Oracle PaaS & Middleware Partner Community Forum March 2017

January 23, 2017 Leave a comment

Take this opportunity and register now for the Oracle PaaS Partner Community Forum that will be held in Split, Croatia on March 27th & 28th & 29th 2017 with hands-on training on March 30th & 31st 2017. Registration is free of charge, during the conference you will get the latest updates on the Oracle PaaS Services & Middleware Solutions:

  • Process Cloud Service & BPM Suite & BPM Suite 12c
  • SOA Cloud Service & Integration Cloud Service & SOA Suite 12c
  • Mobile Cloud Service & Application Builder Cloud Service & Mobile & Development tools
  • Java Cloud & Application Container Service & Developer Cloud Service & WebLogic 12c
  • Content Cloud Service & User Experience and Enrich SaaS with PaaS
  • Internet of Things Cloud Service

The conference will update you on the last Middleware solutions & cloud services especially for:

  • Architects & Practice Managers: product overview
  • Consultants & Developers: product details including live demos and hands-on training
  • Sales Experts & Partner Managers positioning & sales kits including cheat sheets
  • Marketing Executives: campaign kits including event material and ppts and demos

For details please visit the registration page.

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Flex fields Mapping Tool by BPM SOA Solutions Team

January 22, 2017 Leave a comment

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How many times have you had to repeat the same sequence in the BPM workspace to map a Human Task payload attribute to a public Flex Field? Let’s do a bit of re-cap:

  1. login to the Workspace with administration permissions
  2. go do Administration
  3. go to Public Flex Fields
  4. create all Labels

And then, for each human task:

  1. search for the task
  2. choose the payload attribute
  3. search for the label to use (you can create them here as well)
  4. repeat until you’ve mapped all the labels you need
  5. save and move to the next

It seems like a lot of work to do and it is fair to say that our platform team was not very happy to do these tasks manually. Even when developing these mappings need to be re-created from time to time (more often than we wished). The whole process is furthermore error-prone, specially when moving from development to QA and to Production environments.

Automating the creation and mapping of labels and payload atributes

Oracle BPM/SOA 11g and 12c expose an API for managing labels and mapping them as required. The oracle.bpel.services.workflow.runtimeconfig.IRuntimeConfigService interface provides a series of methods for creating and deleting labels, as well as creating oracle.bpel.services.workflow.runtimeconfig.model.PayloadMapping instances to map a label to a payload attribute. Read the complete article here.

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Unable to compile a composite that contains a Java embedded activity with Maven by Markus Lohn

January 21, 2017 Leave a comment

 

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Maven is not compiling the composite when a BPEL process contains java embedding. Just incorporating java embedding makes the maven compilation to fail. If the java embedding is removed then the composite compilation is successful in Maven. This issue can be reproduced  with JDeveloper 12.1.3.x

Research

First I tried to solve this issue by adding dependency declarations for orabpel.jar in the soa maven plugin section and the pom.xml itself. However this approach doesn’t solve my issue. After another research in the Oracle Support system I found two interesting notes:

  • Unable to compile a composite that contains a Java embedded activity with Maven (2050971.1)
  • Failure when compiling a BPEL process in SOA 12c, ‚package com.collaxa.cube does not exist’ (2112178.1)

Both notes describe exactly the issue I currently have. The note 2050971.1 contains a reference to the bug no. 20229616 wherefore no patch is available until now. But it contains a description for a workaround. The workarounds means to put every needed Java library in the folder SOA/SCA-INF/lib. From my perspective that isn’t an appropriate solution, because the missing classes mention by the compiler are in orabpel.jar. This jar file is part of SOA Suite and already available on the infrastructure side. Moreover everything in /SCA-INF/lib is part of the composite and uploaded to MDS. The second support note 2112178.1 references a patch, but it doesn’t also solve the issue. Due to this I build a solution that automates the workaround with SOA/SCA-INF/lib by using Maven plugins.

Solution

The solutions contains 3 steps:

1. Using the Maven Dependency Plugin to copy the orabpel.jar to SOA/SCA-INF/lib folder. The copied orabpel.jar will be renamed to only4compile.jar. Further it is important to bind the execution of the plugin to a phase before running the Maven SOA Plugin. Read the complete article here.

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PCS 16.4.5 New Features incl. Quickstart Masters, Automated Archive & Purge, REST connectors… by Niall Commiskey

January 20, 2017 Leave a comment

imageLots of great new features, just in time for the Holiday Season.
Thanks to my colleague Kathryn L.
I will be adding to this post over time, so, currently, it is not an exhaustive list.

1. Ability to see Conversations in Tracking

Note: the second icon on the right, under the docs icon.

2. Quickstart Master new functionality

For those of you who have yet to meet a Quickstart Master – here’s a quick intro.

I take an existing process and convert it to a Quickstart Master. Read the complete article here.

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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 27th & 28th & 29th 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!

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/PaaSNewsJanuary2017  (OPN Account required)

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Jürgen Kress

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Oracle EMEA
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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

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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

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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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