Quick overview of SOA Suite 12.2.1 new features
Oracle has just released SOA Suite 12.2.1 which contains several exciting new features. The below entries have shamelessly copied from the developers guide in order to provide a quick …
Author: Maarten Smeets
How to get most out of your PaaS solution
Many companies are starting to implement PaaS (platform as a service) solutions. There are obvious benefits such as easy patching, scaling, pay per use, etc. There are also challenges …
How to use WLST as a Jython 2.7 module
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) in WebLogic Server 12.1.3 uses Jython version 2.2.1 (based on Python 2.2.1). This can be an important limitation when using WLST. Many modules are not …
Create a release of artifacts. Automate adding Maven dependencies
“Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams keep producing valuable software in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably released at any …
BPM Suite 12c: Oracle Adaptive Case Management: Monitoring Case Events
Oracle Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is an interesting addition to Oracle BPM Suite which has been introduced in 11.1.1.7. Adaptive Case Management is suitable to model complex work-flows in …
SOA Suite 12c: Best practices for project structure and deployment
Efficient usage of version control has specific requirements to allow identification of versions and synchronous development on different branches. Design time you will want to have your Service Bus …
SOA Suite 12c: Collect & Deploy SCA composites & Service Bus artifacts using Maven
An artifact repository has many benefits for collaboration and governance of artifacts. In this blog post I will illustrate how you can fetch SCA composites and Service Bus artifacts …
Overview of WebLogic 12c RESTful Management Services
Inspired by a presentation given by Shukie Ganguly on the free Oracle Virtual Technology Summit in July (see here); “New APIs and Tools for Application Development in WebLogic 12c”, …
Sonatype Nexus: Delete artifacts based on a selection
Sonatype Nexus provides several mechanisms to remove artifacts from the repository. You can schedule a job to keep only specified number of the latest releases (see here). You can …
Continuous delivery culture. Why do we do the things we do the way we do them?
Usually at first there is a problem to be solved. A solution is conjured and implemented. After a while, the solution is re-used and re-used again. It changes depending …
WebLogic Server and OpenLDAP. Using dynamic groups
Dynamic groups in an LDAP are groups which contain a query to specify its members instead of specifying every member separately. Efficient usage of dynamic groups makes user maintenance …
Weblogic Console and BPM Worklist. Authentication using OpenLDAP
In this blog I will illustrate how you can configure Weblogic Server to use OpenLDAP as authentication provider and to allow OpenLDAP users to login to the Oracle BPM …
Unleash the power of Java API’s on your WLST scripts!
Oracle SOA Suite and many other Oracle products have extensive Java API’s to expose their functionality. WLST can often be used for relatively course grained actions. WLST (the version …
Searching Oracle Service Bus Pipeline Alert contents
There are several ways monitor messages passing through the Service Bus. Using pipeline alerts is one of them. Pipeline alerts can be searched in the Enterprise Manager based on …
Combine version control (SVN) and issue management (JIRA) to improve traceability
Version control and bug tracking systems are found in almost every software development project. Both contain information on release content. In version control, it is usual (and a best …
Exposing JMS queues and topics with a JAX-WS webservice
Everyone can do HTTP calls and thus call most webservices. Interfacing with JMS queues or topics though is a bit more difficult (when not using Oracle SOA Suite). An …
Deploying SOA Suite 12c artifacts from Nexus
SOA Suite 12c introduces Maven support to build and deploy artifacts. Oracle has provided extensive documentation on this. Also there already are plenty of blog posts describing how to …
Oracle introduces API Manager!
Oracle has introduced a new product; API Manager (you can find the official documentation here). API Manager is an important addition to the already impressive Oracle SOA stack. In …
Sonatype Nexus: Retrieving artifacts using the REST API or Apache Ivy
– This blog post was also published on http://www.sonatype.org/ – Sonatype Nexus is an often used artifact repository. In a previous blog post I have shown an example how Maven …
Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Multithreaded instance purging with the Java API
Let’s tackle a single topic at a time in this blog post ; ) SOA Suite 12c provides a Java API to perform operations on the SOA infrastructure and …
Oracle SOA Suite 12c: The Coherence Adapter
Oracle SOA Suite 12c ships with a new technology adapter, the Oracle CoherenceAdapter. This adapter allows easy integration with a Coherence Data Grid (a distributed cache). The excellent post …
Weblogic LDAPAuthenticator configuration; the GUID Attribute
LDAP servers can be configured to use as authenticator in Weblogic Server. In order to efficiently use an LDAP server, it must be possible to uniquely identify LDAP objects. …
Some thoughts on Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery is something a lot of companies strife for. It is changing the way we develop software to allows quick (continuous) delivery of business value. Why is it difficult to …
Using Maven to assemble and release artifacts to Nexus
An important part of a release process is storing artifacts in an artifact repository. Many customers use custom implementations of artifact repositories (such as file shares in combination with …
Oracle Service Bus: Obtaining a list of exposed SOAP HTTP endpoints
The Oracle Service Bus is often used for service virtualization. Endpoints are exposed on the Service Bus which proxy other services. Using such an abstraction layer can provide benefits …
SOA Suite 12c: Getting started with the Spring Component
The Oracle SOA Suite Spring component has been present since SOA Suite 11.1.1.3 (11gR1 PS2). This component allows easy integration of Java code with other SOA Suite components such …
ADF and service dependencies
In order to keep the business-IT gap manageable, it is important for analysts, designers and architects to know what their implemented application landscape actually looks like. An important part …
Oracle SOA Suite 11g and 12c: Determining composite dependencies to the level of operations
In large companies, often there are many services and dependencies between services. It is important to track service dependencies in order to for example estimate the impact of changes. …
Oracle SOA Suite 12c: The LDAPAdapter, a quick and easy tutorial
In enterprises, LDAP servers are often used to store user credentials and groups and share them among applications. Oracle SOA Suite 12c introduces a new technology adapter; the LDAPAdapter …
LDAP and Weblogic; Using ApacheDS as authentication provider for Weblogic
A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server is often used to centralize management of users/groups/credentials within enterprises. An LDAP server stores user information such as group memberships and often …
SOA Suite 12c: Obtaining composite resources; WSDLs, XSDs and WADLs
In SOA Suite 12c and 11g there are several options to obtain composite resources such as WSDL’s and WADL’s. In this blog post I will demonstrate some of them …
SOA Suite 12c: Introducing the REST Adapter. Calling a RESTful service returning JSON
The REST Adapter is an important new feature of Oracle SOA Suite 12c. This new adapter allows easy calling/exposing of RESTful services (see https://technology.amis.nl/2014/05/14/what-is-rest/ for an introduction to REST) based …
SOA Suite 12c: RESTAdapter: Exposing and testing RESTful services
In my previous two blog posts I have described REST (here) and how the new Oracle SOA Suite 12c REST adapter can be used to call RESTful services (here). …
What is REST?
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a term often used in software engineering when talking about services or other API’s. A lot of these so-called RESTful services or interfaces are not RESTful …