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Build Mobile App for E-Business Suite Using SOA Suite and ADF Mobile By Michelle Kimihira

December 27, 2012 Leave a comment

With the upcoming release of Oracle ADF Mobile, I caught up with Srikant Subramaniam, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware post OpenWorld to learn about the cool hands-on lab at OpenWorld. For those of you who missed it, you will want to keep reading.

Author: Srikant Subramaniam, Senior Principal Product Manager,Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Oracle ADF Mobile enables rapid and declarative development of native on-device mobile applications. These native applications provide a richer experience for smart devices users running Apple iOS or other mobile platforms. Oracle ADF Mobile protects Oracle customers from technology shifts by adopting a metadata-based development framework that enables developer to develop one app (using Oracle JDeveloper), and deploy to multiple device platforms (starting with iOS and Android).

Oracle ADF Mobile also enables IT organizations to leverage existing expertise in web-based and Java development by adopting a hybrid application architecture that brings together HTML5, Java, and device native container:

HTML5 allows developer to deliver device-native user experiences while maintaining portability across different platforms
Java allows developers to create modules to support business logic and data services
Native container provides integration into device services such as camera, contacts, etc

All these technologies are packaged into a development framework that supports declarative application development through Oracle JDeveloper. ADF Mobile also provides out of box integratoin with key Fusion Middleware components, such as SOA Suite and Business Process Management (BPM).

Oracle Fusion Middleware provides the necessary infrastructure to extend business processes and services to the mobile device — enabling the mobile user to participate in human tasks – without the additional “mobile middleware” layer. When coupled with Oracle SOA Suite, this combination can execute business transactions on Oracle E-Business Suite (or any Oracle Application).
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SOA Community Newsletter December 2012

December 26, 2012 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Happy Holiday! Thanks for a great 2012! Thanks for all the joint business and your community support. We wish you and your family a great holiday season!

We have a huge back of presents for you: Our Fusion Middleware Community Forum is planned for February 19th & 20th and the Bootcamps 21st & 22nd 2013. For details please visit our registration page!

Winter time is training time – we offer many on-demand trainings and assessments to become Specialized. A SOA, BPM or ADF certified Implementation is the best for a great start in 2013.

Thanks for the excellent middleware track at the UKOUG conference, we posted all presentations at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required). Thanks also to the DOAG team for the conference, you can find most of the presentations and a nice report on the Vennster blog At the community workspace you can also find a big BPM update including papers for BPM design best practice & industry papers & process accelerators demos.

On the SOA suite our product management team published a series of new articles. One of our partners Gebhart offers tooling for Quality Analysis for SOA and Cloud. On the cloud side E-Book: Cloud Architecture for Dummies & Cloud Considerations & Connectivity papers are available. And our friends from EAIESB papers offers a whole series on Healthcare & OSB & B2B & BPM & SOA

Happy holiday and a great start in 2013

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsDecember2012 (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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Expanding the Oracle Enterprise Repository with functional documentation by Marc Kuijpers

December 19, 2012 1 Comment

Introduction
Have you ever experienced the challenge to map both your functional and technical assets in one software package? Finding a software package that is able to describe the metadata about these assets and their mutual relationships? And if you found the correct software package, was it maintainable?

The Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) is a powerful SOA repository. Its core task is to map and visualize the interaction between technical assets generated by the SOA Suite and OSB. However, OER can be configured to not only contain these technical assets, but also to contain functional assets, i.e.: functional designs, use cases and a logical data model. Now that’s interesting! OER is able to show all the assets in your system and, if necessary, zoom in on one of the assets and their mutual relationships (Figure 1). This opens a set of doors to powerful features, e.g.:

Impact analsysis
If a functional design is adjusted, which other functional designs and use cases do I need to adjust?
Traceability
If a web service generates an error, in which functional and technical designs is the web service described

This sounds great, but how do we get all the functional and technical documents in OER, and how are we going to keep this repository up-to-date?
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Announcing Upcoming SOA and JMS Introductory Blog Posts

December 18, 2012 1 Comment

Beginning next week, SOA Proactive Support will begin posting a series of introductory blogs here on working with JMS in a SOA context. The posts will begin with how to set up JMS in WebLogic server, lead you through reading and writing to a JMS queue from the WLS Java samples, continue with how to access it from a SOA composite and, finally, describe how to set up and access AQ JMS (Advanced Queuing JMS) from a SOA/BPEL process.

The posts will be of a tutorial nature and include step-by-step examples. Your questions and feedback are encouraged.

The following topics are planned:

How to Create a Simple JMS Queue in Weblogic Server 11g
Using the QueueSend.java Sample Program to Send a Message to a JMS Queue
Using the QueueReceive.java Sample Program to Read a Message from a JMS Queue
How to Create an 11g BPEL Process Which Writes a Message Based on an XML Schema to a JMS Queue
How to Create an 11g BPEL Process Which Reads a Message Based on an XML Schema from a JMS Queue
How to Set Up an AQ JMS (Advanced Queueing JMS) for SOA Purposes
How to Write to an AQ JMS Queue from a BPEL Process
How to Read from an AQ JMS Queue from a BPEL Process

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Installing Oracle Event Processing 11g by Antoney Reynolds

December 17, 2012 Leave a comment

Earlier this month I was involved in organizing the Monument Family History Day. It was certainly a complex event, with dozens of presenters, guides and 100s of visitors. So with that experience of a complex event under my belt I decided to refresh my acquaintance with Oracle Event Processing (CEP).
CEP has a developer side based on Eclipse and a runtime environment.

Server install

The server install is very straightforward (documentation). It is recommended to use the JRockit JDK with CEP so the steps to set up a working CEP server environment are:

Download required software
- JRockit – I used Oracle “JRockit 6 – R28.2.5” which includes “JRockit Mission Control 4.1” and “JRockit Real Time 4.1”.
- Oracle Event Processor – I used “Complex Event Processing Release 11gR1 (11.1.1.6.0)”
Install JRockit
- Run the JRockit installer, the download is an executable binary that just needs to be marked as executable.
Install CEP
- Unzip the downloaded file
- Run the CEP installer, the unzipped file is an executable binary that may need to be marked as executable.
- Choose a custom install and add the examples if needed.
  - It is not recommended to add the examples to a production environment but they can be helpful in development.

Developer Install

The developer install requires several steps (documentation). A developer install needs access to the software for the server install, although JRockit isn’t necessary for development use.
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Real User Experience Insight: Oracle’s Approach to User Experience

December 14, 2012 Leave a comment

This self-study course is the first in a series about Oracle Real User Experience Insight. Intended for a broad, general audience, this course begins with a discussion on why user experience is important, followed by Oracle’s approach to user experience. Next, several use cases for Real User Experience Insight is presented. The course ends by showing how Real User Experience Insight is integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. This course is a suggested prerequisite for the other two self-studies in this series, one that focuses on basic navigation, data structures and workflows, and the other that focuses on best practices in deployment.

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Fault Handling Slides and Q&A by Vennester

December 13, 2012 Leave a comment

Fault Handling
It is one thing to architect, design, and code the “happy flow” of your automated business processes and services. It is another thing to deal with situations you do not want or expect to occur in your processes and services. This session dives into fault handling in Oracle Service Bus 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g, based on an order-to-cash business process. Faults can be divided into business faults, technical faults, programming errors, and faulty user input. Each type of fault needs a different approach to prevent them from occurring or to deal with them. For example, apply User Experience (UX) techniques to improve the quality of your application so that faulty user input can be prevented as much as possible. This session shows and demos what patterns and techniques can be used in Oracle Service Bus and Oracle SOA Suite to prevent and handle technical faults as well as business faults.

Q&A
This section lists answers to the questions that were raised during the preview event.
Q: Where can retries be configured in Oracle Service Bus?
The retry mechanism is used to prevent faults caused by temporary glitches such as short network interruptions. A faulted message is resend (retried) and might succeed this time since the glitch has passed. Retries are an out-of-the-box feature that can be used in Oracle Service Bus and Oracle SOA Suite using the Fault Policy framework. By default, retries are disabled in Oracle Service Bus. Read the full article.

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SOA Galore: New Books for Technical Eyes Only By Bob Rhubart

December 12, 2012 Leave a comment

In my part of the world the weather has taken its seasonal turn toward the kind of cold, damp, miserable stuff that offers a major motivation to stay indoors. While I plan to spend some of the indoor time working my way through the new 50th anniversary James Bond box set, I will also devote some time to improve my mind rather than my martini-mixing skills by catching up on my reading. If you are in a similar situation, you might want to spend some of your time with these new technical books written by our community members:

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator’s Handbook
by Ahmed Aboulnaga and Arun Pareek

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer’s Cookbook
by Antony

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook

Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics
by Mark Nelson and Tanya Williams

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BPM Industry papers Financial Services & Insurance & Retail and BPM additional material

December 10, 2012 Leave a comment

Whitepaper:

Assessment:

BPM Maturity – Online Self Assessment – Link

New Book:

"Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Advanced BPMN Topics" by Mark Nelson and Tanya Williams – Packt Publishing

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EAIESB OSB poster

December 7, 2012 Leave a comment

Our friends at eaiesb published their next poster. If you work on an OSB project and you have some space at your office print it and pin it at your wall: