JSON Validation in MCS: Quickly and Easily
Validating JSON in MCS I was working with a customer the other day, trouble shooting an API that did not seem to be working when it was accessed by a MAX application. When he tested the API in MCS, everything worked fine. When he accessed that same API call from MAX, the list control was empty and the message "No data found" was displayed instead. Fortunately, this customer noticed a small discrepancy between the JSON that was being returned by the API and the expected...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 | Read More
2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant: Mobile App Development Platforms
The 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Mobile App Development Platforms has been released, and Oracle has been named a leader for its ability to execute and for its completeness of vision! Oracle was also named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Mobile Development Platforms, Q4 2016 report. According to the Oracle press release published this morning, “Oracle was recognized as a market leader for more than doubling its customer count for Oracle Mobile Cloud Service.” In...
Friday, June 23, 2017 | Mobile Content | Read More
Securely connecting to other apps and services from Mobile Cloud Service
CSF Keys in MCS I recently had a customer ask me about creating a connector from Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) to Oracle Financials in the cloud. Creating a connector to Oracle Financials is a quick process and involves the creation of a CSF key. What is a CSF Key? CSF stand for Credential Store Framework. This framework, built into MCS, allows you to create and store multiple credentials for use by MCS. In this case, we want to store a basic authorization credential in MCS so MCS...
Monday, June 12, 2017 | Mobile Development | Read More
Oracle MAF 2.4.1 released
I'm pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.1 of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF). This is a minor release containing the following enhancements: Xcode 8.3 support, including a new 'Method' field in iOS Platform preferences that must be set appropriately Support for Cordova plugins that spawn a native UI on the Windows platform Android multidex support for apps that have grown too large A companion tool for app performance analysis Note that Xcode 8.3.x is...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 | Mobile Development | Read More
Great Mobile and Internet Reports You Must Check Out
PSA post today for all you mobile and technology fans. I wanted to highlight a couple of excellent reports that should be on your radar. Chronologically speaking, the first being from Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowiztz (a16z.com – a16z, get it? Geek-minded would, but I’ll let you google it) as well as Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins. They are both on my radar as I consider them to be great though leaders covering mobile and Internet trends and offer insightful information...
Friday, June 2, 2017 | Mobile Content | Read More
Oracle JET Command Line Interface
If you’ve ever struggled to remember the syntax of the Oracle JET tooling commands, help is at hand! The Oracle JET command line tooling has been significantly enhanced with the release of the ojet-cli module that provides a consistent, easy-to-use command line interface (CLI) for scaffolding, building, serving and managing JET apps. This CLI has been released together with JET 3.1.0, but is not yet documented in the JET documentation while we ask you to install it, use it...