Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The advent of cloud computing has reinvented application development for many companies. “That’s the beauty of the cloud,” says Cameron Purdy, vice president of development, Oracle. “It dramatically improves developer productivity because they can do what they do best without having to manage complex development, testing, staging, and production environments.”The key is to find a platform that doesn’t impose proprietary restrictions or force developers to learn new tools. For...

Recently, I posted about my colleague Olivier’s MDS Explorer tool, which is a great way to get a look inside your MDS repository. I have been playing around with it a little bit, nothing much really, just some cosmetic stuff, but you might like to take a look at it. I made it format the documents nicely with proper indentation, and with line numbers and a nicer editor. It also will warn you if you are about to open a large document so that you know it has not crashed, but...

The WebLogic Server 11gR1 Administration interactive quick reference is a multimedia tool for various terms and concepts used in WebLogic Server architecture. This tool is available for administrators for online or offline use. This is built as a multimedia web page which provides descriptions of WebLogic Server Architectural components, and references to relevant documentation. This tool offers valuable reference information for any complex concept or product in an...

The advantages of using the Oracle Metadata Services Repository as a central storage for the metadata. SCA has been available since the release of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g. This technology combines and orchestrates several SOA components inside an SCA composite, making design, development, deployment, and maintenance easier. SCA development is metadata-driven, meaning that metadata artifacts, such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL), XML Schema Definition (XSD), XML,...

Just a quick post to celebrate another siginificant milestone for Exalogic! After a few days of preparations and some hard work we succeeded in upgrading our Exalogic quarterrack to the newly released Elastic Cloud version 2.0.1.1.0. This version was just recently released on July 25th. This new version turns your Exalogic into a virtual datacenter with many very neat cloud provisioning capabilities. There are many more possibilities in this version to provide strict network...

In my previous post on Fusion Applications Integration, the Fusion Applications OER white paper explains Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) usage in the applications context, assuming a dedicated OER for your Fusion Applications instance (whether cloud/SaaS or on-premise). Having a dedicated OER instance is recommended as it can provide customized service metadata and can be used for overall SOA governance in addition to simple service discovery. One of the common queries I...

For access to the Oracle demo systems please visit OPN and talk to your Partner Expert Demo Highlights This demo showcases BPM integration with E-Business Suite BPM Process Spaces, providing role-based dashboards and monitoring EBS processes Automated workflow generation, enforcement of business rules Seamless integration with E-Business Suite-iExpense module using SOA Worklist approvals via a mobile device Demo Architecture  & Demo Collateral & OFM Demos Corner & DSS...

Date and time: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)Change time zone Wednesday, October 17, 2012 4:00 pm GMT Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00) Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Duration: 1 hour Description: This one-hour session is recommended for administrators and developpers who work with Oracle Weblogic...

Hands-on Workshop for experienced developers and architects with implementation experience. We start with a short introduction into the infrastructure and the software configuration on ExaLogic machine. Accompanies by experienced experts you can develop and test own ideas, concepts and applications on Exalogic . This will happen in a relaxed and "Open End" manner. 19.11.2012, 09:00 am - open end  Nürnberg Germany at ISE Speakers: Kersten Mebus & Marcel Amende (ORACLE...