Implementing an SFDC Upsert Operation in ICS by Ricardo Ferreira Leave a Comment

October 26, 2016 Leave a comment

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Introduction

While designing SOA services; especially those ones that represent operations around a business object, a common implementation pattern used is upsert. Upsert is an acronym that means the union of “update plus insert”. The idea behind is having a unique operation that decides which action to take – either update the existing record or insert a new one – based on information available in the message. Having one operation instead of two, makes the SOA service interface definition clearer and simpler.

Some SaaS applications offer upsert capabilities in their exposed services, and leveraging these capabilities can considerably decrease the amount of effort required while designing SOA services in an integration platform such as ICS. For instance, if you need to develop an upsert operation and the SaaS application does not have this functionality; you will have to implement that logic using some sort of conditional routing (see Content-Based Router pattern) or via multiple update and insert operations.

Salesforce.com (or SFDC for short) is one of those SaaS applications that offers built-in support for the upsert operation. This post will show how to leverage this support with ICS. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.2.0) Released

October 25, 2016 Leave a comment

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We are proud to announce the release of Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.2.0). Media is available for download on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), My Oracle Support (MOS) and the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud (OSDC). This includes the following products:

  • Oracle SOA Suite and Business Process Management 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
    • Oracle B2B and Healthcare 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
    • Oracle Service Bus 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
    • Oracle Stream Analytics 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
    • Oracle Managed File Transfer 12c (12.2.1.2.0)

  • Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Coherence 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle TopLink 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle HTTP Server 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Traffic Director 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Server Plug-In 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle MapViewer 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Data Integrator 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Enterprise Data Quality 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle GoldenGate Studio 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle GoldenGate Monitor 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle GoldenGate Veridata 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle JDeveloper Studio 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Forms and Reports 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle WebCenter Portal 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle WebCenter Content 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c (12.2.1.2.0)
  • Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1.2.0)

Here is the related information for these releases:

You can also visit the Oracle Fusion Middleware page on OTN to find more information about the products.

Partner Resources (community membership required):

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter October 2016

October 24, 2016 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community,

Thanks to all partners for making Oracle OpenWorld 2016 again a huge success! In case you have been not able to attend the conference in San Francisco you can get the latest PaaS update in the on-demand webcast with Ed Zou here. Make sure you read the excellent blog articles from ACE’s and PaaS experts or watch the OpenWorld on-demand keynotes videos. At our community workspace (membership required) we published the Integration and Process Cloud Service presentations from the conference. We would like to encourage you to use this material to update your customer base. Use the Oracle marketing services to promote your customer events and feel free to host them at the Oracle customer visitor centers across EMEA. Congratulations to the eProseed team to receive the Global Innovation Award for their cloud integration at CIMA.

To start your Journey to the Oracle Cloud, we would like to invite you to align with the Oracle Direct – Digital sales Team. Workshops are hosted in Malaga Spain October 18th & 19th 2016 and Amsterdam Netherlands October 26th & 27th 2016.

As part of this journey it’s key that you become trained in Oracle PaaS. The PaaS Summer Camps training material in Lisbon is available via our community workspaces. Feel free to use this material to train your teams, develop service offerings for the cloud marketplace and to host cloud discovery workshops for your customer base.

Keep in mind that SOA is the foundation or like Massimo Pezzini presented Ladies & Gentlemen good old #SOA is back (but it never went away, really) #GartnerSYM in #CapeTown

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: Integration Cloud Service Use Case: Closed Loop Order Management & Integration Cloud Service Help Center 16.3.5 release & SOA Cloud – Creating an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance & SOA Cloud – Create Oracle Storage Cloud Service Container & Demystifying API Management: Concepts and Demarcations & API Management in the Year 2026 & What can we learn from the Microservices movement? & REST API Now Available for Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight & Partitions have now become SOA Folders & Test Driven SOA – citrus for powerful SOA test coverage & Integration, DevOps, and Testing | Schmeidel and Bernhardt.

As part of the IoT section we published the latest documentation from the IoT Help Center 16.3.3.1.1 update and an article about Smart Buildings — the silent ‘killer app’ of IoT.

Process Cloud Service 16.3.5 is available including new web forms functionality. Thanks to Patrick for publishing an article how to create and edit forms in Process Cloud Service. Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: Sending Dynamic HTML-based Emails for SOA and BPM Projects & BPM Worklist API 12.2.1.1 and Custom ADF 12.2.1.1 Application & What about CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation)

In our last section Architecture & PaaS4SaaS the UX team highlights the Mobile Applications Cloud User Experience Design Patterns free eBook.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The October edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains the Oracle OpenWorld summery, PaaS Summer Camps training material, and the upcoming community webcast about Microservices which takes place on October 25th 2016.

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/SOAnewsOctober2016  (OPN Account required)

Jürgen Kress

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Integration Cloud Service – Promote Integrations from Test to Production (T2P) by Shreenidhi Raghuram

October 23, 2016 Leave a comment

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The purpose of this blog is to provide simple steps to move Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) integrations between different ICS environments. Oracle ICS provides export and import utilities to achieve integration promotion.

A typical use-case is to promote tested integrations from Test ICS Environment to Production ICS Environment, in preparation for a project go-live. Usually the Connection endpoints used by the integrations will be different on Test and Production Environments.

The main steps involved in code promotion for this typical use-case are as follows

  • Export an integration from Test ICS
  • Import the integration archive on Prod ICS
  • Update Connection details and activate the integration on Prod ICS Environment
Export an integration from Test ICS

Login to Test ICS
Search and locate the integration on Test ICS
Select ‘Export’ and save the integration archive to the file system. Read the complete article here.

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Leveraging the Twitter Adapter in ICS – Tweeting through Oracle Integration Cloud Service by Lucas Jellema

October 22, 2016 Leave a comment

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The Oracle Integration Cloud Service – ICS – comes loaded with a rich collection of Cloud Adapters. These adapters facilitate the integration with SaaS applications and internet services of various natures. These include Oracle SaaS applications (such as RightNow, Eloqua, ECommerce Cloud, ERP Cloud, HCM Cloud), on premises ERP applications (SAP, EBusiness Suite, Siebel) and assorted third party applications such as SalesForce, Facebook, Google Mail and Task, LinkedIn and Evernote. Through these adapters, interacting with said applications and services becomes a simple, declarative operation instead of a custom programming effort.

In this article, I will use the Twitter Adapter to create a connection to a Twitter Account (leveraging the Twitter API under the covers). The Twitter Adapters exposes over a dozen operations. I will use just the operation to publish a message (aka Tweet) in this example. From ICS, I will expose an integration through a simple REST connection. This allows trusted consumers to publish Tweets in a very easy way – leaving the authorization details and the API intricacies to ICS.

The steps I went through:

  • Grant access to [ICS Connection] app in the Twitter developer page and generate API Key and Consumer Key
  • Create a new ICS Connection based on Twitter Adapter; set up the API Key and Consumer Key
  • Create an ICS REST Connection (to expose)
  • Create an integration – between REST Connection as inbound (source) to Twitter Connection (as outbound destination); configure the endpoint (inbound) and operation (inbound and outbound)
  • Create the mappings for request and response
  • Define the tracking – business identifiers
  • Activate the integration
  • Test the exposed REST connection from any REST client, for example SoapUI, to Tweet a message through a simple REST POST call

Most of these steps are explained by the screenshots you will find below. Read the complete article here.

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Create an Integration on ICS to expose a REST API for a SOAP Connection for an external web service by Lucas Jellema

October 21, 2016 Leave a comment

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In this article, I will show a little bit more of ICS – the Integration Cloud Service. In a previous article, I have introduced some concepts – such as Connection, Integration, Business Identifier. I have shown how to create an integration connecting two connections – an inbound and an outbound one (both of type SOAP).

In picture, that looks like this:

In this article, I will create a new connection (REST API style) and create an integration to expose this connection, leveraging the same outbound connection:

After creating the integration, I will activate it and invoke the new REST API from a web browser and from SOAP UI.

The steps are:

  • Create REST Connection
  • Create and activate the Integration (with the mappings for request and response and the business identifiers for tracking)
  • Invoke the REST API
Configure REST Connection

Go to the ICS Home Page and navigate to the Connections page.

Create a New Connection. Read the complete article here.

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The quick introduction to the Integration Cloud Service (Oracle PaaS– ICS) by Lucas Jellema

October 20, 2016 Leave a comment

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Integration is the term we employ for ‘what ties systems together into end-to-end interaction flows’. Integration describes what we have to do to make applications in one domain talk to those in another, or systems in one enterprise talk to those in another. And to systems running in one cloud interact with those running in another cloud or those running on premises. Integration is ideally approached based on standard based service interfaces and encapsulated implementations. With generic integration facilities handling most of the protocol, format, and technology specific details, and translating interactions as much as possible to standard SOAP and REST exchanges. And with that generic platform handling monitoring, security, system errors and state when asynchronous exchanges are required.

The Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS from now on) provides the cloud based integration platform that can run and manage these integration flows. ICS exposes a browser based user interface through which the integration is first designed, then activated and managed. ICS provides adapters to easily interact with a number of popular SaaS applications (Salesforce, Oracle HCM Cloud, Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle SalesCloud, Service Cloud | Right Now, Eloqua, CPQ, Gmail & Google Task, Evernote, …) and Platform Services and technologies (Oracle Database, Oracle Messaging Cloud Service, FTP, SOAP and REST services) as well as a collection of Social Networks (Twitter, Linked In, Facebook). With ICS it is straightforward to connect to any of these as a target and expose an tailor made, easy to use interface to ICS consumers. Some of these can also be a source for interactions: events in SaaS applications  – such as creation or update of a business object – can trigger ICS to perform an integration flow – pushing data derived from the event to some target.

In this article I will introduce some of the core terminology for ICS and demonstrate my first steps. I will create a SOAP service that exposes a simple operation to convert distances in meters to their equivalent in yards. This service is the based on an existing conversion service offered by a third party. ICS is used to virtualize this service and map to and from between the business friendly interface that I have devised and the pre-existing service interface.

Overview

You will see how I have to first create two connections. Connection is the ICS term for an external link – either outbound from ICS to target systems  (comparable to business services in Service Bus or a Reference in SCA composites) or inbound into ICS (from external consumers), similar to Proxy Service in Service Bus and Service in SCA composites. One connection is outbound, to the third party service that does distance conversions. The other connection is inbound – it describes the SOAP interface that I want to expose from ICS to my consumers. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Microservices Platform SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – October 25th 2016

October 19, 2016 Leave a comment

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Attend our October edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on October 25th 2016 at 16:00 CET.

Microservices architectures, lightweight and script-based applications, and cloud-native application development join the ranks of agile methodology to build better software faster.

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Mike Lehmann

Vice President Product Management, Oracle Cooperation

Visit the registration page here.

Call ID: 4070776 Call Passcode: 333111

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Schedule:

October 25th 2016 at 16:00-17:00 CET

Visit the registration page here.

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

· 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

· Integration Strategy sales and marketing campaign update

· Microservices

· Stream Explorer

· Process Cloud Service V2

· SOA Suite 12.2.1

· Oracle OpenWorld 2015 update

· SOA & API Cloud Service

· Solutions Catalog & Cloud Marketplace

· GSE demo systems

· Hybrid sales plays

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

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Oracle OpenWorld 2016 presentations

October 18, 2016 Leave a comment

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At the SOA & BPM Partner Community workspace the SOA and BPM presentations have been published in ppt format (community membership required). We would like to encourage you to use the material to update your customer base. Make sure you get Oracle support to make your event an success:

· Use the Oracle marketing services for partners e.g. promote your events at the Oracle website.

· Host your event at an Oracle Customer Visitor Center and request Oracle speakers, please contact your Oracle partner manager

· Contact the Oracle Partner marketing team to support you and to request joint budgets.

· PaaS free trial accounts ICS and PCS, IoT and PaaS for SaaS for your event.

Oracle Process & Integration Cloud Service Presentations Now Available

Download and Review slides from all of ICS and PCS sessions here (community membership required).

The Oracle Process and Integration Product Management team, Oracle Development and our customers were extremely busy this year at Open World with 25+ sessions. We wanted to take the time to share with you our Oracle Open World Presentations.

· Inderjeet Singh General Session OOW 2016

· A must, take the time to review Vikas’s Oracle Integration Strategy Session!

· Learn more about Dubai Airports business-driven first-phase integration that went live in only 2 months.

· How GE Digital is saving 1m dollars using ICS for their ERP integration.

· How CIMA replaced MS BizTalk with SOA CS and reduced development time for new features by 40% and improved transaction completion times by 2X.

· How Calix created self-service request for enterprise application access using PCS & ICS.

· Learn more about Oracle APIP CS and what our customers, Mazda and Rabobank, think of our platform.

· …And so many more amazing SOA CS, ICS, PCS, 12c Upgrade case studies… Trek, LinkedIn, Rioch

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Oracle OpenWorld 2016 Summaries

October 17, 2016 Leave a comment

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In case you missed the Oracle OpenWorld 2016 PaaS Partner Update webcast it’s now available on-demand here. Slides from the community webcasts are published here (community membership required)

Thanks to the whole community for the excellent summaries:

· Sven Bernhardt’s OOW 16: My thoughts and experiences

· Phil Wilkins Open World – Key Messages

· Remco Cats Oracle OpenWorld 2016

· Rolando Carrasco‘s Oracle Open World 2016

· Debra Lilley’s My OOW16 – Write Up

· Timo Hahn’s posts Day one & Day 2 & Day 3 & Day 4 & Day 5

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