Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The Puppet ORAWLS module has many ensurable WebLogic puppet types and is fast cause of the new WLST domain daemon. Get it here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: Edwin Biemond,puppet,WebLogic,We...

This blog post is part of a series of posts about humantask assignment. You can find the starting point of this series by following the next link. In this post I will give an example of task assignment by Names And Expressions using Oracle Business Rules. I will use the same BPM process as in most of the other posts in this series. Read the complete article here. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner...

Learn more about WebLogic in short videos on YouTube WebLogic Server Templates, Webcast supporting recipe from the new edition (2014) of WebLogic Distinctive Recipes book: http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-WebLogic...To watch the videos please visit Youtube WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account...

Here are some basic heuristics to defensively deal with timeouts in your BPM processes. The basic rule is - follow the hierarchy JTA Timeout > BPM EJB Transaction Timeout > resource timeout We can look at this as referring to the 3 different technical levels involved - JTA Timeout - set at weblogic engine, this is the Java Transaction timeout. You want to avoid this ever happening. It can be set at weblogic domain level (JTA tab) via the weblogic console - By default this is...

Coherence*Web is a great feature which allows you to store your HTTP sessions in a Coherence Cluster. Doing this allows your to de-couple the HTTP sessions from your JVM’s that are running your web apps, (which can free up JVM memory) and take advantage of the RASP (Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance) capabilities of Coherence for storage. With this separation you can also more easily scale and manage and your HTTP session tier as well as utilise the wide...

Oracle released Adaptive Case Management (ACM) in 2013 as part of the BPM stack. One of the functionality we needed in a project recently, was the handling of deadlines in the context of a case. There is (currently) no out-of-the-box solution to, for example, escalate or reassign a case when a specific deadline has expired. In this blog we describe how this functionality can be created with the out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Case Management. Dealing with deadlinesConsid...

Here's a silly little issue I hit this afternoon - mostly a case of "administrator error" but a time waster nevertheless.To recap, there was a big change to Web Tier administration in 12.1.2 in that OHS is controlled with what's now called the "WebLogic Management Framework" - in short this means OHS instance configuration is handled via WLST and lifecycle (start/stop etc) by Node Manager (i.e. OPMN has gone). You have a choice of either co-locating OHS in your existing...

Oracle has just released BPM 11.1.1.7 Bundle Patch 3 which adds the out of the box web interface for Advanced Case Management and REST APIs for working with BPM. The patch is available from Oracle Support, it is patch number 18072286. The Case Management interface looks a bit like this: And here is an example of using the REST API.  You can call the REST URL (GET) http://yourserver:port/bpm/services/rest/application.wadl to get details of the available services:Read the complete...

In my previous blog I described the steps to get OpenStack on Solaris up and running. Now we'll explore how WebLogic and OpenStack can work together to deliver truly elastic Middleware Platform as a Service.Middleware / Platform as a Service goals First, let's define what PaaS should be : PaaS offerings facilitate the deployment of applications without the complexity of managing the underlying hardware and software and provisioning hosting capabilities. To break it down:-...