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Fusion Middleware (FMW) Proactive patches including SOA Suite 11.1.1.7.1

October 16, 2013 Leave a comment

We are glad to announce that the following Fusion Middleware (FMW) Proactive patches were released on October 15, 2013.

Bundle Patches :

Bundle patches are collections of controlled, well tested critical bug fixes for a specific product which may include security contents and occasionally minor enhancements. These are cumulative in nature meaning the latest bundle patch in a particular series includes the contents of the previous bundle patches released. A suite bundle patch is an aggregation of multiple product bundle patches that are part of a product suite.

Oracle Identity Management Suite Bundle Patch 11.1.1.5.5 consisting of
- Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) 11.1.1.5.9 bundle patch
- Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11.1.1.5.6 bundle patch.
- Oracle Adaptive Access Manager (OAAM) 11.1.1.5.2 bundle patch.
- Oracle Entitlement Server (OES) 11.1.1.5.4 bundle patch.
Oracle Identity Management Suite Bundle Patch 11.1.2.0.4 consisting of
- Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11.1.2.0.4 bundle patch.
- Oracle Adaptive Access Manager (OAAM) 11.1.2.0.2 bundle patch.
- Oracle Entitlement Server (OES) 11.1.2.0.2 bundle patch.
Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA ) 11.1.1.5.6 bundle patch.
Oracle GlassFish Server (OGFS) 2.1.1.22, 3.0.1.8 and 3.1.2.7 bundle patches.
Oracle iPlanet Web Server (OiWS) 7.0.18 bundle patch
Oracle SOA Suite (SOA) 11.1.1.7.1 bundle patch
Oracle WebCenter Portal (WCP) 11.1.1.8.1 bundle patch
Sun Role Manager (SRM) 4.1.7 and 5.0.3.2 bundle patches.

Patch Set Updates (PSU)

Patch Set Updates (PSU) are collections of well controlled, well tested critical bug fixes for a specific product that have been proven in customer environments. PSUs may include security contents but no enhancements are included. These are cumulative in nature meaning the latest PSU in a particular series includes the contents of the previous PSUs released.

Oracle Exalogic 2.0.3.0.4 Physical Linux x86-64 and 2.0.4.0.4 Physical Solaris x86-64 PSUs.
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6.0.6 and 12.1.1.0.6 PSUs.

Critical Patch Update (CPU) :

The Critical Patch Update program is Oracle’s quarterly release of security fixes.

The following additional patches were released as part of Oracle’s Critical Patch Update program:

Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.2.3.0, 11.1.2.4.0 and 12.1.2.0.0
Oracle Outside In Technology 8.4.0 and 8.4.1
Oracle Portal 11.1.1.6.0
Oracle Security Service 11.1.1.6.0, 11.1.1.7.0 and 12.1.2.0.0
Oracle WebCache 11.1.1.6.0 and 11.1.1.7.0
Oracle WebCenter Content 10.1.3.5.1, 11.1.1.6.0, 11.1.1.7.0 and 11.1.1.8.0
Oracle WebServices 10.1.3.5.0 and 11.1.1.6.0

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Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Summary

October 16, 2013 Leave a comment

Have you missed Oracle OpernWorld 2013? – here are the key information from Thomas Kurian’s middleware presentation, our partners presentations and the first impressions on SOA Suite 12c. Thanks to all partners for the excellent presentations and the product management team for their superb demo ground!

Oracle OpenWorld General Session 2013: Middleware
Watch Full-Length Keynote

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can download the presentation slides from Thomas Kurian’s presentation FMWGeneralSessionTKv22.pptx.

To download all session slides, please click here.

Here are my personal OOW 2013 highlights:

Community Reception

BAM 12c Dashboard

SOA Suite 12c Managed file transfer

Adaptive Case Management (ACM)

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Supporting multiple ebMS service versions in Oracle B2B by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

October 16, 2013 Leave a comment

In recent years I’ve been involved in different Oracle B2B implementations and troubleshooting projects based on ebMS and AS2 protocols. Not so long ago, I came across a project that needed to support multiple versions of an ebMS service. Versioning is quite trivial for SOAP and RESTful Web Services using e.g. different namespaces, version indicators in endpoint locations, and so on. However, it is a bit different for ebMS-based services implemented in a B2B gateway.

Case
ebMS is one of the protocols supported by the Dutch government standard DigiKoppeling for exchanging information between governments such as municipalities, provinces, and departments. In this particular case, the existing integration flow that needed to support a new version of an ebMS service is as follows: Read the full article here.

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Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial

October 15, 2013 Leave a comment

Krishnaprem Bhatia and Alan Perlovsky and Scott Haaland published their b2b book, with the highlights:

Design, implement and monitor B2B transactions quickly using this clear, detailed and practical guide
Wide coverage and detailed discussion of Oracle B2B functionality and features for the new and advanced users
Full of practical examples, illustrations and product screenshots explained with clear, step-by-step instructions

Enterprises engaging in B2B communications with their trading partners are facing increased pressure to increase automation and reduce costs. Increased compliance requirements and globalization of economies is fueling B2B adoption in every industry. Gateway solutions in Oracle SOA B2B enable these enterprises to connect easily with external trading partners.

Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial will show you how to use Oracle B2B platform to extend your current business processes to connect with your external trading partners in an automated, secure fashion, using industry standard B2B protocols. It will show you how to set up documents, partners and agreements and manage your B2B transactions end-to-end, all the way from application to trading partners and vice versa.

Starting with an introduction to the B2B industry you then be introduced to Oracle B2B and SOA platforms. You will then begin creat document definitions and get you started with trading partner management. Once you have a solid grounding you will then be taken into the more complex topic of SOA. Integration, reporting, and monitoring will all be covered in detail.

Then you will be shown how to secure your B2B distribution, security is an essential part of all businesses and B2B is no different. Finally you will be introduced to advanced topics that should give you the skills and knowledge to easily go out and do all of this again with next to no guidance.

Utilizing the combined experienced of one of the most knowledgeable Oracle B2B author teams assembled this step-by-step practical guide provides you with the essential information required to implement Oracle B2B solutions including multiple hands-on tutorials that will help you get up and running quickly. The book is available from Packt. Looking for additional SOA books or BPM books or you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Cloud Integration & SOA Governance & Fast Data & API Management Resource kits available

October 14, 2013 Leave a comment

Do you want to learn more about the hot topics in SOA? Make sure you access:

Cloud Integration Resource Kit
SOA Governance Resource Kit
Fast Data – Resource Kit
API Management Solution Page

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Advanced Oracle BPM in 21 Days book by EAIESB

October 13, 2013 Leave a comment

This book address all latest features included in PS6.

BPM Composer
Case Management
Guided Business Process Management
Web Forms
Player
Simulation
Process Analytics

Looking for additional BPM books or SOA books or you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

October 12, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook Oracle SOA Suite 11g forms the heart of many organisations’ Service Oriented Architecture. Yet for such a core component, simple information on how to tune and configure SOA Suite and its infrastructure is hard to find. Because Oracle SOA Suite 11g builds on top of a variety of infrastructure components, up until now there has been no one single complete reference that brings together all the best practices for tuning the whole SOA stack.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook contains plenty of tips and tricks to help you get the best performance from your SOA Suite infrastructure. From monitoring your environment so you know where bottlenecks are, to tuning the Java Virtual Machine, WebLogic Application Server, and BPEL and BPMN mediator engines, this book will give you the techniques you need in a easy to follow step-by-step guide.

Starting with how to identify problems, and building on that with sections on monitoring, testing, and tuning, the recipes in this book will take you through many of the options available for performance tuning your application.

There are many considerations to make when trying to get the best performance out of the Oracle SOA Suite platform. This performance Cookbook will teach you the whole process of tuning JVM garbage collection and memory, tuning BPEL and BPMN persistence settings, and tuning the application server. This book focuses on bringing together tips on how to identify the key bottlenecks in the whole SOA Suite infrastructure, and how to alleviate them.

The Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook will ensure that you have the tools and techniques to get the most out of your infrastructure, delivering reliable, fast, and scalable services to your enterprise.

Looking for additional SOA books or if you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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SOA & Cloud Integration Marketing Kit available

October 11, 2013 Leave a comment

We are very interested to run joint marketing events jointly with you are partners! At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find a new marketing kit: Integration Success Workshop. This event is designed with an aim at increasing IT/developer confidence in order to increase adoption especially with SOA/BPM products. This event is technical and hands-on and is designed to be to a few types of audience classifications – all who are highly technical and are at the practitioner-level:

Existing customers who may be tempted by open source, other competition because they think our products are hard to use, too complex, and don’t meet new use cases.
Existing customers who may already have some understanding or familiarity with the SOA/BPM products but want to learn how to build out more modern SOA/BPM deployments via Cloud/Mobile.
New customers who are interested to learn firsthand some of the new breakthrough capabilities in Cloud and Mobile.

Themes of this event are centered on Cloud Integration, Mobile Integration, and Continuous Integration. Modules will be delivered on specific themes, and are designed enable a conversation with customers about each theme and how SOA / BPM can solve key challenges within that theme (e.g. Extending Applications to Mobile Devices). Access the event kit here.

Support marketing campaigns

We can support such events by:

Oracle speakers – contact your partner manager
Marketing budget – contact your A&C marketing manager
Event location – free use of Oracle Customer Visitor Centers conference rooms
Promote your event at events.oracle.com: http://tinyurl.com/eventspecialized
E-Blast: invite customers to your event – contact your A&C marketing manager

For additional marketing kits e.g for BPM please visit our SOA Community Workspace

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Poster: Adaptive Case Management (ACM) in Practice

October 10, 2013 1 Comment

Knowledge-driven processes are typically unpredictable in their execution. Experts working on them decide what’s the next best action to take. This is in contrast to traditional BPM, in which all possible paths of a process are predetermined and modeled into the process. Case management is a way to control and implement these unstructured processes. With the poster below we’d like to bring some of the key aspects of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) on one page.

Feel free to download the PDF-version if you are interested in (login required):

What is ACM?
Why should I use ACM?
How can ACM user interfaces look like?
What are the main building blocks of an ACM solution?
How to visualize ACM cases with CMMN 1.0?

Send your feedback via twitter with #acmposter:

Jürgen Kress twitter.com/soacommunity	Berthold Maier twitter.com/bmaier	Hajo Normann twitter.com/HajoNormann	Danilo Schmiedel twitter.com/dschmied
Guido Schmutz twitter.com/gschmutz	Bernd Trops twitter.com/berndtrops	Clemens Utschig-Utschig	Torsten Winterberg twitter.com/t_winterberg

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Securing the SOA Landscape part of Industrial SOA series

October 10, 2013 Leave a comment

Introduction

Security requirements are usually relatively easy to manage when using local restrictions in conventional closed systems. They become more complex in the distributed system landscape of an SOA. Not limited to only an application or an application domain anymore, security must work across a range of applications and business processes.

Numerous security standards have been created in order to realize these comprehensive security requirements. These include WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, XML Encryption, XKMS, XML Signature, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation, SAML1, SAML2, and many more. Currently, no product or open source framework can fully support all of these standards. In our experience, incompatibilities arise whenever an SOA product or deployed Web service framework needs to communicate outside of its small ecosystem.

Not surprisingly, project managers who are confronted with increasing expenses tend to start looking for viable alternatives. They then usually choose to develop inflexible solutions in-house that can quickly implement risky anti-patterns, such as transferring usernames and passwords within the functional payload. The variety of different standards makes it difficult to formulate a clear understanding of the available security standards and internal product dependencies, in light of the individual restrictions to designing a well-secured system.

Our aim is to provide IT experts and SOA architects with tips on how to handle security responsibly, using tried and true best practices as a basis.

How Much Security Do I Need?

Security plays a crucial role due to SOA’s extensively networked nature, yet is not required by all of the different types of applications and architecture layers to the same degree. Defining both internal and external security requirements for the entire organization and its individual departments by conceptually developing the implementation is therefore important.

Read the full article at the Service Technology Magazine or Oracle Technology Network.

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