In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network to optimize network performance between the components running on an Oracle Database Appliance. I am talking about a Virtualized setup in this article, and rebuilding the second pair of public […]
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Network considerations on an ODA X5-2
When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times 10Gb copper Ethernet (bonded into two interfaces) for public communication and two 40Gb InfiniBand (bonded into one interface) for interconnect communication between the two ODA_BASE’s. You would think that should […]
SOA Suite 12c: In-depth look into Managed File Transfer (1/3)
With the release of SOA Suite 12c a new product was revealed. The first sighting was at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. On the Fusion Middleware Demo Grounds there was a demo shown where B2B was integrated with a product called Managed File Transfer (shortened as MFT). At that same conference I […]
Securing OHS environments with latest SSL TLS protocols and SHA-2 certificates
Customer case A while ago I was contacted by a customer about their old Oracle Application and Weblogic Server environment. They were receiving complaints from users that they can’t connect to the secure site any longer. Most of the complaints came from users that just recently updated their tablet or […]
In-depth look into Oracle API Catalog (OAC) 12c
With the release of Oracle Enterprise Repository 12c another product was released. Oracle API Catalog 12c (OAC) allows you to build a catalog of your organization APIs. OAC provides a layer of visibility to those APIs so application development knows what and which one to use. OAC includes a simple […]
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Non-life altering observations (but still interesting and useful)
This article does not necessarily discuss the big themes and major stories of Oracle OpenWorld 2014. It does mention a number of facts that I discovered, overheard, observed or otherwise found out about during last week’s conference. They are not necessarily from formal Oracle sources, they have have been part […]
FMW 12.1.3 – Invoking Enterprise Scheduler Service Web Services from SoapUI
The Fusion Middleware 12.1.3 platform contains the ESS or Enterprise Scheduler Service. This service can be used as asynchronous, schedule based job orchestrator. It can execute jobs that are Operating System jobs, java calls (local Java or EJB), PL/SQL calls, and Web Service calls (synchronous, asynchronous and one-way) including SOA […]
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 which allows easy integration with LDAP servers. In this blog post I will provide a quick and easy howto on installation […]
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 and provide some background information. First I’ll describe how URL’s can be used to access composite resources. Next I’ll describe how […]
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 published a total of 25 blogs. This blogs looks back at the release of SOA Suite and BPM Suite 12c. On […]
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 weblogic server and test it with the http analyzer.
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. Through import statements, hard coded references and other direct or indirect definitions, dependencies are registered between the many files that make […]
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 right mouse click on the composite’s service interface (in the Application Server overview window), we can start the HTTP Analyzer for […]
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 context menu on an activity. Alternatively, a developer could resort to the BPEL process source file to make changes to 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 file system. They could not be manipulated from within the IDE. Now, in the 12.1.3 release, they can be created, from […]
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 through development and test iterations, the development environment (JDeveloper + BPM Studio) is now equipped with an Integrated WLS that contains […]
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 composite application to interact with a Coherence memory grid. Fully declaratively and with very little trouble, data can be put on […]
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 are described in the World Wide Web (W3C) specification for XQuery with one exception: modules”. See for example the W3C spec. […]
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 a ton of smaller things. One such smaller new thing is the ability in Pipelines in Service Bus projects to disable […]
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 to an existing repository. Sharing operations are done against the design-time repository. You cannot perform these operations against a database-backed MDS […]
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 can be read by the Service Bus. Using a combination of an HTTP transport style Business Service, a Service Callout and […]
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 Suite 12c is consolidated into Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. So a valid question now becomes: where to find the message […]
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 Suite 12c is consolidated into Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. So a valid question now becomes: how to locate pipeline alerts […]
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 is documented quite well – http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/soasuite/develop-soa/soa-composite-deploy-jdev.htm#CACFEAJJ – so I will only briefly explain it. It turns out that at least in […]
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 operation, the parallel or sequential indicator, the Schematron document used for validation, the native validation and the value assignment (for example […]
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 to host shared resources such as WSDL and XSD documents that are referenced in many different places. Instead of copying these […]
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 unit of encapsulated logic that can be called zero, one or multiple times from anywhere within the BPEL process – even […]
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 out, OSB is Oracle-ese for Oracle Secure Backup. Well, and it used to also stand for Oracle Service Bus – but […]
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 crop is … (drum roll) …. the Pipeline! The Pipeline is new – to some extent. In Service Bus 12c, instead […]
ADF 12.1.3 (& JDeveloper 12.1.3) New Features
June 26th – Release Day for Fusion Middleware 12.1.3. The focus is mainly on SOA Suite 12c and WebLogic 12.1.3. An interesting new release is also JDeveloper 12.1.3 together with ADF 12.1.3. This latest release of the FMW IDE and the strategic development framework has a number of interesting new […]
SOA Suite 12c: All about Developer Productivity and Performance
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 about SOA Suite 12c to view them all check this blog. This blog will summaries the features specific to the Developer […]
Processing large files through SOA Suite using Synchronous File Read
Introduction Reading files using SOA Suite is very easy as the file-adapter is a powerfull adapter. However, processing of large files is less trivial. You don’t want to read the huge file into memory and then process it. Preferable you process it in smaller chunks. Chunking the file using the […]
ADF Performance Monitor: Customer Case Video
The ADF Performance Monitor is designed for measuring, analyzing, tuning, and checking the performance of Oracle ADF applications. The monitor can track and collect crucial (production) performance information of the application’s runtime ADF components that are not standard provided by Oracle. It helps development, QA, and operation teams to detect, […]
ADF Performance Monitor: Detecting and Analyzing a High ADF BC Memory Consumption
Like other web applications, Oracle ADF applications potentially use a lot of JVM memory. Many times, the root cause of a high memory usage is that application data retrieved from the database into memory is not properly limited; hundreds or thousands of rows (with too many attributes) are fetched and […]
ADF Performance Tuning: Improve Your Oracle ADF App Response Time by as Much as 70 Percent
Performance needs to be ingrained in your application – it cannot be added in during the last stages of development. In this video I discuss how you can optimize the performance of your Oracle ADF Fusion application, diagnose and solve typical performance problems, and build an efficient, responsive, scalable ADF […]
Winter edition of OTech Magazine has just been published – free yet rich, in-depth yet broad
In the past few hours, Douwe Pieter van den Bos released the second issue of OTech Magazine to the world. This magazine contains 17 articles from expert authors around the [Oracle] world, covering a wide range of topics. The table of contents includes articles, BPM and Case Management, WebCenter, Access […]
WebLogic -> FMW Provisioning update
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 and provisioning tools like Puppet, Chef or in combination with Vagrant & Oracle VirtualBox. Provisioning without tooling can be hard for companies when they […]
The road ahead for WebLogic 12c
Before we can describe all the new features of WebLogic 12.1.3 & 12.1.4 and compare this to the 12.1.2 version we should first take a look at the 10.3.6 version. WebLogic 10.3.6 is still the latest 11g version but Oracle will support 10.3.6 till 2018 and extended support till 2021. […]
OOW13: First glimpses of the new SOA Suite 12c
During this week’s Oracle OpenWorld Conference, we were given some sneak peeks into the short term future of the Oracle SOA Suite. During various roadmap sessions, on the demo grounds as well as in the keynote session by Thomas Kurian (the replay of which you can see here: http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2687033686001), new […]
Case Study: A Case of Fusion Middleware
The story of NOPERU – the National Organization for Permits for Emissions and Resource Usage – is an interesting one. Because it reveals the business drivers for embarking on a journey of modernization, enterprise architecture and application of SOA principles using Oracle Fusion Middleware. It also outlines a roadmap: which […]