Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Patching Exalogic part 4a Before we dive further into the brave new world of virtualization on the Exalogic, I thought I’d finish up my series of posts on patching. My previous posts on this subject detailed upgrading firstly the network compontents (Infiniband Gateway Switches, indicated in green) and secondly the storage component (ZFS 7320 appliance, in blue). This post will deal with patching the operating system on the modified Sun Fire X4170 M2 servers (in red),...

Geoffroy de Lamalle, CEO and Founder of eProseed, discusses how Oracle BPM Suite enables businesses to integrate business processes and achieve higher efficiency. You want to publish your BPM success? Feel free to make use of the partner reference program: Enables partners to be recognized by both Oracle and our customers Provides an opportunity for partners to showcase successes with their customers on Oracle solutions Helps raise awareness of our partners’ capabilities,...

This article will provide you with an overview of the JRockit Java Heap Space vs. the HotSpot VM. It will also provide you some background on Oracle future plans regarding JRockit & HotSpot. Oracle JRockit VM Java Heap: 2 different memory spaces The JRockit VM memory is split between 2 memory spaces: The Java Heap (YoungGen and OldGen) The Native memory space (Classes pool, C-Heap, Threads... Read the full article here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a...

What is a health check in RDA? A health check evaluates something in your environment to determine whether a change needs to be considered in order to avoid a problem or optimize fuctionality. Examples of what this 'something' might be are: Configuration Parameters JVM Options Runtime Statistics What have we done for SOA?In the latest release of RDA, 4.30, we have added a Rule Set for SOA called 'Oracle SOA 11g (11.1.1) Post Installation (Generic)'. This Rule Set contains 14 SOA...

One of the most time-consuming procedures of a database application is establishing a connection. The connection pooling of the data source can be used to minimize this overhead. That argues for using the data source instead of accessing the database driver directly. Configuring the size of the pool in the data source is somewhere between an art and science - this article will try to move it closer to science. From the beginning, WLS data source has had an initial capacity and...

Recorded live at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles in October 2012, these programs in the OTN ArchBeat podcast represent the Q&A between the audience and the experts panel assembled for the event, which included speakers from the day's technical sessions. Listen to Part 1: Dude, What's My Role? Members of the Architect Day panel respond to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a cloud environment. Listen to Part 2: Migrating Mission-Critical...

The JVM in which a WebLogic Server instance runs, sends messages to standard error and standard out. Server as well as application code write directly to these streams instead of using the logging mechanism. Through a configuration option, you can redirect the JVM output to all the registered log destinations, like the server terminal console and log file. When enabled, a log entry appears as a message of NOTICE severity. Redirecting the JVM output does not capture output...

The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud integration touch points. At the recent Gartner AADI conference, 230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall described cloud...

You want to present at the Java Forum 2013 in Stuttgart? Make sure you submit your paper about Java EE, WebLogic, Glassfish, mobile Java development by March 15th 2013. You want to promote your conference call for papers? Let us know we are happy to involve the WebLogic Community! 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...