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March 17, 2013 Leave a comment

Soa-testing-snippets Provides infrastructure for service testing and Oracle’s SOA specificities, such as TaskList Service interaction, business events, AuditTrail access, and so on. Uses JAX-WS (for the WebService client implementation), Ant, JUnit, and Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS). Check out the wiki.

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Video Demo – Oracle SOA Suite 11g

March 16, 2013 Leave a comment

If you are not yet registered for DSS you can watch a SOA Suite Demo.

In case you missed the Oracle SOA Suite Demo when 11g was launched, this short 3-minute video will be well worth your time. It does a great job describing the completeness and integrated differentiators of Oracle SOA Suite. In the demo, you will see:

Composite Editor
- Services dragged & dropped into a composite application
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- Order processing tasks linked in the designer
E-Business Suite native adapters
- The ease of inspecting the application information directly from the Oracle SOA Suite interface
Business Rules
- Modify on the fly and detect conflicts for rapid resolution
Enterprise Manager
- Monitor deployed composite applications
End-to-end Instance Tracking
- Using a centralized error and fault management framework
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
- Real time event monitoring and event processing to identify patterns across the business
Enterprise Repository
- Align IT with business priorities. Picks up policies from the runtime for closed loop SOA governance

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SOA Solution – End to End B2B Scenarios DSS Demo

March 15, 2013 Leave a comment

For access to the Oracle demo systems please visit OPN and talk to your Partner Expert
Highlights

Comprehensive document management and trading partner management
Extensive B2B protocol support
Secure and reliable message exchange
B2B batching feature
B2B Security & B2B Reports/Metrics
Complete end-to-end processes tracking
B2B – BAM Integration (New)!!

Demo Flow

This demo primarily provides hands on experience of B2B. It illustrates various stages of setup required to electronically transfer the documents between the business partners.

The demo flow continues with Creation and setup of Document Definitions, Partner Profile Management, Creation and deployment of Agreements, Deploying SOA composites, Executing test case of message flow, Viewing B2B Reports/Metrics, Applying security to document transfer, Transformation to B2B-EDI X12 message, Observing B2B batching feature, Complete end-to-end processes tracking.

View BAM dashboards for the B2B instances Key Process Indicators (New)!!

DSS: Enhanced B2B SOA Demo Now Available for more information and access visit OPN.

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OOW 2013 call for papers open – submit your middleware partners success!

March 14, 2013 Leave a comment

We want that you present your Fusion Middleware Partner success at Oracle Open World 2013! Make sure you submit your papers:

– Call-for-Papers Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne & MySQL Connect

We recommend to submit best practice session of leading edge products like BPM-Suite 11g, SOA Suite 11g mobile integrations with ADF or OEP 11g. Also highly welcome are joint presentations with your customers. Let us know if you like to get a nice quote from Oracle. For additional call for papers visit our wiki.

See you in San Francisco

Jürgen Kress

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Smart Meter – Oracle Event Processing DSS Demo (OEP)

March 14, 2013 2 Comments

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This demo leverages Oracle OEP with "Smart Meters" in Utilities sector to Manage Excessive Energy Consumption, Prevent Power Outages, and Initiate Pre-emptive Damage Avoidance Processes
This demo showcases:
A dashboard which captures of several event streams like Voltage, Current and Capacities of various substations in a distribution network.
Detection of threshold conditions across multiple event streams.
Usage of cache to Allow dynamic configuration of thresholds and Add (via join) contextual data to support aggregation.
Two types of pattern matching to find sustained conditions in the input stream flow of event data.
Alert generation using relations to represent state and state transitions and "missing event" patterns to monitor expected response(s).
Alarm management using pattern matching to remove extraneous alarm events.
Observation and edition of typical CQL Rules in OEP Visualizer.

DSS: OEP Smart Meter Demo Now Available for more information and access visit OPN.

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Additional new content SOA Community

March 13, 2013 Leave a comment

Fault Handling and Prevention – Part 1 In this technical article, part one of a four-part series (stay tuned!), Oracle ACE Directors Guido Schmutz and Ronald van Luttikhuizen guide you through an introduction to fault handling in a service-oriented environment using Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus. Read it
Oracle Cloud Builder Summit Dates and locations worldwide
Simone Geib posted the SOA presentations from #ukoug2012 on our #otn page: http://ow.ly/g30Kp

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RDA Health Checks for SOA By Shawn Bailey

March 10, 2013 Leave a comment

What is a health check in RDA?
A health check evaluates something in your environment to determine whether a change needs to be considered in order to avoid a problem or optimize fuctionality. Examples of what this ‘something’ might be are:

Configuration Parameters
JVM Options
Runtime Statistics

What have we done for SOA?
In the latest release of RDA, 4.30, we have added a Rule Set for SOA called ‘Oracle SOA 11g (11.1.1) Post Installation (Generic)’. This Rule Set contains 14 SOA related health checks.
These checks were all derived from common issues / solutions we see in support of the SOA product. Many of the recommendations come from the product documentation while others are covered in the SOA Knowledge Base. Our goal is that you will be able to easily identify the areas of concern and understand the guidance available from the output of the Rule Set.
Running the health checks for SOA
The rules that the checks use are installed with RDA and bundled by product or functional area into what are called ‘Rule Sets’. To view the available Rule Sets simply run the command from the RDA home location:
rda.cmd (or .sh) -dT hcve
This will bring up a list of the available HCVE (Health Check / Verification Engine) Rule Sets. Each Rule Set contains a group of related rules that are used for evalutation and display of results. A rule can be considered synonymous with a single health check and they are assigned an ID, Name and Description that can be seen when they are executed. The Rule Set for SOA is option number 11 and you just enter this selection at the prompt. The Rule Set will then execute to completion. After running an HCVE Rule Set the tool will write the output to the RDA_HOME/output folder. The simplest way to view the output is to drag the .htm file to a browser but of course it can also be uploaded to a Service Request for evaluation by Oracle Support. Read the full article here.

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Cloud Conversations

March 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Recorded live at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles in October 2012, these programs in the OTN ArchBeat podcast represent the Q&A between the audience and the experts panel assembled for the event, which included speakers from the day’s technical sessions.

Listen to Part 1: Dude, What’s My Role?
Members of the Architect Day panel respond to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a cloud environment.
Listen to Part 2: Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
The panel offers advice and examples in response to an audience question about dealing with mission-critical applications.
Listen to Part 3: All Clouds Are Not Equal
The panel responds to a challenging question about cloud strategy with a discussion of enterprise-grade cloud services.
Listen to Part 4: Cloud Security and Auditing
The last segment in the series is short discussion in response to an audience question about auditing and security in the cloud.

A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Adoption
For enterprises that seek to transform their IT capabilities and avoid disruption in the process, a structured, pragmatic approach to Cloud computing is required. You’ll find one in this practitioner guide, part of the IT Strategies from Oracle library. Read it.

Cloud Foundation
This reference architecture document from the IT Strategies from Oracle library provides architectural principles, standards, concepts, and a conceptual view for Cloud architecture. Read it.

Cloud Infrastructure
Also from the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this reference architecture document focuses on cloud computing from a provider view, covering the capabilities for public and private Clouds, and providing key architecture views to jumpstart a Cloud architecture initiative. Read it.

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“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? By Bruce Tierney

March 8, 2013 Leave a comment

The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud integration touch points.

At the recent Gartner AADI conference, 230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall described cloud connectivity and then, equally importantly, the other essential and sometimes overlooked aspects of integration required to ensure a long term application and service integration strategy. To understand the challenges and opportunities faced by cloud integration, the session started off with a slide that describes how connectivity can quickly transition from simplicity to complexity as the number of applications and service vendor instances grows: Reasons for Cloud Integration Complexity
Increased complexity puts increased demand on the integration platform
As companies expand from on-premise applications into a hybrid on-premise/cloud infrastructure with support for mobile, cloud, and social, there is a new sense of urgency to implement a unified and comprehensive service integration platform. Without getting this unified platform in place, companies face increased complexity and cost managing a growing patchwork of niche integration toolsets as well as the disparate standards mandated by each SaaS vendor as shown in the image below: Read the full article here.