Java Callout from Business Rules
Goal and warning This blog will show how to invoke java code directly from within a Business Rules component. I didn’t manage to find this in the Oracle product …
Category: SOA
What can we learn from the Microservices movement?
If you’re into integration, SOA or web services, you’ve probably heard the term Microservices fairly often lately. Is applying Microservices architecture the one-size-fits-all solution that can replace the traditional …
Benefits of a Canonical Data Model (CDM) in a SOA environment
Introduction The last few years I’ve been working in several SOA related projects, small projects as well as quite large projects. Almost all of these projects use a Canonical …
FTP Adapter Configuration for SFTP
Introduction At my current project incoming data files, located at a third party FTP server, have to be read using SFTP. Despite of several blog posts and the FTP …
Oracle SOA Suite Code Quality: SonarQube Quality Gates, XML Plugin and custom XPath rules
There are several ways to do code quality checks in SOA Suite. In this blog post I will describe a minimal effort setup which uses Jenkins 2.9, SonarQube 5.6 …
Seamless source “migration” from SOA Suite 12.1.3 to 12.2.1 using WLST and XSLT
When you migrate sources from SOA Suite 12.1.3 to SOA Suite 12.2.1, the only change I’ve seen JDeveloper do to the (SCA and Service Bus) code is updating versions …
Creating reusable Business Rules for SOA & BPM
This article dives into the Business Rules Engine (BRE) of Oracle SOA Suite and how to create reusable Business Rules for your SOA services and BPM processes. Basic knowledge …
Integration Cloud Service (ICS): Execution Agent proxy issue: NumberFormatException
Integration Cloud Service (ICS) offers an Execution Agent which you can download and install on-premises. This provides a local ICS instance. The Execution Agent is useful in several situations. …
Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS): A developer’s first impression
Oracle provides ICS (Integration Cloud Service) as a simple means for citizen developers to do integrations in the cloud and between cloud and on-premises. On the Oracle Fusion Middleware …
Introducing Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight – complement to SOA Suite & Service Bus
The launch of Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight – a name that suggests Larry’s direct involvement in naming the product – marks the moment at which the integration product …
Performance optimization for the ACM/BPM API worklist client
This blog describes a way to optimize performance of a custom ACM/BPM API worklist client implementation. This is optimization recipe is applicable in a specific use case. Before running …
Oracle Conference @AMIS June 2 and 3 >> Register Now
2016 is the 25th anniversary of AMIS. Time for celebration with an Oracle Open World-like conference near Amsterdam in The Netherlands. A perfect way to enjoy one of the 100+ …
Leveraging the Twitter Adapter in ICS – Tweeting through Oracle Integration Cloud Service
The Oracle Integration Cloud Service – ICS – comes loaded with a rich collection of Cloud Adapters. These adapters facilitate the integration with SaaS applications and internet services of …
Asynchronous interaction in Oracle BPEL and BPM. WS-Addressing and Correlation sets
There are different ways to achieve asynchronous interaction in Oracle SOA Suite. In this blog article, I’ll explain some differences between WS-Addressing and using correlation sets (in BPEL but …
Structure is Everything
Middleware applications are normally build in a structured way – according to some architecture. However, often this structure can’t be recognized in the implementation. This article describes some simple …
Weird connectivity problem with connecting ICS to REST Service on Application Container cloud: HTT 502
In this article I am trying to create a connection from ICS to a REST Service. That should be the easiest thing in the world for ICS, right? It …
Create an Integration on ICS to expose a REST API for a SOAP Connection for an external web service
In this article, I will show a little bit more of ICS – the Integration Cloud Service. In a previous article, I have introduced some concepts – such as …
The quick introduction to the Integration Cloud Service (Oracle PaaS – ICS)
Integration is the term we employ for ‘what ties systems together into end-to-end interaction flows’. Integration describes what we have to do to make applications in one domain talk …
Doing performance measurements of an OSB Proxy Service by programmatically extracting performance metrics via the ServiceDomainMBean and presenting them as an image via a PowerPoint VBA module
This article explains how the process of doing performance measurements of an OSB Proxy Service and presenting them in a “performance analysis document” was partly automated. After running a …
Oracle Middleware and IBM MQ Series – Use case: MQ Adapter
Series This is the fourth post in a series on using Oracle Middleware with IBM MQ Series. In this series, the following articles are available: IBM MQ Series Installation …
Oracle Middleware and IBM MQ Series – Use case: JMS Adapter and MQ
Series This is the third post in a series on using Oracle Middleware with IBM MQ Series. In this series, the following articles are available: IBM MQ Series Installation …
Oracle Middleware and IBM MQ Series – Use case: MQ Transport
Series This is the fifth post in a series on using Oracle Middleware with IBM MQ Series. In this series, the following articles are available: IBM MQ Series Installation …
Oracle Middleware and IBM MQ Series – Configuration of JMS and MQ Adapters in WebLogic
Series This is the second post in a series on using Oracle Middleware with IBM MQ Series. In this series, the following articles are available: IBM MQ Series Installation …
Oracle Middleware and IBM MQ Series – IBM MQ Installation
Overview Around the summer 2015, I prepared a demo for a customer to show how Oracle Middleware and IBM MQ can interface. When I started to prepare the demo, …
Performance by using patterns in service implementations
Performance in service oriented environments is often an issue. This is usually caused by a combination of infrastructure, configuration and service efficiency. In this blog article I provide several …
Dramatically reduce SOA Suite 11g startup time by cleaning the MDS
SOA Suite can sometimes be a bit slow to start. This is especially the case when there are a lot of composites to load. Customers using different versions of …
Starting out with Oracle SOA CS – my first steps on a fairly advanced PaaS service
One of the platform offerings in the Oracle Public Cloud is the SOA Cloud Service. This service offers various flavors of SOA Suite 12c (Service Bus, SOA Suite, Technology …
I don’t like the Mediator
Ok, so there you have it: I just don’t like the Mediator. I don’t really know why. But now that it’s in the open, let’s discuss it. I often …
Monitor Oracle SOA Suite service response times with Splunk
Measuring performance of services can be done in various ways. In this blog article I will describe a method of measuring Oracle SOA service response times with Splunk a …
Integration Workload Statistics (IWS) on untyped JSON and JavaScript in Composites
Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1 introduces Integration Workload Statistics. This is a powerful new feature which can be used to do performance measures. Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1 also introduces untyped …
Processing large XML files in the SOA Suite
Read large XML files in chunks . Introduction At my current project, XML files are uploaded by the end-user in order to be processed in the Oracle SOA Suite. …
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – Integration
This article gives an overview of some of the most eye catching stories from Oracle OpenWorld 2015 around integration. It discusses on premises products such as SOA Suite, BPM …
SOA Suite 12.2.1: A first look at end-to-end JSON and JavaScript support in SOA Composites
SOA Suite 12.2.1 introduces end-to-end JSON support in composites and support for JavaScript in composites. The REST-binding (which can be used by Service Bus, BPEL, BPM) can receive and …
SOA Suite 12.2.1: Resiliency updates on the operations side of life
On the 25th of October at Open World 2015, Oracle released the 12.2.1 version of SOA Suite 12c. This release is full of resiliency updates on the operation side of …
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 …
Book Review: Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c (Packt, June 2015)
I recently came across an unexpected gem: this book titled “Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c” by a collective of authors I know …
SOA Top Tips #1 – Using a common XQuery Function Library
In this series I will tell you about my favorite tips I give to colleagues and other integration developers during my daily work. My first tip is about the …
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 …
Process Analytics with Oracle BPM Suite 12c and BAM – slides from OGh session for SIG SOA & BPM, 1st September 2015
Business Processes implemented in BPEL and BPM(N) and running on Oracle BPM Suite 12c or SOA Suite 12c have to fulfill a business purpose and as such must meet …
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 …