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 …
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How Fast Data Is Turned into Fast Information and Timely Action – Oracle OpenWorld 2014
At Oracle OpenWorld 2014, one of my presentations was about the world of real time information – derived from real time data (streaming data, events, big data on the …
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. …
SOA Suite 12c: Using Enterprise Scheduler Service to schedule deactivation and activation of inbound adapter bindings
The Enterprise Scheduler Service that is available in Fusion Middleware 12.1.3 supports a number of administration activities around the SOA Suite. We will look at one particular use case …
SOA Suite 12c: Invoke Enterprise Scheduler Service from a BPEL process to submit a job request
The Fusion Middleware 12.1.3 platform contains the ESS or Enterprise Scheduler Service. This service can be used as an asynchronous, schedule based job orchestrator. It can execute jobs that …
SOA Suite 12c: Configuring GMail as the inbound email provider for UMS (IMAP, SSL)
In a recent article, I discussed how to configure the SOA Suite 12c for sending emails using GMail: https://technology.amis.nl/2014/08/05/setup-gmail-as-mail-provider-for-soa-suite-12c-configure-smtp-certificate-in-trust-store/. An interesting aspect of that configuration is the loading of …
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 …
Opaque does not mean: just pass anything in. It has to be base64! JCA Adapters
I only realized just now that the checkbox Native format translation is not required (Schema is Opaque) in many of the JCA adapter (wizard)s that we use with SOA …
Configuring Chat in SOA Suite 12c with the XMPP driver in the UMS Adapter
Chatting or instant messaging is a valuable for of communication, somewhere between email (very asynchronous) and telephone/Skype/VoiP/HangOut (synchronous) and quite similar to SMS. Unfortunately, there is has been an …
Setup GMail as mail provider for SOA Suite 12c – configure SMTP certificate in trust store
On this subject, there are already many fine articles. I have borrowed from at least a dozen to understand what should happen and to make it work. You will …
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 …
SOA Suite 12c: New visual editor for creating Fault Policies
In 11g Fault Policies were added so that you could easy intervene when a (SOAP/BPEL) fault was thrown. But you could only create them in source mode, there was …
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: Weekend Roundup
Almost 100 hours ago Oracle SOA Suite 12c was released and 72 hours ago BPM Suite 12c had it turn. At AMIS we held a 50+ hours blog-a-thon and …
SOA Suite 12c: Getting started in 30 minutes
This blog will get you started with the Oracle SOA Suite 12C. We will install the SOA Suite, create a Hello World BPEL project, deploy it on the integrated …
SOA Suite 12c: Exploring Dependencies – Visualizing dependencies between SOA artifacts
SOA composites as well as Service Bus projects typically consist of fair number of artifacts that hang together in ways that are sometimes not so easy to track down. …
SOA Suite 12c: Testing SOA composite services from JDeveloper using HTTP Analyzer
In JDeveloper 12c, it is very simple to test the web services (SOAP and REST) exposed by SOA composites from the comfort of your own IDE. Using a simple …
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 …
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/BPM Suite 12c: Oracle Business Rules – Verbal Rules
In this blog post I will transform a Decision Table step-by-step into the new Verbal Rules. As a starting point I created a composite with a BPM, a BPEL …
SOA/BPM Suite 12c: Oracle Business Rules – MS Excel Integration
In this blog post I will give a step-by-step example of the Excel integration for Business Rules. As a starting point I created a composite with a BPM, a …
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: 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). …
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 …
SOA Suite 12c: First look at Service Bus features
Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3) bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new features. This blog is one in a series of new features summaries …