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Matt Wright talks Oracle SOA Cloud Service

August 1, 2017 Leave a comment

Rubicon Red CTO, Matt Wright outlines the reasoning behind the company’s purchase of Oracle SOA Cloud Service – primarily the ability to do development and testing in the cloud and then seamlessly implement on premises.

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Configure and send email notifications with UMS Notification Service in Service Bus 12c by Markus Lohn

July 31, 2017 Leave a comment

This blog post provides a detailed description how to configure and send an email notification with User Notification Service (UMS). In detail it shows how to configure the following properties in a OSB pipeline:

the subject
the receiver of the email
the sender of the email
the message body

There exists a lot of interesting blog entries about using UMS, but they don’t show how to set the above email properties in a OSB pipeline. The instructions afterwards are tested with OSB 12.2.1.1.

Prerequisites

Prepare an Email Server to receive messages. You can use FakeSMTP (https://nilhcem.github.io/FakeSMTP/) as a simple solution.
Prepare a SOA Quickstart environment.
Configure and start the IntegratedWebLogicServer in JDeveloper 12.2.1.1.
Configure an Email Driver via Oracle Enterprise Manager (see References)

Configuration Steps

1. Open a Service Bus project in JDeveloper (Example: SendEmailTest). Read the complete article here.

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Service Bus: A quickstart for the Kafka transport by Maarten Smeets

July 30, 2017 Leave a comment

As mentioned on the following blog post by Lucas Jellema, Kafka is going to play a part in several Oracle products. For some usecases it might eventually even replace JMS. In order to allow for easy integration with Kafka, you can use Oracle Service Bus to create a virtualization layer around Kafka. Ricardo Ferreira from Oracle’s A-Team has done some great work on making a custom Kafka Service Bus transport available to us. Read more about this here: http://www.ateam-oracle.com/osb-transport-for-apache-kafka-part-1/, http://www.ateam-oracle.com/oracle-service-bus-transport-for-apache-kafka-part-2/ and http://www.ateam-oracle.com/custom-transports-in-osb-12-2-1/. The Kafka transport is not an ‘officially supported’ transport. Quote from the A-team blog: ‘The Kafka transport is provided for free to use “AS-IS” but without any official support from Oracle. The A-Team reserves the right of help in the best-effort capacity.’. I hope it will become an officially supported part of the Service Bus product in the future. Read the complete article here.

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Service Bus 12c (12.2.1) What You Always Wanted to Know by Frank Munz

July 29, 2017 Leave a comment

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Use HTML Content with UMS Adapters in OSB 12c by Chris Laurente

July 28, 2017 Leave a comment

In this post, we will learn how to send html content for the emails using a UMS adapter in OSB 12c. There we go:

Pre-requirements

First, we need to verify that we have the UMS adapter and the email driver already working. These configurations are in the previous post Using UMS Adapter to send emails with OSB 12c.

Steps

So first we have to edit the UMS adapter and go to the step 5, Set the option “Message is Opaque (Base64Binary)”

Now, we need to encode the information to Base64 and use use it in the businees service. To accomplish this task we could use a Java callout and use it to encode the information. I have created a Jar file that encode and decode as Base64 and you can download it here.

Extract the jar library and import into the SB Project. Read the complete article here.

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Create Compact Domain automatically by Markus Lohn

July 27, 2017 Leave a comment

The Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite Quick Start distributions allow you to quickly install a development or evaluation environment on a single host computer. The Quick Start distribution provides the following Domain Types:

Default Domain

Created within JDeveloper and normally known as Integrated WebLogic Server.
Pre-configured with SOA and OSB components.
Fusion Middleware schemas are configured in a Java DB (Apache Derby)
Runs only when JDeveloper is up and running.

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SOA Suite monitoring – Using Metric Extensions in Enterprise Manage Cloud Control by MichelSchildmeijer

July 26, 2017 Leave a comment

As a follow up to my 2 minute Tech Tip taken by @BobRhubart about SOA Suite monitoring I’d like to give you some more context than that fuzzy performance of me during Oracle Open World 2016.

Monitoring your SOA Suite is a tough job because of the complexity of the environment. Usually Adminstrators stick to some CPU, memory, disk and basic WebLogic Monitoring, some have monitoring in place for some more advanced stuff such as JVM, JMS, JDBC, but when it comes to "Who monitors the Error Hospital on Business Faults?" or "Who is looking after SOA housekeeping?", than no one knows what i’m talking about.

And, in many cases, the necessary SOA Management pack hasn’t been licensed, or switched on to make use of all the nice features you can get out of this pack. This pack transforms your local Fusion Middleware Console into an EM dashboard, can monitor the Error Hospital, trace on Instance flows and even monitor the Dehydration Store Performance the SOA Suite repository. So, who needs the local Fusion Middleware Console(EM)?

Impression of the screens in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

However, if you are not licensed to use the SOA Suite management pack, than you are not permitted to use al these nice features.

As I told in the video, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud control has a feature called metric extensions. These are extensions if collected metrics which are delivered in a certain pack are not sufficient enough or maybe are not there at all. I did some research for a customer who used the SOA Suite but had no management pack for it. Read the complete article here & watch the video here.

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A Docker image for the Oracle Integration Cloud (ICS) Execution Agent by Jeroen Ninck Blok

July 25, 2017 Leave a comment

!! This Docker container is of early beta quality !!

This project provides the sources to build a Docker image for the Execution Agent of the Oracle Integration Cloud. The main setup file must be downloaded manually before the image can be build.

During the creation of the Docker image to the main setup file is executed and will download additional setup files. Because of this the build process will take quite some time.

The Docker image is based upon Oracle Linux 6.8 and will install sudo, tar and unzip. The software will run as user oracle, which can execute commands as user root through sudo without a password! Get the Docker image here. Want to try Container Cloud Service to deploy the Docker image?

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Cloud Adapter SDK by Jeroen Ninck Blok

July 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Introduction

I visited the Oracle FMW Summercamp in Lissabon last year and I really wanted to build a Cloud Adapter using the Oracle Cloud Adapter SDK. During the Summercamp I already started, but after I ran into some errors I quit. Now I am starting again.

I want to build a Cloud Adapter for MongoDB. Perhaps Oracle or another party may also build one, but this is for my personal experience and after doing an e-learning and associate certification for MongoDB (which was really challenging!) I want to try it out for myself.

This is the first part of a small series of blogs regarding my effort and will cover the installation proces. Niall Commiskey already has a great blog post about installing the Cloud Adapters, however I ran into several problems so I decided to write a post of my own describing my installation steps. I will use Windows 10 and PowerShell (my favourite Windows shell!) for these blogs. All sources can be found on GitHub.

Parts:

Just a small warning: Always keep track of Oracle license information and the Oracle certification matrix!

Installation

I already have JDeveloper SOA Suite 12.1.3 QuickStart installed without a developer domain. Now the following files need to be downloaden from Oracle:

ofm_adapters_application_generic_12.1.3.0.0_disk1_1of2.zip
ofm_adapters_application_generic_12.1.3.0.0_disk1_2of2.zip
fmw_12.1.3.0.1_cloud_adapters_Disk1_1of1.zip

Read the complete article here.

The latest Cloud Adapter SDK training material and tooling is published at the Community Workspace here (membership required)

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Video: When to Use Oracle SOA Cloud Service by Robert van Mölken

July 23, 2017 Leave a comment

Decisions, decisions. Can’t figure out whether to go with Oracle SOA Cloud Service or Integration Cloud Service? No worries! Oracle ACE Robert van Mölken helps you sort it out in this informative 2 Minute Tech Tip. Watch the video here.