SOA & Cloud Integration Marketing Kit available

October 11, 2013 Leave a comment

We are very interested to run joint marketing events jointly with you are partners! At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find a new marketing kit: Integration Success Workshop. This event is designed with an aim at increasing IT/developer confidence in order to increase adoption especially with SOA/BPM products. This event is technical and hands-on and is designed to be to a few types of audience classifications – all who are highly technical and are at the practitioner-level:

  • Existing customers who may be tempted by open source, other competition because they think our products are hard to use, too complex, and don’t meet new use cases.
  • Existing customers who may already have some understanding or familiarity with the SOA/BPM products but want to learn how to build out more modern SOA/BPM deployments via Cloud/Mobile.
  • New customers who are interested to learn firsthand some of the new breakthrough capabilities in Cloud and Mobile.

Themes of this event are centered on Cloud Integration, Mobile Integration, and Continuous Integration. Modules will be delivered on specific themes, and are designed enable a conversation with customers about each theme and how SOA / BPM can solve key challenges within that theme (e.g. Extending Applications to Mobile Devices). Access the event kit here.

Support marketing campaigns

We can support such events by:

  • Oracle speakers – contact your partner manager
  • Marketing budget – contact your A&C marketing manager
  • Event location – free use of Oracle Customer Visitor Centers conference rooms
  • Promote your event at events.oracle.com: http://tinyurl.com/eventspecialized
  • E-Blast: invite customers to your event – contact your A&C marketing manager

For additional marketing kits e.g for BPM please visit our SOA Community Workspace

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Securing the SOA Landscape part of Industrial SOA series

October 10, 2013 Leave a comment

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Security requirements are usually relatively easy to manage when using local restrictions in conventional closed systems. They become more complex in the distributed system landscape of an SOA. Not limited to only an application or an application domain anymore, security must work across a range of applications and business processes.

Numerous security standards have been created in order to realize these comprehensive security requirements. These include WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, XML Encryption, XKMS, XML Signature, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation, SAML1, SAML2, and many more. Currently, no product or open source framework can fully support all of these standards. In our experience, incompatibilities arise whenever an SOA product or deployed Web service framework needs to communicate outside of its small ecosystem.

Not surprisingly, project managers who are confronted with increasing expenses tend to start looking for viable alternatives. They then usually choose to develop inflexible solutions in-house that can quickly implement risky anti-patterns, such as transferring usernames and passwords within the functional payload. The variety of different standards makes it difficult to formulate a clear understanding of the available security standards and internal product dependencies, in light of the individual restrictions to designing a well-secured system.

Our aim is to provide IT experts and SOA architects with tips on how to handle security responsibly, using tried and true best practices as a basis.

How Much Security Do I Need?

Security plays a crucial role due to SOA’s extensively networked nature, yet is not required by all of the different types of applications and architecture layers to the same degree. Defining both internal and external security requirements for the entire organization and its individual departments by conceptually developing the implementation is therefore important.

Read the full article at the Service Technology Magazine or Oracle Technology Network.

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Oracle OpenWorld focus on SOA & BPM & Community Reception

September 18, 2013 Leave a comment

Are you ready for Oracle OpenWorld 2013? Did you plan your agenda? Some tips to plan your trip:

OOW 2013 & Fusion Middleware Partner Community Reception Tuesday September 24th 2013
You are invited to join our traditional Fusion Middleware Partner Community Reception at OpenWorld. Please read the community newsletter for the registration link!

Tips for Oracle Open World

  • Plan your schedule well in advance!
  • Visit the demo groups for the products you are interested
  • Arrange 1:1 meetings with product management and A&C management
  • OFM Specialized partners can record short videos for oracle.com and your website reserve your seat Video Blogging scheduler
  • Wear comfortable shoes, casual cloth and a light backpack
  • Don’t forget your international health insurance
  • Share your news & knowledge via social media like twitter @soacommunity @wlscommunity #OOW2013
  • Drink some water during the day and a beer at our reception

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance – Interactive Surgery Session by C2B2 September 9th 2013

September 6, 2013 Leave a comment

imageSubmit your performance problems for our experts to analyse during the webinar and you can win a copy of ‘Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook’!
Monday, 9th of September 2013, 4pm – 5pm BST
 
Register now

 

Hosted by Matt Brasier and Nick Wright, the authors of the ‘Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook’ this interactive webinar will help you to understand the principals of performance engineering with Oracle SOA Suite and learn how to use the tools that are available for triage and diagnosis of performance problems.

We want you to tell us what performance problems our experts should analyse during the webinar! All participants can submit their Oracle SOA Suite performance problems from any part of the stack to webinar@c2b2.co.uk.
Matt and Nick will then choose the ones to cover during the session. The deadline for the submissions is Monday, the 2nd of September. The person who submits the most interesting problem will win a copy of the ‘Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook’ – Matt and Nick will choose the winner at the end of the webinar.

For details please visit our registration page.

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Next Generation Service Integration Platform: Oracle SOA Suite on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine

September 5, 2013 Leave a comment

This paper gives an overview of:

  • Modern service integration platforms and SOA
  • The challenges in the current era of cloud, mobile, Big Data and Fast Data and
  • How Exalogic, Exadata and related Oracle products provide the best platform to solve these challenges

Download the paper here.

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Oracle Service Bus 11g: statistics projects and services with WLST – part 2 by Michel Schildmeijer

September 4, 2013 Leave a comment

codeOSBstatsAs a follow-up on my earlier blogpost about how to list all your projects and services in your OSB domain, I’ve extended the script with some count statistics. Look at this screenshot below. I blacked out the names for the services.

In the example I have used I extended it with some statistic counts on some Proxy services. Now at this moment the script errors out on non monitored services, but that is because I did not implement a check if a service is monitored or not. Which should be done by checking if the value of isMonitoringEnabled in the CommonServiceConfigurationMBean is set to true.

Look below at some of the code. The first section is to get the list of projects and their proxy or business services (in my example I used proxy services). With a for loop on the getAllResourceStatistics method I filtered out the statistics I’d like to see: some counts about pipeline and SLA. Read the full article here.

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Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g book review by Av Hjulstad, Jon Petter

September 3, 2013 Leave a comment

Overview of Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g (link to Packt site).

  • The book introduces developers to the benefits and uses of Event Stream Processing, teaches them how to solve Event Stream Processing problems, and explains the fundamentals of building an Oracle Event processing application in clear, practical steps.
  • It is an essential manual that helps users explore the evolution and major capabilities of this innovative Oracle product in a step-by-step, building block fashion.
  • It uses tutorials and practical examples to teach programmers how to create valuable and rewarding Event Driven foundational applications.

You can also read my book review here – I enjoyed reading the book.

Looking for additional SOA books or if you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

 

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Advanced OSB in 21 days” by EAIESB

September 2, 2013 Leave a comment

EAIESB “Advanced OSB in 21 Days” provides developers, with step by step instructions to learn and use OSB components transports (File, FTP, JMS, Database, and Email), Java Callout, Service Callout, Dynamic Routing, Securing SOA and OSB proxy services and Exception handling in OSB using sbconsole. For more details visit our website.

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Oracle API Management new datasheets API Management Datasheet & Enterprise Repository for API Management

September 2, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle API ManagementIndustry’s Most Comprehensive API Management
Streamline business and IT objectives by managing the lifecycle of your APIs. Outsource application enhancement by empowering developers through API adoption. Add a mobile front to your applications and capture new revenue opportunities with seamless API enablement.

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Enterprise Service Bus article part of Industrial SOA series

August 30, 2013 Leave a comment

Everyone seems to need to use an enterprise service bus (ESB) nowadays, but there is so much confusion about its actual benefit and the various concepts this term entails. This uncertainity is revealed in statements like, "Help! My boss says we need an ESB," or "Why do I need an ESB at all? Can’t I achieve the same thing with BPEL or BPMN?" or even "We can do everything ourselves in language X." This article is an attempt to answer some of the most important questions surrounding this term using concrete examples, so that the areas of application that can be deemed "correct" for ESBs can be clarified:

  • What exactly is the definition of an ESB? Is it a product or an architecture pattern?
  • What are some practical uses for an ESB?
  • Do I need an ESB to build an SOA platform?
  • Which requirements do I need to satisfy?
  • Which criteria can I use to select the ESB that is most suitable for my needs?

Defining the ESB
An accepted definition for this term has yet to be firmly established that is most likely caused by a lack of industry standards, whereas standards like BPEL and BPMN 2.0 exist for process engines and other components. The term “Enterprise Service Bus” was coined by Gartner in 2002, and further introduced by the analyst Roy Schulte to describe a category of software products that he observed were available on the market at that time. Ten years later, there is still very little agreement on what exactly an ESB is or what it should deliver. There are different definitions depending on the manufacturer or source. Among other things, an ESB is defined as:

"A style of integration architecture that allows communication via a common communication bus that consists of a variety of point-to-point connections between providers and users of services."

"An infrastructure that a company uses for integrating services in the application landscape."
Read the full article here.

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