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free Java & middleware trainings – Virtual Technology Summit available on-demand

April 5, 2015 Leave a comment

Available On-Demand The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is excited to invite you to the next Virtual Technology Summit. Learn first hand from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, and Oracle product experts, as they share their insight and expertise on using Oracle technologies to meet today’s IT challenges. Participate through Hands-on Lab’s and Technical Presentations / Demo’s
This interactive, online event offers four technical tracks, each with a unique focus on specific tools, technologies, and tips:

The Java Track
Java continues to offer more functionality. How can you keep up? Attend this event. We’ll provide code-laden training on how to:

· Implement solutions using the latest Java EE features

· Use lambdas and the new streams library API

· Tune your Java applications for high performance

The Middleware Track
Mobile device sales continue to increase, and smartphones and tablets are quickly replacing desktop and laptop computers. This track has two focus areas:

· Mobile application development

· Mobile architectures

Participants will learn how to use essential tools and technologies for developing a successful mobile solution. Products covered will include the Oracle Mobile Application Framework, Oracle Mobile Suite, Oracle Mobile Cloud, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, Oracle SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus.

For details please visit the registration page here.

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For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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SOA Magazine IV published

April 3, 2015 Leave a comment

The SOA Magazine IV edition focuses on Industrial SOA articles which showcase that SOA is much more than a web service. Rolando Carrasco and Arturo Viveros showcase in their SOA Myth Busters article the evolution of the SOA Suite towards a complete platform over the last 10 years. An industrial SOA platform contains also API management to secure web services, as well b2b as a trading hub between external partners.

What is the use case for Business Process Management versus Services Oriented Architecture. SOA is mainly used for data mediation and process orchestration between different IT systems. BPM is focused on automation on human based processes like an employee holiday request. Key is to re-use the SOA web services for your BPM deployment. In our holiday request example we can re-use a web service from the HR system which informs the employee of the available holidays. In this magazine edition you learn on the BPM Side more about Gateways and how Link Consulting is using a generator to create Human tasks. Thanks to Mark Foster who highlights in his article 10 best practices for SOA Suite and BPM Suite a must read!

This quarterly newsletter is for both customers and partners who are active in the SOA space. The content includes articles for IT decision makers, architects and developers. The goal of the newsletter is to update you on the latest SOA technologies, market studies, trainings & certifications and conferences. We publish the newsletter in English and some articles will be in Portuguese specially for the Brazilian marketing, thanks to Ricardo Puttini and his team. Contribution is open for everybody! We want to publish your content! Like case studies, best practice, technical examples and solutions and conferences. Feel free to submit your content to Marcello Marinho (Portuguese articles) & Jürgen Kress (for English articles).

Enjoy reading the SOA Magazine IV we are looking forward to get your feedback! Ricardo Puttini & Jürgen Kress

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

April 2, 2015 Leave a comment

· Using ADF BC Declarative Built-in Rules (Part 7 of 10): Range validator | Antonis Antoniou

· Creating a Mobile-Optimized REST API Using Oracle Service Bus – Part 4 | Steven Davelaar

· Caching in OSB 12c without Out-Of-Process Coherence Servers | Ricardo Ferreira

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AppAdvantage Benefits for Partners

April 1, 2015 Leave a comment

Thank you once again for a great PartnerCast on November 12! Individual show segments are now hosted on Oracle Media Network’s PartnerCast channel for replay.

Replay links:

§ PartnerCast: Oracle AppAdvantage and Benefit to Partners

§ PartnerCast: Oracle Mobility and Opportunities for Partners

§ PartnerCast: 3Di Systems and Oracle Mobility Projects

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Patch SOA/BPM VM to WebCenter 11.1.1.8 by The Cattle Crew

April 1, 2015 Leave a comment

At OTN you can find the latest 11g SOA/BPM Virtual Machine (VM) which also contains Webcenter. Unfortunately, Webcenter has been added in version 11.1.1.7 to that VM; as there are major enhancements in Webcenter 11.1.1.8 it generally makes sense to upgrade the VM to that version.

At the Oracle website a documentation for upgrading from 11.1.1.7 to 11.1.1.8 can be found. In this post I want to describe which steps of the update guide I actually executed in order to upgrade my VM and which ones I skipped as they seem to be optional.

The particular steps are also described in full detail here.

Pre-Patching Tasks

I skipped all pre-patching tasks, as we’re starting with a VM that does not contain any data so far and which already contains an up to date Weblogic installation. Read the complete article here.

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter March 2015

March 31, 2015 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Thanks for an excellent Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015! Thanks to all partners investing a week to continue to grow our joint business. In case you couldn’t make it to Budapest our key announcement includes the next phase of the Middleware ACT on campaign, Integration Success Workshop and the Cloud Platform for Digital Business Presentation. All presentations are available at the SOA & BPM Community Workspace (community membership required – you get workspace access within a week)
During the conference we also announced the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards 2015 – congratulations to all partners!
Two new middleware products became available Stream Explorer and API Manager. Great to read the first community feedback & best practice: Quick Introduction to Oracle Stream Explorer – Business User friendly processing of real time events & Quick Introduction to Oracle Stream Explorer Part Two– Business User friendly processing of real time events (enrichment, calculation) & A First Glance at Oracle Stream Explorer 12c & Oracle Stream Explorer & Setting up Oracle Stream Explorer 12.1.3 & Stream Explorer article series & Oracle introduces API Manager!

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: Preparation for Live Mobile Hacking with an OFM 12c & soamythbusters & Best Practices to Adopting a Successful Cloud Integration Strategy & Fusion Middleware WebService Security whitepaper & Leveraging Agile and Scrum on SOA and BPM projects & Upgrading to SOA 12c and details of the next UKOUG SIG & Managing Idempotence in SOA Suite & Deploying SOA Suite 12c artifacts from Nexus & SOASuite UMS & REST-enable existing SOAP & How to use the Domain Value Map (DVM) & CI using Oracle Fusion Middleware 12C & Purging and partitioned schemas & Document Editor – Defining a custom message (Part 1 of 3) b2b SOA Suite & Performance Study – REST vs SOAP for Mobile Applications & SOA 12c – Using Maven & Java and the Internet of Things: Automating the Industrial Economy.

In the BPM Section of the newsletter we give you a Sneak Preview of Oracle Process Cloud Service by Mala Ramakrishnan. Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: BPM 12c Advanced Error Handling and Recovery – Part 1 & Invoking REST Service from Oracle ACM Java Activity & Changes in JDeveloper 12c BPM simulations. In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we published an article from Ultan about a POC with Debra where they expand Oracle SaaS solutions with Oracle PaaS services. Additional the RELEASE 9 PAGE User Experience Highlights are available.

Best regards from holiday

Jürgen Kress
Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/SOAnewsMarch2015 (OPN Account required)

To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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SOA 12c hands-on Bootcamp May 20-21st 2015 Düsseldorf Germany

March 31, 2015 Leave a comment

SOA Suite 12c Bootcamp only for Oracle Partners – free of charge!

As our customers start looking at new trends such as Cloud and Mobile, Integration becomes increasingly important for their businesses and continues to be at the heart of our Fusion Middleware solution. Time and again, Application Integration has proven to make businesses more agile, save costs and provide a robust, future-proof architecture for complex enterprise systems.

SOA 12c brings exciting new features around the key themes of Developer Productivity and Industrial SOA. These new features (including a brand new product addition!) demonstrate why SOA is important to include in customer conversations and solutions around Cloud, Mobile, Fast Data and, of course, Application Integration.

Topics to be covered during the workshop include Developer Productivity, Industrial SOA, Application Integration, Cloud Integration, Mobile Enablement, Managed File Transfer, B2B and Fast Data.

May 20th – 21st 2015 Düsseldorf Germany

For details please visit our registration page here.

For additional training please visit our Community Training Calendar here (membership required)

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Creating Custom BPM Work List for Human Tasks based in ADF by Mark Peterson

March 30, 2015 Leave a comment

If you ever need a custom work list and need to open the human task from this list, then this blog can help you. All you really need to do is find the list of tasks and create the URL that opens the task from the custom work list. This is not as straightforward as it seems since the URL contains some dynamic fields that you will need to derive from information about the tasks.

The need for a custom work list usually involves some sort of relationship between instances in a process, or between tasks in different processes such that the OOTB functionality of the BPM workspace is not sufficient. The user wants to see a logical grouping of tasks or between parent and child tasks. These tasks should be shown grouped together. These tasks can be shown in a table or tree format and each task should have a link to click on to open the task directly from the form. This is an example of such a list and grouping. Read the complete article here.

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Screenflows with BPM and ADF 12c by Marcel Maas

March 29, 2015 Leave a comment

BPM 12c came with a slew of features that were scrapped when Oracle truly integrated the acquired BEA’s BPM implementation. One of those features is “screenflows”. I guess some of you, if not all of you have ever come across the situation where you needed to retrieve some information from a user using a human task, then do some logic and immediately provide the same user with a new screen for processing this data without having to go back to the tasklist.

In 11g there was no (out-of-the-box) way to do so, other than using the human workflow api or simply doing a service call from the existing task flow and not really going back to the process. Well now you can! And we are going to demonstrate it in this post. Now this feature is easily configured. We first need to make sure the server is configured correctly. Because this feature uses JMS messaging to function we need to a new topic as well as a new connection factory.

In WLS console in BpmModule create a new topic:

Name: UIBrokerTopic
JNDI Name: jms/bpm/UIBrokerTopic
Type: Topic (or Distributed unified Topic if clustered)

Read the complete article here.

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BPM Authentication On Behalf Business User from ADF by Andrejus Baranovskis

March 28, 2015 Leave a comment

This is the next post in the series of ADF/BPM integration, check previous post available here – Dynamic ADF Buttons Solution for Oracle BPM Outcomes. Here I’m going to describe how you could authenticate with BPM from ADF through a proxy user, on top you could apply only business user name, password will not be required.
There is API method available – authenticateOnBehalf(context, userName), you must have a valid connection context created and with authenticateOnBehalf method you could set to use any valid user name, instead of proxy user. Here is the example for Workflow Context: Read the complete article here.