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Three Quick Tips API Platform CS – Gateway Installation (Part 1) By: Sunny Das

November 25, 2018 Leave a comment

This blog post assumes some prior knowledge of API Platform Cloud Service and pertains to the on premise gateway installation steps. Here we try to list down 3 useful tips (applicable for 18.1.3+), arranged in no particular order:.

Before installing the gateway, make sure you have the correct values for "listenIpAddress" and "publishAddress". This can be done by the following checklist (Linux only):
- Does the command "hostname -f" return a valid value ?
- Does the command "ifconfig" list downs the ip addresses properly ?
- Do you have additional firewall/network policies that may prevent communication with management tier?
- Do you authoritatively know the internal and public ip/addresses to be used for the gateway node?

If you do not know the answers to any of the questions, please contact your network administrator.

If you see issues with gateway server not starting up properly, incorrect values of "listenIpAddress" and "publishAddress" could be the possible cause. Read the complete article here.

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Tracing Executions in an API Environment by Phil Wilkins

November 24, 2018 Leave a comment

As APIs become more pervasive within our solutions we see the arrival of not just design and cataloging tools such as Apiary, Apigee and others but also the arrival of gateways. The gateways provide execution of operations including validation, accounting (moneytization), routing, and other controls such as throttled checks that would often not occur until the first contact with a service bus. For example initial routing based on the API call, fine grained authentication and authorisation (differing from your firewalls who will just perhaps authorise).

In the more traditional integration middleware of Oracle Service Bus and SOA (regardless of cloud, on-premises) you can trace the execution through the middleware end to end. This tracing can be achieved because the platform creates and assigns the a UUID (aka eCID) and ensures that it is carried through the middleware. It is this very behaviour that allows Oracle to provide Business Activity Monitoring without any need to be invasive. Burt not only that in a highly distributed environment you can track the processing of a transaction from end to end. Read the complete article here.

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Managing API Policy Versioning in Oracle API Platform by Phil Wilkins

November 23, 2018 Leave a comment

Oracle’s API Platform (API-P) product avoids the use of external configuration management. If you want to better understand why, then checkout our forthcoming book as it goes into detail about why this is the case (it can be pre-release version of the book can be obtained here). In a previous blog I wrote about and illustrated the use of the API-P’s own APIs so that it was possible to see what API iterations had been deployed to API Gateways.

In this blog I want to explore the issues of version management a bit further. API-P provides internal version management through the idea of iterations as previously explored (Understanding API Deployment State on API Platform). In addition to this there are API policy attributes called version, status etc. This information whilst having some impact on behavior reflects the version of the ‘contract’ that the API represents between the consumer and provider, and requires a manual change.

The API policies themselves are version tracked through the iteration identifiers. Each time a policy is saved the iteration is is incremented. What the API-P doesn’t support is the concept of branching. In relatively simple API Policy branching is unlikely to ever be an issue. Read the complete article here.

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See Latest Customer Videos showing SaaS Modernization and Transformation with PaaS

November 21, 2018 Leave a comment

According to a recent Gartner study, at least 42% of companies are engaged in C-Level transformation efforts – and the percentage is growing fast! Get the latest customer and partner testimonial videos your customers are looking for to help them take their best next step in their transformation journey with Oracle.

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UiPath on Track to AI with Oracle Integration Cloud and RPA

November 7, 2018 Leave a comment

UiPath, a leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provider, is helping clients find practical paths to AI with Oracle Integration Cloud. The future belongs to the fast and orchestrating robot and human workers is the best next step. Watch the video here. For additional information please see here.

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Streamline Development in Oracle Projects by Markus Lohn Setup a Fusion Middleware environment for testing and development purposes in less than 60 minutes!

November 6, 2018 Leave a comment

Dynamic markets and the constant reaction to changing conditions is a decisive success factor for companies today. All measures taken in the past years in the field of software development were aimed at supporting and facilitating this dynamics technically. Development times had to be drastically reduced and results made available for review earlier than before. IT has achieved a different status in the company today. IT can be used to tap new growth areas and strengthen existing customer relationships. For this reason, it is important to address the question of how quickly a developer can work productively in a new project. In this blog post, tools and procedures are presented to enable a developer to be productive in the project in less than a day. In detail, this means, for example, editing a user story from the backlog.

Experience shows that setting up the development environment in many projects involves many manual steps. Missing or inadequate documentation slows down this process considerably. Sometimes it takes several days to set up. Through the approach presented here, the developer is able to be supplied within a few hours with a development environment. Due to the high level of automation, there is no need for comprehensive documentation. Errors are largely avoided in this way. The figure below shows typical components that belong to a development environment. In this blog post, I focus on using tools in projects using Oracle technologies (SOA / Integration, ADF, Java EE). However in general these guidelines can be applied to Open Source as well. Read the complete article here

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Purging of SOA Composite Revisions with FlexDeploy by Dan Reynebeau

November 4, 2018 Leave a comment

The management of SOA composite revisions has been simplified to a check box and a number through FlexDeploy’s SOA plugin. Managing composite revisions historically required someone to develop and maintain a secondary process to purge unwanted revisions. Not anymore.

Now just deploy your composite and let the FlexDeploy SOA plugin manage the revisions for you. Simply check the “Activate Purge On Deploy” input on the deploy operation, set the “Composite Revisions To Keep” property by environment and deploy. Once the composite is successfully deployed, the deploy operation will automatically purge any unwanted revisions based on the property value.

Candidate revisions for purge are determined based on the default revision and the environment property. The default revision is found and then the next oldest revisions are kept until the property value is met (this includes the default revision). For example, setting “Composite Revisions To Keep” to 3 in DEV and 2 in QA would have the following results (bold indicates the default revision): Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2018 is Released

November 3, 2018 Leave a comment

The Critical Patch Update for October 2018 is released today. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for finding relevant information. It includes the list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities for each product suite, and links to other important documents. Supported products that are not listed in the "Affected Products and Components" section of the advisory do not require new patches to be applied. It is also essential to review the Critical Patch Update supporting documentation referenced in this Advisory before applying patches, as this is where you can find important pertinent information.

More information about Critical Patch Update Advisories are available at the following location:

► Oracle Fusion Middleware Risk Matrix– Oracle Technology Network
► Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2018– Oracle Technology Network:
► Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins – Oracle Technology Network:
► Oracle Knowledge Management Document – October 2018 Critical Patch Update: Executive Summary and Analysis (Doc ID 2456979.1)
► Important information can also be found at: https://blogs.oracle.com/security/

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Which SOA Product Support Ends in 2018? by Antonella Giovannetti

November 2, 2018 Leave a comment

Once your products are in the market and customers are using them, what is the one thing that matters most to you? Every night you go sleep, keeping your fingers crossed, hoping nothing goes wrong. Yes, we are talking about dreaded software downtime!

There are many reasons to upgrade your Oracle products to the latest patch version. One very important reason to upgrade, is to minimize downtime. One recently published Gartner’s report shows that true average cost per hour of software downtime can be more than $600k! It is prudent to invest time and resources in upgrading your Oracle products at every opportunity. You don’t want to risk downtime, simply because you failed to install a simple patch. It goes without saying that the effort you put into upgrading, always outweighs the cost you pay because of downtime. Product downtime can impact more than your revenue. Your brand, the most critical part for your business, might also take a substantial hit! When you avoid an upgrade, you may also face higher security risk vulnerabilities. The performance of your products can also be affected.

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to achieve 100% uptime / 0% downtime. You can only maximize the effort it takes to avoid it. This means keeping track of the latest available patches for your Oracle products.

Eventually, Oracle will stop producing patches to the older versions of their products so, if you are still behind when it comes to upgrading to the latest patches, Oracle strongly recommends to upgrade as soon as possible. In this context, note the following table showing the Oracle SOA, EDA, Governance and BPM Support End dates for the year of 2018. Read the complete article here.

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