Oracle SOA Modernization – Move and Improve Oracle SOA Suite – Webcast #1 Recap by Pat Shepherd

We held the first of 2 SOA Modernization webcasts and had a great turnout. I think this slide sums up the key points fairly well:

• Oracle is still supporting SOA Suite (including a new major release coming up) so your investment is protected
• You can use BYOL to leverage the license investment you already have in SOA Suite
• Moving to the Oracle Cloud (OIC) is relatively easy – we have OCS and Partners that can help you with the move
• We have bi-directional capabilities for OIC to discover and call SOA Suite integrations and Jdeveloper can do the same with OIC
• Once moved to the Cloud, you benefit from the advantages of OCI as well as the ability to start building new processes and innovating much faster
• You have the ability to start using new and unmatched services such as Autonomous Database, Blockchain, Digital Assistant, etc… driving even more innovation and creativity. Read the complete article here.

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Twilio Adapter – send SMS / WhatsApp from Oracle Integration by Niall Commiskey

A very simple example of sending an SMS / WhatsApp from OIC via Twilio. Before I begin…

Acknowledgements

Thanks to my colleague Pavan D. for providing me with the base .iar file and the impetus for writing this post.

Let’s Go

First step – get a Twilio Trial account from twilio.com Then get a trial number – this will be used to send messages. Read the complete article here

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Data Stitch Append for Complex Content Elements by Jorge Herreria

Summary

This blog explains how to do Append for Complex Elements in Data Stitch

In a nutshell:

In order to append instances into an unbounded (aka repeating) Complex Content Element, the instance has to be created in another variable, and then the instance can be appended into the variable having the unbounded complex content element.

What is Complex Content Element?

There are two types of complex types:

1. Complex Type Simple Content
2. Complex Type Complex Content. Read the complete article here.

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Invoking Oracle Functions from OIC by Niall Commiskey

Introduction From the Oracle website –

Oracle Cloud Functions is a serverless platform that lets developers create, run, and scale applications without managing any infrastructure. Functions integrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, platform services and SaaS applications. Because Functions is based on the open source Fn Project, developers can create applications that can be easily ported to other cloud and on-premises environments. Code based on Functions typically runs for short durations, and customers pay only for the resources they use.

These Functions can be written in a variety of languages – Java, Python, Node etc. You write and deploy the code, Oracle takes care of provisioning, scaling etc.

Think of blocks of code that generally do one thing, e.g. applying a discount to an order. These are stored as Docker images in a docker registry. They can be executed via CLI or HTTP request. We will be using the latter in our example. So how do Functions enhance the OIC experience?  Here’s one use case – Say you are porting SOA Composites to OIC and you make use of Java Embedding in your BPEL process. Where shall I put that code in OIC? Read the complete article here.

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OIC Backups by John Graves

This is a quick post for those who like to back up data, including OIC flows. The OIC REST API is pretty simple to use and follow, but it may not be obvious how to backup all your flows, so here is a script. NOTE: This is just for the integration flows an not for PCS or VBCS. There are two APIs used here: Retrieve Integrations and Export an Integration.

The high-level steps are:

1. Get count of how many integrations exist
2. Since you are limited to retrieving 100 flow details at a time:
   Loop for every 100 flows
3. Export each flow

If you’d like to use this script, just modify the top few lines to point to your instance of OIC and your AUTH string.  It’s pretty easy to get the AUTH string by just looking at the developer console when you login to OIC.

export SERVER_URL="https://…oraclecloud.com"
export AUTH="…"

Once the IAR is extracted, it is pretty easy to the expand it and check the code into GIT or DevCS. Read the complete article here.

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Protecting your OIC apis with OCI API Gateway by Niall Commiskey

OCI Services add a lot of value add to OIC. I have discussed OCI Functions Service and the OCI Streaming Service in previous posts. Today – my first working day of 2021 – it’s the turn of OCI API Gateway.

I’m sure you are all conversant with what API Gateway gives you. If not, check out the overview here  The Gateway setup was very simple and quick – I just followed the instructions – read the complete article here.

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Insight –> embeddable Dashboards by Niall Commiskey

A big thanks to my colleague Sandhya for her help here.

Scenario here is very simple – I have a Visual Builder app that allows users to register their eCars, BMW i3’s and the like. These registration requests are sent on to approvers who then say Ye or Ne.

Topping all of this off are a couple of Insight dashboards that give business users insight into what’s going on in the business process.

Here is my simple VB app  -  Read the complete article here.

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Using Oracle Integration Cloud to integrate SAP & Oracle SaaS by Martijn de Grunt

Oracle Integration Cloud is your one stop shop for application integration and extensibility. It offers a combination of prebuilt connectors to Cloud and on-premises applications for faster  deployment, ready-to-use process automation templates, and an intuitive visual application builder for web and mobile application development. Oracle Integration also includes integration insight dashboards, that give your business users the ability to track business processes as they traverse different applications .

This blog post focuses solely on how to integrate SAP legacy apps with Oracle Cloud applications, using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).

Oracle SaaS and SAP legacy apps, some integration use cases

Most organizations have applications from different vendors, so we often see many Oracle Cloud Application customers needing to integrate with an SAP legacy application/module.

Here are a few examples –

– Connecting Oracle ERP with SAP ECC

In cases where organizations are moving from SAP ECC to Oracle ERP, there will probably be a period of co-existence where integrations between Oracle ERP and SAP will be required for jobs such as keeping product lists synchronized between the two applications, etc.

– Connecting Oracle HCM Talent Management with SAP Core HR;

Customers who are innovating the HCM landscape for specific domains may have Oracle HCM for talent management or recruitment but the single source of truth from an employee directory perspective may exist in SAP.

– Connecting Oracle Transportation Management with SAP ECC;

There may be companies who are in the process of modernizing their Transportation solution with Oracle Transportation Management, but may still have their main ERP in SAP ECC. Read the complete article here.

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February 2021 Oracle Integration Update by Antony Reynolds

It is time for the February quarterly update to Oracle Integration. Lilly, the Oracle integration mascot, has lots of exciting new features and improvements to share with you. Note that testing is still underway for these features and, although unlikely, it is possible that some will not meet our quality standard and be deferred to a later release.

Announcements & Update Windows

Currently tenant administrators get notified of OIC Gen 2 updates via notifications in the OCI console. OIC Gen 2 administrators can also see the same upgrade notice in the OIC console, so watch out for the date of your upgrade.

Remember, you can also mark your Gen 2 instance for update in either the first or second upgrade window, as explained in Choose Your Update Window. If you previously tagged your instance, then there is no need to tag it again. If it is not yet tagged for window 1, then the deadline for tagging for February is 14 January. Tags added after this date will take effect for the May release.

API Led Integration

We are making it easier to work with Oracle API products. Previously we supported only Oracle API Platform. We are now building out support for Oracle API Gateway. Read the complete article here.

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