PaaS – How to setup the Oracle API Platform Cloud Service (Part 1) by Onkar Shoker

This blogpost covers how to setup the Oracle API Platform Service in the cloud. I will cover the installation and registration of the API Gateway in a separate post and also cover the creation and deployment of actual API’s in another. 
There are pre-requisites before setting up Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. You must have the following Oracle Cloud Services already setup:
1. Oracle Storage Container (See blogpost here)
2. Oracle Cloud Database (See blogpost here)
1. Once logged into Oracle Cloud, from the Dashboard menu, click on the ‘API Platform‘ option: Read the complete article here.

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Innovation Disruptors Come and Go – Only Oracle Integration & API Cloud Lead the Way! By Vikas Anand

With Oracle OpenWorld 2017 in the rearview mirror, I find myself just now catching my breath. This year was FANTASTIC! We had a chance to showcase our newest, coolest capabilities across Oracle Integration Cloud, Robotic Process Automation and API Design and Management, but it was our customers and partners that made integration come to life through their digital transformation stories. They shared how they are leading the way positioning integration, process automation, and API-first strategy at the heart of their tech roadmap.

It has been an incredible year for Oracle iPaaS, as we were recognized by industry experts in the Gartner Enterprise iPaaS Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave reports, with the acquisition of Apiary and the launch of the API Platform Cloud Service. At the same time we focused on continuous improvement of  our portfolio i.e adding 100+ adapters and Visual Builder Cloud to our portfolio. 

We talk a lot about innovation around here, and with good reason. We want to keep pushing forward not just for ourselves, but for the benefit of our customers and partners. We have all heard that “competition breeds innovation” but I believe “innovation breeds innovation.” I have seen this happen not only with my team but as I meet with customers, and in turn, they interact with each other and our partners. If there is anything that I have come away with from the past few months, it is that integration is more important than it has ever been. As organizations embrace new Chatbots, Blockchain, AI and ML capabilities, one thing remains constant: the best way to move to the cloud is to leverage best-in-class SaaS, but what makes all of those initiatives work flawlessly is killer integration, process automation and API-first lifecycle management. Read the complete article here.

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Microservices and API Management | Weir, Wilkins, Viveros

Luis Weir (Capgemini), Phil Wilkins (Capgemini), and Aruturo Viveros (Sysco) discuss microservices and API management in this interview recorded at Oracle OpenWorld 2017.

Watch the video here.

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Oracle’s integration-centric PaaS portfolio is flourishing as a unified hybrid integration platform – an Ovum report

Oracle OpenWorld 2017 provided a good opportunity to gain insight into the level of success of Oracle’s integration-centric PaaS portfolio in a competitive middleware-as-a-service (MWaaS) market. It is evident that within a period of just three years, Oracle has achieved rapid business growth for this set of PaaS products and a critical market momentum that has resulted in several thousands of customers for individual, integration-centric PaaS products. This is a good case in point for demonstrating how effective execution against a progressive PaaS product strategy can drive rapid adoption, business growth, and penetration into new enterprise user bases. Oracle has ensured uniformity in user experience (UX) and integration at platform/component API level to deliver a well-integrated set of MWaaS products. Get the report here.

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Effective Use Cases for XQuery Library in OSB 12c by Sonal Sharma

During my recent engagements, working with SOA Suite 12c, I have realized the strength of the XQuery library feature (introduced in OSB 12c) to simplify SOA 12c implementations by avoiding copying code in various places, and instead centralizing it. In this article we will discuss following:

• Overview of XQuery library
• Effective Use Cases for XQuery library
• Working Example: "Storing customer specific business logic"
  • Without using XQuery lib
  • Using XQuery lib – detailed steps involved
• Summary

Overview of XQuery library

Creating an XQuery library was a new feature introduced in SOA Suite 12c. This feature provides functionality to reuse XQuery functions and avoid repeatedly coding the same logic, as logic can now be centralized at one place. This is a very handy feature and can be used to strengthen and simplify solutions implemented on the SOA Suite platform. Read the complete article here.

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ICS On-Premise Monitor – Agent Ping by Greg Mally

The Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Connectivity Agent is a feature of ICS that helps with the cloud to ground (on-premise) use case that is common to companies who are moving into cloud technologies. The agent provides an ICS subscriber the ability to create ICS integrations that interact with on-premise resources like legacy applications, databases, etc. without compromising the on-premise resource. In an attempt to make the agent as simple and secure as possible, it is located behind the firewall where the on-premise resource is located and communicates to the Oracle Public Cloud (OPC) via HTTP only. This allows the agent to use existing firewall configurations without added requirements on the “typical” organization network. However, some networks are more secure, complex, and/or stable than others and therefore are less “typical”. When these types of networks are encountered, it prevents the Connectivity Agent from successfully communicating from ground to cloud (or ICS communicating from cloud to ground). This blog focuses on a scenario where the network that the agent is installed on is flaky/unstable.

Although the Connectivity Agent has gone through a fair amount of maturity due to exposure to a wide range of network environments, there are those edge-case networks that can introduce communication challenges from ground to cloud. Sometimes these environments impact communication such that the agent thinks everything is working fine when in fact messaging has broken down between the on-premise network and OPC. What do you do when you know the agent is not receiving messages and the various ICS/agent logs do not indicate any problem? To make the scenario more complex, the communication breakdown does not follow any type of pattern (i.e., it is random). The key to finding the root cause is to narrow the window where the problem surfaces. Once the window is narrowed down, things like tcpdumps and/or tools like Wireshark can be leveraged. Read the complete article here.

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