$5 eBooks by Packt Publishing – prepare for the holiday season & read a SOA Suite & BPM Suite book!

imageYou want to learn more about Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite? Make sure you read a eBook from Packt Publishing during the holiday season. Packt Publishing offers $5 eBooks until January 6th 2015, for details please visit the website here. Don’t know which book to choose here is our list of Oracle SOA Books and list of Oracle BPM Books. Let us know via twitter which book you are reading!

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Samples and Demos for Oracle Managed File Transfer

Managed File Transfer (MFT) is one of the SOA Suite 12c highlights make sure you demo it to your SOA customers!
Demos

MFT Tutorials

Custom Processing Action Samples
Download the MFT-Samples zip file to import and use the following custom processing actions samples

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter December 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Welcome to the last edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Newsletter in 2014. Before the years end please make sure that you register for the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015 as 50% of the seats are booked already!
Our ACT on marketing campaign for Middleware Consolidation and Innovation is in full swing with more than 50 activities across Europe Middle East and Africa – thanks to all partners who participate! You can promote your marketing events at Oracle.com Website to make sure that the Oracle customers get visibility! For your daily customer meetings please get equipped with our middleware sales kits. Your customer wants to see SOA Suite 12c in action, make use of the Oracle hosted SOA 12.1.3 Demo System, including mobile integration!

In the case you are working on a SOA Suite 12c implementation make sure you get support from our product management and A-Team. Want to know what is next in SOA Suite 12c watch the product strategy video.
Oracle just launched API catalog, thanks to Niall, Robert, Luis and Andre for all the excellent articles, API article series, In-depth look into Oracle API Catalog (OAC) 12c, API Catalog 12c Full Overview and Governance made easy – Oracle API Catalog 12c.
Also in our cloud section we have a brand new product with the RightNow Cloud Adapter. You can not only integrate SaaS solutions like Salesforce, we also offer on-premises adapters for solutions like e-Business Suite. Want to get a good overview of the Oracle cloud solutions watch the video Cloud Periodic Table: Chemistry of Cloud Computing.

In the Service Bus section we published articles: Exposing a Pipeline as a REST Service, Caching in OSB 12c and XSLT and DVMs – Design. Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: SOA Suite 12c Masterclass, Event Processing Industry value propositions, Upgrading Oracle SOA Suite from 11g to 12c, Customizing Oracle MFT with Java Overview, SOA Framework. And for all IoT experts IoT and JD Edwards and Sensor Networks with Java (Part I).
In our BPM section Meera is asking the community to give feedback and future directions for BPM Suite features, please make sure that you complete the survey. Thanks to the Link Consulting team for the great introduction in starting a BPM Suite process model. To learn more about process modelling make sure you read the BPM Suite 12c Modeling Patterns book. Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: Getting started with BPM Studio (JDeveloper) and Process Composer & Customized Workspace & BPM Authentication & Screenflows with BPM and ADF 12c & Creating Custom BPM Work List and Patch SOA/BPM VM to WebCenter 11.1.1.8.

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we published a new video about AppAdvantage Benefits for Partners. In the case you work on projects where you integrate Oracle Application make sure you attend our hand-on training "Multichannel enablement for Applications" during the OFM Forum 2014.

You want to learn more and try hands-on all the new cool Fusion Middleware 12c solutions? Make sure you attend our Fusion Middleware EMEA Partner Community Forum 2015. With more than 55 registrations some of the hands-on workshops are almost full, don’t wait too long with Your registration!  Wish you all a happy holiday and a great start in 2015!

Best regards

Jürgen Kress
Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA

To read the newsletter please visit www.tinyurl.com/SOAnewsDecember2014 (OPN Account required)

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Closer look at the SOA 12c Feature: Oracle Managed File Transfer By Tshepo Madigage

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The rapid growth of cloud-based applications in the enterprise, combined with organizations’ desire to integrate applications with mobile technologies, is dramatically increasing application integration complexity. To meet this challenge, Oracle introduced Oracle SOA Suite 12c, 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 helps organizations speed time to integration, improve productivity, and lower TCO.

To extend its B2B solution capabilities with Oracle SOA Suite 12c, Oracle unveiled Oracle Managed File Transfer, an integrated solution that enables organizations to virtually eliminate file transfer complexities. This allows customers to load data securely into Oracle Cloud applications as well as third-party cloud or partner applications.

Oracle Managed File Transfer (Oracle MFT) enables secure file exchange and management with internal departments and external partners. It protects against inadvertent access to unsecured files at every step in the end-to-end transfer of files. It is easy to use especially for non technical staff so you can leverage more resources to manage the transfer of files. The extensive reporting capabilities allow you to get quick status of a file transfer and resubmit it as required. You can protect data in your DMZ by using the SSH/FTP reverse proxy. Read the complete article here

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Multichannel enablement for Applications – hands-on workshop at OFM Forum 2015

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74% consumers use at least 3 channels when interacting with an enterprise about customer service issues.

– Gartner

Multichannel Strategy Overview

Business scenario and demo walkthrough

  • Lab: Service Virtualization with Service Bus
  • Lab: Composite Portal with WebCenter Suite
  • Lab: Mobile App Integration with Mobile Suite
  • Securing multi-channel experience with Oracle Identity & Access Mgmt Suite

For details please visit our registration page here.

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SOA Suite 12c: The LDAP Adapter, a quick and easy tutorial by Maarten Smeets

clip_image001In enterprises, LDAP servers are often used to store user credentials and groups and share them among applications. Oracle SOA Suite 12c introduces a new technology adapter; the LDAPAdapter which allows easy integration with LDAP servers. In this blog post I will provide a quick and easy howto on installation of an LDAP server and browser (ApacheDS and Apache Directory Studio). I will also describe the configuration required to use the LDAPAdapter and provide an example BPEL process which allows creation of new users in the ApacheDS LDAP server by means of webservice calls.

Setting up the LDAP server

Installing an LDAP server

For this example I’ll use ApacheDS as LDAP server and Apache Directory Studio as LDAP browser. First download and install Apache Directory Studio from http://directory.apache.org/studio/. Next create an LDAP server. Click the LDAP server tab in the bottom left corner and click New Server. Read the complete article here.

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Create Service Bus Customization File using WLST by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

clip_image002For one of our Oracle Fusion Middleware projects we had the requirement that the IT Ops activities should be scripted as much as possible. These activities included things like packaging, deploying, and automated testing of Service Bus projects, SOA Composites, and BPM processes. One of the more challenging tasks to script was to create and extract the runtime configuration of services deployed on Oracle Service Bus 11g using customization files. There seems to be no WLST feature readily available for this purpose. Based on some resources that all contained part of the solution, we were able to construct a WLST script for this purpose which you can find in this blog.
This blog briefly explains the use of customization files, how to create a customization file using the Service Bus Console, includes the WLST script to execute this task, and provides a brief conclusion.

Customization Files

Customization files are XML files that contain the configuration of Service Bus resources and projects. Examples of such configurations are Service URIs, JCA settings, Retry Settings, and so on. Customization files provide a convenient way to apply environment-specific configuration during deployment. You can both apply, as well as create and extract the runtime configuration of Service Bus resources and projects into customization files using the Service Bus Console. Read the complete article here.

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AppAdvantage Benefits for Partners

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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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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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SOA12c -Service Bus Resequencer by Vivek Garg

clip_image002We often come under such situation when we receive message from source system which are not in proper sequence but target system need to receive that in proper sequence. To resolve this we need to re-sequence the messages and process them in proper sequence.   Re-sequencing is term used when we need to process incoming messages in sequence which are not coming in proper sequence. Design and developer need to think on this re-sequencing when they encounter such requirement as e described above. E.g. suppose we are receiving sales orders from source system, sales order contain one field with the name sales order number, suppose source system sends sales order in this sequence ( 1, 4,3,2,5,6,7 ) but target system need sales order in this sequence (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) , in this case we need to do re-sequencing of message.

In 11g version of Oracle SOA Suite, re-sequencing was there in Mediator component but this feature was not available for BPEL and Service Bus. In 12c release, this feature is provided for service bus. We can set this feature either at pipeline level or at operation level. In this post, we will discuss on that. We will only discuss about pipeline level re-sequencer. 

We have three types of re-sequencing in Service Bus.

Standard:  This sequencer is used when incoming message contain numeric identifier.  This numeric identifier is termed as Sequence Id. We may specify message Group also, that means incoming order can be Sales Order or purchase order, in this case we will have separate group for both Sales Order and purchase order. When source system send out of order messages then it store out-of-order message until complete order is received this is based on sequence Id.

FIFO: This sequencer works based on message arrival time. Whichever message received first, will be processed first. Here you need to specify only Group. So all the messages which are there in one group processed based on message receive time.

Best Effort: It is used when we receive large number of messages in a short period of time and cannot provide information to the re-sequencer about the identifier to use for sequencing. Typically, the identifier used for sequencing in such scenarios is of a dateTime type or numeric type.

– See more at: http://www.soawork.com/2014/09/soa12c-service-bus-resequencer.html#sthash.CJJjVYly.dpuf

Read the complete article here.

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