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The Internet of Things: Managing the Complexity

February 19, 2016 Leave a comment

The Internet of Things will transform business, are you planning to extract business value from IoT data? Let Oracle help you manage the complexities, from devices to applications, big data to analytics, security and scalability, all in the cloud. Watch the video here.

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Automating the Build & Deployment of Oracle BPM and SOA Projects by Matt Wright

February 18, 2016 Leave a comment

As each industry becomes more tightly integrated into the digital economy, each organisation is becoming a technology company (often by stealth). In this world, the speed at which organisations can reliably deliver software solutions is becoming a key market differentiation.

Companies that incorporate DevOps practices get more done, according to the Puppet Labs 2015 State of DevOps survey;

High-performing IT organizations experience 60 times fewer failures and recover from failure 168 times faster than their lower-performing peers. They also deploy 30 times more frequently with 200 times shorter lead times.

One of the core tenants of DevOps is to automate everything. In this article we examine how we can automate the Build & Deployment of Oracle BPM and SOA solutions.

Automating the Software Deployment Pipeline

During the lifetime of a project, code will be built and promoted to various staging environments such as Development, System Integration and Test (SIT), User Acceptance and Test (UAT), Pre-Prod, and Production.

The overall goal of the deployment pipeline is to detect any changes that will lead to problems in production. At each stage in the deployment pipeline, different levels of testing will be applied. Early stage tests are targetted at being quick and simple to run, but should capture the majority of the problems, so providing fast feedback and allowing for quick cycle times.

Later stages in the delivery pipeline provide more comprehensive testing, some of which may be manual, or take longer to set-up and run; with each successive stage provides increasing confidence in the overall build quality.

Automating the deployment pipeline is the key requirement to enable continuous delivery. This process involves automating the building of the software, the deployment of each build into each staging environment, and the automation of tests conducted in each environment.

We also need to automate platform provisioning, to ensure that each build is deployed to, and tests carried out against, correctly configured and reproducible environments. Read the complete article here.

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SLA and Pipeline Alerts in Oracle Service Bus – free online training

February 17, 2016 Leave a comment

This video shows you how to configure Service Level Agreement and Pipeline alerts in Oracle Service Bus.

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Caching Business Service Results and Enabling Load Balancing in Oracle Service Bus- free online training

February 16, 2016 Leave a comment

This video shows you how to improve performance by enabling result caching and configuring load balancing in Oracle Service Bus.

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Get an Oracle E-Mail notification via User Messaging Service Running before your coffee gets cold by Benjamin Huskic

February 15, 2016 Leave a comment

I often get asked to help developers with setting up UMS, but in fact mostly focusing on the SMTP server.

In the next steps I will show how you can setup a HelloWorld notification Service with reviewing the results in less than five minutes.

Prerequisites:

Installed SOA or BPM Quickstart. See Danilos post for details : https://thecattlecrew.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/oracle-bpm-12c-quick-start-installation-uncensored/

Get FakeSMTP.jar on your development machine: https://nilhcem.github.io/FakeSMTP/

Step 1 – Start WLS

Start the IntegratedWebLogicServer

Step 2 – Start the Fake SMTP

Enter in the command line:

java -jar fakeSMTP-2.0.jar

After the Application has started up click the “Start Server” button. Read the complete article here.

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Resolve JCA connection error in Oracle EBS to SAP integration with OSB 11g by Sven Bernhardt

February 14, 2016 Leave a comment

Doing a Oracle EBS to SAP integration with Oracle Service Bus 11g (OSB) I noticed a strange exception at runtime. During the establishment of a connection to the SAP system via the iWay SAP adapter the following error occurs in the adapter logs:

servicebus:/WSDL/ebs2sap-data-integration/Sap/v2.0/jca/BAPI_ORACLE_SYNCHRO_RESPONSE_invoke [ BAPI_ORACLE_SYNCHRO_RESPONSEPortType::BAPI_ORACLE_SYNCHRO_RESPONSE(input_BAPI_ORACLE_SYNCHRO_RESPONSE,output_BAPI_ORACLE_SYNCHRO_RESPONSE) ] – : The JCA Binding Component was unable to establish an outbound JCA CCI connection due to the following issue: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Adapter ‘MySAP’ not available. Names are case sensitive.
Please make sure that the JCA connection factory and any dependent connection factories have been configured with a sufficient limit for max connections. Please also make sure that the physical connection to the backend EIS is available and the backend itself is accepting connections.

At first glance I suspect a typo or a general error within the connection configuration of the adapter to be responsible for this error. After double checking the configuration I wasn’t able to detect a configuration issue, everything seems to be fine. I restarted the servers, the complete domain – nothing changed, the exception remains.

So I decided to double check the general adapter setup. Walking through all setup steps, I finally discovered the root of all evil: I simply forgot to copy the SAP JCO libraries to the $MW_HOME/user_projects/osb_domain/lib folder. After placing the libraries at the corresponding place and restarting the domain, everything worked as intended. Now the data could be transmitted to SAP without any problems. Read the complete article here.

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How to use dynamic validate in Oracle Service Bus 12c by Jan van Zoggel

February 13, 2016 Leave a comment

One of the new features introduced in Oracle Service Bus 12c is the ability for dynamic validation. A feature which can be used to validate a message against a WSDL or XSD schema file which is both explained here by Oracle. The example on the Oracle website shows this XML code to validate against a XSD:

<schema>default/MySchema</schema>

<localname>MyElementType</localname>

</schemaElement>

</validate>

However I tried “playing” with the new feature but couldn’t get it to work. The error I got was:

<soap:Fault>

<soap:Code>

<soap:Value>soap:Receiver</soap:Value>

</soap:Code>

<soap:Reason>

<soap:Text xml:lang="nl">OSB-382524: Failed to perform validation</soap:Text>

</soap:Reason>

<soap:Detail>

<con:fault xmlns:con="http://www.bea.com/wli/sb/context">

<con:errorCode>OSB-382524</con:errorCode>

<con:reason>Failed to perform validation</con:reason>

<con:location>

</con:location>

</con:fault>

</soap:Detail>

</soap:Fault>

After contacting Oracle Support I received the following info:

BUG 20367846: Internal Documentation – Validate action to dynamically select a schema – documentation is not clear
BUG 20380158: Validate action – Dynamic validation throws NPE

A patch for BUG 20380158 was then released for Oracle Service Bus 12.1.3, which then could be downloaded from Oracle Support: Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c Specialization available

February 11, 2016 Leave a comment

We are excited to announce eProseed ae the first Oracle partner Specialized in SOA Suite 12c. EMEA is leading the global OPN Specialization program with more than 50% of the Middleware Specialized partners based in our region.

eProseed is an excellent example and super successful partner in adopting the complete red stack from Engineered Systems, database and the complete middleware portfolio – thanks for achieving 22 different Specializations. Jointly we continue our journey towards the cloud – with the support of our middleware partner communities. Platform as a Service (PaaS) customers can choose the same solutions on-premises in a private cloud or as a public cloud. You as an Oracle Partner can leverage the same skills from on-premises products in the Cloud. Join us and discover new consulting service opportunities with Oracle PaaS.

You as a Specialized partner are key for our customers to ensure successful implementations. Therefore we do recommend our customers to engage with these preferred partners and we advice sales teams to collaborate with Specialized partners in the sales process. Make sure that your service offerings are posted in our Solutions Catalog to ensure that our joint customers and the Oracle sales team can get engaged with you!

Top Resources to become SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c Specialized (membership required)

Resources	Sales	Pre-Sales	Implementation
Online-training	SOA Suite 12c Sales Specialist – free BPM Suite 12c Sales Specialist – free	SOA Suite 12c PreSales Specialist – free BPM Suite 12c PreSales Specialist – free	SOA Suite 11c free on-demand Bootcamp – free SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c – free training material
Certification	SOA Suite 12c Sales Specialist Assessment – free BPM Suite 12c Sales Specialist Assessment – free	SOA Suite 12c PreSales Specialist Assessment – free BPM Suite 12c PreSales Specialist Assessment – free	SOA Suite 12c Implementation Specialist – $245 BPM Suite 12c Implementation Specialist – $245
Tips	Sales kits for SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c (including ppt & cheat sheets)	Demo Systems & GSE tips hosted at Oracle – free	SOA Blackbelt cheat sheets

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PaaS free trial accounts ICS and PCS

February 8, 2016 Leave a comment

As part of our communities we do offer free PaaS accounts (only for partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In case you are not part of EMEA please contact your local partner manager):

· Integration Cloud Service & Process Cloud Service PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required)

· Java Cloud Service & Mobile Cloud Service PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required)

Watch the GSE Overview Video! Get an overview of what GSE is and how you can use GSE to help you sell. You can also get long running dedicated PaaS instances, therefore please send us details about your use cases. For instant access please request a sandbox demo

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Integration Cloud Service Bootcamps Dubai, Munich, Utrecht and Dublin

February 4, 2016 Leave a comment

Simplify Integration.

Maximize the value of your investments in SaaS and on-premises applications through a simple and powerful integration platform in the cloud.

Fast. Get started in minutes!
Simple. Build SaaS to SaaS and SaaS to on-premises integrations in just a few clicks.
Enterprise-Grade. A secure, performant and highly available platform for your mission-critical integrations.
Integrated. Pre-integrated with your Oracle SaaS applications.

Attend a free hands-on workshop to learn Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) hands-on- Goal of the workshop is to build SaaS and on-premises integrations as well your own cloud adapters with the SDK.

Target audience:

Integration Developers, Solution Architects, Technology Consultants

Registration is free of charge, except in case of cancellation fee € 150 or no-show fee €2000! Please read the registration page very careful before you register here:

Dubai February 8^th & 9^th 2016

München April 4^th – 6^th 2016

Utrecht May 2^nd & 3^rd 2016

Dublin June 6^th & 7^th 2016

For details and additional trainings visit our SOA & BPM Partner Community training calendar (SOA Community membership required)

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