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Process Cloud Service: New Features by Antonis Antoniou

October 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Introduction

Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) started a year ago as a lightweight process automation cloud tool that very quickly picked up momentum, adoption and technical capabilities. With Oracle adopting a cloud-first release approach, PCS quickly closed the gap with Oracle BPM Suite, with the majority of the on-premise features being ported to the cloud counterpart.

Released in September 2016, Oracle PCS v.16.3.5 introduced some new features and enhancements to existing capabilities for all personas (Developer, Administrator, End User).

This article explores these new features and enhancements in detail and assumes prior basic knowledge of Oracle PCS.

New Forms Editor

The latest release introduced an entirely new web forms functionality called Web Forms, an alternative to its existing Frevvo web forms (renamed "Basic Forms"). The new Web Forms functionality is more business-user-friendly, promoting important development principles like multiple views, re-use, branding, list of values, and fetching data using REST connections.

The new Web Forms groups its functionality into three areas; the left area includes the Properties and Data sections, the right area includes the palettes (basic, advanced, forms and business types), and the main area is the drawing canvas.

Using drag-and-drop, you can design your form using any components from all four palettes.

Basic Palette: Basic components like the input text, button, checklist, radio button, date, etc.,
Advanced Palette: Includes components like image, video, section, tab, table, etc.
Forms Palette: Re-use previously created forms
Business Type Palette: Create a user interface using a "data-first" approach (Oracle PCS will automatically create a form using the data definitions of the business type)

Enabling Auto Binding will automatically create linked data attributes for each component you drag on your canvas under the Data section. You can also follow a Manual Binding approach, in which you manually create attributes (either simple or based on a business object) and then bind controls to them. Read the complete article here.

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Service Bus 12c QuickTip: Fix HTTP 403 on calling SOAP/REST Proxy Services by Sven Bernhardt

October 7, 2017 Leave a comment

A few days ago, I faced a strange behaviour when I tried to test SOAP and REST services deployed to a fresh SOA Suite 12c (12.2.1.1) installation. Using SOAP UI for testing the services always gave me an response in a HTML format, which says ” Error 403 Forbidden”, like it is displayed in the screenshot below:

Going through all log files of the corresponding Managed Server, where Servicebus was installed to, I didn’t find any hint that even the request was delivered to the servers. The requests simply had no footprint in the access.log or the server’s diagnostics.log – which seemed to be very strange to me. Assuming that the behaviour might have been something to do with the security policies applied to the services, I disabled all security policies as a next step – without any success.

After testing the services successfully in another environment, it was quite clear to me that something was wrong with the domain setup and after some investigations, I found the root cause for the “Error 403 Forbidden” message: Using the deployments view in Weblogic Console, I noticed that “API Manager Starter Application” was targeted to the Servicebus Cluster. Like described in MOS Note 2087277.1, I un-targeted this application from the Cluster, restarted the corresponding Managed Servers and afterwards, I was able to test the services without receiving the mentioned exception. Like the MOS note described this behaviour might happen, if the wrong Template (Oracle API Manager Template) is chosen for Servicebus, when setting up a domain. Read the complete article here.

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Building OSB 12c releases on resource level using Maven by Mike Heeren

October 6, 2017 Leave a comment

A while ago I published a Whitebook (in Dutch) about building OSB 12c releases on resource level using Maven. In the Whitebook, you could read which functionality we were missing in the regular Oracle Service Bus plugin for Maven and how we were able to create this functionality using a custom Maven plugin.

I have added the code of this custom Maven plugin to the following public repository: https://bitbucket.org/whitehorsesbv/servicebusplugin

Used settings

The custom Maven plugin has been developed and tested on multiple environments, so we can confirm that the Maven plugin is working if you are using the following version(s):

Application	Version
Java	1.7.0_79, 1.8.0_101
Maven	3.3.9
Oracle Service Bus	12.1.3, 12.2.1

Installing the custom Maven plugin

First start to install the custom Maven plugin to your local Maven repository. To do this, you can download both the JAR and the POM file from the download page of the repository. After you have downloaded both files, you can execute the following commands to install it to you local Maven repository: Please read the complete article here.

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PaaS Summer Camp training material

October 5, 2017 Leave a comment

The training material from the PaaS Summer Camps 2017 is available at our community workspaces (membership required):

· Integration API training 08.2017

· PCS Bootcamp 08.2017

· Integrate & extend SaaS Bootcamp 08.2017

· AppDev Bootcamp 08.2017

· Content Cloud Service training 08.2017

· Management Cloud Service Bootcamp 08.2017

· Chatboot Bootcamp 08.2017

· Virtual Builder Cloud Service Bootcamp 2017

Free PaaS trial services are available via Demo.Oracle.com. Questions? Send us a message via Facebook here.

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Latest news from Oracle OpenWorld 2017?

October 5, 2017 Leave a comment

Full week of exiting announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2017 – want to understand what is new?

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The next Big Things in PaaS – full house at Amit Zavery’s PaaS Oracle OpenWorld keynote

October 3, 2017 Leave a comment

During his keynote Amit Zavery and the PaaS team launched a series of new services and cloud capabilities including an AI platform, serverless functions and blockchain. The line to enter the session was long and the Yerba Buena Center was fully packed.

The comprehensive, open and integration Oracle Cloud Platform drives innovation for our joint customers. Thanks to the partner community adaption is growing rapidly with more than 14.000 customers. Analyst recognize the platform as a leader in 19 categories.

Here are the key announcements by service category:

Application Development

Integration

Content and Experience

Analytics and Big Data

Security and Management

For more information watch the on-demand webcast here.

For PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017 read the blog post here.

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Why are Universal Cloud Credit and Bring Your Own License a great opportunity for Oracle Partners?

October 2, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle simplified buying and consuming for PaaS and IaaS Cloud. Customer can purchase now Universal Cloud Credits. This universal cloud credits can be spend for any IaaS or PaaS service. Partners can start a PoC or project e.g. with Application Container Cloud Service and can add additional service when required e.g. Chabot Cloud Service. The customer can use the universal cloud credits for any available or even upcoming IaaS and PaaS services.

Thousand of customers use Oracle Fusion Middleware and Databases today. With Bring Your Own License they can move easy workload to the cloud. As they already own the license the customer needs to pay only a small uplift for the service portion of PaaS. This is a major opportunity for Oracle partners to offer services to this customers.

To learn more about Universal Cloud Credits and Bring Your Own License Attend the free on-demand training here

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Oracle OpenWorld The Next Big Things

October 1, 2017 Leave a comment

Want to use a comprehensive, open and integrated platform to develop and deploy applications? Attend the Amit Zavery keynote on Monday to launch the innovations like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Internet of Things.

Oracle Cloud Platform Strategy and Roadmap [GEN7119] Amit Zavery, Senior Vice President, Fusion Middleware and PaaS Development, Oracle, Monday, Oct 02, 1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Theater

For more information please see:

What are the key PaaS announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2017?
PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

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Top tweets SOA Partner Community – September 2017

September 30, 2017 Leave a comment

September 2017 top tweets by soaCommunity

Send your tweets @soacommunity #soaCommunity and follow us at http://twitter.com/soacommunity. Make sure you share your content with the community!

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What are the key PaaS announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2017?

September 29, 2017 Leave a comment

Watch the on-demand webcast for Oracle partner to get insights about Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Ed Zou and myself will update you what PaaS activities you should not miss during the conference. For more information see also the blog post PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017.