Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Preview” by The SOA mythbusters

October 29, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001INTRODUCTION.

So, do you really like SOA? That’s great because so do we, and we’ve been working with it every single day since a long time ago. As Oracle professionals, we’ve seen the SOA stack grow, change, incorporating new products and technology with each version, from 10g to 12c.

We’re Rolando Carrasco and Arturo Viveros, the SOA Myth Busters from Mexico, and as we go with this series we will put to the test a number of questions, myths and urban legends regarding integration, SOA & the Oracle FMW Platform in seek of finding out which myths are true and which are not.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

In this short episode, we will preview the imminent (and much awaited) launch of Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS).

In this era of digital disruption, Cloud Integration is and will keep being one of the hottest and most relevant topics in the SOA / Middleware realms.

So, as we usually do, let’s identify a bunch of questions which we will attempt to clarify throughout this article:

  • Why is Oracle bringing to the table an iPaaS offering of its own?
  • What is the difference between ICS and SOA Suite in the Cloud?
  • Where does this leave my on premise SOA Suite implementation?
  • What is running underneath the curtains and how does Oracle ICS stack up against its main competitors?
  • Which business scenarios would be better suited for the implementation of such a tool?
  • What benefits can organizations expect to achieve by leveraging this kind of offering?
  • What about common concerns such as performance, security, ease of adoption / use, portability, standardization, etc.?
  • Are there any clear guidelines for ICS’s implementation / adoption from an architectural standpoint?
  • Can I do SOA with ICS?
  • Is ICS suitable for on premise integrations?

Let’s get started

Since the product has yet to hit the market, this time around we don’t have a de-facto myth revolving around it; but don’t worry, the myths will surely come swiftly and we will be there to tackle them whenever they arise.

For now, let’s focus on the questions at hand. It seems to us that a good way to get started in the matter is by going over some elemental definitions and concepts:

First things first

Oracle ICS is an integration product in the cloud. Let’s first nail this.

ICS stands for Integration Cloud Services. Oracle has addressed a strong Cloud need: the integration among Cloud based Applications. Oracle has been very active to become a Cloud type of monster. If we go back five years ago, maybe Oracle was not perceived as a strong Cloud player, but those days are very far away now. Oracle has a very clear cloud offering in the different recognized flavors: PaaS, SaaS and IaaS.

A set of Cloud based applications, such as: Taleo, Right Now, Big Machines (Oracle CPQ) are very well-known in the market. A very large set of customer around the globe use them.

But what about having to integrate those different Clouds? Or even more, what about integrating an Oracle Cloud with a different vendor Cloud? (e.g. Salesforce.com or Success Factors).

There is where we meet with our first question: Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite 12.2.1 is available for download

October 27, 2015 2 Comments

SOA Suite 12.2.1 is available for download.

SOA Suite 12.2.1 presentation

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted:

WhatIsNewInSOASuite12.2.1.pptx will details about the new features.

Partner Quotes SOA Suite 12.2.1

  • clip_image002[3]With the release of SOA Suite 12.2.1, the flagship integration platform from Oracle for Cloud, On-Premise, Mobile and IoT integration is enhanced even more. The release includes new features and improvements for operations as well as development and performance. On the operations side, Integration Workload Statistics (IWS) reporting provides your operations team with even better insight in SOA metrics while Failure Resiliency enables the platform to temporarily suspend message and event processing in case of endpoints that are down. Performance gains can be obtained through the SOA In-Memory feature while developers can leverage improved debugger features and native REST and JSON support. All in all, exciting new features for a leading, complete and mature integration platform ! Ronald van Luttikhuizen, eProseed
  • clip_image003With this 12.2.1 release of SOA Suite, following hot on the heels of the launch of the SOA Cloud Service, Oracle demonstrates a strong commitment to the SOA Suite, both on premises and in the cloud. The evolution of the product focuses on cloud integration scenarios, public and private cloud deployment and further industrial robustness. The end to end support for JSON and JavaScript opens up the SOA Suite to an even wider community of developers – and brings elegance, productivity, reuse and performance to a number of key scenarios. It is great to see how this key product for our customers keeps evolving in a direction that provides even more and broader value. Lucas Jellema, Amis

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  • SOA Suite 12.2.1 is completing the REST enablement which started in 12.1.3. Allways looking forward to new SOA Suite releases – this time also with features making us more productive or more succesful in administering critical integrations. Jon Petter Hjulstad, Sysco
  • clip_image007With 12.2.1 SOA Suite will become even more resilient and supports users to further optimize their applications. Great features like the Curcuit breaker, more insights into internal processing, using IWS, and the E2E JSON support makes this new release even more valuable. From my perspective a further step into the right direction. Sven Bernhardt, Opitz Consulting

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  • Continued investment on REST and valuable improvements on existing features give customers even more choices – Bruno Santos, eProseed
  • One of the stand-out features for me in SOA Suite 12.2.1 from an operations perspective is Integration Workload Statistics (IWS). Active Session History has transformed how we clip_image011diagnose application performance problems with the Oracle database and I anticipate IWS will become a key tool for SOA too. This will be especially relevant to SOA Cloud Service as we will have more time to concentrate on tuning and improving the service to our customers. Simon Haslam, Veriton.

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  • Release 12.2.1 can get your organization to a different level of process optimization with tools like IWS and Resilience. Having performance problems? Use IWS to quickly gain insight into potential culprits. Is your system slowing down, caused by temporary malfunctioning parts? Resilience can prevent this for you. Marcel van de Glind, myFMW.

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  • 12.2 steps up the game with improved mobile support and new clever administration and monitoring features. Carlos Pona, Link Consulting.
  • clip_image017[4]Improved existing features, added many new future prove features for developers and prepared even more for the cloud. That is SOA Suite 12.2.1. Carsten Wiesbaum, esentri

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Introducing the Integration Cloud Service by Robert van Molken

October 25, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Oracle released some more Cloud offerings and in this article we introduce the Integration Cloud Service. This cloud service lets your organization create integrations between cloud application, but also between cloud and on-premise applications. Create connections to well known and less known SaaS applications using a bunch of cloud adapters, publish or subscribe to the Messaging Cloud Service, or use industry standards like SOAP & REST. The available set of cloud adapters will certainly grow in the future when the marketplace is fully up-and-running.

Why should organizations consider the Cloud?
Let’s get started with the key benefits and features before diving into them more detailed. Why should organizations consider the Cloud?
In this day and age more and more software is going into the cloud, maybe they’re even developed with a cloud-first strategy. Thinks of your CRM, ERP of your HCM application. These applications do not do standalone business they communicate with each other, they exchange information. The Integration Cloud (fno ICS) provides this integrations and does it simplified.

The Cloud has a lot advantages, it is probably the most cost efficient method to use, maintain and upgrade an enterprise service bus.  It is available at much cheaper rates and hence, can significantly lower the company’s IT expenses. Besides, there are many pay-as-you-go and other scalable options available, which makes it very reasonable for your organization. Since all your data is stored in the cloud, backing it up and restoring the same is relatively much easier than storing the same on a physical device. Once you register yourself in the cloud, you can access the information from anywhere, where there is an Internet connection.

So what has the Integration Cloud Service to offer to meet these demands?

Simplified UI
ICS gives a web-based, point & click integration experience where you can easily create integrations between Cloud applications, public web services and on-premise applications.

Rich Connectivity
ICS has a standard library of Cloud & On-premise connectors which includes Oracle SaaS applications, but also connectors for the Messaging Cloud Service and industry standards like SOAP and REST.

Recommendations
The mapping builder to create the necessary mappings between the adapter connections has a build-in recommendation engine for guidance how to best map source to target fields.

Visibility & Error Detections
ICS as build-in a rich monitoring and error management. With advanced tracking you can easily spot inconsistencies and monitoring the usage and performance of integrations. It generates alerts, and even emails them, when connections fail to work. With the guided error handling the errors are easy to repair.

Overview of the Integration Cloud Service
Because it is fully web-based you only need to open a browser and go to the URL you received after creating your ICS instance. After signing in to the Integration Cloud Service you are welcomed by the home page. Read the complete article here.

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Managed File Transfer Technical Hands-on Workshop Munich & London November 2015

October 17, 2015 Leave a comment

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Description

Oracle Managed File Transfer (Oracle MFT) enables secure file exchange and management with internal departments and external partners. It protects against inadvertent access to unsecured files at every step in the end-to-end transfer of files. It is easy to use especially for non technical staff so you can leverage more resources to manage the transfer of files. The built in extensive reporting capabilities allow you to get quick status of a file transfer and resubmit it as required.

These FREE hands-on workshops cover all the capabilities you need to build robust, reliable and agile managed file transfers.

Audience

  • Application Developers
  • Architect
  • Sales Consultants

For details please visit the registration page here:

Oracle Managed File Transfer Technical Hands-On Workshop

12 – 13 November, 2015: Munich, Germany

Register Here!

16 – 17 November, 2015: London, UK

Register Here!

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Cloud Integration Workshop for Partners France and UK

October 11, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The Oracle team is pleased to invite your integration developers and consultants to a 3-days hands-on workshop on how to integrate applications with Oracle Cloud platform. Oracle will organize several 3-days Workshops between October 2015 – June 2016. We invite you to join the workshop InClass or Remotely (avoid travel time and travel costs by joining remotely). These Invite-Only hands-on workshops will be delivered by Oracle Development at No-Fee to Partners. A workshop consists of live presentations, live demos, and hands-on laboratory exercises.

IMPORTANT: These workshops are available to selected Oracle Partners with a current OPN Gold Level or higher membership. A fully executed Oracle Cloud Services Training Addendum is required for this workshop

Agenda

Oracle Integration Cloud Service

– Integration Basics
– Integration Patterns – cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise

– Application Adapters
– Pre-built integration Flows
– Cloud SDK and APIs
– Administration.

Schedules

Workshop dates:

12th – 14th October, 2015 (Mon-Wed). Location: France, Colombes. Remote participation is possible.

9th – 11th November, 2015 (Mon-Wed). Location: UK, TVP. Remote participation is possible.

Target Audience

Integration Developers, Solution Architects, Technology Consultants.

Registration

Provide your submission to your local Alliances & Channels Manager. Alternatively, provide your submission to your local Alliances & Channels Enablement Manager. Provide the following information: Workshop, Workshop region, Workshop date, InClass or Remote, Partner Company, Participant’s name, Participant’s Corporate Email Address, Resident Country, Participant’s Manager’s Corporate Email Address.

France: jean-jacques.panissie@oracle.com and UK, Israel: kate.lynskey@oracle.com

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Oracle Integration workshop: Service Bus & SOA 12c new features and products Friday October 23rd 2015 Belgium

October 9, 2015 Leave a comment

The workshop will give an introduction to the new features and products of Oracle SOA 12c:

· First focus will be on Oracle Service Bus. How to expose services on the bus will be practiced, some new OSB 12c features will receive special attention.

· Second part of the workshop explores some new 12c products and their use in combination with the Oracle Service Bus.

 

· Oracle Service Bus 12c: Hands-on introduction to OSB12c with focus on 12c features: pipeline templates, dynamic validation, RESTfull services, Maven,…

· Oracle Stream Explorer: the different features of the new Oracle Stream Explorer will be explored and how it’s targeted to a service bus project.

· Oracle Managed File Transfer: Using MFT, a file transfer will be set up. Its combined use of the Oracle Service Bus will be looked into.

· Oracle API Manager: Oracle API Manager gives more flexibility and control in securing and exposing the services, which were built in our OSB exercises earlier on.

 

Schedule: Friday October 23rd 2015

For more information please visit the registration page here.

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Business Rules in BPM Suite 12c by Waslley Souza

October 9, 2015 Leave a comment

clip_image001If you use the Business Rules feature in Oracle BPM Suite 12c, the business rules you created can be modified at runtime using the BPM Composer. This way you do not need to spend time changing and re-deploying your application. This feature works the same way in BPM Suite and SOA Suite.

As a starting point, I will use the BPM application created here: Creating a simple BPM Manual Process. Download the sample application: BpmBusinessRulesApp.zip.

In the WebLogic Console, create the president user.

In the JDeveloper, open the AddEmployee process.
Right-click HrOfficer swimlane, choose Add Role and add the President role.

Change the Canonical Model, adding JobName and Salary elements. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Cloud Service and API Manager Cloud Service are available!

September 28, 2015 Leave a comment

imageSOA Cloud Service provides an integration platform as a service so that you can quickly provision your new platform, and then start developing and deploying your APIs and integration projects to enable your business to transition into Digital Business.

 

SOA CS presentation, whitepaper, video, datasheet & marketing kit At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted

website SOA CS

ppt customer presentation SOA CS

click demo SOA CS

demo  SOA CS

FaQ SOA CS

eBook SOA CS

whitepaper cloud integration

YouTube videos Vika’s announcement & cloud integration video

Cloud Integration marketing kit

 

SOA CS demo system: We are in process to make the PaaS Services available via GSE. Please make sure that you request our GSE access here. SOA Specialized Partners and member of the SOA & BPM Partner Community can request demo accounts here and access SOA CS demo viewlets here.

SOA CS Partners: Looking for a SOA Specialized Partner which can support you with your ICS implementation? Visit the solutions catalog here, and search for your local SOA Specialized partner have trained & certified consultants and implemented successful SOA customer projects. Across EMEA more than 1000 companies are Specialized in SOA! Find local Specialized partners by product www.oracle.com/specialized & learn more about ICS here

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Unleash the power of Java API’s on your WLST scripts! By Maarten Smeets

September 22, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Oracle SOA Suite and many other Oracle products have extensive Java API’s to expose their functionality. WLST can often be used for relatively course grained actions. WLST (the version supplied in Weblogic 12.1.3) uses Jython 2.2.1. Jython is the Python scripting language implemented on the Java Virtual Machine. Jython allows easy integration with Java. In this article I describe how you can unleash the power of these Java API’s on your WLST scripts!
Considerations

Why WLST and not Java?

For system operators, WLST is easier to work with than Java code. For Java code you need to supply all dependencies in the classpath and updating code requires recompilation. Also Java code can be a bit verbose compared to WLST code and requires (for most developers) more time to write. With a WLST script you do not need to provide dependencies since they are already present in the classpath set by the wlst.sh (of wlst.cmd) command used to start WLST scripts and you can more easily update the scripts without need for recompilation.

Why use Java classes in WLST?

In this example I wanted to create a script which undeployed composites which where not the default revision (are not called by default). Also I wanted to look at the instances. I did not want to undeploy composites which had running instances (long running instances like BPM and ACM). WLST provides some nifty features to undeploy composites; https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/soasuite/wlst-reference-soa/custom_soa.htm#SOACR2689 for example the sca_undeployComposite command. I did however not see WLST commands I could use to query instances.

Undeploying composites using Java

I started out with a piece of Java code shown below. In order to make the required classes available in your project, you need to import Weblogic Remote Client, JRF API and SOA Runtime (see here for a more elaborate example of using the Java API). With the Locator class you can find your composites and instances. By calling the MBean oracle.soa.config:Application=soa-infra,j2eeType=CompositeLifecycleConfig,name=soa-infra method removeCompositeForLabel you can undeploy composites from Java. This is based on what I found at Read the complete article here.

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SOA Cloud Service update September 29th 2015 16:00 CET

September 21, 2015 Leave a comment

image This month we invite Yogesh Sontakke, Oracle Integration Product Manager to share with us two of Oracle’s exciting upcoming Cloud Services in the Oracle Integration portfolio.

Oracle SOA Cloud Service, a comprehensive service in the cloud with the core SOA Suite including Service Bus, BPEL and more, with flexible deployment options and lift-and-shift capabilities with existing SOA Suite environments. Together with the recently released and already popular Integration Cloud Service, this new Cloud offering enriches Oracle’s Hybrid Integration capabilities to a new level providing business speed, agility and flexibility leveraging Cloud and on-premise like never before.

Oracle API Manager Cloud Service, the API platform for innovation and speed in the Digital business. With this new Cloud Service, businesses can get API visibility in the Cloud, protection for their backend services and the ability to expose and manage their on-prem as well as Cloud APIs. Running on a robust, well-proven platform with low maintenance and all benefits of the Cloud, the API Manager Cloud Service brings API Management to the Cloud for businesses, developers and IT operations.

Make sure you are signed up and tuned in to hear the latest and to be prepared ahead of the rest for these two very important Oracle Cloud Integration Services!

Yogesh Sontakke is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation in the PaaS and Fusion Middleware group, leading Oracle’s Integration portfolio –  Integration Cloud Service, SOA Suite, API Management, Stream Explorer and MFT – in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. Prior to joining the Integration Product Management team, Yogesh worked in various roles in Development, Post-Sales and Pre-Sales where he gained his experience architecting, developing, integrating and enabling technology as a key driver to businesses. Yogesh is based in the UK, and tweets at @yogesh_sontakke.

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