Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

If the five minute video I shared last week has whet your appetite for more, then this might be just what you are looking for! The same international team that has made that video - Andrew Dorman, Tanya Williams, Carlos Casares, Joakim Suarez and James Calise – have also created a thirty minute version that walks through in much more detail and shows you, from the perspective of various business stakeholders involved in process modeling, exactly how BPM PS6 supports the end...

The Oracle Applications User Experience team has created a program called Oracle UX Direct to provide customers, partners, and consultants in the enterprise industry with design best-practices and tools that they can leverage to make their enterprise implementations more successful. Read the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog to learn more about why the program was created, and visit the UX Direct web site to find out how to introduce design thinking during the...

I recently received questions from Oracle ACE Director (ACED) Tim Hall on upgrading to JDeveloper 11.1.1.7.0, not necessarily asking about the 'how' but rather the 'why should we upgrade to the latest version beyond new features?' Oracle has a close relationship with its ACED members, and overall the questions that we receive from the ACE Directors are well thought out and indicative of what the wider customer base are interested in, so we’re more often than not willing to...

The latest release of Oracle Event Processing (OEP) is focused on the Big Data Integration = Fast Data. New features include: Product artifact rename "Complex Event Processing" to “Event Processing” Solutions/Packaging Parameterized OEP applications and libraries, with public metadata to document the application Big Data Integration (FAST DATA) NoSqlDb Cartridge Hadoop Cartridge User Defined CQL Fault Handlers Allows developer to catch and handle errors that occur in CQL queries List...

Already collecting material for the next edition of my book I had a closer look at Oracle Coherence which is part of the WebLogic Suite. I made a number of hands-on screencasts available, more blog postings with best practices will follow. Make sure to subscribe to WebLogic book YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/weblogicbook. Basic Introduction: Coherence is a coherent data grid that provides a number of different cache implementations, which are well described here....

Thanks to Mark Foster from the A-Team. He published a series of Adaptive Case Management articles: Case Management Part 1: An Introduction Case Management Part 2: Anatomy of a Project Case Management Part 3: Runtime Lifecycle of a Project Case Management Part 1: An Introduction by Mark Foster With the release of PS6 on 1st April, Case Management made its appearance. In this series of blogs Mark intend to introduce the concept of case management explain the anatomy of a case...

I am very excited about ADF PS6 release, it brings new freshness and coolness feeling to ADF. ADF Faces runtime performance seems to be incomparable faster and much more responsive comparing to previous ADF 11g R1 and even ADF 11g R2 releases. This gives good hopes to expect the same improvements in ADF 12c. There is new ADF Faces component introduced - List View. You can think about it as about much more liberal ADF Faces table component. List View renders data collections...

If you run your SOA Suite on SPARC make sure you read the SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC. The guide contains details about: Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Test Overview Oracle Service Bus Microbenchmark Test Overview Test Configuration Hardware Configuration Software Configuration Partitioning Using Oracle VM Server for SPARC Generalized Performance Data Performance Tuning Methods BPEL Infrastructure Tuning Parameters Oracle Service Bus Performance Tuning Conclusion Links and Further Resources S...

When running a Weblogic server and its managed servers I have heard at multiple projects that there is a need of automatic startup of these server processes. There is not default an options to create a windows service when installing Weblogic and for example SOA Suite. The one option that is available is to create a windows service for the node manager. This small guide will show how to create a windows service for the Weblogic AdminServer, the node manager and the Managed...