Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

About Application Container Cloud Service ACCS provides a pre-configured platform (Platform as a Service or PAAS) where you can quickly deploy and host your applications.  For many of today’s applications, the hosting server is just that, a place to host the application.  Most of the time the only thing an application needs from the server is to have it support the application’s programming language and to provide in and out connections through ports.  Using a PAAS such as...

To create simple Human Tasks we use web forms in Process Cloud Service (PCS). Within the Delivery Process of the Jarvis Pizzeria, we are going to implement the HT for ‘Try Contacting the Customer’. This human task should become available after we have checked that the Customer is not a member and we do not know his email address.  Try contacting the non-regular / member from Jarvis Pizzeria, in the swimlane of the CallCenter. We will take the Design First approach, meaning we...

About six month ago I enjoyed the developer experience Oracle provided with his cloud portfolio. In my opinion the majority of services was integrated seamlessly. Especially the integration between Oracle Developer Cloud Service, a complete CI/CD as a service solution, in combination with various other infrastructure and platform services met my needs perfectly. Unfortunately, I experienced some problems since Oracle switched to its new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). I...

  So far we have covered most standard components of the PCS suite. However, we haven’t looked at the “Notification Task” in-depth yet. We have used the on-premises variant at various projects but it was the hassle of setting up the User Messaging Service (UMS) that made you reluctant to use this feature on beforehand. Will the PCS variant be a gamechanger? Let’s find out! We implemented a basic process with a standard notification task and configured it to send an email to marc...

Oracle today announced that it is open sourcing the Fn project Kubernetes Installer and Global Multi-Cluster Management, two projects designed to help developers build the next generation of container native applications leveraging Kubernetes. Both projects are integrated with the Oracle Container Native Application Development Platform, providing developers with an integrated and enterprise-grade platform to build, deploy and operate applications. The Fn project Installer...

In a previous blog we created a default WebForm for the Pizza Preparation process. In each human interaction of the process we used this default WebForm with the default presentation. In this post we will create a different presentation for each human interaction in the process. Crust Preparation Will only show the pizza name and size. Both fields are editable. Filling the Pizza Shows alle data. The pizza name and size are read-only. The ingredients are editable. It’s also...

I decided to take a attend a Meetup on Serverless (Oracle Fn project), and it was a lot of fun. The first talk was excellent, and that will be the focus of this post. Fn Presentation The talk started with some history on the speaker, Chad Arimura, and some of the companies he's launched, as well as a few obligatory slides to level set things ("What is serverless?"). After the brief pre-amble, Chad got into the meat of the presentation, which was close to the quickstart on the F...

One of the services which are delivered by the Oracle Management Cloud is the monitoring of infrastructure. Now in this case, infrastructure spans from host to software platform. In this blogpost I will try to explain how you can effectively behind issues in your Oracle SOA Suite operational environment. OMC can monitor some parts specific to the SOA suite, in fact all the engines which are enclosed in a SOA Suite running envrioment. These are: The BPEL engine The Mediator...

Oracle announced a managed Kubernetes Cloud service during Oracle OpenWorld 2017. This week, I had an opportunity to work with this new container native cloud offering. It is quite straightforward: Through the Wercker console a new Cluster can be created on an Oracle BareMetal Cloud (aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) environment. The cloud credentials are provided Name and K8S version are specified: Read the complete article here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular...