Fusion Middleware Summer Camps IV 2014 – August 4th – 8th 2014

June 18, 2014 Leave a comment

You are working on large Fusion Middleware opportunities & projects? Oracle is pleased to invite you to the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps IV August 4th – 8th 2014 – by the SOA & BPM & WebLogic Partner Communities. The goal of the training is to support you in delivering a successful project. Most of the trainers are members of the Oracle Product Management Team.

Come to Lisbon to get a 5 days hands-on training in one of the following topics:

  • SOA Suite hands-on
  • BPM Suite hands-on
  • Internet of Things (IoT) Hackathon
  • Mobile Framework Hackathon

Important: all trainings are hands-on and require a laptop with 8+ GB or more!

Registration is free of charge, except in case of cancellation fee € 150 or no-show fee €2000! Please read the registration page carefulfy before you register – make the right choice for your bootcamp (you can not change later). Please be aware that we will NOT answer questions via e-mail with details you can find at the registration page. If you are not yet a member, we would like to invite you to join the Oracle EMEA Partner Communities:

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Quotes from previous Middleware Summer Camps

  • “This is an amazing event to know in-depth the platform and know developers from different countries” David Elizarraraz
  • “An excellent meeting point of SOA BPM knowledge” Kai Schlüssler
  • “I will come back We want more!” Maria Joao Costa
  • “Good food, good weather, good people and excellent Oracle workshops, One of the weeks of the year” Joao Biachi
  • “A big thank you to Juergen for the Oracle FMW camp last week in Lisbon. Great event, great organization and great fun! Keep up the great work!” Niall Commiskey
  • “The best ideas are the ideas from the best” Filipe Sequeria, Primesoft
  • “Best invest in the education in the last 12 months” Richard Schaller, IPT
  • “Practice best practice with the best instructor”  Graham Lamond Capgemini
  • “If you have basic BPM knowledge, this is the course to really mater it” Diogo Henriques Link Consulting
  • “Very good trainers lot of work. Lot of fun as well” Matthias Gris Workflow Factory
  • “If you like to accelerate in Oracle come to the training to bring it all together” Marcel van der Glind, Amis
  • “The best way to learn Fusion Middleware from the #1.  Alexandro Montantes, STO Consulting
  • “Excellent training, well organized” Pedro Antunh, Capgemini

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AppAdvantage New Assets: Webcast on-demand & solution brief & resource kit & customer case studies

June 16, 2014 1 Comment

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Design – Architecting for Mobile Integration Overview by Grant Ronald

June 3, 2014 Leave a comment

This episode: In this episode of ADF Architecture TV Grant Ronald looks at the challenges and some solutions when building ADF services to be consumed by mobile clients. Including versioning APIs, building proxies and facades, and utilizing a service bus. Watch the video here.

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Dynamic endpoint binding in Oracle SOA Suite by Cattle Crew

June 2, 2014 Leave a comment

Why is dynamic endpoint binding needed?
Sometimes a BPEL process instance has to determine at run-time which implementation of a web service interface is to be called. We’ll show you how to achieve that using dynamic endpoint binding.

get_available_carsLet’s imagine the following scenario: we’re running a car rental agency called RYLC (Rent Your Legacy Car) which operates different locations. The process of renting a car is basically identical for all locations except for the determination which cars are currently available. This is depicted in the following diagram:

There are three different implementations of the GetAvailableCars service. But how can we achieve calling them dynamically at run-time using Oracle SOA Suite?

How to dynamically set the service endpoint
There are just a couple of implementation steps we need to perform to enable dynamic endpoint binding:

  • create a new SOA project in JDeveloper
  • add a CarRental BPEL process
  • add an external reference to the GetAvailableCars service within the composite
  • create a DVM file containing the URI’s by which the services for the different locations can be accessed
  • set the endpointURI property on the Invoke component calling the GetAvailableCars service (value is taken from the DVM file)

Read the complete article here.

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Simple Introduction to using the Enterprise Manager SOA/BPM Facade API by Jaideep Ganguli

May 31, 2014 Leave a comment

There may be times when you need to expose just a small section of what is displayed in the Enterprise Manager console for SOA/BPM (EM console).

A simple example can be where stakeholders on the systems integration or customer teams want to monitor a dashboard of statistics on how many instances of a composite have been created and how many have faulted.

DeployedCompositeStatsInEMYou can see this in the EM, as shown below
Some of these stakeholders may not have knowledge of  EM console and they just want a quick view into the statistics, without having to navigate EM.

This post describes how to use the Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Management Java API  for Oracle SOA Suite (also called the Facade API)  to build a custom ADF page to display this information. If you want a quick introduction in using the Facade API, this post is for you.

Read the complete article here.

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SOA’s People Problem by Bob Rhubart

May 30, 2014 Leave a comment

Are reluctant passengers slowing down your SOA train?
Based on my conversations with various experts in service-oriented architecture (SOA), the consensus is that SOA tools and technology have achieved a high level of maturity. Some even use the term industrialization to describe the current state of SOA. Given that scenario, one might assume that SOA has been wildly successful for every organization that has adopted its principles.

Obviously SOA could not have achieved its current level of maturity and industrialization without having reached a tipping point in the volume of success stories to drive continued adoption. But some organizations continue to struggle with SOA. The problem, according to some experts, has little to do with tools or technologies.

“One of the greatest challenges to implementing SOA has nothing to do with the intrinsic complexity behind a SOA technology platform,” says Oracle ACE Luis Augusto Weir, senior Oracle solution director at HCL AXON. “The real difficulty lies in dealing with people and processes from different parts of the business and aligning them to deliver enterprisewide solutions.”

What can an organization do to meet that challenge? “Staff the right people,” says Weir. “For example, the role of a SOA architect should be as much about integrating people as it is about integrating systems. Dealing with people from different departments, backgrounds, and agendas is a huge challenge. The SOA architect role requires someone that not only has a sound architectural and technological background but also has charisma and human skills, and can communicate equally well to the business and technical teams.”

The SOA architect’s communication skills are instrumental in establishing service orientation as the guiding principle across the organization. “A consistent architecture comprising both business services and IT services can comprehensively redefine the role of IT at the process level,” says Danilo Schmiedel, solution architect at Opitz Consulting. That helps to shift the focus from siloes to services and get SOA on track.

To that end, Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans, a managing partner at Vennster, stresses the importance of replacing individual, uncoordinated projects with a focused program that promotes communication, cooperation, and service reuse. “Having support among lead developers and architects helps, as does having sponsors that see the business case and understand the strategic value,” she says. Read the complete article here.

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Cook a SOA/BPM Development Environment with Chef in 8 minutes! By Jorge Quilcate

May 29, 2014 Leave a comment

After have installed Oracle SOA Suite once and over again, you start to finding out that these are boilerplate tasks and do not generate much value, because this are only the initial step to implement solutions with SOA and BPM.

In this post I will show you how to automate these steps using Chef.

Chef is a software provisioning tool that enable transform infrastructure as code.

The goal is prepare a development environment with Oracle BPM Suite on Windows including the following components installed and configured:

  • Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6
  • Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7 (SOA, BPM and BAM)
  • a BPM Domain with one server with SOA and BPM (Admin Server) and other server with BAM (optional)

Read the complete article here.

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IoT end-to-end demo – Remote Monitoring and Service By Harish Doddala

May 28, 2014 Leave a comment

Historically, data was generated from predictable sources, stored in storage systems and accessed for further processing. This data was correlated, filtered and analyzed to derive insights and/or drive well constructed processes. There was little ambiguity in the kinds of data, the sources it would originate from and the routes that it would follow. Internet of Things (IoT) creates many opportunities to extract value from data that result in significant improvements across industries such as Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Smart Utilities, Oil and Gas, High Tech and Professional Services, etc.

This demo showcases how the health of remotely deployed machinery can be monitored to illustrate how data coming from devices can be analyzed in real-time, integrated with back-end systems and visualized to initiate action as may be necessary.

Use-case: Remote Service and Maintenance
Critical machinery once deployed on the field, is expected to work with minimal failures, while delivering high performance and reliability. In typical remote monitoring and industrial automation scenarios, although many physical objects from machinery to equipment may already be “smart and connected,” they are typically operated in a standalone fashion and not integrated into existing business processes. IoT adds an interesting dynamic to remote monitoring in industrial automation solutions in that it allows equipment to be monitored, upgraded, maintained and serviced in ways not possible before. Read the complete article here.

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IoT Developer Challenge & Healthcare presentation & projects

May 27, 2014 Leave a comment

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Common SOA Problems by C2B2

May 26, 2014 Leave a comment

SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture and has only really come together as a concrete approach in the last 15 years or so, although the concepts involved have been around for longer. Oracle SOA Suite is based around the Service Component Architecture (SCA) devised by the Open SOA collaboration of companies including Oracle and IBM.

SCA, as used in SOA suite, is designed as a way to crystallise the concepts of SOA into a standard which ensures that SOA principles like the separation of application and business logic are maintained.

Orchestration or Integration?
A common thing to see with many people who are beginning to either build a new SOA based infrastructure, or move an old system to be service oriented, is confusion in the purpose of SOA technologies like BPEL and enterprise service buses. For a lot of problems, orchestration tools like BPEL or integration tools like an ESB will both do the job and achieve the right objectives; however it’s important to remember that, although a hammer can be used to drive a screw into wood, that doesn’t mean it’s the best way to do it.

Service Integration is the act of connecting components together at a low level, which usually results in a single external endpoint for you to expose to your customers or other teams within your organisation – a simple product ordering system, for example, might integrate a stock checking service and a payment processing service.

Process Orchestration, however, is generally a higher level approach whereby the (often externally exposed) service endpoints are brought together to track an end-to-end business process. This might include the earlier example of a product ordering service and couple it with a business rules service and human task to handle edge-cases.

A good (but not exhaustive) rule-of-thumb is that integrations performed by an ESB will usually be real-time, whereas process orchestration in a SOA composite might comprise processes which take a certain amount of time to complete, or have to wait pending manual intervention.

BPEL vs BPMN
For some, with pre-existing SOA or business process projects, this decision is effectively already made. For those embarking on new projects it’s certainly an important consideration for those using Oracle SOA software since, due to the components included in SOA Suite and BPM Suite, the choice of which to buy is determined by what they offer.

Oracle SOA suite has no BPMN engine, whereas BPM suite has both a BPMN and a BPEL engine. SOA suite has the ESB component “Mediator”, whereas BPM suite has none. Decisions must be made, therefore, on whether just one or both process modelling languages are to be used. The wrong decision could be costly further down the line.

Design for performance: Read the complete article here.

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