Turn any Web App into an API using a Browser Extension
As an end user you have access to various websites and web applications. You login and and then can look up data, submit requests, manipulate existing records. But in …
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Python: A Google Translate service using Playwright
There are a lot of use-cases in which you might want to automate web-browser actions. For example to automate tedious repetitive tasks or to perform automated tests of front-end …
How to APIfy WhatsApp – Programmatic interaction with WhatsApp from Node using Playwright
Sending WhatsApp messages from services and applications has been a frequent request from our customers. It also was something I would have liked to use in workshops and demonstrations. …
What you could do if you had a free, tireless browser operator?! Introducing Playwright.
Browsers are our primary platform for running applications and retrieving information. We have to use browsers to test applications, verify health and current performance of applications, look up data …
OpenAPI Support in Oracle API Gateway
Today I read the announcement of OpenAPI (fka Swagger) support in API Gateway on OCI. I was wondering what that entailed and I decided to try it out. In …
Oracle Cloud Serverless Functions unleashed: exposing OCI Functions through API Gateway
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway makes it possible to expose OCI Functions on public endpoints that do not require complex signed HTTP requests. Any function that should be easily …
Scheduling Oracle Cloud Function execution
Functions on Oracle Cloud are an important element in any cloud native application architectures. Functions are typically small, well contained and fairly independent pieces of logic to carry out …
My first steps with Oracle Cloud API Gateway – the stock response
The API Gateway service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure went live very recently – read my overview article of what API Gateway entails. In brief: API Gateway is a reverse …
Introducing Oracle Cloud API Gateway – the light weight public or private router to public and private OCI endpoints
Two days ago, the API Gateway service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure went live – read the announcement. This is a crucial component for many applications and in many solution …
Save File to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage from Node through REST API
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage is a public cloud service for storing data to which you need fast, immediate, and frequent access. As Oracle states: “The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure …
Moving message threads to different group using the Yammer API
At AMIS we are quite happy users of Microsoft Yammer. Days with 10 or more messages are no exception and since December 2009, we have assembled quite a history …
Changing views on integration – from Enterprise Service Bus to API Gateway, Serverless and iPaaS
If your tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Many of us have seen situations where this tunnel vision over time took hold. And for many …
Quickly setup a persistent React application
After having recently picked up the React framework, I figured I’d share how I quickly setup my projects to implement persistence. This way you spend minimal time setting up …
Remote and Programmatic Manipulation of Docker Containers from a Node application using Dockerode
In previous articles, I have talked about using Docker Containers in smart testing strategies by creating a container image that contains the baseline of the application and the required …
Rapid first few steps with Fn – open source project for serverless functions
Project Fn is an open source project that provides a container native, poly-language, cloud agnostic (aka run on any cloud) serverless platform for running functions. Fn was launched during …
Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Strategy Day– Directions for User Experience
Today – Wednesday 27th of September – saw close to 50 people gathering for the OAUX (Oracle Applications User Experience) Strategy Day. Some attendees joined from remote locations on …
When Screen Scraping became API calling – Gathering Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Session Catalog with Node
A dataset with all sessions of the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference is nice to have – for experiments and demonstrations with many technologies. The session catalog is exposed …
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS). Implementing custom APIs using JavaScript on Node.js
Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is a mobile backend as a service. MCS does its magic by providing a lot of features to make implementing mobile services easy such as …
Revelation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016: MCS is Multi Channel Service (as well as Mobile Cloud Service)
While web applications and mobile apps are the common channels for user interaction, they are not the only ones. Oracle is recognizing that fact and as a result MCS …
Microservices in the world of the red giant – report from Oracle OpenWorld 2016
Undeniably, microservices is an extremely hot term. A bandwagon almost every product team at Oracle seems eager to be jumping on to. It is hard to give a concise …
Sonatype Nexus 2.x: Using the REST API to clean-up your repository
Sonatype provides Nexus. An extensive artifact Repository Manager. It can hold large amounts of stored artifacts and still requests get processed quickly. Also it has an extensive easy to …
Oracle PaaS Cloud – The API Platform Service – launch date Winter 2016/17
APIs are hot. Public APIs are an enterprise’s programmatic interface to B2B partners, governments and other stakeholders including app and web builders. Internally, APIs are the touch points for …
Sonatype Nexus 3.0. Using the new Groovy API
Sonatype Nexus 3.0 does not have the REST API which was available in Nexus 2.x (see the discussion here). This provides a challenge in case you want to automate …
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 …
Deploying a node.js application to the Oracle Application Container Cloud Service
This article describes my first steps with the fairly new Oracle Application Container Cloud . At this point in time, Oracle Application Container Cloud includes Oracle Java SE Cloud …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Custom Escalation in Oracle BPM Suite 11g (guest post by Vivek Acharya)
This article is contributed by our guest writer Vivek Acharya. Vivek is an Oracle Consultant working as a Professional Freelancer. He has been in the Design, Development, consulting and …
Oracle & JDBC – Passing a ‘table of custom object type’ to a stored procedure – implementing efficient single round trip data exchange (part two of an ADF application on a PL/SQL API)
July 16, 2008
Database, Databases, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server
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One very efficient way of passing data from the Java application to the database is through the use of custom Oracle Types. Even when we want to send a …