Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

This session is going focus around learning new products and innovating in a true “hackathon” style scenario. You may be a PaaS developer who wants to learn more about integrating with SaaS, or a SaaS Architect who wants to learn more about building a PaaS extension. Meet in the middle at this hackathon extreme stream. Our Agenda will comprise of a short into the environments, services and then some hints and tips on the various Oracle PaaS and SaaS Services we will have...

The second Oracle JET community meetup will be focused on community activities around the world, as well as a look into new and upcoming features. (Watch the recording of the first one here.) Listen and discuss with developers around the world about their use of JET for enterprise applications today. Agenda: New and upcoming Oracle JET features (John Brock, Geertjan Wielenga, Oracle) Web Component Public Exchange (John Sim, Fishbowl Solutions, and others) Report on Oracle JET...

  The March edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three topics: • Call for Papers Oracle OpenWorld and Code One • Emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum • On-demand webcasts For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn. For the latest PaaS Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required). Blog Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Wiki Technora...

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is an extendable platform - you can add your own UI components to the list of around 70 UI components that already show up in the component palette of your visual editor. In this blog and video we show you two ways to add additional Oracle JET components to the editor. In the first part of the video we show how to add a "core" Oracle JET components, specifically the train component. In the second part of the video (starting at minute 9) we...

Are you working on Oracle SaaS implementations and want to integrate and extend them using PaaS? Attend our 2 days hands-on training to understand how use Oracle PaaS service like Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise & Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service in combination with Oracle SaaS solutions like Oracle ERP Cloud & Oracle Engagement Cloud. This session goes through extending SaaS services with PaaS. The training is most suitable for developer and...

Chatbots are the fastest growing market in mobile application development and extends mobile opportunities to the conversational channel. Oracle Digital Assistant provides the platform and tools to easily build AI-powered assistants that connect to your backend applications. A digital assistant uses artificial intelligence for natural language processing and understanding, to automate engagements with conversational interfaces that respond instantly, improve user...

Microservices are inherently more complex because they are distributed and shared less, and therefore, require a better foundation. It’s a bit controversial to say that microservices are not simple given how much is said about using them to simplify and accelerate software delivery. So can this statement even be made? It is, in Chris Richardson’s excellent new book, “Microservice Patterns” (here) and indirectly in Eric Evan’s “Domain-Driven Design” (here). Martin Fowler also...

Oracle introduced the new version of Visual Builder Cloud Service. This version is not just aimed at the Citizen Developer, in the end an experienced JavaScript can do nice things with it. In this blog I will have a look at 5 of the 6 main building blocks you build a VBCS applications with: REST service connections Flows and Pages Variables Action Chains UI Components Putting all of this in one blog is a lot, so this is a lengthy one. The final result can be found here. With VBCS...

After having written this article explaining a variety of consensus mechanisms for Blockchain available today, I have received hundreds of comments and positive feedback from those were struggling to understand what makes cryptocurrencies and blockchain securely working in a decentralized way, after having reading my article and thus have clearly understood the foundation supporting Blockchain implementations (thanks for all my readers by the way). However, there are others...