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Best Practices for SOA Suite 11g to 12c Upgrade By Jay Kasi

December 3, 2014 Leave a comment

A lot of effort has been put in by Oracle to make this major upgrade as smooth and easy as possible. The basic approach is to install SOA Suite 12c in a new oracle home and upgrade the domain and schemas in place. Customers undertaking the upgrade are primarily interested in a smooth upgrade, minimizing the number of manual steps in the upgrade, reduce the down time to a minimum, and minimize or eliminate any changes to client apps that use SOA APIs or web interfaces.

The key to a successful and smooth upgrade experience are the preupgrade preparations that you perform. The upgrade must be planned carefully. If the preupgrade preparations are not performed, there is a possibility that upgrade will fail in the middle or the system does not behave properly post upgrade. The only recourse to a failed production system upgrade is to roll it back from a full backup.

If your SOA domain includes BAM, then the upgrade is more complex because BAM does not support inplace upgrade. Please read the documentation carefully. The basic idea is to migrate the whole BAM deployment to a seperate domain using export/import, remove BAM from the soa domain during upgrade, and upgrade your soa domain to interop with the bam 11g domain. Later slowly and carefully migrate to BAM 12c from BAM 11g.

There are six top steps that should be performed before upgrade of your production system as a best practice.

Carefully review the prerequisites for upgrade in the documentation. Some of the prerequisites are checked upfront before we upgrade the schema in Upgrade Assistant but not all. Read all relevant upgrade documentation before starting on upgrade. Some of the key prerequisites are:

· Can only upgrade a domain that is 11.1.1.6 or 11.1.1.7. Migrate to a supported starting point before upgrade.

· Can only upgrade a deployment using a 64 bit JVM. Migrate to 64 bit JVM before upgrade.

· Can only upgrade a production domain not using XE DB and is not an admin server only domain.

· Can only upgrade a domain using LDAP or DB OPSS policy store. Migrate file based policy store to DB or LDAP based policy store before upgrade. Read the complete article here.

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Learning Library – Free SOA Suite 12c online learning

December 2, 2014 Leave a comment

Make sure you get familiar with SOA Suite 12c, at Oracle Learning Library you can get great videos on demand free:

· Upgrading Oracle SOA Suite to 12c Video Series – 8 videos

· Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Developer Productivity Video Series – 3 videos

· SOA New Features Videos

o Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 12c

o Introducing Oracle Managed File Transfer 12c

o Working with MFT 12c – Monitoring File Transfers

o Working with MFT 12c – Designing an End to End Transfer

o Oracle SOA Suite 12c: REST Enabling SOA

o Oracle Event Processing 12.1.3: Enabling Fraud Detection

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50% discount on SOA Suite & BPM Suite eBooks from PACKT this Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2014 Leave a comment

Make use of the long Thanksgiving weekend and read an Oracle SOA Suite or BPM Suite eBook from Packt! Don’t know which book to choose? Visit our publications wikis for SOA books and BPM books .

Happy reading and a great Turkey BBQ! Jürgen Kress

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What’s New in SOA Suite 12c – Rapid Installation by Bruce Tierney

November 26, 2014 Leave a comment

By now, you have probably read about the biggest release of Oracle SOA Suite in the last 5 years…Oracle SOA Suite 12c with major enhancements in the areas of Cloud Integration, Mobile Integration and more. This “What’s New in SOA Suite 12c” blog focuses on one of the many other new features that developers will be thrilled to experience, the rapid installation feature. Tired of spending an entire afternoon installing Oracle SOA Suite 11g? Then switch to Oracle SOA Suite 12c and the rapid installation for development is completed in less than 30 minutes.
Here is an excerpt from the “What’s New in Oracle SOA Suite 12c” White Paper by Oracle’s Simone Geib. Download it now to learn about this and many other features:
Crucial first steps in every SOA development cycle are the installation and configuration of a SOA development environment, including the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the SOA run-time and infrastructure database. For pre-12c versions of Oracle SOA Suite, these steps were challenging, starting with the download of several components and a complicated install and configuration process.
With Oracle SOA Suite 12c, this process has been dramatically simplified with the introduction of the new Quick Start installer. The download consists of a single file that can be obtained from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). The user only needs to answer a few questions, such as defining the location for Oracle Home, and the installation usually completes in less than 30 minutes as shown in the image to the below.

The Quick Start install provides the foundation for a single user development environment, which includes all Oracle SOA Suite core components – Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Human Workflow, Oracle Business Rules, Oracle Mediator, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle Technology Adapters, Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, SOA Spring Component and Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. In addition, Oracle JDeveloper is installed with all SOA IDE extensions and an integrated WebLogic Server.

Download the White Paper here and register for the Oracle SOA Suite 12c Webcast for more information

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Hands-On Middleware & Java Learning free of charge – November 26th 2014

November 24, 2014 Leave a comment

Great news! You don’t have to leave your office – you can join us from the convenience of your desk. Register, for free, to hear from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, and Oracle product experts as they share their insight and experience on how to solve today’s IT challenges. This online event, brought to you by the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), offers four technical tracks, each with a unique focus on specific tools, technologies, and tips:

The Middleware Track
This track is all about Mobility and has two focus areas—mobile application development and mobile architecture. Participants will learn how to:
- Use essential tools, technologies and architectures for developing a successful mobile solution. Products covered will include the Oracle Mobile Application Framework, Oracle Mobile Suite, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, Oracle SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus.
The Java Track
Java continues to offer more functionality. How can you keep up? Java developers can experience code-laden training on how to:
- Implement solutions using the latest Java EE features
- Use lambdas and the new streams library API
- Tune your Java applications for high performance

View the full agenda, abstracts, and participation instructions.
Click here to Register now.

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Resolving deployment issues with Service Bus 12c – OSB-398016 – Error loading WSDL by Lucas Jellema

November 13, 2014 Leave a comment

I was completely stuck with Service Bus 12c project deployment from JDeveloper to the Service Bus run time. Every deployment met with the same fate: Conflicts found during publish – OSB-398016, Error loading the WSDL from the repository: The WSDL is not semantically valid: Failed to read wsdl file from url due to — java.net.MalformedURLException: Unknown protocol: servicebus.

I was completely lost and frustrated – not even a simple hello_world could make it to the server.
Then, Google and Daniel Dias from Link Consulting to the rescue: http://middlewarebylink.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/soa-12c-end-to-end-e2e-tutorial-error-deploying-validatepayment/. He had run into the same problem – and he had a fix for it! Extremely hard to find if you ask me, but fairly easy to apply.
It turns out this is a known bug (18856204). The bug description refers to BPM and SB being installed in the same domain.
The resolution:
Open the Administration Console for the WebLogic Domain. From the Services node, select service OSGi Frameworks: Read the complete article here.

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Are you considering, or starting to deploy, SOA Suite 12c? You should be talking to O-box!

November 12, 2014 Leave a comment

Is an automatically configured solution to enable customers to install a highly available and robust Oracle SOA Suite platform (with multiple independent environments) for a fixed price, and in very short time-scales.

The O-box SOA Appliance greatly reduces risk and allows IT administrators to focus on SOA project deployment, rather than platform installation. It has the capability to grow with your business depending upon the initial configuration option chosen, up to the point where larger hardware, such as Exalogic, may be required.
Our pricing makes O-box SOA Appliance an attractive option when compared to the cost and risk of implementing SOA as a consulting project or if you are considering doing it yourself, especially when hardware and software costs are also taken into account. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite 12c – Quick Start Domain Configurations by Ganesh Kamble

November 11, 2014 Leave a comment

This article is first of four part series on Oracle SOA Suite 12c Domain Configurations. Here we will discuss the new types of domain configurations released in this release of Oracle SOA.

Oracle SOA Suite 12c Quick Installer Distribution allows you to install Oracle SOA domain in a development or evaluation environment quickly. These domains are not supposed to be used or migrated to the production environments. The typical usage of them is to deploy and test applications during the development phase. The step-by-step installation of SOA Suite 12c Quick Start distribution is given in this post.

Characteristics
Following are the key characteristics:

Use on a single host
Use only for development or evaluation purposes
Limited to one Administration server with no option to add managed servers
Cluster not supported
Not recommended for production environments
Use Java DB to store schemas
Extended applications might need schemas to be stored in Oracle databases

Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration By Mala Ramakrishna

November 10, 2014 Leave a comment

Delivering on your Healthcare Imperatives

Leveraging the Oracle SOA Suite for Healthcare integration allows connecting clinical and administrative processes. It delivers reliable, secure, and cost-effective ways to exchange information and provides payers and providers with a versatile platform for enterprise-wide information sharing. SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration provides the following:

Improves time to market and maximizes business agility with healthcare domain expertise inbuilt into your platform
Delivers on unparalleled performance and better visibility across the board on your healthcare systems
Lowers total cost of ownership with a unified healthcare integration framework

In order to stay abreast of new industry developments related to electronic medical records, health insurance exchanges, and fee-for-performance care models, health care organizations need to build, buy and integrate many types of software applications. Having a consistent SOA infrastructure helps these organizations to leverage essential business processes so that these software applications can interact and exchange information in a consistent way.
As the standards governing healthcare practices mature and the implementation of EHR systems becomes more ubiquitous, the benefits of having an interoperable infrastructure will become progressively more important. Oracle SOA Suite for healthcare integration provides essential capabilities required for doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, and other entities by facilitating the sharing of information in a secure and standards-based way.
To learn more, leverage this new resource kit on SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration. It is a one stop for a deep understanding on the offering. It includes white papers, case studies, customer stories, and technical resources that help increase quality, efficiency and accountability of healthcare.
To learn more on what’s new in Oracle SOA Suite 12c, join us at the live webcast on Wednesday, July 30 at 10am. To find out more: Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 12c.

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Durable Subscribers in 12c by Sivakumar

November 9, 2014 Leave a comment

Business Events are used to notify the interested parties (subscribers) about an occurrence of activity which is of important to them. On raising the business events, the subscribers would consume them and process it based on their business flows. All these things would happen in a highly loose coupled manner and business events producers may not be aware of the subscribers. So when designing an application based on business events one of the aspects requires attention is, Will there be any loss of event?

This is very important as subscribers are not in a position to request providers to raise event again, even if they do its going to be a duplicate event (occurrence) for other subscribers. Technically speaking, the loss of event can be translated into any of these following scenarios: