Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The A-Team is a central, outbound, highly technical team comprised of Enterprise Architects, Solution Specialists and Software Engineers within the Fusion Middleware Product Development Organization that works with customers and partners, worldwide, providing guidance on implementation best practices, architecture, troubleshooting and how best to use Oracle products to solve customer business needs. The A-Team Chronicles website aggregates and organizes content produced by The...

At our WebLogic Community Workspace (WebLogic Community membership required) you can find the Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet. The booklet is a wonderful resource for sales, portfolio managers and architects to get new ideas clients. The customer cases in the booklet are not for publication! Make sure you use references within your sales process! Submit your reference to be written and published at the Oracle website! We are at the dawn of a new age of...

A new self study course (Using Oracle Business Rules in BPEL) was recently posted to the Oracle Learning Library. This self-study course runs about 40 minutes. You can access it, at no charge, here. This course leverages the vocabulary and concepts from the Introduction to Oracle Business Rules self-study as it discusses the configuration of the Oracle Business Rules service component, and the calling of the configured component from a BPEL process. It's a follow-on to the...

We want to make sure your sales & pre-sales A&C teams are trained like the Oracle middleware sales team. Therefore we would like to encourage you to read the Oracle internal middleware sales presentations. Please feel free to use the sales material in the spirit of our partnership. Please do not publish any information - all material is Oracle & Partner confidential. For customer presentations please us the external customer ppt presentations at our Community Workspace!...

I just built a combined OSB, SOA/BPM, BAM clustered domain. The biggest hassle is validating that the resource targeting is correct.  There is a great appendix in the documentation that lists all the modules and resources with their associated targets.  The only problem is that the appendix is six pages of small print. I manually went through the first page, verifying my target, until I thought ‘there must be a better way of doing this’. So this blog post is the better way...

Watch for It: Oracle Cloud Application Foundation 12c Launch Oracle is preparing to launch the next-generation application platform with Oracle Cloud Application Foundation 12c. Watch for updates about the exciting, information-packed launch event with Oracle and industry leaders, featuring the unveiling of Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.2, Oracle Coherence 12c, and new and improved development and management tools. Discover more about how you can deliver next-generation...

I have a number of posts that talk about using Maven to automate builds for Fusion Middleware projects.  I know that there are some people who have not used Maven before, or maybe only a little.  So I wanted to post a few short videos that explain the basic concepts and give a real example. Here is the first installment – Basic Maven - you might want to watch fullscreen. SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM...

Environment Oracle WebLogic 10.3.6 Use Case An application that depends on custom shared libraries needs to be redeployed without downtime. That means without interrupting the availability of the application to existing and new clients. Since production redeployment is not available for libraries we need to think about a different approach. Precondition A shared library (as war) is deployed (state: active) and targeted to - for simplicity say - AdminServer with the following...

Oracle SOA Suite is a complete suite which contains various services engines and adapters that can be readily integrated with other SOA Components to enable true SOA Ecosystem in an Enterprise. The below diagram shows view of the various SOA/SCA components that can be integrated together to enable a right SOA Ecosystem. This shown to provide a recap on the Oracle SOA Suite Components and Architecture before we discuss in detail about the best practices to be followed in...