SOA Suite 12c: Property window for inspecting and editing BPEL activities
Before release 12c, editing activities in a BPEL process was done in the wizard that could be activated by double clicking the activity or by selecting edit from the …
Author: Lucas Jellema
SOA Suite 12c: JDeveloper supports creation of Folders
At long last, the JDeveloper IDE acknowledges Folders as a construct that the developer needs control over. Until now, folders were visible in JDeveloper because they existed on the …
BPM Suite 12c: Quick Start installation – 20 minutes and good to go
Yesterday, Oracle released BPM Suite 12c. Just like SOA Suite 12c – released the day before – this release comes with the quick start option: to quickly start going …
SOA Suite 12c: First steps with the Coherence Adapter to create cross instance state memory
One of the new adapters shipped with SOA Suite 12c is the Coherence Adapter. This JCA adapter makes it easy for a Service Bus business service or a SOA …
SOA Suite 12c: Support for reusable XQuery Libraries | Modules
It featured in many forum discussions (such as this one) in the last few years: “The Oracle Service Bus XQuery engine fully supports all of the language features that …
SOA Suite 12c: Neat little feature in Service Bus Pipelines: Disable/Enable Activity to ease development
Sometimes it is just a small feature that can make life easier. SOA Suite 12c is full of large, sweeping new components and grant improvements. And it also has …
SOA Suite 12c: Sharing resources between SOA composites and Service Bus projects with Design Time MDS
A file-based, design-time MDS Repository is automatically included when you create a SOA composite application. You cannot modify the MDS Repository name, but you can modify it to point …
SOA Suite 12c: Using Domain Value Map (DVM) in Service Bus projects
Domain Value Maps are still DVMs in SOA Suite 12c. Create them in JDeveloper, use them in Transformations and Assignments in Mediator and BPEL. Inspect them and edit them …
SOA Suite 12c: Native Format Translation in Service Bus Pipeline – XML to and from JSON, CSV and fixed position formats
Data offered as internet resource in a structured XML or non-XML format (such as JSON, CSV or fixed position) – cannot be retrieved by the File Adapter, but it …
SOA Suite 12c: Where to find Service Bus Message Reports (in Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control)
In SOA Suite 12c, the Service Bus console no longer exists. The Service Bus specific run time browser interface is not intended for administration activities: all administration around SOA …
SOA Suite 12c: Where to find Service Bus Pipeline Alerts (in Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control)
In SOA Suite 12c, the Service Bus console no longer exists. The Service Bus specific run time browser interface is not intended for administration activities: all administration around SOA …
SOA Suite 12c: Deploying shared artifacts to Run Time MDS – the official approach and the quick short-cut
In this article, I will show how to deploy shared artifacts, leveraged by a SOA Composite application using the oramds: references, to the run time MDS. The formal approach …
SOA Suite 12c: Inspect and Leverage the contents of the Run Time MDS in the Integrated WLS
SOA Suite 12c provides the option to use the Integrated WebLogicServer in JDeveloper as the development run time environment. It comes prepackaged, installs very easily and gets a developer …
SOA Suite 12c: Dynamically overriding attributes of static routing rules in Mediator component
Routing Rules in a Mediator component carry several attributes that govern the routing rule run time behavior. These include: XSLT or XQuery used for transformation, the filter expression, target …
SOA Suite 12c: Sharing resources between development environments: Export from and Import to Design Time SOA MDS repository
The MDS repository is an important mechanism for SOA Suite 12c, both at design time during development as well as at run time. At design time, MDS is used …
SOA Suite 12c: BPEL Inline Sub Processes or locally Reusable Chunks of BPEL process logic
An in-line sub process can best be thought of as a callable scope. It is a scope that is not part of the normal process flow, but rather a …
SOA Suite 12c: The demise of the OSB and the glorious birth of the SB
Oracle has too many products. The range of acronyms is not infinite, especially when most of these acronyms start with an O and have three letters. As it turns …
SOA Suite 12c: The Star of the SOA Suite 12c – The Pipeline
Every new product release has a star. And of course picking that star is arbitrary. One person’s favorite feature may not be someone else’s. My pick of the 12c …
ADF 12.1.3 – Highlights in Data Visualization (DVT)
One of my favorite areas in ADF Faces always has been the Data Visualization aka DVTs. I feel that we make far too little use of the power of …
ADF 12.1.3 (& JDeveloper 12.1.3) New Features
June 26th – Release Day for Fusion Middleware 12.1.3. The focus is mainly on SOA Suite 12c and WebLogic 12.1.3. An interesting new release is also JDeveloper 12.1.3 together …
Using ADF DVT Bubble Chart to display the number of goals per match per city at the World Cup Football 2014
The final result – which is obtained in an incredibly easy manner – is shown in the next figure: The bubble chart shows bubbles per match. The X and …
SQL: combine inline PL/SQL function with inline view in Oracle Database 12c SQL Query
Oracle Database 7.3 was the first to support inline views – using the select * from (select * from) syntax. Oracle Database 9i added the with clause for subquery …
SQL Challenge: Drilling down into World Cup Football Tag Cloud
In a previous article, I have introduced the World Cup Football tag cloud (https://technology.amis.nl/2014/06/22/sql-challenge-dynamically-producing-a-tag-cloud-for-world-cup-football-matches/). I have shown how tags can be associated with football matches, both explicitly and implicitly …
SQL Challenge: Dynamically producing a tag cloud for World Cup Football matches
Tag clouds are a special way to present information about a set of records. Tags are descriptive labels that are associated with specific records. A tag cloud visualizes the …
SQL Challenge: Find World Cup Football matches with a comeback
As I recently said in another blog post, the World Cup Football is such a wonderful source of data that begs to be digested using SQL in many different …
How to create an if-then-else expression (aka ternary operator) in an XPath 1.0 expression?
There are situations where I have to create an XPath expression that performs something like if-then-else logic (similar to a CASE or DECODE expression in SQL or a ternary …
SQL Challenge – World Cup Football 2014 – Retrieving matches and Calculating Group standings
Few things lend itself so well to SQL explorations as sport related data. The imminent World Cup Football (or Soccer in some deprived parts of the world)2014 in Brazil …
SQL Challenge – packing time intervals and merging valid time periods
During the OUGF 2014 Harmony Conference in Finland, I attended a seminar by Chris Date on Temporal Data and the Relational Model. He introduced an approach within the relational …
ADF in Action – slides and demonstration from OUGF 2014
During this week’s OUGF 2014 Harmony conference in Haltia, Finland I presented on Oracle’s premier application development framework: ADF. ADF is the strategic application development framework for Oracle, a …
Part 2 – Notes from Finland – impressions from the second day of OUGF 2014 Harmony Conference
After a great party with the Oracle house band doing a veritable “The Commitments”-style performance and some excellent food under a largely clear and sunny Finnish Summer sky and …
Notes from Finland – impressions from the OUGF 2014 Harmony Conference
I am currently attending the OUGF 2014 Harmony Conference in a beautiful setting on a Finnish lakeside. This conference has a great line up in terms of speakers and …
Invoke an Asynchronous Web Service from Java (using only Java SE, no Java EE container)
A recent article (http://blog.soasuitehandbook.org/implement-an-asynchronous-web-service-using-jax-ws-in-jdeveloper/) described how to publish an Asynchronous Web Service from Java (using JAX-WS). It also showed how such a Web Service can be tested using SoapUI. …
Implement an Asynchronous Web Service using JAX-WS in JDeveloper
This article discusses how to implement an asynchronous web service in Java EE. The Java application will expose a one way operation that will process the request and send …
SQL Challenge – Calculating the legal maximum speed measured by the laser speed gun
The speed of cars can be detected at large distance and with great accuracy using laser speed guns. How the measured speeds translate into speeding tickets depends on the …
SQL based Charts – Scatterplot for x,y coordinate data sets (growth curve, euro/dollar ratio)
Today, against all priorities, I have resumed an old hobby: the creation of charts with nothing but SQL to work with. Several years back I created pure SQL Hi-Lo …
Live Blog – AMIS Oracle Enterprise Mobility conference (21-23 May 2014) – Last Updated May 23rd – 16:30 CET
This article will provide a live account of the three day Enterprise Mobility conference, hosted by AMIS in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Oracle ADF Product Managers Frank Nimphius and Chris …
Donderdagavond 22 mei – het ADF community evenement met Oracle product managers, ADF 12.1.3 en de ADF World Cup Challenge
Donderdag 22 mei organiseert AMIS in samenwerking met Oracle het ADF Community event. Voor iedereen die zich in Nederland en omgeving bezig houdt met ADF is dit een prachtige …
Gathering data for demo projects – Data Visualization, Pattern Recognition and Data Analysis based on the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest
Having access to useful data to create demonstrations and sample applications can be quite a challenge. Demonstrating the power of data visualizations (for example with ADF DVT) or the …
ADF for the Enterprise and beyond – 3-day conference for senior developers and application architects
On May 21st, 22nd and 23rd – AMIS and Oracle join forces for a three day event around enterprise application development with Oracle Fusion Middleware. The event targets senior …
Milestone for the Java platform – The Release of Java 8
This is an important moment for Java. The general availability of Java 8 – more specifically of Java 8 SE, Embedded, (and shortly ME as well) and FX (and …