New OFM versions released SOA Suite 11.1.1.4 & JDeveloper 11.1.1.4 WebLogic on JRockit 10.3.4 feedback from the community

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Installations

This is the latest release of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Please see the Documentation tab for Release Notes, Installation Guides and other release specific information. Please also see the List of New Features and Samples provided for this release.
Release 11gR1 (11.1.1.4.0) Microsoft Windows (32-bit JVM) Linux (32-bit JVM) Generic
Oracle JDeveloper 11g Rel 1 (11.1.1.x) (JDeveloper + ADF)
Integrated development environment certified on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. License is free (read the Pricing FAQ).
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Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Rel 1 (10.3.4) Installers
The WebLogic Server installers include Oracle Coherence and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and supports development with other Fusion Middleware products . The zip includes WebLogic Server only and is intended for WebLogic Server development only.
Download Linux x86 (1.1 GB) | Download Windows x86 (1 GB)
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Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.4) on JRockit Virtual Edition Download

For additional downloads please visit the Oracle Fusion Middleware Products Update Center

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Simone Geib

SOASimone Simone Geib

SOA Suite 11gR1 (11.1.1.4.0) has just been released: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/downloads/index.html

 

gschmutz

gschmutz gschmutz

My new blog post: WebLogic Server, JDev, SOA, BPM, OSB and CEP 11.1.1.4 (PS3) available! – http://tinyurl.com/4negnpn

 

Simon Haslam

simon_haslam Simon Haslam

I’m very pleased to see WLS 10.3.4 for JRockit VE launched at the same time as the rest of PS3 http://j.mp/gl1nQm (32bit anyway)

 

Lucas Jellema

lucasjellema Lucas Jellema

See http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/@otn/documents/webcontent/156082.xml for PS3 extension downloads BPM, SOA Editor, WebCenter

 

demed

demed demed

List of new features in @OracleSOA 11gR1 PS3: http://bit.ly/fVRwsP is not extremely long but huge release by # of bugs fixed. Go!

Edwin Biemond

 

biemond Edwin Biemond

WebLogic 10.3.4 new features http://bit.ly/f7L1Eu Exalogic Elastic Cloud , JPA2 , Maven plugin, OWSM policies on WebLogic SCA applications

 

 

JDeveloper & ADF

JDeveloper JDeveloper & ADF

JDeveloper and Oracle ADF 11g Release 1 Patch Set 3 (11.1.1.4.0): New Features and Bug Fixes http://bit.ly/feghnY

 

Simon Haslam

simon_haslam Simon Haslam

WebLogic Server 10.3.4 (i.e. 11gR1 PS3) available now too http://bit.ly/eeysZ2

 

JDeveloper & ADF

JDeveloper JDeveloper & ADF

Share your impressions on the new JDeveloper 11g Patchset 3 release that came out today! Download it here: http://bit.ly/dogRN8

Vikas Anand

VikasAatOracle Vikas Anand

SOA Suite 11gR1PS3 is Hotpluggable …see list of features that @Demed posted..#soa #soacommunity

 

New versions of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.x)  include:

  • Oracle WebLogic Server 11g R1 (10.3.4)
  • Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Business Process Management 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Complex Event Processing 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Service Bus 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Enterprise Content Management 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle WebCenter 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0) – coming soon
  • Oracle Forms, Reports, Portal & Discoverer 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle Repository Creation Utility 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)
  • Oracle JDeveloper & Application Development Runtime 11g R1 (11.1.1.4.0)

Resources

New Features in Oracle SOA Suite 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0)


Updated: January, 2011

Go to Oracle SOA Suite 11g Doc

Introduction

Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 (11.1.1.4.0) includes both bug fixes as well as new features listed below – click on the title of each feature for more details.

Downloads, documentation links and more information on the Oracle SOA Suite available on the SOA Suite OTN page and as always, we welcome your feedback on the SOA OTN forum.

New in Oracle SOA Suite in this release
BPEL Component
  • BPEL 2.0 support in JDeveloper
    The BPEL editor in JDeveloper now generates BPEL 2.0 code and introduces several new activities.
  • Augmented XML variables auto-initialization capabilities
    The XML variable auto-initialization capabilities have been enhanced to support two need additional use cases: to initialize the to-spec node if it doesn’t exist during the rule and to initialize array elements.
  • New Assign Activity dialog
    The new Assign Activity supports the same drag & drop paradigm used for the XSLT mapper, greatly streamlining the task of assigning multiple variables.
Mediator Component
Adapters & Bindings
Administration & Enterprise Manager
B2B
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Installation, Hot-Pluggability & Certifications
Complex Event Processing (CEP)

SOA Suite page on OTN

 

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SOA & BPM Integration Days February 23rd & 24th 2011 Düsseldorf Germany

The key German SOA Experts will present at the SOA & BPM Integration Days 2011 for all German SOA users it’s the key event in 2001, make sure you register today!
Speakers include:
Torsten Winterberg OPITZ
Hajo Normann HP

Guido Schmutz Trivadis
Dirk Krafzig SOAPARK

Niko Köbler OPITZ

Clemens Utschig-Utschig Boehringer Ingelheim
Nicolai Josuttis IT communication

Bernd Trops SOPERA

Berthold Maier Oracle Deutschland

Jürgen Kress Oracle EMEA

The agenda is exciting for all SOA and BPA experts! See you in Düsseldorf Germany!

Es ist soweit: Die Entwickler Akademie und das Magazin Business Technology präsentieren Ihnen die ersten SOA, BPM & Integration Days! Das einzigartige Trainingsevent versammelt für Sie die führenden Köpfe im deutschsprachigen Raum rund um SOABPM und Integration.

Zwei Tage lang erhalten Sie ohne Marketingfilter wertvolle Informationen, Erkenntnisse und  Erfahrungen aus der täglichen Projektarbeit. Sie müssen sich nur noch entscheiden, welche persönlichen Themenschwerpunkte Sie setzen möchten. Darüber hinaus bietet sich Ihnen die einmalige Chance, ihre Fragen und Herausforderungen mit den Experten aus der Praxis zu diskutieren.

In den SOA, BPM & Integration Days profitieren Sie von der geballten Praxiserfahrung der Autorenrunde des SOA Spezial Magazins (Publikation des Software & Support Verlags), bekannter Buchautoren und langjährigen Sprechern der JAX-Konferenzen. Dieses Event sollten Sie auf keinen Fall verpassen!

Details und Anmeldung unter: www.soa-bpm-days.de

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4th International SOA Symposium + 3rd International Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl – call for presentations

At the last SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl the SOA Partner Community had a great present. The next conference takes place April 2011 in Brazil, make sure you submit your papers.

The International SOA and Cloud Symposium brings together lessons learned and emerging topics from SOA and Cloud projects, practitioners and experts. The two-day conference agenda will be organized into the following primary tracks:

  • SOA Architecture & Design
  • SOA & BPM
  • Real World SOA Case Studies
  • SOA & Cloud Security
  • Real World Cloud Computing Case Studies
  • REST & Service-Orientation
  • BPM, BPMN & Service-Orientation
  • Business of SOA
  • SOA & Cloud: Infrastructure & Architecture
  • Business of Cloud Computing
Presentation Submissions

The SOA and Cloud Symposium 2010 program committees invite submissions on all topics related to SOA and Cloud, including but not limited to those listed in the preceding track descriptions. While contributions from consultants and vendors are appreciated, product demonstrations or vendor showcases will not be accepted. All contributions must be accompanied with a biography that describes the SOA or Cloud Computing related experience of the presenter(s).
Presentation proposals should be submitted by filling out the speaker form and sending the completed form to info@soasymposium.com. All submissions must be received no later than January 31, 2010. To download the speaker form, please click here.

Specially we are looking for Oracle SOA Suite and BPM Suite Case Studies! For additional call for papers please visit our SOA Community Wiki.

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Developer Day @ OOP 2011 with SOA Specialized Partners

Oracle Developer Day

Oracle SOA Specialized Partners like Opitz Consulting participate in our key marketing events. Therefore make sure that you start your journey to SOA Specialization!

ORACLE Developer Day auf der OOP: Entdecken Sie die Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Leistungsfähigkeit der Java-Technologie! incl. Live Hacking mit Special Guest: JAVA Guru Adam Bien!

Enterprise-Anwendungen leicht gemacht! Beschleunigen Sie Ihre Entwicklung mit Java. Opitz Consulting
Kommen Sie zum kostenlosen Ganztages-Workshop von ORACLE auf der OOP und lernen Sie die Leistungsfähigkeit von Java kennen.

Erfahren Sie mehr über die Java Strategie und die ProduktroadmapSOA, welche Einsatzmöglichkeiten Java SE für Embedded erschließt und wie sich eine SOA und BPM-Lösung auf der Basis von Java realisieren lässt.
Die vielfältigen Verbesserungen von Java EE6 erleichtern den Entwicklern das Leben erheblich. Kennen Sie bereits das Potential von Java EE6? Adam Bien wird Sie mit einem Live-Hacking von den Stühlen reißen. Torsten Winterberg, Oracle Fusion Middleware ACE Director und Danilo Schmiedel stellen vor wie Java Entwickler die Oracle SOA & BPM Lösungen einbinden können.

Am Nachmittag können Sie dann in einer Hands-On Session mit Ihrem eigenen Laptop Java Persistence API, Java Beans, CDI und weitere Technologien ausprobieren.

In diesem kostenlosen Workshop von Oracle können Sie sich mit Gleichgesinnten austauschen, sich die neueste Technik direkt von den Oracle Experten zeigen lassen und an praktischen Programmierübungen teilnehmen.
Auf dieser Veranstaltung sind Sie richtig, wenn Sie

  • mehr über den aktuellen Status der Java Roadmap wissen wollen,
  • mehr über Java Technologie- und Lösungen (Java SE, ME, etc) erfahren wollen,
  • die Plattform Java EE erproben,
  • die Vorteile der Java EE 6 für Ihre Arbeit verstehen möchten,
  • wenn Sie auf eine Enterprise-Landschaft hochskalieren wollen,
  • mit Java Server Faces Front-Ends erstellen,
  • neue Entwicklungsprojekte planen oder gerade in Angriff annehmen.

Registrieren Sie sich jetzt!

ICM – Internationales Congress Center München

Am Messesee, Trudering-Riem 81829 München

27. Januar 2011 9.00 Uhr – 16.30 Uhr

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SOA & E2.0 Partner Community Forum XIII registration is open

INVITATION TO THE ORACLE SOA AND E2.0 PARTNER COMMUNITY FORUMshaffer

Do you want to learn about how to sell the value of Fusion Middleware by combining
SOA and E2.0 Solutions?
We would like to invite you to become updated and trained at our SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum March on 15th and 16th 2011 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Keynote: Andrew Sutherland and Andrew Gilboy

The Oracle SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum is a wonderful opportunity to:

  • learn how to sell the value of Fusion Middleware bij combining SOA and E2.0 solutions
  • meet with Oracle SOA and E2.0 Product management
  • exchange knowledge
  • learn from successful SOA, BPM, WebCenter and UCM implementations
  • understand Oracle’s Fusion Applications Strategy
  • network within the Oracle SOA Partner Community and the Oracle E2.0 Partner Community

During this highly informative event you can learn about partner success stories, participate in an array of break out sessions, exchange information with other partners and enjoy a vibrant panel discussion.
Additionally to the SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum, you can participate in technical hands on workshops on March 17th and 18th. The goal of these workshops is to prepare you for customer implementations.
Places are limited, so don’t delay and register now by clicking here. Registration takes a few minutes and is free of charge, except in case of cancellation or no show (cancellation fee € 150).
For more information, please visit our website.

Best regards Jürgen Kress & Hans Blaas
SOA & E2.0 Partner Adoption EMEA

Agenda March 15th 2011

Welcome & Introduction
Keynote Oracle Middleware Strategy and information on Application Grid and Exalogic
Andrew Sutherland, SVP Middleware Sales EMEA, Oracle

Keynote Managing Online Customer, Partner and Employee Engagement with Oracle E2.0 Solutions
Andrew Gilboy, VP E2.0 Sales EMEA, Oracle

Partner SOA/BPM Reference Case

Partner WebCenter/UCM Reference Case

SOA Suite PS3
David Shaffer, VP Product Management, Oracle

Why Specialization is important for Partners
Nick Kritikos, Hans Blaas & Jürgen Kress, Alliances & Channels, Oracle

Agenda March 16th 2011

Welcome & Introduction Day II
Breakout round 1
SOA Suite 11g PS3 & OSB
– Importance of ADF & JDeveloper
– SOA Security IDM
– WebCenter PS3, Whats new
– E2.0 Sales Plays

Breakout round 2
WebCenter PS3, Whats new
– Application Management Enterprise manager and Amberpoint
– ADF/WebCenter 11g integration with BPM Suite 11g
– Importance of ADF & JDeveloper
– JCAPS & OC4J migration opportunities for service business

Breakout round 3
BPM 11g: Whats new
– Universal Content management 11g
– SOA Security Management
– E2.0 Surrounding Products: ATG, Documaker, Primavera
– Middleware Industry Value Propositions & Sales Play

Fusion Application

SOA & E2.0 Summary & Closing

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News and Announcements

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An Oracle decade

Almost 10 years with Oracle, jointly we have build an Oracle SOA economy with thousands of SOA consultants and millions of revenue in services and license. The SOA Partner Community started in Europe and grew around the world.  Since March 2007 we distribute our monthly SOA Partner Community newsletter with the latest updates around SOA.  In 2010 we add web2.0 features like twitter, wiki , mix and delicious to the community. The active SOA Partner Community made us the most successful middleware Specialization.Thanks to our ACE Directors and Clemens we host jointly we our product management team regular Partner Advisory Councils. Not to forget all the superb events with Thomas Erl like the SOA Symposium and the Community Forum in Copenhagen. Thanks for all your contributions and support!

what’s next? See you one more time at the SOA Partner Community Forum 2011

Wish you all a great start in 2011 Jürgen Kress

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The Value of SOA Specialization – Fujitsu

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The Value of Specialization

In my last post I talked about Fujitsu’s achievement in obtaining SOA and other specializations, but I have heard murmurings from other partners about what just is the value? I think Oracle have to do more to advertise the benefits to customers, we need to see customers asking for specialization for it to really work, but Oracle have made great promises about only recommending those partners who are specialized.

For us there was another benefit. Oracle was sponsoring the 3rd Annual SOA Symposium in Berlin and invited us as their first specialized partner to take part. There is a great blog about the symposium on the SOA community blog site.

This is real commitment from Oracle and we have other marketing opportunities being worked on with Jürgen. This does generate leads so my message to other Oracle Partners is, you need to do this, it is worthwhile.

Fujitsu – First SOA Specialized Partner Globally

Just before Oracle Open World I found out that Fujitsu had achieved the first SOA Specialization globally.
I think most partners know what the requirements are for Specialization and that in itself is challenging but the bureaucracy around the actual submission is an exercise in tenacity. I won’t go into that now; I have had my dig at Oracle this month, but enough to say the process could be improved.

As a platinum partner we needed 5 specializations and we decided to go for SOA first. The reasoning behind this is that our Oracle Practice is known for being applications centric. We have always had an excellent technical capability but no one ever talked about that, it was just part and parcel of an implementation. However today we have just as many bids that are technology lead as there is applications lead, so it seemed a good plan to work on the areas we were not known for.

We appointed a capability lead to be responsible for putting the team through the training and testing and Rosemary (Kell) was excellent, she ensured that everyone was on track and that it wasn’t just getting put into the ‘to do list’. In Fujitsu everyone in the Oracle Practice has an objective to achieve the competency tests in their area, so achieving the 2 pre sales, 2 sales and 1 support was no problem at all. We actually had 22 with the support capability proficiency.  The implementation specialist exams are much harder, more like OCP in the database area.

We had help from the Oracle SOA Community; Jürgen Kress who runs this in EMEA is really motivational. At the time we started SOA was a beta exam which means you do not get the results immediately but again we put forward more than we needed. Manjit Chopra, Sukhraj Sahota, Emely Patra, Ian Scorrer and Sunny Sidhu all took the exam and eventually got the results they wanted they had passed. Congratulations.

Here is Jurgen expalining why specialization is important.

After the tests came the submissions where you need to include deals and experience, this was my bit, and persuading Oracle we really deserved the specialization. Finally we got the news we had been awarded the specialization, and a few days later that we were first globally. I am very proud. However there is no rest for the wicked and we plodded on to make the 5 specializations needed for Platinum and now we are working on the new Diamond status and I think SOA will be one of our 5 ‘super specializations’. This is a global Fujitsu initiative and I work closely with my colleague in Germany Jessika Weiss. It was nice to be able to have a press release about this and a comment from Judson Althoff  head of Oracle Alliances.

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Happy holiday! Thanks for making the SOA Partner Community a superb success in 2010!

2010 highlights to remember:

For 2011 please make sure you:

We wish you all a happy holiday and a great start in 2011!
Jürgen Kress

SEASON'S GREETINGS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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SOA Specialization update

SOA Specialization is taking off, more and more customers ask for Specialized Partners, make sure you start your own Specialization. To align the number of required Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist we reduced them from 4 to 2 consultants.

For details on Specialization please see

Thanks for all the partners who became SOA Specialized in 2010!

Accenture & Infosys Technologies Limited & Atos Origin & CedarCrestone, Inc. & FUJITSU & OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH& Zensar Technologies & ECS Team & Zirous Inc

Your company is missing? Make sure you add the SOA Specialization information in your solutions catalog

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Opitz Consulting wins the Oracle SOA Partner Community Award

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Oracle EMEA SOA Community Award

Ein wichtiger Preis für die SOA-Community: Der Oracle EMEA SOA Community Award

Im Rahmen der Oracle Open World verlieh Oracle den „Oracle EMEA SOA Community Award” im Bereich “Outstanding Contribution“ im Jahr 2010 bereits zum dritten Mal in Folge an OPITZ CONSULTING:

Award als erster SOA Specialized Partner in Europa

In 2010 errangen die SOA-Spezialisten von OPITZ CONSULTING den begehrten SOA Partner Community Award. Das Oracle SOA-Team um Jürgen Kress honoriert hiermit das Erreichen der ersten Oracle SOA Spezialisierung in Deutschland, die Community-Arbeit, das Durchführen von SOA-Trainings (auch für anderen Oracle Partner) und das allgemeine Wachstum des OPITZ CONSULTING SOA-Bereichs.
Verbindung von EA, BPM und SOA gewürdigt

Im Jahr 2009 wurde ein OPITZ CONSULTING Direktor Strategie & Innovation geehrt: Dirk Stähler (Bild li.) erhielt den Award für sein Engagement im Aufbau und der Weiterentwicklung von BPM- und SOA-Themen. Ein besonderer Grund für die Verleihung an ihn waren seine Arbeiten zur effektiven Verbindung von Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management und SOA.
Award für SOA-Community-Arbeit und -Publikationen

OPITZ CONSULTING Direktor Strategie & Innovation und Oracle ACE Director, Torsten Winterberg (Bild re.), holte diesen Preis im Jahr 2008 für OPITZ CONSULTING nach Deutschland.

Er wurde für sein außerordentliches Engagement in der Etablierung von serviceorientierten Architekturen gewürdigt. Dazu gehören beispielsweise der Aufbau einer Special Interest Group SOA, Roundtable-Initiativen sowie umfangreiche Veröffentlichungen zu SOA.

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