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Oracle buys Apiary

January 19, 2017 Leave a comment

On January 19, 2017, Oracle announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Apiary, which creates the most comprehensive API Integration Cloud by adding the leading API design and governance solution. The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Until the transaction closes, each company will continue to operate independently.

Apiary’s pioneering APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences. APIFlow spans the API creation lifecycle, including design, governance, testing, and documentation, while supporting API Blueprint and OpenAPI industry standards. Apiary has helped companies create hundreds of thousands of APIs and products that their customers and partners love to use.

Together, Oracle and Apiary will help companies thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing connectivity complexity and API proliferation. Oracle’s existing API Integration Cloud already enables companies to secure, consume, monetize, and analyze APIs. Apiary provides the front-end solution for designing, creating and governing APIs and the combination will deliver the most complete API creation and management platform in the cloud.

Read the press release here.

Get API hands-on trained at the PaaS Partner Community Forum here.

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter January 2017

January 19, 2017 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community,

Want to try Oracle PaaS solutions hands-on? Make sure you attend the PaaS Partner Community Forum which takes place March 27^th & 28^th & 29^th 2016 in Croatia. During the Community Day partners will share their best practices and details about successful cloud implementations. Join us for a week full of keynotes, breakouts, hands-on sessions and networking opportunities.

On a regular base new versions of the Oracle PaaS services become available, including the latest 16.4.5 release of Integration Cloud Service. Keep up with the latest version and try them yourself! To understand the use cases for SOA Cloud Service watch the short video here.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: SOA and Integration On-Prem and in the Cloud Video with Vikas Anand & Automated Deployment to SOA Cloud Services using Developer Cloud Services & Building a Future Proof Integration Platform & Are your SOA and BPM composite deployments ready for Continuous Delivery? & Cloud Control 13.2 and SOA Suite 12.2.1.1 & How to call web service that uses WS-Addressing from OSB 12c & Mediator, the-always-give-response-pattern by using the Echo-reply & Service Bus Transport for Apache Kafka & Management Cloud – Application Performance Monitoring for Java EE, ADF & SOA Suite applications & IoT for an Eco-Friendly Rental Business.

Process Cloud Service also is available in a new release. Including many new features like templating or quickstart. Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: Integration Cloud Service Integration in Process Cloud Service & Invoking ACM from a Web Service & Impact of ACM Implementation on BAM & BPM 12.2.1 ADF Auto-Generation Issue Solutions.

In our last section Architecture & PaaS4SaaS the UX team highlights the Web Summit in Lisbon and the Emotion Recognition during the first Maker Faire at Oracle HQ.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The January edition of the PaaS Partner Update contains details about the community conference, developer gateway & code events and the upcoming community webcast about B2B and evolution to API Driven B2B on January 31st 2017. See you in Croatia!

Want to publish your best practice article & news in the next community newsletter? Please feel free to send it via Twitter @soaCommunity #soaCommunity!

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Oracle SOA Suite 12c Implementation Specialists Bootcamp 30 Jan – 24 Feb 2017– free on-demand training & certification

January 18, 2017 2 Comments

Training On-demand: Oracle SOA Suite 12c Implementation Specialists

This Boot Camp is now open for registration to all partners taking specialist certification exams in the next 90 days. Please DO NOT REGISTER, if you are not taking a certification exam.
All registrations must be done using a company email. Personal emails will be rejected
In order to submit your registration you will be asked to login using your OPN (Oracle PartnerNetwork) account credentials. In case you do not have an OPN account please see the Profile badging step-by-step guide for partners on how to create the account. This process will also ensure your certifications are aligned to your company ID. All registrants must be badged and aligned to their company ID

For details please visit the registration page here.

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Process Cloud Service: new features! By Lykle Thijssen

January 18, 2017 Leave a comment

During Oracle Open World 2016, the latest release of Oracle Process Cloud Service got presented. The product has been making huge progress in all aspects, so here’s an overview of all the new and improved features.

Oracle Process Cloud Service

For those of you unfamiliar with the product: Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) is Oracle’s BPM solution for the cloud. While development on Oracle BPM Suite has pretty much come to an end, Oracle Process Cloud Service is the way forward and the platform for all new features related to Business Process Management. This meant that the product that was originally positioned as BPM for the citizen developer had to improve and mature to a full-blown BPM solution. It needs to support long running processes, improve its integration strategy and support case management, to mention some important subjects. While case management is not there yet, it will certainly come to Oracle Process Cloud Service and many other features are already there with the latest release.

Modelling Processes

As it used to be, modelling processes is done in the browser. This makes it easy for business and IT to collaborate on processes, because you only need an internet connection to get access. No need for development tools, code repositories and a powerful work station to get started. The main improvement in the process modelling is that Oracle has abandoned the usage of Flash. This makes the process modeller faster and easier to use, creating a far more pleasant and performant development experience.

Selecting integrations

When creating a Service Call, whether it’s synchronous or asynchronous, you can now select an Integration from Oracle Integration Cloud Service. Obviously, this is much more practical than dealing with WSDL imports and all the technical stuff related to that, but it also has a bigger meaning. It’s clearly showing that Integration Cloud Service has been strategically positioned as the way to go for process integrations. It’s putting the technical know-how of integration where it belongs, so you will no longer feel tempted to take that kind of complexity into a business process. Therefore, I strongly recommend following this approach as suggested by Oracle, instead of trying to work out your own integrations in PCS. Use these products for their purpose. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Business Process Management Bootcamp 12c 30 Jan – 24 Feb 2017– free on-demand training and certification

January 17, 2017 Leave a comment

Training On Demand: Oracle Business Process Management 12C

This Boot Camp is now open for registration to all partners taking specialist certification exams in the next 90 days. Please DO NOT REGISTER, if you are not taking a certification exam.
All registrations must be done using a company email. Personal emails will be rejected
In order to submit your registration you will be asked to login using your OPN (Oracle PartnerNetwork) account credentials. In case you do not have an OPN account please see the Profile badging step-by-step guide for partners on how to create the account. This process will also ensure your certifications are aligned to your company ID. All registrants must be badged and aligned to their company ID

For details please visit the registration page here.

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What’s New for Process Cloud Service 16.4.5

January 17, 2017 Leave a comment

Learn More: More details on what’s new is available here. Learn more about Oracle Process Cloud Service at http://cloud.oracle.com/process

Want to try Process Cloud Service? Get access here.

Partner Resources (community membership required):

Sales kit for partners: Digital Engagement

Marketing kit for partners: BPM Campaigns

Learn about the new and changed features of Oracle Process Cloud Service.

Feature	Description
Documents and Conversations	On the Workspace Tracking page, administrators can now click the Conversations icon in addition to the Documents icon and view conversations associated with a selected instance. On the Configure UI Customizations page, an option that lets you hide comments displayed on the Tasks page and Tracking page has been added. This option is valid only if you integrated Oracle Documents Cloud Service with Oracle Process Cloud Service, and you enabled conversations.
QuickStart Master	On the Personalize page, the options for the Item field have been improved. · You can now customize the activities in a subprocess. · The list is now organized by swimlane followed by all the activities for that lane. If there is a subprocess, then the list expands to show all activities for the subprocess as well. An option to search the list has also been added. These new features make it easier to find the element you want to customize. See Decide What Settings Users Can Customize in Using Oracle Process Cloud Service.
Embeddable Process UI Components	The embeddable UI components feature includes several enhancements: · Reorganized the toolbar and grouped UI components into cookbook. · Added support for web forms in task details. · Added support for conversations. · Added the DevTool option, which lets you bring up the REST API in an interactive format so you can enter and test your code. Read the complete article here.

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What’s New for Oracle Integration Cloud Service Release 16.4.5

January 16, 2017 Leave a comment

This release of Oracle Integration Cloud Service includes two new adapters (DB2 Adapter and Oracle Logistics Adapter) and enhancements to the REST Adapter, SOAP Adapter, FTP Adapter, and Salesforce Adapter. Enhancements are also provided for orchestrated integrations, scheduled integrations, orchestrated integration creation options, custom adapter uploads, Expression Builder functions, XPath extension functions, exported/imported integrations, diagnostic logs, and REST APIs. See below for details.

Read the complete article here.

Learn More: More details on what’s new is available here. Learn more about Oracle Integration Cloud Service at http://cloud.oracle.com/integration

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Partner Resources (community membership required):

Sales kit for partners: Cloud and On-Prem Integration: Integrate CRM SaaS Apps with On-Premises ERP & Integrate HCM Cloud with on-premises ERP

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What those extra Healthcare flags on Oracle SOA 12.1.3.0.5 and 12.2.1 update are for? by Bruno Neves Alves

January 15, 2017 Leave a comment

Whilst upgrading to 12.1.3.05 I came across the following Post Installation actions at the READ.ME doc of the 22524811 patch:
"4 Post-Installation Instructions"
2. Add em property : hc.jmsAndDBSameTxn with ‘true’ value.
3. Following Healthcare Server properties are needed:
        – hc.sequencedEndpoints
                + ALL,<EP_1>,<EP_2> – comman separate value
                + Any endpoints after ALL will not be sequenced.
                + In this example, <EP_1> will have sequcing turned off. <EP_2> will have sequencing turned off.
Note for Bug 20029769:
hc.HCMode (true/false, default false) – need to set to true
At the customer, we intended to promote the upgrade to the actual production environment and, because of this, it required further validation of the impacts of such upgrade could bring.
Since the description was not clear enough and I could not find information anywhere else, I raised a service request at Oracle Support for further clarification.
First, I would like to thanks Silviu from Oracle Support for his help and support he have been providing me for the last few years 🙂
And here are the conclusions of the service request and clarification of the new flags usage:
hc.jmsAndDBSameTxn - if true, committing to the JMS for customer JMS will be on the same transaction as database. If database is rolled back, then the message will not be committed to JMS as well. (I’m waiting additional clarification for this point and will add it here once I have it). Read the complete article here.

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SOA Messaging Reliability through JMS and Oracle Service Bus by Sebastian Lik-Keung Ma

January 14, 2017 Leave a comment

This article describes the design of a reliable messaging solution for SOA integration projects. It uses concepts like canonical schemas, durable POJO (Plain Old Java Object) messages, publish-subscribe and error handling within the Oracle SOA, Oracle Service Bus and WebLogic JMS infrastructure.

The JMS Message

For consistency, the type of message we are publishing will be based on a canonical schema. Typically, you would have a JDeveloper project that stores the canonical schemas used by all your custom applications. These schemas could be version-controlled, e.g. by Subversion, as well as deployed to MDS as a SOA bundle. Sample JDeveloper project containing canonical schemas shown below.

In this article, we will use the employeeWorkSchedule schema as our message type.

Publishing JMS message from ADF Java application

We publish our message to JMS from ADF applications. To simplify the process of using Java to construct message objects based on our XSD canonical schema, we use the JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) tool from JDeveloper.

As shown in Figure 2a below, select the XSD file, right-click and select “Generate JAXB 2.0 Content Model”. Read the complete article here.

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Free PaaS trial services & certification for Oracle Partners!

January 13, 2017 Leave a comment

Dear Integration Experts

As an Oracle Partner Network Gold member or higher we would like to offer you:

free ICS trail services
free ICS certification

once you become a member (free of charge) in the

SOA Partner Community

As a community member you receive also our monthly updates with the latest PaaS information including sales & marketing kits, product updates and trainings. Please first login at Oracle Partner Network and then visit SOA Partner Community. If you have any questions please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.