Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

My name is Brian Jenkins, and I am the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer for Newport Service Corporation. The company provides computer services to several companies in the retail hard assets marketplace; one of which is Monaco Rare Coins (“Monaco”). Monaco is a rare coin dealer, which establishes a market where its customers can buy and sell rare coins. Monaco has grown significantly in the last several years, and recently found itself struggling to...

Fusion Middleware A-Team architect Steven Davelaar kicks off a new series that shows you how to use Oracle Service Bus (OSB) 12c to transform SOAP-based enterprise system interfaces into a mobile-optimized REST-JSON API.  Read part 1 and Read part 2 Introduction To build functional and performant mobile apps, the back-end data services need to be optimized for mobile consumption. RESTful web services using JSON as payload format are widely considered as the best...

Here is a simple example of using the above -I have a web service that checks the inventory status of products. I create a BPEL process that accepts an order as input and then calls the above web service to get the inventory status of the product. Read the complete article 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...

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3) bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new features. Most of them are quite spectacular, but at the same time all are useful. A release to persuade potential buyers and a lot more to please users of the product. In addition to adding new features supporting emerging industry trends like cloud and mobile, Oracle SOA Suite 12c also provides many new features and enhancements around developer...

I had a post about the solution to suppress ADF LOV Like operator and prevent LOV popup loading when user is typing existing value - Suppressing ADF LOV Like Operator Filtering. Thanks to a blog reader, there was one use case found, when Like operator was not suppressed properly. This is fixed now and I would like to post updated sample application here. Additional method is overridden in LOV VO implementation class - applyViewCriteria(ViewCriteria, boolean). Besides...

Having been delivering SOA projects for over a decade, I’ve come across many tools some of which I hate and avoid using them (unless a client demands so)  and others that have made my life easier when delivering projects. The below table is a recollection of tools I have used or come across which  I find useful and recommend SOA/API practitioners to use or at least evaluate. Enjoy :) SDLC Tool Name Description + Links Project/Scrum Management and Collaboration Jira Jira when used...

In a previous blog post I talked about scoping breakpoints for debugging purposes, next to scoping breakpoints JDeveloper has more interesting debugging features to offer. I created a simple example to show both the watchpoint as well as the beep functionality. To illustrate this, I created a page with an inputText and a button, both bound to a backingBean. Now imagine that I want to halt execution everytime the bean field value changes. I can simply right-click the field and...

Introduction SOA Suite 12c added a new component: Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS). ESS provides the ability to run different job types distributed across the nodes in an Oracle WebLogic Server cluster. Oracle Enterprise Scheduler runs these jobs securely, with high availability and scalability, with load balancing and provides monitoring and management through Fusion Middleware Control. ESS was available as part of the Fusion Applications product offering. Now it is...

In earlier versions of the Enterprise Manager it was already possible to recover faulted instances of web services. Like for instance when a service that the instance depends on is down, the instance will throw a fault and stop processing. When the underlying service is up again, you could go back to the faulted instance and use recovery to have it continue from the step it faulted on. Now with the introduction of 12c the Error Hospital in the Enterprise Manager supports Bulk...