SOA Suite 11g – The Ingredient for Innovation: New Integration Adapters by Thanos Terentes Printzios

April 30, 2014 Leave a comment

Enterprise of all sizes, are evaluating cloud computing. Many businesses are making new economic investments in public cloud, while they continue to rely on their existing on-premise IT investments. To integrate data between public cloud and private data center, organizations face major challenges:

  • Integration complexity between the cloud and on-premise applications.
  • Load data rapidly to get cloud applications up and running in a well-timed.
  • The data must be kept synchronized – often in real time.
  • Enforce security

Three common reasons for integration complexity:

One question remains with the emergence of the cloud computing.
Do we need disparate toolkit to deploy a cloud integration platform focused on cloud applications and then have a separate integration platform for existing applications?

Three solutions to these challenges:

Oracle SOA Suite 11 g is the only offering that is complete, integrated, best-of-breed and hot-pluggable.

Doing more with less, Oracle SOA suite 11.1.1.7 simplifies The Integration Experience:

  • Cloud and Mobile Integrations
  • Integrate 3rd party SaaS applications, hybrid clouds, and Oracle Cloud
  • Mobile Integration leveraging, Oracle SOA connects mobile applications using JSON and REST via Oracle Service Bus

Oracle SOA Suite provides a single solution for integrating applications regardless of deployment location (public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises) to simplify integration and lower total cost of ownership. Read the complete article here.

 

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Working with Oracle Security Token Service in an Architecture Involving Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Service Bus by Ronaldo Fernandes

April 29, 2014 Leave a comment

Using Oracle Security Token Service to generate Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens.
Downloads: Oracle Security Token Service & Oracle WebLogic Server & Oracle Service Bus.

Recently, I’ve worked on a proof of concept for the use of Oracle Security Token Service (OSTS) in an architecture involving Oracle Fusion Middleware, focused on Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS), Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM) and Oracle Se

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rvice Bus (OSB). There are many security scenarios in which OSTS can be used, but the initial objective was to provide single sign-on between WLS and OSB using OSTS to generate Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens. This article describes the steps to implement this solution.

Scenario

The solution was applied on OWSM with OSB 11g (11.1.1.6), Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11gR2 (11.1.2) and WLS 11g (10.3.6). A Security Token Service (STS) creates and validates security tokens, using protocols such as WS-Trust, acting as a centralizer point in security infrastructure architecture and simplifying identity propagation between heterogeneous environments.

OSTS is an Oracle Identity Management access management solution. For more information on OSTS, consult the following articles by Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team solution architect Andre Correa:

The proof of concept required a client on WLS accessing a service provided by OSB using SAML. The SAML Assertion should be generated from OSTS.

WLS can use WS-Trust policies and communicate with OSTS, but OSB 11g still doesn’t support WS-Trust policies. To work around this issue, configure OSB to trust messages signed by an OSTS certificate. Here is the complete scenario: Read the complete article here.

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Drive-In Theater Webcast" Recap – Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com By Bruce Tierney

April 28, 2014 Leave a comment

In case you had car trouble, the replay and slides are available here. As you learned, the new Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com takes the complexity out of integration by encapsulating session management, security and other tasks into the same intuitive wizard-based approach that has been so popular with our other adapters.  During the webcast, we started with a visual description of the challenges that can occur with a growth in disparate toolkits and then converged onto the Oracle solution for unifying cloud and on-premises integration with a single standards-based toolkit.   Then Vikas Anand gave a demo of Salesforce.com/E-Business Suite real time integration followed by a quick demo of how to set up the adapter.

We had over 150 questions and here are few selected questions and the answers:

  • Will this work with Oracle SOA Suite 11g or is this an upcoming 12c feature?
    The Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com is available today and works with SOA Suite 11g
  • What adapters are coming in the future?
    Check out the video from Oracle OpenWorld with Thomas Kurian and Demed L’Her available on Oracle Media Network (6:15)
  • Does the adapter work with Oracle Service Bus and Oracle BPM Suite?
    Yes, as of release 11.1.1.7
    Read the complete article here.

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Resequencer Health Check by Shreenidhi Raghuram

April 27, 2014 Leave a comment

In this Blog we will see a few useful queries to monitor and diagnose the health of resequencer components running in a typical SOA/AIA Environment.

The first query is a snapshot of the current count of Resequencer messages in their various states and group_statuses.

Table below lists a representative sample output of the above query from a running SOA Environment containing Resequencers collected at 12:04:50 Read the complete article here.

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Video: SOA Transformation (with Lonneke Dikmans) by Bob Rhubart

April 26, 2014 Leave a comment

Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans shares the details on a Dutch government agency’s transition from an Oracle Forms-based environment to a service-oriented environment using Oracle SOA Suite in this interview recorded at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. Watch the video here.

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Integration for Airlines and Cargo Hubs By Krishnaprem Bhatia

April 25, 2014 Leave a comment

Market Trend
Many airlines today are using antiquated mainframe and proprietary systems for maintaining their Passenger Service Systems (PSS). These systems are  typically mainframe systems which are old and complex with a high cost of maintenance. Airlines want to modernize these systems and reduce their costs by consolidation of numerous point solutions and legacy applications.

The need to reduce complexity, bring down IT costs and increase their flexibility is driving airlines to outsource their PSS systems to vendors such as Amadeus. Although self development of these PSS systems can be done in-house by major airlines, it can be more expensive, less flexible, and less feature rich than the outsourcing option.
As airlines outsource more of their PSS systems, they need to exchange business documents such as reservations and ticketing with the outsourced provider. They also need visibility and manageability into the data flowing from outsourced systems into their enterprises. This incoming passenger data also needs to be integrated back into their internal systems. For example, different documents received from the outsourced PSS systems need to be processed and stored so that they are available to other internal systems. This has to be done using standards-based technologies for compliance and interoperability, ensuring that performance and operations SLAs are met at the same time.
How does Oracle Service Integration fit in?
Oracle B2B allows airlines to connect with their outsourced PSS systems such as Amadeus using industry standards-based technologies. Airlines can exchange different document types (typically EDI variants, non XML formats) such as passenger reservations, updates to reservations, inventory management, departure control systems and ticketing. Oracle B2B provides the ability to exchange these documents, process them, validate them, and translate them into XML for further processing by downstream components.

Airlines typically exchange information with Amadeus using two modes. In the real-time (online) mode the messages are sent ‘live’ by the PSS systems on an ongoing basis as they occur. In the batch mode many messages are batched together and sent at a particular time. Oracle B2B provides support for both real-time and batch modes, providing critical functionality such as document translation, validation, de-batching for these documents. It also provides the communication mechanisms such as File, FTP and MQ for exchanging these messages with outsourced systems. All this is done using standards based technologies such as standard document and exchange protocols. Once B2B is done processing the messages, these are typically sent to adjacent components within Oracle SOA Suite for message enrichment and transformations. Messages can then be stored in an enterprise warehouse where this data can be used by other internal applications. The end to end scenarios typically have high performance SLAs in terms of throughput and end to end processing time.
The products typically deployed in such scenarios include Oracle B2B, Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager for data transformation and enrichment and Oracle Data Integrator for migrating processed data into enterprise data warehouses. Customers may also choose to deploy this over Exalogic and Exadata systems for performance reasons. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite 11g On-Demand, Self-Pace Course Now Available

April 24, 2014 Leave a comment

The SOA Suite 11g Implementation Boot Camp, a 4-day live course for Oracle Partners, is now available in a self-paced, on-demand form on the SOA Suite 11g Implementation Guided Learning Path (GLP). The GLP contains all the lectures and hands-on labs from the live course. A VirtualBox appliance is used to support the 15 hands-on labs. The on-demand format allows students to experience a lecture segment or perform a lab exercise whenever they have time. Students can work through the materials at their own pace on their own computer. Support is provided via an email link with the OPN solution specialist who developed the course. In order to access this free course, you need to be an Oracle Gold Partner (or above) with an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) login.

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Taking Charge: Meeting SOA Governance Challenges – podcast series

April 23, 2014 Leave a comment

clip_image002Taking Charge: Meeting SOA Governance Challenges – podcast series This four-part OTN ArchBeat Podcast series gives you a seat at a roundtable discussion with four experts on the current state in the evolution of SOA Governance: what old problems persist, what new problems have presented themselves, and what can be done to implement an efficient and effective SOA governance program.

The Panelists

(Listed alphabetically)

  • Mark Dutra,Senior Principal Product Manager for API Management, Oracle
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  • Manuel Rosa,SOA Governance Practice Leader, Link Consulting
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  • André Sampaio,Enterprise Architect, Senior Consultant, Link Consulting
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  • Luis Weir, Senior Oracle Solution Director, HCL AXON
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The Conversation

  • Listen to Part 1: What are we talking about when we talk about SOA Governance? What are the key components and objectives?
  • Listen to Part 2: Some things never change. Exploring the most persistent SOA Governance challenges.
  • Listen to Part 3: The most common SOA Governance mistakes and why organizations make them.
  • Listen to Part 4: Cloud, mobile, IoT – what new challenges face SOA Governance in the rapid evolution of enterprise IT?

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Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com

April 22, 2014 Leave a comment

What are LIMIT_EXCEEDED errors I encounter while using Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com?

Salesforce.com imposes different types of limits on users using the Salesforce.com APIs to connect to Salesforce.com. This is a common feature across all cloud vendors and it ensures optimal as well as balanced access to the hosted services. Two such restrictions are the “API usage limit” and “Storage Limit” imposed on each Salesforce.com “Organization” by Salesforce.com. This article briefly tries to explain these limits and how the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com can help you to optimize your integration with Salesforce.com.

API Usage Limit
When the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com communicates with Salesforce.com, it does so by making SOAP calls. The number of calls made during the execution of a SOA composite depends on the complexity of the orchestration and amount of data flow being handled by the adapter.

Limits are calculated against the total of all API calls made by a Salesforce.com“Organization” in a 24-hour period, and not on a per-user basis. When your Salesforce.com Organization exceeds the limit of its API calls, all users in the organization will be blocked from making additional calls until the 24-hour period is over and your organization’s call limits are reset.

This is when a user will get the REQUEST_LIMIT_EXCEEDED fault message while invoking the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com. There is no work around for this fault and you will have to wait for the 24-hour period to lapse, and your organization’s limit to be reset by Salesforce.com.

For instance, if you are using the Enterprise Edition of Salesforce.com, your organization will have a per user limit of 1000 API calls in a 24-hour period up to a maximum of 1,000,000 API calls. To further simplify, say your organization has 100 users; Salesforce.com allows your organization to make 100,000 API calls per 24-hour period. When your organization reaches this limit, the users of this organization will be temporarily blocked from connecting to Salesforce.com via the API. Please note, that this has no effect on the users of your organization accessing Salesforce.com in their browsers. Read the complete article here.

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Cloud and On-Premises Integration for Oracle Applications

April 18, 2014 Leave a comment

As cloud computing becomes an essential aspect of business operations for many companies, there is a pressing need to integrate cloud applications with on-premises applications. According to a recent study, however, companies frequently have significant cloud integration challenges, with 53 percent of respondents saying lack of integration with cloud applications is their main hindrance to innovation.1 The middleware solutions in the Oracle AppAdvantage program eliminate this hindrance by sharing standards and components among all enterprise applications. This high level of consistency between Oracle Applications and Oracle integration solutions are key enablers for innovation and competitive advantage.

For example, an enterprise that relies on an on-premises customer relationship management (CRM) application might acquire a company that uses a cloud-based CRM application. Account managers need to be able to access data from both systems cohesively, share data between these systems, and ultimately establish an authoritative system of record. HR systems, payroll systems, and incentive compensation systems also need to work in unison and exchange information so that employees are properly compensated and paid. Putting all this information together in a unified way is essential to delivering a consistent experience for people both inside and outside the firewall.

Oracle AppAdvantage for Cloud and On-Premises Integration
Oracle AppAdvantage is a program powered by Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies that helps customers strengthen their investment in Oracle Applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite as well as Oracle’s JD Edwards, Siebel, and PeopleSoft applications. Oracle SOA Suite – the central middleware component in this program for service integration and application integration – can connect on-premises enterprise systems to a private or public cloud in a cohesive way. It minimizes the distinction between cloud-based and on-premises applications by enabling a unified approach to service integration, process orchestration, application integration, and data integration – regardless of where those applications are deployed. Get the whitepaper here.

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