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 […]