here . The Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum and Hands-on Bootcamps 2014 will be held in the Hilton Malta on February 18th and 19th 2014 with hands-on training on February 20th & 21st 2014. Don't miss this opportunity and register now for the O...

Whole kit to build your mobile applications from ADF to SOA and BPM: Mobile? Mobile? Yes! Yes! We built a sample mobile app in about two weeks using Oracle ADF Mobile. The app helped users find and organize all the Oracle Application Development Framework-related sessions at Oracle OpenWorld. With Oracle ADF Mobile, we used one code base to deploy to two platforms. Easy to build, easy to deploy - and as one code base - easy to maintain. The app is currently available at the Ap...

Are you a business analyst or developer looking for an efficient and effective way to build in a better user experience as you tailor an application? These experts, who are from the Oracle Applications User Experience team or have been trained by them, offer tips on keeping your applications usable, so that your users can be more productive. Ultan O’Broin, Director, Oracle Applications User Experience, talks about making great-looking applications with a productive user...

In this blog post we are going to write a WLST script, which will connect to the running admin server and then create a user and assign the user to a group. The following code can be downloaded from the following link: 1. The first step is to create a properties file and name it as domain.properties. We are going to add the values to this properties file and the WLST script is going to read the values from properties file and will take action. Read the complete article here. W...

Oracle Validated Integration establishes credibility with Oracle customers by providing them with confidence that the integration of a partner's solution with Oracle Applications is designed in a reliable, standardized way, has been tested as functionally and technically sound, and operates and performs as documented. Check out the new Oracle Validated Integration program brochure here. Hundreds of partners have invested in Oracle Validated Integration to accelerate sales...

There are a lot of informal end-to-end processes in organizations. These end-to-end processes are usually supported by scattered applications, email, spreadsheets and a lot of goodwill of the personnel involved. When compliance, regulations and/or customer demands are imposed on an organization, these end-to-end processes do not have the ability to comply with new demands due to lack of support from the current application landscape. In the financial, public and utilities...

As we start to assemble the tools we need to implement Continuous Delivery, one area we need to look at is selecting a testing framework.  Now, we are going to want to use a range of different testing tools, depending on what we want to test and how, but we ideally would have some kind of framework that helps to abstract those tools and gives us a single place to go to execute tests. In looking for a test framework, I have been considering the following: Preferably it should...

Before we can describe all the new features of WebLogic 12.1.3 & 12.1.4 and compare this to the 12.1.2 version we should first take a look at the 10.3.6 version. WebLogic 10.3.6 is still the latest 11g version but Oracle will support 10.3.6 till 2018 and extended support till 2021. So Oracle’s Fusion Apps and we have enough time to migrate to WebLogic 12.1.X. Oracle also promised that the upgrade should be easy.  That being said we can take look at the WebLogic 12.1.X...