Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

GraphQL As An Alternative Approach To REST – Luis Weir Originally designed by Facebook to allow its mobile clients to define exactly what data should be send back by an API and therefore avoid unnecessary roundtrips and data usage, GraphQL is a JSON based query language for Web APIs. Since it was open sourced by Facebook in 2015, it has undergone very rapid adoption and many companies have already switch to the GraphQL way of building APIs – see http://graphql.org/users.Howeve...

What is Oracle Cloud Integration? As you may be aware, Oracle have released the next installment of their PaaS Integration products: Oracle Integration Cloud. Don't be alarmed, the Oracle Integration Cloud is not a brand new product, but it is rather a bundle of existing PaaS offerings. A new option has been added under the PaaS Integration options: 'App Integration' (Oracle Integration Cloud). Oracle Integration Cloud comes with: Integrations (ICS) Processes (PCS) Visual...

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Let's assume we have some custom WSDL and want to use this WSDL in Oracle Integration Cloud Service. ICS provides SOAP adapter that allows us to create SOAP connection with the WSDL that is locally saved in our desktop. Let's deep dive and see how to use the existing WSDL. Create a SOAP connection with below steps: Click Create button from the Connection page Search SOAP and Select SOAP adapter Enter below information and click on Create button. Read the complete article here. Pa...

· AI Makes “Smart Cities” Even Smarter In England’s rural Calderdale, residents can report broken streetlamps and request other government services anytime via an online chat with city representatives. And now Calderdale is interested in adding artificial intelligence (AI) to help answer the most commonly asked questions. Other cities are getting smarter, too. · The Holiday Season Is Here. Are You Ready? How can retailers use data to better segment their audiences to...

Integration projects are traditionally considered as time consuming and expensive and the same old story doesn't apply any more in modern Cloud platform era. With services like ICS, customers can integrate enterprise applications and go live in 2-3 weeks and this has been leveraged by quite a number of customers in ANZ recently. This article is aimed at showcasing one such quick integration developed between most popular open source Sugar CRM and a very commonly used marketing...

Previously I have posted about importing data in ADF Table from Excel file This post is about exporting viewObject data in Excel file using Apache POI API, Apache POI provides HSFF and XSFF to read , create and modify spreadsheets. You can download POI jars from The APACHE Software Foundation or from here Other than this you need to use xmlbeans and common-collections Jar Here I am taking Departments table of HR Schema to prepare model. Read the complete article here.   Develo...

Want to run Oracle ADF on Docker? This is possible, I will explain how. If you are new to Docker, it may require to spend significant amount of time to get started with all different bits and pieces. I will try to explain all essential steps, so that you will get up to speed quickly.First of all you need to have DB accessible, check my previous post explaining how to run Oracle DB on Docker - Oracle Database Docker Image in Docker Cloud (Digital Ocean). DB is required to...

Insight is a great value add to integration and process in OIC. It allows you to see exactly whats going on in your Integrations and Processes, be they in the cloud, on prem, or a combination of both. Here is an Analytics tool that works OOTB with SOA Suite, SOA CS, ICS and PCS. Key Features 1. Business Monitoring of Integration Cloud applications and heterogeneous cloud     and on-premises environments 2. Define Business Milestones and Metrics from your browser with no coding3....