BPM & SOA Application missing in JDeveloper 12c gallery by Martien van den Akker

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A few weeks ago I did a BPM12c Quickstart Installation under Oracle Linux 6. Everything went smoothly, as described in the install guide as well as on many blogs already.
But I found that most of those blogs did an installation under Windows, where I did it under Oracle Linux in Virtualbox.
You would think (as I did) that it shouldn’t matter. However, it turns out that in JDeveloper I was missing the ‘BPM Application’ amongst others in the JDeveloper New Gallery. Very inconvenient. I couldn’t find any hints on the big internet. My friend Google wasn’t very helpful in this.
But I wouldn’t write this blog if I did not solve it. It turns out that with an update I got it solved.
It turns out that I lacked the ‘Spring & Oracle Weblogic SCA’ extension. Using the Help->Update functionality I downloaded and installed that and after restarting JDeveloper my ‘New Gallery’ was properly filled.
For those not so familiar with the JDeveloper update mechanism, here a step by step guide:

Choose Help->Update: Read the complete article here.

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BPM Suite Survey – your community feedback is required!

Thanks for your continued engagement in shaping the Oracle BPM platform and the Oracle Process Cloud Service.
Can you please complete Oracle BPM – Web Forms 1 Page Survey ? It just takes 10 minutes to fill this survey.
* Please limit your critical feature requests to 3 ! *
Do send me your sample UI screen shots in a document and mail it to Meera directly.
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SOA Suite 12c Masterclass – December 19th 2014 by Amis

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SOA Suite 12c (June 2014) was a major release for Oracle’s flagship integration product. This release introduces new functionality, higher developer productivity, more robust run-time scalability and performance. 12c brings together development and administration of Service Bus and SOA composite applications, it ships new technology adapters as well as a SDK to develop custom adapters and provides across the stack support for REST-style services and JSON-format messages. New facilities were added to the stack, like Managed File Transfer and Enterprise Scheduling Services, and others better integrated, such as Oracle Event Processing and Business Activity Monitoring.

This masterclass, based on over a year’s beta program participation and extensive research and experimentation, deals with many of the essential topics for SOA Suite 12c. In one day, presenters Robert van Mölken and Lucas Jellema will discuss how SOA Suite 12c will change and enhance the way SOA projects develop services. They will show many live demonstrations of the tools in action – providing you concrete insight in new and improved features. At the end of this masterclass, attendees will know how SOA Suite 12c can benefit their organizations and how they can get started with building skills, migrating applications and using this new release properly.

Throughout the day, participants and presenters have enough opportunity to discuss real world experience and brainstorm on how to best make use of SOA Suite 12c in their organizations.

All demo code and slides will be made available. Participants will also receive a voucher for the Oracle SOA Suite 12c Handbook by Lucas Jellema (Oracle Press, Spring 2015).

Audience

This masterclass is aimed at developers, solution architects and administrators with SOA Suite 11g experience.

For details please visit the registration page here.

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Dutch SOA Suite Community Event with Simone Geib, December 11th 2014

clip_image002On Thursday December 11th, AMIS hosts a community event around Oracle SOA Suite with special guest star Simone Geib, Director of Product Management for Oracle and the face of the recent SOA Suite 12c release.
In this session, Simone will tell about and show demonstrations of the key themes and highlights of SOA Suite 12c. She will also discuss the near future , including products such as API Catalog, Cloud Adapters SDK, API Manager and Stream Explorer as well as the plan regarding the cloud. She will perhaps recount some anecdotes or background stories about the process of creating such a major new release. Simone talks about the most exciting customer SOA Suite use cases from aware of around the world as well some background on how SOA Suite is used within Oracle itself. There will be plenty of opportunity for Q&A and to offer Simone suggestions about improving or extending the SOA Suite product. The event will commence at 17.00 – doors open at 16.30. At approximately 18.00 uur there will be a dinner and we expect to conclude the evening at our AMIS Café with drinks from 21.00 onwards.
This event is useful and interesting for everyone involved with SOA Suite– either as developer or administrator, as architect or designer. Experience with the 12c release is not required – some interest that release of course is expected. Subjects that will be discussed during the event are:

  • SOA Suite 12c
    • Developer Productivity & (runtime) Operations features
    • Mobile/REST
    • Adapters
      • SAP
      • Salesforce (SFDC)
      • RightNow
  • API Management
  • OEP/Stream Explorer
  • Managed File Transfer (MFT)
  • B2B
  • Brief recap of Vision and Roadmap
  • Customer stories & Anecdotes: the most exciting SOA Suite use cases from around the world
  • Oracle internal stories: some background on how SOA Suite is used within Oracle
  • Q&A: your chance to quiz & grill Simone on SOA Suite today and tomorrow

For location information please visit the registration page here.

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Call for Paper #OUGN15 – last day today!

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Call for paper for our next Spring Conference is now open. Conference starts Thursday March 12, 2015. Our Spring Seminar is the largest user group conference in the Nordics. We expect 350 or more attendees. With 7-8 tracks you can look forward to two days filled with information, networking and tons of fun. Come and share what you have learned and occupies your mind.

We want presentations within Core Tech (database, operating system, virtualization, other infrastructure issues), database development (Apex, PL/SQL, etc), BI / Big Data (Data warehouse, OBIEE, ODI, data science, Hadoop eco system), Java (whatever that pleases Java programmers – make it yours), Middleware (SOA, WebLogic, etc) and Oracle Apps.

Not all presentations need to be super advanced; many attendees request back-to-basic stuff and classical subjects that are useful for new users.

All speakers are invited to Speakers’ Dinner the night before the conference.

In order to submit your abstracts you will have to register at our site with an email address. You will then receive an URL that you need to access in order to confirm yourself as a user. You can then login, complete a speaker profile and submitt your abstracts. Just remember the deadline December 1 to make any changes.

Link to Call for Paper for additional call for papers please visit our wiki here.

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Process Documentation in Oracle BPM 12.1.3 by Mike Keane

Your ability to add process documentation has been greatly enhanced in BPM 12.1.3. Some of the key enhancements are:

  • The narrative view allows you to write and/or edit in plain language. The narrative view is always in sync with the graphical view so you can see immediately the impact of your changes on the model. You can also add documentation to activities in-line.
  • Business properties can be added to processes and activities, and then you can create process reports that will show all properties for processes and activities in one document.
  • New process reports have been added to allow you to create a variety of different business reports to share.

Read the complete article here.

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BPM 12c Installation Improvements and Issues with Mac by Andrejus Baranovkis

Oracle BPM 12c is improved with a great installation process – simplified and stable. You only need to download single installation package, run a wizard and after several clicks it gets installed. All required products are installed for you out of the box, no extra configuration is needed – JDeveloper, BPM/SOA extensions, BPM/SOA schemas in Java DB. Developer can focus on his development tasks, no need to spend days to install and configure development environment. You should read official guide – Quick Start for Oracle Business Process Management Suite.

Installer works on Mac OS platform, you can install entire Oracle BPM 12c infrastructure and run domain. However, it fails to open Human Task wizard, while running JDEV on Mac OS. I have developed extremely basic Oracle BPM 12c sample application, to test Human Task wizard with JDeveloper installed on Oracle Enterprise Linux and on Mac OS – BpmApplication.zip.
It works fine to load Human Task wizard with JDeveloper 12c installed on Linux:
The same Human Task fails to open with JDeveloper 12c installed on Mac OS. There is Null Pointer exception generated, thrown from JDeveloper IDE class: Read the complete article here.

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BPM 12c – Process Asset Manager (PAM) by Antonis Antoniou

An entirely new feature has been introduced in Oracle BPM 12c called “Process Asset Manager” (PAM) which makes it really simple and reliable to share projects between BPM Studio and BPM Process Composer, providing a unified lifecycle management of BPM projects across BPM Process Composer and BPM Studio tools and offering seamless collaboration across the various personas in a BPM project.
PAM comes with an integrated subversion source control system for version management of BPM assets and can be integrated with OPSS for security and can reference the MDS for run-time artifacts.

So let’s see the lifecycle of PAM from the two different interfaces, starting with the Process Composer.
For the needs of this tutorial I have created a sample Hello BPM project with a synchronous process. Read the complete article here.

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BPM 12.1.3 Process Documentation Sample available on java.net

image Two weeks ago I blogged about the new features and improvements to process documentation in Oracle BPM 12.1.3. A sample is now available on java.net for download. This sample includes:

  • A lab document explaining how to use the import feature in Oracle BPM Composer and Studio to convert Visio, XPDL, BPMN 2.0, Oracle Workflow, and Tutor documents into BPM processes. A sample Visio file is included in the download so you can see how the feature works
  • The same lab document leads you through adding process documentation via the business properties
  • You are also guided through using the narrative view to edit your sample process
  • Then the lab prompts you to create process reports to bring all of your process documentation together in one HTML or PDF document

The sample also includes a lab solution so you can import the project with all of the process documentation already added.

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SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c launch event in Dubai November 26th 2014

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 In the context of 12c new Oracle BPM Suite and SOA Suite versions’, Link and Oracle take great pleasure in inviting you to this big technological and innovation event, hosted in the Shangri-la Hotel on the 26th November.
We would like to share with you these product’s new functionalities, and the best ways to put them in practice.
Link, having been active in its Beta program during almost a year, has reached a higher understanding and deep knowledge about this versions, and we believe that they can be game-changers to your organization.
Join us for this special event, in order to get a deep insight about these innovative solutions that provide organizations the needed flexibility to support their business process transformation and integration roadmaps.
Book your seat now.

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Register right now..
We’re counting on you!

16:00 Coffee + Opening
Link + Oracle
16:15 Keynote:
SOA/BPM 12c for Your Cloud, Mobile and Fast Data
Yogesh Sontakke Principal Product Manager
Oracle
17:00 SOA 12c – What’s NewLink
17:45 Coffee break
18:15 BPM 12c – What’s New
Link
19:00 BPM Process Accelerators
Link
19:15 Closing
19:3020:00 CocktailDinner

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