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 …
Category: Continuous Delivery
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 …
XL Deploy: Simple Case of Custom Deployment
The last couple of months I have been assigned to a project dedicated to deployment automation including several levels and types of technologies: database, middleware, services and portals. The …
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 …
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 …
Creating and scaling Dynamic Clusters using wlst
April 10, 2015
Cloud, Oracle WebLogic Server, Platform Technology, Provisioning, Technology
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In my previous article, Creating and scaling Dynamic Clusters in Weblogic 12c, I described the creation and scaling of Dynamic Clusters. I used the Weblogic Console to create the …
Continuous Delivery Maturity Model – Nederlandse versie
De methoden en technieken voor Continuous Delivery winnen steeds meer aan belangstelling. Deze aanpak blijkt vaak de succesvolle strategie achter het realiseren van echte “business agility”. Veel organisaties weten …
Best practices for implementing an efficient continuous delivery process
In the past years I have been involved in implementation/introduction of a continuous delivery process in a lot of software projects. The activities concerned with this are also labeled …
Next step with Docker – Create Image for Oracle Database 12c using Puppet
In a previous article – https://technology.amis.nl/2015/03/15/docker-take-two-starting-from-windows-with-linux-vm-as-docker-host/ – I have discussed my first steps with Docker. With Windows as my host environment I used Vagrant to create a VirtualBox VM …
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 …
Docker – Take Two – Starting From Windows with Linux VM as Docker Host
My first attempt with Docker was from my Windows host machine using boot2docker, as described in this article: https://technology.amis.nl/2015/03/15/my-first-steps-with-docker-starting-from-windows-as-the-host/. Boot2docker is a great tool for being able to work …
My First Steps with Docker – starting from Windows as the Host
After reading quite a bit about Docker – especially the great write up by Mark Nelson (Getting to know Docker – a better way to do virtualization?) I believe …
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 …
Cloud Control Agent 12c managing many objects
An Oracle Enterprise Management Agent 12c that has to manage hundreds of objects needs extra tweaking. If not, it will not start, or it will die soon, leaving you …
Re-establishing reference from Vagrant to VirtualBox VM
Stress in the middle to demo preparation: Vagrant refused to bring up my suspended VMs. The message is wrote: D:\GitHub\biemond-orawls-vagrant-12.1.3-infra-soa>vagrant resume soa2admin2==> soa2admin2: VM not created. Moving on… After …
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 Cloud demystified: Open World 2014 Overview of Cloud offerings
The central theme of Oracle Open World 2014 has certainly been the Cloud. Downtown San Francisco was laced with banners about Oracle and Cloud. The difference compared to last …
Major take-aways from Oracle OpenWorld 2014 – some relevant conclusions
Oracle OpenWorld 2014 is over. Just under a week, full to the brim with information, events, people, energy, plans, hopes and expectations. I have learned many, many things. Small …
Quick generation of a VirtualBox VM with Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 EE on CentOS 5.6
A short time ago, Oracle released Oracle Database 12c – release 12.1.0.2. With a bunch of goodies that I would like to try out. This release can be downloaded …
Getting my hands on a Virtual Machine with Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 Enterprise Edition – 20-30 minutes from start to finish
NOTE: even though the steps described in this article all work – I am running into a problem with shutting down and starting up the VM again. So at …
Resolving deployment issues with Service Bus 12c – OSB-398016 – Error loading WSDL
I was completely stuck with Service Bus 12c project deployment from JDeveloper to the Service Bus run time. Every deployment met with the same fate: Conflicts found during publish …
Rapid creation of Virtual Machine(s) for SOA Suite 12.1.3 server run time environment – leveraging Vagrant, Puppet and Biemond
In recent previous articles I have discussed the use of Vagrant and Puppet for the automated creation of Virtual Machines, for example with various Oracle software components completely installed …
Fastest way to a Virtual Machine with JDeveloper 12.1.3 and Oracle Database XE 11gR2 – on Ubuntu Linux 64 bit
In a previous article I have explained in quite a bit of detail how to create the Vagrant and Puppet scripts for stamping out a Virtual Box VM with …
Creating automated JDeveloper 12.1.3 & Oracle XE 11gR2 environment provisioning – using Vagrant and Puppet
Standing on the shoulders of many smart and persistent friends, peers and colleagues, I was able to fairly quickly concoct the Vagrant and Puppet configuration that allows automated provisioning …
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 …
Provisioning an Oracle 11g database VirtualBox VM with Vagrant and Puppet for dummies
Outline This post shows you how to setup an Oracle 11g database VM with the use of Vagrant and Puppet in straightforward steps. Anybody can execute this without knowledge …
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 …
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 …
Functional boundary testing of a service-based environment using MockServer
In big projects hopefully testing the components of the system is a key point. When multiple teams are working on a project and each create services in there functional …
Deploy Oracle ADF Essentials web application on Tomcat
January 3, 2014
Continuous Delivery, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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Although deployment of Oracle ADF 11g web applications on Tomcat is not officially supported, we have successfully deployed several ADF 11g applications on Tomcat 6. In fact, once you …
new Puppet 3 Weblogic provisioning module
November 24, 2013
Architecture, Cloud, Platform Technology, Provisioning, SOA, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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The last few weeks I was busy re-writing pf my puppet WLS module so it fully supports the power of Puppet 3 (thanks for more than 4000 downloads on puppet …
WebLogic -> FMW Provisioning update
October 26, 2013
Architecture, Cloud, Continuous Delivery, Development Tools, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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Already a year has passed since I wrote about WebLogic and Fusion Middleware provisioning with Puppet. In this year provisioning got a great boost with the popularity of DevOps …
Automatic deployment .ear file to Oracle Application Server 10.1.3 (OAS) with Ant tasks
In this post I would like to share an example how to deploy an .ear file with an Ant script to the Oracle Application Server 10.1.3 (OAS). Automatic deployment …
Deploy ADF essentials app on Tomcat 6.x
December 2, 2012
Continuous Delivery, Java, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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Recently I gotinvolved in a project where the customer requirement was to deploy an ADF application on Apache Tomcat 6.x. This ADF application would be rolled out with ADF …
Build and release OSB projects with Maven
November 14, 2012
Continuous Delivery, Development Tools, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools
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With Maven we are able to build & deploy OSB projects. The artifacts generated by Maven called snaphosts and releases can be automatically uploaded to a software repository. These …
Configure FMW servers with Puppet
October 13, 2012
Architecture, Continuous Delivery, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Tools
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When you have many development servers or cloud servers which runs Oracle software and then you know that configuration management of those servers is very important and must be …
Multiple production versions through WebLogic production redeployment
Production redeployment is a facility in WebLogic that provides the ability to temporarily have multiple versions of the same web application of web service active at the same time. …
Weblogic deployment using the Oracle weblogic maven plugin
With the PS3 release of the SOA Suite a new version, 10.3.4, of Weblogic has been released. Amongst others, this release also includes a new Weblogic Maven plugin (weblogic-maven-plugin) …
Quickly creating, deploying and testing a WebService interface for ADF Business Components
December 29, 2010
Continuous Delivery, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, SOA
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As you probably already know, ADF Business Components can very easily be exposed through a WebService interface. An Application Module can be configured with a Service Interface, ordinary ViewObjects …