Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

To get access to the Oracle demo system please visit first OPN (OPN account required) With the increasing popularity of software as a service (SaaS), there is a key imperative to quickly, efficiently and securely integrate the newer SaaS applications with their existing on-premise counterparts. Using an incident management/service delivery scenario, this demo shows how Oracle Fusion Middleware streamlines this integration via a unified framework of middleware components that...

When you are building a MAF application, you may decide to use Web Services (SOAP / REST) or local Database to retrieve or persist your data. If you decide to use local Database, the SQLite is the default Database of MAF. SQLite is designed for use as an embedded database system, one typically used by a single user and often linked directly into the application. It is ACID-compliant, lightweight and portable. In this post I will create a CRUD of employees in Oracle MAF...

inspire|IT a Best Practices Conference will take place on May 11 & May 12 at the Radisson Blue at Frankfurt. Besides the topics “Software Development”, “BI/ Analytics”, “Infrastructure & Services” and an Oracle BIG Data|Update, “BPM & Systemintegration“ will be a main theme at the conference. The topic will be discussed on May 11. Leading figures will explain their User Experience and Solutions. Don´t miss the opportunity and join sessions of e.g. W.L. Gore, Wincor Nixdorf and...

See the features included in the Oracle SOA Suite 12c release. Some highlights of the features include automated conversions REST/SOAP, cloud adapters to simplify on-premise to cloud integration, new SAP, JDE Adapters, and Managed File Transfer (MFT) for file-based integration (new SKU), memory footprint reduction, startup acceleration, pre-tuned database profiles, one-click install, improved integration with JDeveloper, debugger & tester, templates, support for...

One of the main advantages of Oracle Mobile Suite - Service Bus and SOAP/REST web service transformation (more here - Oracle Mobile Suite Service Bus REST and ADF BC SOAP). In addition you will get very nice performance improvement, there is out of the box caching for Web Service resultset with Coherence. I'm going to demonstrate how it works, all out of the box - really simple.You could define caching for external service (ADF BC SOAP web service in my case), just edit...

Thanks for an excellent Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015! Special thanks for our excellent speakers for the great presentations and everybody to be a real community. With 175 attendees from all over Europe Middle East and Africa including friends across the world from US, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica. Once again the largest group with 25 attendees came from the Netherlands! In case you couldn’t come to Budapest make sure you read the blog post from the...

Mobile Development 2015 Essentials Exam (1Z1-441) is now available in beta testing. This certification covers topics such as: Mobile Application Framework (MAF), Mobile Application Framework (MAF) Data Layer, User Interface (UI) Development, Device Services Integration, and App Security. Up-to-date training and field experience are recommended. This certification is available to all candidates, but is geared toward members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. OPN members earning this...

Given the recent security breaches, data security should always be a concern when designing and creating IT solutions. In particular, what are some considerations that should be made when implementing a solution within the Oracle SOA Suite? Is it sufficient to protect the data using WS-Security/SSL or is additional security needed? If you have sensitive data traversing through the SOA Suite then additional security must be considered. As noted within the National Institute...

This page provide instructions and starting code for the Java EE 7 hands-on lab. The hands-on lab builds a typical 3-tier end-to-end application using the following Java EE 7 technologies: Specification Name JSR # Java API for WebSocket 1.0 JSR 356 Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 JSR 352 Java API for JSON Processing 1.0 JSR 353 Java Message Service 2.0 JSR 343 Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.0 JSR 339 Java Persistence API 2.1 JSR 338 JavaServer Faces 2.2 JSR 344 Contexts and...