Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service book – trial chapter by Phil Wilkins, Robert van Mölken

Understanding Oracle’s Integration Cloud Service and how to get the most out of your implementation

Businesses are built on data, and applications that access that data. In modern businesses the same cloud-based data stores and applications might be accessed by hundreds of different applications from thousands of different devices via APIs. To make this happen, APIs must be wired together i.e. integrated. Oracle Integration Cloud Service provides a complete method for integrating enterprise applications in the cloud. Integration Cloud Service (ICS) provides a cloud hosted means to integrate systems together using a graphical means to define and represent integrations.

This book will be a comprehensive, hands-on guide to building successful, high-availability integrations on ICS. This book sets out to demonstrate how ICS can be used to effectively implement integrations that work both in the cloud and on-premise. It starts with a fast, practical introduction to what ICS can do for your business and then shows how ICS allows you to develop integrations not only quickly but in a way that means they are maintainable and extensible. Gradually it moves into more advanced integrations, showing how to achieve sophisticated results with ICS and work with external applications. Finally the book shows you how to monitor cloud apps and go beyond ICS to build even more powerful integrated applications. Get the book here and visit our SOA Book wiki here.

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SOA Cloud – Create Oracle Database Cloud Service Instance by Vivek Garg

Now days we hear lot about cloud and like to explore more on it. Recently Oracle launched cloud services that we can use to create service instances. This post is specific to Database Cloud service.

DBaaS (Database as a Service) is a service instance in Oracle Database Cloud. On premises setup we use to install Oracle database server on local hardware but in cloud, no need to have a setup, just need to confirm some parameters and we are good to use it.

In this post, we will show how you can create service instance of Oracle Database Cloud. Follow below steps for the same.

Step 1: Go to here

Login with your credentials that you have received from Oracle when you register for trial version.

Click on “Service Console” option as shown in below screen shot in “Oracle Database Cloud Service” section. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Cloud- Generate SSH Key Pair using Putty by Vivek Garg

In Oracle Cloud, we need to have public key when we need to create a service instance and private key is also required when we need to access it using SSH utility. In this post, we will show how we can create key pair (private and public keys).

For this post, we will use PUTTY to generate these keys as it is available for both windows and Linux.

Follow the below steps to generate key pair.

Step 1: Download the Putty key generator from www.putty.org link as shown in below screen shots.

Step 2: Open the puttygen.exe file and it opens another window as shown below. In parameters, select “SSH-2 RSA” and “2048” in Number of bits in the generated key as SSH 2 is most recent version of SSH. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Cloud – How to register for SOA Cloud Service Trial Version by Vivek Garg

In this post, I will show you how you can register for trial version of SOA Cloud Services.

You need to follow below steps in sequence for trail registration.

Step 1: Go to URL: https://cloud.oracle.com/tryit and you notice there are mainly two categories as mentioned below.

1. Oracle’s Platform (PaaS) and Infrastructure (IaaS) Cloud Services

2. Application (SaaS) and Data (DaaS)

Under each category there are multiple options available. Since we are working with Oracle SOA Cloud Services and that comes under Paas and IaaS category. So go to that category and select very first option as highlighted in below screen shot.

Step 2: Once you click on “Try It” option, it take you to Oracle login page where you need to enter your credentials.

Note: You need to have Oracle account setup before you proceed to this step, if don’t have Oracle account then you can create it.

Once you enter your credentials, it takes you to next page where you need to enter your details like First Name, Last Name and Company Name etc.  You also need to verify your phone number by entering the verification code. Read the complete article here.

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Configuring HTTPS between Integration Cloud Service and Java Cloud Service by Rob Otto

In a previous post, I discussed some general topics relating to the usage of HTTPS and certificates within Oracle Public Cloud. In this follow up piece, I will work through a concrete example and explain how to set up a Java Cloud Service instance in such a way that Integration Cloud Service can consume a service deployed to that platform over HTTPS.

The use case we have in mind here is a simple one. A custom REST-based service is deployed to WebLogic on JCS (I’ll use a simple Servlet that returns a JSON payload). An integration defined in Integration Cloud Service uses the REST adaptor to invoke that service over HTTPS. Since JCS is an example of a compute-based PaaS service, it is provisioned by default without an external hostname and with a self-signed certificate mapped to the Load Balancer IP Address. This is different to the ICS instance, which is accessible via an *.oraclecloud.com hostname with an automatically-trusted certificate. The first thing we will do is configure JCS to use a hostname that we provide, rather than the IP address. We’ll then look at how to provision a certificate for that instance and then finally, how to configure ICS.

I’ve used a JCS instance based on WebLogic 12.1.3 and Oracle Traffic Director 11.1.1.9 for this post. Exact steps may differ somewhat for other versions of the service.

Configuring JCS with your own hostname

I’ve deployed my simple Servlet to WebLogic via the console and for now, the only option available to me is to access it via the IP address of the JCS Load Balancer. We can see from the screenshots below that my web browser first prompts me to accept the self-signed certificate before accessing the end point, which is not what we want to happen: Read the complete article here.

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SOA Cloud Service (SOA CS) 16.3.3 – Now Available by Antonella Giovannetti

We are pleased to announce the availability of the 16.3.3 release of SOA Cloud Service (SOA CS). The release contains the new “Integration Analytics” service type which includes Real-Time Integration Business Insight and a preview of BAM.

The Integration Analytics service type is available for all existing Metered and Non-Metered SOA CS Accounts, for Trials and Paid Accounts. Any existing unused non-metered SOA Cloud Service OCPUs available in the account can immediately be used for this service type.
Please use the SOA Cloud Service SKU for any Integration Analytics OCPUs just as you would for SOA, Service Bus and B2B

For more information on Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight, including overview videos, tutorials, downloads, and more, visit the Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight OTN page.

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Comparing Oracle ICS connectors with Workday, Mule, Boomi and Azure by Luis Weir

As SaaS adoption continue to increase in organisations of any size, it’s only expected that different cloud vendors will stretch their cloud capabilities to try and increasing their SaaS/PaaS/IaaS footprints. This is particularly true for iPaaS related capabilities, as it seems that every cloud vendor has its own related offering and they push it really hard even if it doesn’t really satisfy the majority of integration needs.
The challenge is though, that organisations that don’t carefully elaborate a cloud integration strategy and think this through, will almost certainly end up implementing point solutions using whichever iPaaS capability is available for the individual project.  This not only results in vendor lock-in but also increases the complexity and cost of integration.

To avoid this, first step is to of course create a well thought cloud integration strategy however with a clear objective in mind. This should be delivering a platform capable of supporting all integration needs (cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-on-premise) in a seamless and consistent fashion without redundant infrastructures and capabilities. The concept should be something like this:

However the devil is in the detail, or so it goes.
One of the key reason vendor lock-in occurs is simply because of misinformation. From my point of view, SaaS integration is all about connectivity. So without properly understanding 1) what are the connectivity requirements and 2) what platform best fits these connectivity needs in the short and long term, there is high probability that a solution will not be the right one (may be it will solve the short-term needs, but in the long-run it will probably add more complexity, cost hence risk). Read the complete article here.

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