Dramatically reduce SOA Suite 11g startup time by cleaning the MDS by Maarten Smeets

September 17, 2016 Leave a comment

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SOA Suite can sometimes be a bit slow to start. This is especially the case when there are a lot of composites to load. Customers using different versions of composites can benefit from undeploying non-default revisions of processes which do not have any running instances (see for example here). Undeployment in most cases is an asynchronous process which does not give feedback. It can partially fail without you noticing (apparently not an atomic transaction). This sometimes leaves composite remains; parts of the composite which are still loaded at startup but are not visible from the Enterprise Manager. Removing these can dramatically reduce server startup time. Especially in an environment which has been used for some time and environments with many versions of composites. Reducing the time required to get the soa-infra application fully up and running is of course mostly relevant for 11g SOA installations and less for 12.1.3 (which does some lazy loading) and 12.2.1 (which supports parallel deployments, also during server start-up).

In this article I’ll demonstrate how these left-over composite parts can be identified and removed on an 11.1.1.7 SOA environment. First try this procedure on a development or test environment before executing it in production! Using this method is entirely at your own risk. Only try it if you understand what you are doing. If something breaks, tell me so I can update this article. Thanks!

Please mind that these actions, although they help with the start time and memory usage of your SOA environment, have less impact on run-time performance than for example purging of instances and reducing the amount of deployed composites (or tweaking datasources, soa-infra database, JVM, etc).

Cleaning

What is a composite in the MDS?

WebLogic Server first brings up its Managed SOA server. After this managed server is up and RUNNING, the soa-infra application is started. After the soa-infra application is started, the composites are loaded from the MDS and put in memory. Read the complete article here.

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Jet into the Oracle OpenWorld 2016 User Experience Exchange

September 17, 2016 Leave a comment

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10, 9, 8, 7 . . .  Ignition Sequence Start . . .

Oracle OpenWorld 2016 lifts off in September! And boy, have we been putting some passion and power into that user experience (UX) greatness to share with you. Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Senior Director Misha Vaughan (@mishavaughan) tells us:

"I am proud to say that the team has even more fantastic experiences lined up for attendees at Oracle OpenWorld this year. Near and dear to my heart is our Oracle OpenWorld User Experience Exchange. This will be our fourth annual event, and it just gets better every year for partners, customers, and analysts alike!"

Consider Yourself Invited

If you are an Oracle Fusion Middleware and PaaS Oracle PartnerNetwork member, Oracle SaaS customer, Oracle Technology Network Ace of any species, or a UX thought leader discovering the world of digital transformation, then you cannot afford not to spend an hour at our Exchange.

If you are a partner, you just might be interested in building a PaaS4SaaS simplified UI using the Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) and Oracle Alta UI, for example.

Design and build a SaaS simplified UI in Oracle Jet? No problem. When you sign up for the Exchange.

Or perhaps, an Oracle Mobile Application Framework accelerator kit for SaaS UX takes your fancy?

Apply UX design patterns to Oracle MAF in Oracle JDeveloper and use smartphone native features? Find out more at the Exchange.

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/OAUX2016

About the Exchange

This is an exclusive, hands-on, in-person event that demonstrates the Oracle Applications Cloud UX and our shared enablement on offer,  as well as some near-future Oracle UX and technology-based proof of concept ideas that’ll inspire you to explore new business opportunities.

Your Exchange Experience

We’ll be showing the roadmap for the full Oracle SaaS portfolio; extensibility tools for business users to make the Oracle Applications Cloud their own; new mobile app and JavaScript front-end UI Rapid Development Kits for partners to design and build Oracle Cloud service solutions; some cool social innovation projects, such as the award-winning Asteroid Data Explorer; innovative magic sauce from the OAUX emerging technologies team, including the incredible "step-in-and-try" Smart Office; and more! For registration details please read Ultan’s article here.

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SOA Suite 12c: Topology Suggestions by Jay Kasi

September 16, 2016 Leave a comment

In this article, I make some suggestions and provide opinions on topologies for SOA Suite 12c that is commonly used and supported. Only the EDG topology is thoroughly tested by Oracle though.
  • One consideration when deciding on topologies is that Upgrade is always domain wide. All products deployed to the domain must release in the same release train and you should be willing to upgrade all of them at the same time.
  • Centralized administration is one factor but should not be the only reason to put two different products in the same domain. EM Cloud Control could be used as a solution for that.
  • Typically Service Bus and SOA Suite belong in different tiers in an end to end architecture so they would be in separate domains. This is true if Service Bus is being used on an enterprise scale routing to multiple SOA domains and other services. However if Service Bus is used primarily for mediating and providing routing for SOA Suite Composites in a domain, it would be in the same domain, but typically in separate clusters for optimum performance and scalability. However it  is possible starting in 12c to have Service Bus and SOA Suite in the same cluster.  The only possible reason for this is reducing memory and is uncommon.
  • Governance products like OER and UDDI should not be in a SOA Suite or Service Bus domain. They should be in a separate domain. OER should be in a separate domain from UDDI. UDDI is a third party product and putting it in the same domain may cause upgrade issues.
  • You can target multiple products to the same cluster by targeting the appropriate user extensible server group to  the servers in the cluster.
    1. SOA Suite is targeted to a server by targeting either the user extensible server group SOA-MGD-SVRS or SOA-MGD-SVRS-ONLY.
    2. Service Bus is targeted to a server by targeting either the user extensible server group OSB-MGD-SVRS-COMBINED or OSB-MGD-SVRS-ONLY.
    3. BAM is targeted to a server by targeting either the user extensible server group BAM12-MGD-SVRS or BAM12-MGD-SVRS-ONLY.
    4. MFT is targeted to a server by targeting either the user extensible server group MFT-MGD-SVRS or MFT-MGD-SVRS-ONLY.
    5. ESS is targeted to a server by targeting the user extensible server group ESS-MGD-SVRS. .
  • BAM sometimes is used outside of SOA Suite and in this case it is typically in a separate domain from SOA Suite. However BAM should be in a separate cluster in the same domain as SOA Suite if it is primarily used with that SOA Suite instance. In BAM 12c, integration between SOA Suite and BAM is a tight integration and is best done in the same domain. BAM and SOA Suite should not be co-located in the same cluster because BAM uses Automatic Service Migration for HA while SOA Suite uses Whole Server Migration.
  • OWSM Policy Manager must be deployed to only one cluster in a domain. However SOA Suite, OSB, BAM and MFT templates target OWSM PM by default to their own clusters. Read the complete article here.

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Autumn SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c free on-demand Bootcamps October 2016

September 15, 2016 1 Comment

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Training On-Demand: Oracle Business Process Management 12c

This boot camp is an ideal starting point for an implementer who is planning to learn Oracle BPM Suite 12c and use it on BPM projects. The course provides a combination of lecture segments that present conceptual and feature background and hands-on labs that provide practice with the tooling.

It introduces process developers to Oracle BPM Suite 12c. It covers the key concepts, features and processes needed to begin using the design-time and run-time capabilities on BPM projects. Throughout the training, you will benefit from hands-on exercises based upon two case studies. At the conclusion of the course, you should feel comfortable to start using BPM Suite 12c for process modeling, simulation, analytics, business rules and human workflow.

For details please visit the registration page here.

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

Oracle SOA Suite 12c is the latest version of the industry’s most complete and unified application integration and SOA solution. With simplified cloud, mobile, on premises and Internet of Things (IoT) integration capabilities, all within a single platform, Oracle SOA Suite 12c delivers faster time to integration, increased productivity and lower TCO.

The Oracle SOA Suite 12c Implementation Boot Camp provides relevant insight to current and prospective SOA implementers and for those companies interested on becoming Oracle SOA Suite 12c Specialized. Participants will learn how to develop and implement solutions using SOA Suite 12c that will drive their customer organizations run more effectively and efficiently.

For details please visit the registration page here.

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My Oracle OpenWorld 2016 tips!

September 14, 2016 Leave a comment

 

• Plan your schedule well in advance

• Visit the Demogrounds for the products you are interested

• Visit the User Experience Cloud Showcase – great innovations

• Visit the Oracle Cloud Platform Awards- great customer cases and networking (Tuesday, 4-6pm OOW Yerba Buena Center of Arts)

• Take a fee implementation exam test www.tinyurl.com/oowtest2016

• Arrange 1:1 meetings with product & partner management

• Share your news & knowledge via social media like twitter @soacommunity @wlscommunity #OOW2016

• Wear comfortable shoes, casual cloth and a light backpack

• Don’t forget your international health insurance

• Drink water during the day & a beer at our community reception!

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PaaS & Middleware Partner YouTube Update September 2016

September 13, 2016 Leave a comment


The September edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics:

· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 tips

· PaaS Sales Cheat Sheets

· SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcasts September 27th 2016

For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. For the latest SOA & BPM Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required)

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SOA Suite 12.2.1 VirtualBox Image available for download

September 12, 2016 1 Comment

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Thanks to the product management team the latest SOA Suite 12.2.1 VirtualBox image is available for download here.

Overview

Please note that this appliance is for testing purposes only, as such it is unsupported and should not to be used in a production environment.

This VirtualBox appliance contains a fully-configured, ready-to-use SOA Suite 12.2.1 installation.

All you need is to install Oracle VM VirtualBox on your desktop/laptop and import the SOA Suite appliance and you are ready to try out SOA Suite 12.2.1 — no installation and configuration required!

The following software is installed in this VirtualBox image:

  • Oracle Enterprise Linux (64-bit) EL 6 Update 7
  • Oracle Database, Enterprise Edition 12.1.0.2
  • Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1 (includes Service Bus, B2B, Oracle Enterprise Scheduler (ESS) and Business Activity Monitoring)
  • Oracle Managed File Transfer 12.2.1
  • Oracle Stream Explorer 12.2.1
  • Oracle JDeveloper 12.2.1
  • Sun Java 1.8.0_51-b16 (64-bit)

Please check the Introduction and Readme document for detailed instructions on downloading and importing the VirtualBox image. Get the VirtualBox image here.

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ICS Update – On premise Agent now Available by Arturo Viveros

September 11, 2016 Leave a comment

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Hello appreciated readers, here’s hoping to a fun and successful 2016 for you all!!

And for us Oracle FMW practitioners, there are some very exciting news to begin the year:
Yours truly has been following for a while the development and growth of Oracle’s iPaaS platform: "Integration Cloud Service". And it’s been a long wait, but at long last the ultra hyped On-Premise Agent has been released and is now available for all ICS subscriptions.
There are some other cool and useful new features in this release (e.g. content based routing, new adapters, etc.), which we will surely discuss during the next few weeks in a different post. However, in our humble opinion the Agent is a transcendent piece of the puzzle, which will open up a whole new set of use cases and possibilities for the implementation of cloud-driven integrations with ICS. So, what does this mean?, let’s look at it graphically:

Oracle ICS was an already powerful yet simple to implement tool, suited perfectly for Cloud to Cloud Integrations but somehow limited in its potential to participate in hybrid solutions (those which also include on-prem interaction). The obvious problem here is that we know Hybrid Architectures are still predominant among organizations in the midst of a cloud adoption strategy. And that’s why the Agent is a real game-changer: Read the complete article here.

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New Agent Simplifies Cloud to On-premises Integration by Bruce Tierney

September 10, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Oracle Integration Cloud Service has generated a lot of enthusiasm since the June 2015 Oracle PaaS launch by Larry Ellison.  A major reason for this enthusiasm was the introduction of simplicity to cloud integration…historically a complex process only possible by integration specialists.  We are very pleased to introduce to Integration Cloud Service this same level of simplicity to the integration of on-premises applications allowing for faster and easier integration of existing on-premises applications with cloud SaaS applications.  

As shown in the image to the right, the new Agent feature within Oracle Integration Cloud Service eliminates common security and complexity issues previously associated with integrating on-premises applications from outside the firewall.   For example, there is no need to open an inbound port to communicate with on-premise systems and no need to expose any private SOA-based Web services.  Access the new Agent from the menu shown in the image below and let the agent simply and securely handle the communication. 

Furthermore, new adapters have been added to Integration Cloud Service to simplify the integration to on-premises applications.  These adapters are for Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel Customer Relationship Management, SAP, Oracle Database, and the SOAP technology adapter.  The SOAP adapter can be used to connect to any Web service enabled application, including services exposed on Oracle SOA Suite or other on-premises integration platforms.clip_image006

Prior to creating the Agent or Agents, create your "Connections" to your applications.   Simply select and configure from a wide range of Oracle Applications such as Oracle CPQ Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, HCM Cloud to name a few, 3rd party applications such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and now with this release to on-premises applications.  See the image below to see some of the adapter choices: Read the complete article here.

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Mobile & IoT Showcase @ OpenWorld Moscone South, #109

September 9, 2016 Leave a comment

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If you’ve been following Oracle’s mobile (r)evolution, we’ve been trending some impressive growth and mobile chops worth bragging about. The recent updates to Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, with the addition of Oracle MAX codeless development, new Location Based Services, bringing highly granular contextual apps (Manchester Airports Groupcomes to mind) and helping extend existing Forms based apps to Mobile First apps (New York MTA), we’re truly helping to mobilize our customers. Come see all of this, plus new mobile innovations and much more. Visit the Mobile & IoT Showcase at Moscone South, 109. Here’s a bit of a preview:

· Mobile Platform – catch the latest demo showcasing Oracle MCS latest features, Oracle MAX and Location Based Services

· Oracle JET, Oracle’s JavaScript Extension Toolkit. It’s open source. Yeah, that’s right, open source.

· Customer Insight and Engagement capabilities with multi-channel analytics, analysis, churn prediction & engagement

· Mobile innovations around chatbots, mobile beacons, and perhaps some interesting proof of concept apps created by Oracle’s A-Team

· Kick back at the Mobile & IoT Theatre to watch some in-depth presentations by technical experts in their field

For a great overview on what’s new and the Oracle Mobile roadmap catch this key OpenWorld session:

Mobile Now and in the Future: Location, Cognitive Insights, Chatbots, and Much More [CON7881]

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