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Streamline Development in Oracle Projects by Markus Lohn Setup a Fusion Middleware environment for testing and development purposes in less than 60 minutes!

Dynamic markets and the constant reaction to changing conditions is a decisive success factor for companies today. All measures taken in the past years in the field of software development were aimed at supporting and facilitating this dynamics technically. Development times had to be drastically reduced and results made available for review earlier than before. IT has achieved a different status in the company today. IT can be used to tap new growth areas and strengthen existing customer relationships. For this reason, it is important to address the question of how quickly a developer can work productively in a new project. In this blog post, tools and procedures are presented to enable a developer to be productive in the project in less than a day. In detail, this means, for example, editing a user story from the backlog.

Experience shows that setting up the development environment in many projects involves many manual steps. Missing or inadequate documentation slows down this process considerably. Sometimes it takes several days to set up. Through the approach presented here, the developer is able to be supplied within a few hours with a development environment. Due to the high level of automation, there is no need for comprehensive documentation. Errors are largely avoided in this way. The figure below shows typical components that belong to a development environment. In this blog post, I focus on using tools in projects using Oracle technologies (SOA / Integration, ADF, Java EE). However in general these guidelines can be applied to Open Source as well. Read the complete article here

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Purging of SOA Composite Revisions with FlexDeploy by Dan Reynebeau

The management of SOA composite revisions has been simplified to a check box and a number through FlexDeploy’s SOA plugin.  Managing composite revisions historically required someone to develop and maintain a secondary process to purge unwanted revisions. Not anymore.

Now just deploy your composite and let the FlexDeploy SOA plugin manage the revisions for you.  Simply check the “Activate Purge On Deploy” input on the deploy operation, set the “Composite Revisions To Keep” property by environment and deploy.  Once the composite is successfully deployed, the deploy operation will automatically purge any unwanted revisions based on the property value.

Candidate revisions for purge are determined based on the default revision and the environment property.  The default revision is found and then the next oldest revisions are kept until the property value is met (this includes the default revision).  For example, setting “Composite Revisions To Keep” to 3 in DEV and 2 in QA would have the following results (bold indicates the default revision): Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2018 is Released

The Critical Patch Update for October 2018 is released today. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for finding relevant information. It includes the list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities for each product suite, and links to other important documents. Supported products that are not listed in the "Affected Products and Components" section of the advisory do not require new patches to be applied. It is also essential to review the Critical Patch Update supporting documentation referenced in this Advisory before applying patches, as this is where you can find important pertinent information.

More information about Critical Patch Update Advisories are available at the following location:

► Oracle Fusion Middleware Risk Matrix– Oracle Technology Network
► Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2018– Oracle Technology Network:
► Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Bulletins – Oracle Technology Network:
► Oracle Knowledge Management Document – October 2018 Critical Patch Update: Executive Summary and Analysis (Doc ID 2456979.1)
► Important information can also be found at: https://blogs.oracle.com/security/

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Which SOA Product Support Ends in 2018? by Antonella Giovannetti

Once your products are in the market and customers are using them, what is the one thing that matters most to you? Every night you go sleep, keeping your fingers crossed, hoping nothing goes wrong. Yes, we are talking about dreaded software downtime!

There are many reasons to upgrade your Oracle products to the latest patch version. One very important reason to upgrade, is to minimize downtime. One recently published Gartner’s report shows that true average cost per hour of software downtime can be more than $600k! It is prudent to invest time and resources in upgrading your Oracle products at every opportunity.  You don’t want to risk downtime, simply because you failed to install a simple patch. It goes without saying that the effort you put into upgrading, always outweighs the cost you pay because of downtime. Product downtime can impact more than your revenue.  Your brand, the most critical part for your business, might also take a substantial hit! When you avoid an upgrade, you may also face higher security risk vulnerabilities. The performance of your products can also be affected.

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to achieve 100% uptime / 0% downtime.  You can only maximize the effort it takes to avoid it.  This means keeping track of the latest available patches for your Oracle products.

Eventually, Oracle will stop producing patches to the older versions of their products so, if you are still behind when it comes to upgrading to the latest patches, Oracle strongly recommends to upgrade as soon as possible. In this context, note the following table showing the Oracle SOA, EDA, Governance and BPM Support End dates for the year of 2018. Read the complete article here.

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