Oracle publishes official Chef and Puppet samples on github by Mark Nelson and Edwin Biemond

January 25, 2017 Leave a comment

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Oracle official sample Chef cookbooks and Puppet modules are now available on Oracle’s official GitHub page at https://github.com/oracle/chef-samples and https://github.com/oracle/puppet-samples for Java, WebLogic and Fusion Middleware.

Chef and Puppet are arguably the most popular provisioning frameworks and we would like to help you with your WebLogic and Fusion Middleware provisioning by publishing samples for Chef and Puppet.  The Chef and Puppet sample modules and cookbooks are almost the same and are using the same development frameworks.

We start this series of posts with an introduction what these cookbooks and modules can do and provide a simple quickstart how to create a WebLogic domain in Chef or Puppet on a Windows, Linux or Solaris host. In the following posts we will install FMW software, patch and extend a domain with FMW software.

These Chef cookbooks and Puppet modules allow you install WebLogic together with Fusion Middleware on any Linux, Solaris or Windows host. The cookbooks should work in Chef 11 & 12 and can be used with Chef server or with Chef Solo. The modules should work on Puppet 3 & 4 and it should not matter if you use Puppet Enterprise, an agent or just use puppet apply.

The first release on github will contain the following cookbooks and modules:

  • fmw_jdk, installs JDK 7 or 8 and optionally configures the urandom random number generator service for Linux distributions.
  • fmw_wls, installs WebLogic 11g or 12c and optionally create thes Oracle user and group on solaris and linux.
  • fmw_bsu, patches a WebLogic 11g middleware home.
  • fmw_opatch, patches WebLogic 12c or any Fusion Middleware 11g, 12c product.
  • fmw_inst, installs FMW 11g, 12c product including Oracle SOA Suite, Service Bus, MFT, OIM, ADF Runtime, and WebCenter.
  • fmw_rcu, creates a 11g, 12c Common or SOA Suite FMW repository on an Oracle Database.
  • fmw_domain, creates a domain in development mode, configures the node manager, start the admin server and extend the domain with ADF/JRF, Service Bus, SOA Suite and optionally with BAM and Enterprise Scheduler.

A couple of important notes about these cookbooks and modules:

  • They don’t download any (free or licensed) software from OTN, Oracle support or edelivery, this is the responsibility of the user/customer.
  • Oracle Support won’t support these cookbooks or modules but you can raise issues or send us pull requests on github.
  • Binaries should be locally accessible in a directory or a network share.
  • They will create a domain only in development mode.
  • They won’t do multi-node provisioning like pack/unpack of a domain on cluster nodes.
  • Passwords in Chef can be defined in databags and in Puppet you need to do it yourself in Hiera.
  • They have dependencies to each other and will automatically include or require the depended manifest or recipe.
  • The default recipe/manifest does not do anything, you have to use the specific recipes or manifests. In Puppet the default manifest will be used to set some module defaults.

Detailed overview

These cookbooks and modules contains recipes and manifests with resource/providers in Chef and type/providers for Puppet. The recipes and manifest are a quick way to get you started and these minimal recipes are just calling the matching resource/type providers. You can call these yourself in one of your own cookbooks. Read the complete article here.

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XA Transactions with SOASuite JMS Adapter by Martien van den Akker

January 25, 2017 1 Comment

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JMS is perfect for setting transaction boundaries and in OSB it is pretty clear on how JMS transactions are handled. However, in SOASuite using the JMS adapter the SOA Infrastructure is handling your JMS transactions by default; and messages are removed from the queue rightaway because the Get’s are Auto-acknowledged. If something fails, you would expect that messages are rolled back to the JMS queue and eventually moved to the error queue. But, again by default, not with the SOASuite/JMS Adapter. In that case the BPEL process, for instance, fails and get’s in a recovery state, to be handled in the ‘Error Hospital’in Enterprise Manager. But I want JMS to handle it! (Says the little boy…)
So how do we accomplish that? Today I got the chance to figure that out.
Start with a JMS setup with a JMS Server, Module and a Queue with an Error Queue that is configured to be the error destination on the first queue. On the first queue set a redelivery limit to 3 and a redelivery delay on for instance 60000 ms (or something like that). I’m not going in to that here.
Create also a Connection Factory in the JMS Module with a proper jndi, something like ‘jms/myApplicationCF’.
In the JMS adapter on SOASuite there are several OutboundConnectionFactories already pre-configured. It is quite convenient to use the one with JNDI ‘eis/wls/Queue’. But if you look into that, you’ll see that it uses the default WebLogic JMS Connection factory ‘weblogic.jms.XAConnectionFactory’. Not much wrong with that, but you can’t configure that for your own particular situation. But more over it is configured with ‘AcknowledgeMode’ = ‘AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE’. As you can read in the docs there are three values for the AcknowledgeMode:

  • DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE, for consumers that are not concerned about duplicate messages
  • AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE, in which the session automatically acknowledges the receipt of a message
  • CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE, in which the client acknowledges the message by calling the message’s acknowledge method

So create a new outbound connection factory, with a JNDI like ‘eis/jms/MyApp’. 
Now, apparently we don’t want  ‘AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE’, because that would cause the message-get acknowledged ‘On Get’. So you could rollback until ‘Saint Juttemis’ (as we say in our family) but it won’t go back on the queue. Dups aren’t ok with me, so I’ll choose ‘CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE’ here. Then there’s another option: ‘IsTransacted’. I want that one on ‘true’. Then in ConnectionFactoryLocation, you’d put the JNDI of your JMS Connection factory, in my example ‘jms/myApplicationCF’. So you’ll get something like: Read the complete article here.

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SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – January 31st 2017 Oracle B2B and evolution to API Driven B2B

January 24, 2017 Leave a comment

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Attend our January edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on January 31st 2017 at 16:00 CET.

Oracle B2B and evolution to API Driven B2B

This session will present an overview of Oracle B2B platform and show a demo of the current functionality. Oracle B2B is a highly available, high-performing B2B platform that is being used by major customers across different verticals such as retail, supply chain, and utilities. Hear from Product Management about the product overview, architecture, and best practices. Also hear about how B2B integration is evolving into an API driven B2B and hear about Oracle’s vision and roadimage map.

Krishnaprem Bhatia
Twitter: KrishnapremB

Krishnaprem Bhatia is product manager in the Cloud Integration product management team focusing on B2B, Healthcare and API Management products. He has over 15 years of work experience in software development and product management. As a product manager at Oracle he has worked extensively with customers and partners worldwide in all industry verticals. He holds Computer Science & Engineering and MBA degrees and loves to read, travel and work out.

Call ID: 6965489 Call Passcode: 333111

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Schedule:

January 31st 2017 at 16:00-17:00 CET

Visit the registration page here.

 

Missed our SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast? – watch the on-demand versions:

· SOA 12 & BPM Suite 12c Roadmap update November 29th 2016

· Microservices October 25th 2016

· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 update September 27th 2016

· API Cloud Platform Service August 30th 2016

· BPM Suite & PCS Update July 26th 2016

· Integration Cloud Service June 28th 2016

· Sales Plays Webcast June 9th 2016

· Real-Time Integration Business Insight May 31st 2016

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (SOA Community membership required).

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Oracle PaaS & Middleware Partner Community Forum March 2017

January 23, 2017 Leave a comment

Take this opportunity and register now for the Oracle PaaS Partner Community Forum that will be held in Split, Croatia on March 27th & 28th & 29th 2017 with hands-on training on March 30th & 31st 2017. Registration is free of charge, during the conference you will get the latest updates on the Oracle PaaS Services & Middleware Solutions:

  • Process Cloud Service & BPM Suite & BPM Suite 12c
  • SOA Cloud Service & Integration Cloud Service & SOA Suite 12c
  • Mobile Cloud Service & Application Builder Cloud Service & Mobile & Development tools
  • Java Cloud & Application Container Service & Developer Cloud Service & WebLogic 12c
  • Content Cloud Service & User Experience and Enrich SaaS with PaaS
  • Internet of Things Cloud Service

The conference will update you on the last Middleware solutions & cloud services especially for:

  • Architects & Practice Managers: product overview
  • Consultants & Developers: product details including live demos and hands-on training
  • Sales Experts & Partner Managers positioning & sales kits including cheat sheets
  • Marketing Executives: campaign kits including event material and ppts and demos

For details please visit the registration page.

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Flex fields Mapping Tool by BPM SOA Solutions Team

January 22, 2017 Leave a comment

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How many times have you had to repeat the same sequence in the BPM workspace to map a Human Task payload attribute to a public Flex Field? Let’s do a bit of re-cap:

  1. login to the Workspace with administration permissions
  2. go do Administration
  3. go to Public Flex Fields
  4. create all Labels

And then, for each human task:

  1. search for the task
  2. choose the payload attribute
  3. search for the label to use (you can create them here as well)
  4. repeat until you’ve mapped all the labels you need
  5. save and move to the next

It seems like a lot of work to do and it is fair to say that our platform team was not very happy to do these tasks manually. Even when developing these mappings need to be re-created from time to time (more often than we wished). The whole process is furthermore error-prone, specially when moving from development to QA and to Production environments.

Automating the creation and mapping of labels and payload atributes

Oracle BPM/SOA 11g and 12c expose an API for managing labels and mapping them as required. The oracle.bpel.services.workflow.runtimeconfig.IRuntimeConfigService interface provides a series of methods for creating and deleting labels, as well as creating oracle.bpel.services.workflow.runtimeconfig.model.PayloadMapping instances to map a label to a payload attribute. Read the complete article here.

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Unable to compile a composite that contains a Java embedded activity with Maven by Markus Lohn

January 21, 2017 Leave a comment

 

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Maven is not compiling the composite when a BPEL process contains java embedding. Just incorporating java embedding makes the maven compilation to fail. If the java embedding is removed then the composite compilation is successful in Maven. This issue can be reproduced  with JDeveloper 12.1.3.x

Research

First I tried to solve this issue by adding dependency declarations for orabpel.jar in the soa maven plugin section and the pom.xml itself. However this approach doesn’t solve my issue. After another research in the Oracle Support system I found two interesting notes:

  • Unable to compile a composite that contains a Java embedded activity with Maven (2050971.1)
  • Failure when compiling a BPEL process in SOA 12c, ‚package com.collaxa.cube does not exist’ (2112178.1)

Both notes describe exactly the issue I currently have. The note 2050971.1 contains a reference to the bug no. 20229616 wherefore no patch is available until now. But it contains a description for a workaround. The workarounds means to put every needed Java library in the folder SOA/SCA-INF/lib. From my perspective that isn’t an appropriate solution, because the missing classes mention by the compiler are in orabpel.jar. This jar file is part of SOA Suite and already available on the infrastructure side. Moreover everything in /SCA-INF/lib is part of the composite and uploaded to MDS. The second support note 2112178.1 references a patch, but it doesn’t also solve the issue. Due to this I build a solution that automates the workaround with SOA/SCA-INF/lib by using Maven plugins.

Solution

The solutions contains 3 steps:

1. Using the Maven Dependency Plugin to copy the orabpel.jar to SOA/SCA-INF/lib folder. The copied orabpel.jar will be renamed to only4compile.jar. Further it is important to bind the execution of the plugin to a phase before running the Maven SOA Plugin. Read the complete article here.

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PCS 16.4.5 New Features incl. Quickstart Masters, Automated Archive & Purge, REST connectors… by Niall Commiskey

January 20, 2017 Leave a comment

imageLots of great new features, just in time for the Holiday Season.
Thanks to my colleague Kathryn L.
I will be adding to this post over time, so, currently, it is not an exhaustive list.

1. Ability to see Conversations in Tracking

Note: the second icon on the right, under the docs icon.

2. Quickstart Master new functionality

For those of you who have yet to meet a Quickstart Master – here’s a quick intro.

I take an existing process and convert it to a Quickstart Master. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle buys Apiary

January 19, 2017 Leave a comment

On January 19, 2017, Oracle announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Apiary, which creates the most comprehensive API Integration Cloud by adding the leading API design and governance solution. The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Until the transaction closes, each company will continue to operate independently.

Apiary’s pioneering APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences. APIFlow spans the API creation lifecycle, including design, governance, testing, and documentation, while supporting API Blueprint and OpenAPI industry standards. Apiary has helped companies create hundreds of thousands of APIs and products that their customers and partners love to use.

Together, Oracle and Apiary will help companies thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing connectivity complexity and API proliferation. Oracle’s existing API Integration Cloud already enables companies to secure, consume, monetize, and analyze APIs. Apiary provides the front-end solution for designing, creating and governing APIs and the combination will deliver the most complete API creation and management platform in the cloud.

Read the press release here.

Get API hands-on trained at the PaaS Partner Community Forum here.

 

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter January 2017

January 19, 2017 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community,

Want to try Oracle PaaS solutions hands-on? Make sure you attend the PaaS Partner Community Forum which takes place March 27th & 28th & 29th 2016 in Croatia. During the Community Day partners will share their best practices and details about successful cloud implementations. Join us for a week full of keynotes, breakouts, hands-on sessions and networking opportunities.

On a regular base new versions of the Oracle PaaS services become available, including the latest 16.4.5 release of Integration Cloud Service. Keep up with the latest version and try them yourself! To understand the use cases for SOA Cloud Service watch the short video here.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: SOA and Integration On-Prem and in the Cloud Video with Vikas Anand & Automated Deployment to SOA Cloud Services using Developer Cloud Services & Building a Future Proof Integration Platform & Are your SOA and BPM composite deployments ready for Continuous Delivery? & Cloud Control 13.2 and SOA Suite 12.2.1.1 & How to call web service that uses WS-Addressing from OSB 12c & Mediator, the-always-give-response-pattern by using the Echo-reply & Service Bus Transport for Apache Kafka & Management Cloud – Application Performance Monitoring for Java EE, ADF & SOA Suite applications & IoT for an Eco-Friendly Rental Business.

Process Cloud Service also is available in a new release. Including many new features like templating or quickstart. Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: Integration Cloud Service Integration in Process Cloud Service & Invoking ACM from a Web Service & Impact of ACM Implementation on BAM & BPM 12.2.1 ADF Auto-Generation Issue Solutions.

In our last section Architecture & PaaS4SaaS the UX team highlights the Web Summit in Lisbon and the Emotion Recognition during the first Maker Faire at Oracle HQ.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The January edition of the PaaS Partner Update contains details about the community conference, developer gateway & code events and the upcoming community webcast about B2B and evolution to API Driven B2B on January 31st 2017. See you in Croatia!

Want to publish your best practice article & news in the next community newsletter? Please feel free to send it via Twitter @soaCommunity #soaCommunity!

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/PaaSNewsJanuary2017  (OPN Account required)

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Oracle SOA Suite 12c Implementation Specialists Bootcamp 30 Jan – 24 Feb 2017– free on-demand training & certification

January 18, 2017 2 Comments

Training On-demand: Oracle SOA Suite 12c Implementation Specialists

  • This Boot Camp is now open for registration to all partners taking specialist certification exams in the next 90 days. Please DO NOT REGISTER, if you are not taking a certification exam.
  • All registrations must be done using a company email. Personal emails will be rejected
  • In order to submit your registration you will be asked to login using your OPN (Oracle PartnerNetwork) account credentials. In case you do not have an OPN account please see the Profile badging step-by-step guide for partners on how to create the account. This process will also ensure your certifications are aligned to your company ID. All registrants must be badged and aligned to their company ID

For details please visit the registration page here.

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