User Experience new content: Fusion Applications & mobile & concepts

April 20, 2013 Leave a comment

On the Fusion Applications user experience: More: New podcasts and posts on the Oracle user experience.

Here’s a round-up of recent podcasts and blog posts relating to the Oracle Applications User Experience that were published in February.

  • Jeremy Ashley, Vice President of Oracle Applications User Experience, talks about Oracle’s roadmap to a simple, modern user experience for Fusion Applications. Listen to learn more about the strategy behind Project FUSE. You may also access the podcast through the Usable Apps website.
  • Ultan O’Broin, Director of Oracle Global User Experience, talks in this podcast about why Oracle is making design patterns available for customers, partners, and the development community. These design patterns for the Oracle Fusion Applications user experience encapsulate proven best-practices and make them available for those who are extending or tailoring an Oracle application.
  • Richard Bingham, Oracle Applications Architect, discusses how to tailor Fusion Applications in the cloud.

On Oracle’s investment in the next-generation user experience (in this case, mobile): Intense research into mobile use helps guide design of Oracle Applications

Read about the mobile trends that the Oracle Applications User Experience team noted during a recent global expedition, which included user studies in Sweden, the United States, and Beijing.

The Oracle Applications User Experience team continues to investigate how and why enterprise workers use their mobile devices, and their findings are already influencing the next-generation user experiences that Oracle is designing.

Visit the Usable Apps website to learn more.
Also on Oracle’s investment in the next-generation user experience (a look at trends we’re following up on): A look at new concepts for the enterprise space
The Applications User Experience team is keeping its eye on new technologies that may have an impact on the enterprise space.

New concepts and technologies go through an internal research, design, and development process to assess which ones may or may not gain traction in the enterprise space.
Read more about how our findings help guide the Oracle user experience strategy on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog.

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Authorization Model in SOA Suite 11g by Shawn Bailey

April 19, 2013 Leave a comment

Figuring out how the authorization works in SOA Suite 11g between the WebLogic Console and Enterprise Manager can seem daunting. This blog post aims to clarify how the two parts work together and hopefully demonstrates that it is not as complicated as it may first appear.
In SOA Suite 11g there is one Authentication stack and 2 Authorization stacks:

  • Authentication is handled by WebLogic Server and is based on the order and control flags set for the Authentication Providers in the Security Realm.
  • Authorization is split between the Global Role definitions in WebLogic Server and the SOA Application Roles in Fusion Middleware Control (EM). WLS Roles govern the interactions in the WLS Console while the SOA Roles control permissions on SOA resources / activities. In most cases the users will need access to both.

Let’s describe the authorization stacks independently:
In WLS there are Global Roles defined out of the box that apply to the WebLogic Console. For our purposes we will focus on the ‘Admin’ Global Role as it has a counterpart in EM and is representative of the other roles as well. In the standard domain this role has a single membership condition which is for the pre-configured Group ‘Administrators’. This means that any user who is a member of a group called ‘Administrators’ will be granted the permissions of the ‘Admin’ Global Role in WLS. This is important because in order for a user to login to the WLS or EM consoles they must have permissions for at least one of the WLS Global Roles, either through a Group or individual association. Read the full article here.

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From the Trenches | Patching OSB and SOA Suite to PS5 by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

April 18, 2013 Leave a comment

Recently I was involved in an Oracle Fusion Middleware upgrade from 11g PS2 to 11g PS5 with Jacco Landlust, Aiman Salama, and Jens Peters. The environment that was patched consists of the following domains:

  • Java domain running Java/JEE applications;
  • IDM domain running identity management components including OID;
  • SOA domain running Oracle Service Bus and Oracle SOA Suite. 

The domains consist of several Managed Servers in a single-node cluster configuration. OSB and SOA Suite both run in their own Managed Server.
There are plenty of excellent blogs that discuss the infrastructure and middleware side of such an upgrade. This blogs contains some things we encountered from the application side of things. More specific, the SOA composites and OSB projects.

Rebuild custom Java classes and JAR files in the SOA extension library
You can add custom Java classes and JAR files to SOA Suite that are used by your SOA composites. The SOA extension library for adding extension classes and JARs is available in the $ORACLE_HOME/soa/modules/oracle.soa.ext_11.1.1 directory. For example, an extension can be used to add a custom fault handler. Read the full article here.

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Using the MetaData Services (MDS) in a SOA environment by Robert van Molken

April 16, 2013 Leave a comment

It has been almost a year since my last post about the metadata services. I talked about how-to set up a File-based MDS and DB-based MDS. This post talks about the usage of the files, placed in the MDS, in the different components available in a SOA composite. If the MDS is a new thing for you then I advise to read my previous about this subject first.

You can spot the presence of a file that is a reference to the MDS if it uses the oramds: URI annotation. Files are no longer referenced to a hardcoded or relative file path.

To start using you’re MDS that you have set up we will create a new SOA application. Let call the application WorkflowSOAapp and create a SOA project and call it WebformService.

Use MDS resources for exposed services

After creating the new SOA project it will open the composite editor automatically. Exposed services are always created in the left swim lane. Because this project deals with a WSDL resource to expose a webservice, a Web Service component is first dragged to the left swim lane.

Create exposed service

Drag Web Service Component to left swimlane

A dialog “Create Web Service” will open. Give the service a good name, preferred the same as the name in the WSDL (e.g. WebFormService). The next thing to do is to choose the WSDL URL. Click on the document jdev_document_iconicon at the right side of the WSDL URL input to find an existing WSDL. Read the full article here & Read part II here.

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Oracle Fusion UX Design Patterns and Tools for the Cloud Crowd by Ultan O’Broin

April 13, 2013 Leave a comment

The Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Design Patterns and Guidelines are out-of-the-box, developer productivity enablers. As ready-made, yet flexible, usability solutions, the patterns are easily applied when building Fusion applications and UI integrations in the cloud with the Oracle toolkit.

Design patterns as reusable solutions to common problems when designing are all around us. Keen to tell this story in new ways, I was inspired by an Engine Yard “Cloud Out Loud | Ruby“ podcast mention of knitting patterns on GitHub.

I assigned my partner a proof of concept project for one such knitting pattern in the cloud. The pattern was quickly applied, and reflecting pattern ideas of content and skin neutrality, I soon took delivery of “HCM” and “CRM”, two little knitted aliens. Concept proven!

Knitted aliens. Proving the design pattern concept.

Knitted aliens brought to life from a pattern in the cloud. I used this story at a SAMBA UX outreach workshop in Amsterdam earlier this month.

Our UX design patterns have been proven in usability labs, in offices, and on the street, with real users, real tasks, and real apps. We’ve done the thinking and testing so that builders of Fusion apps cloud solutions don’t have to. To get your hands on UX design patterns for use across the Fusion apps suite (not just HCM and CRM), go to the Usable Apps website “For Developers” section. Read the full article here.

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Marketing Kits – “Brave New Integration World” & “Achieving Greater Responsiveness with Oracle BPM”

April 10, 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 new marketing kits:

SOA marketing kit “Brave New Integration World”

  • Topic: Process & Cloud & Mobile & Data
  • Content: Event brief & invitation & registration page template & presentation

BPM marketing kit “Achieving Greater Responsiveness with Oracle BPM”

  • Topic: roundtable BPM best practice
  • Content: Event brief & Invitation & registration page template & presentations

Support marketing campaigns
We can support such events by:

    • Oracle speakers – contact your partner manager
    • Marketing budget – contact your A&C marketing manager
    • 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

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SOA article – What is SOA? Why is SOA important? What is the status of SOA? What is the future of SOA? Wow can you start with SOA?

April 8, 2013 Leave a comment

Published with my Brazilian friends and article about SOA, if you want to learn

  • imageWhat is SOA?
  • Why is SOA important?
  • What is the status of SOA?
  • What is the future of SOA?
  • How can you start with SOA?

What is SOA?

Thomas Erl’s SOA Manifesto highlights the business view of SOA and Wikipedia the technical view of SOA. Key in each successful SOA project is to understand the business value, define the business metrics and build a ROI business case.

Why is SOA important?

SOA can support you to align your business goals with your IT architecture. Companies who implement SOA are much more flexible to adopt and change their processes. For example telecommunications companies can offer new services or update their service prices. A SOA architecture can also give the business real time access to the data they need – business activity monitoring (BAM). With BAM information business users can make their process decisions based on real time data. Information from different systems can be standardized to combine and integrate them. In our example we could combine a customer record from a sales and a billing system. It will help the business to understand the whole view of the customer.

What is the status of SOA?

Since 2005 many SOA systems have been successful implemented. In the beginning SOA was used often as a technical integration platform – services and service bus. Later business process execution language (BPEL)… read the full article here.

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Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum – what you missed in Faro!

April 8, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks Simon for the excellent blog article about the Community Forum. Very nice summery with all the highlights of the Forum. You wrote also blog post? Let us know! Thanks to your wonderful feedback – highly appreciated all the nice e-mails I received!

Thanks again for the wonderful week in Vilamoura last week! I really enjoyed the sessions and networking opportunities. The information from practically every session is most likely to be very valuable for a number of customers and of course, my colleagues. Arnoud Roth –  interaccess

Jurgen – again many thanks for organising the forum – my first. FMW forum appearance. It was an amazing experience to meet both Capgemini colleagues from other territories and other guys from other companies – the community has a very strong bond and I have no doubt I can turn to my new friends/contacts I have made for advice, guidance and coaching. I have already highlighted to my senior management my key “take aways” – to explore ways of how we can integrate FMW into their our client’s landscapes.  Frank Roche – Capgemini

Wickes PotgieterMany thanks once again for a cool Community Forum AND  BPM boot camp. Wonderful location, great organisation and high value knowledge transfer. Tony Albrecht – RPC UK Ltd.

Thank you again for the conference, I really enjoyed it! Learned a lot and met many new people. Can’t wait for the next one! Wickes Potgieter tsi-systems

Let me thanks you for all for what you have done in order to get this Middleware Community Forum organized as such, the best Oracle event from far I attended in Europe for the last years : very good organization, very interesting topics, high quality speaker, accessibility to Oracle experts, hotel, dinner, Beside my loyalty to Oracle for almost 20 years, all these efforts, investments, considerations for partners and all these news solutions give additional  motivations to move forward with Oracle. Thanks a lot again,  David Darte Compass Consulting sa.

Presentations
All presentations are available at

Thanks Simon for the excellent blog article about the Community Forum. Very nice summery with all the highlights of the Forum. You wrote also blog post? Let us know! Thanks to your wonderful feedback – highly appreciated all the nice e-mails I received!

Thanks again for the wonderful week in Vilamoura last week! I really enjoyed the sessions and networking opportunities. The information from practically every session is most likely to be very valuable for a number of customers and of course, my colleagues. Arnoud Roth –  interaccess

Jurgen – again many thanks for organising the forum – my first. FMW forum appearance. It was an amazing experience to meet both Capgemini colleagues from other territories and other guys from other companies – the community has a very strong bond and I have no doubt I can turn to my new friends/contacts I have made for advice, guidance and coaching. I have already highlighted to my senior management my key “take aways” – to explore ways of how we can integrate FMW into their our client’s landscapes.  Frank Roche – Capgemini

Wickes PotgieterMany thanks once again for a cool Community Forum AND  BPM boot camp. Wonderful location, great organisation and high value knowledge transfer. Tony Albrecht – RPC UK Ltd.

Thank you again for the conference, I really enjoyed it! Learned a lot and met many new people. Can’t wait for the next one! Wickes Potgieter tsi-systems

Let me thanks you for all for what you have done in order to get this Middleware Community Forum organized as such, the best Oracle event from far I attended in Europe for the last years : very good organization, very interesting topics, high quality speaker, accessibility to Oracle experts, hotel, dinner, Beside my loyalty to Oracle for almost 20 years, all these efforts, investments, considerations for partners and all these news solutions give additional  motivations to move forward with Oracle. Thanks a lot again,  David Darte Compass Consulting sa.

Presentations
All presentations are available at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required)

Welcome & Introduction
Jürgen Kress, OFM Partner Adoption EMEA, Oracle

Oracle Middleware Sales Strategy, Opportunities and Go-to-Market
Alistair Hopkins, Vice President Oracle

Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c and innovating application portfolio with middleware
Ed Zou, Vice President, Product Management, Oracle

BPM Suite PS6 what is new and where are the use cases & why do we win against the competition
David Read, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

What is new in SOA Suite: fast data and mobile & cloud integration and where are the use cases & why do we win against the competition
Simone Geib, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

What is new in WebLogic & surrounding technologies & Java Cloud and where are the use cases & why do we win against the competition
Maciej Gruszka, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle EMEA

ADF & ADF mobile live demo
Grant Ronald, Director Product Management Oracle Corporation

Social Network Event – gather at lobby

Welcome & Introduction Day II

Breakout sessions first round

Breakout sessions second round

Breakout sessions third round

Breakout sessions fourth round

SOA Suite 12c first impression
Simone Geib & James Allerton-Austin, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

SOA & BPM & ADF Community Summary & Closing
Jürgen Kress, OFM Partner Adoption EMEA, Oracle

Pictures
First impressions of the Community Forum are available at our Facebook pages – share yours! SOA Community Facebook page.

Certification
We offer all SOA & BPM & WebLogic Partner Community members free vouchers for implementation assessments:: ADF 11g & BPM 11g & SOA 11g & WebLogic 12c.

If you’d like to get a free voucher please proof of your knowledge by sending us a screenshot of your pre-sales certificate:

Free of charge at the OPN Competency Center https://competencycenter.oracle.com (including free online training).

To request the free voucher please send an e-mail with the screenshot to Brigitte Felisaz including your Name, Company, E-mail, Country and the subject SOA free voucher! (limited to partners from Europe Middle East and Africa).

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Service Bus PS6 (11.1.1.7) available for download

April 2, 2013 Leave a comment

The new version of Oracle Service Bus (OSB) PS6  is available for download! At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the Oracle Service Buslatest presentation, highlights include:

  • New config tool to package resources, T2P plugin
  • WS-Security with MTOM and SwA
  • SFTP specify Cipher Suite, Hash, Key
  • OWSM Policy for RESTful services
  • MQ Transport –native XA, timeout
  • HTTP Sticky Load-balancing

For download and details please visit OSB Suite website at OTN

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Fusion Middleware PS6 (11.1.1.7) integration solutions available for download: SOA Suite, BPM Suite, OEP, OSB, OER, AIA

April 2, 2013 1 Comment

The latest release of Oracle Fusion Middleware PS6 (11.1.1.7) is available at Oracle Technolgy Network:

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