Connect and consume data with Oracle RightNowCX using the new SOA12c RightNow adapter by Fabio Persico

December 19, 2015 Leave a comment

 
clip_image002Connect and consume data with Oracle RightNowCX using the new SOA12c RightNow adapter

The  Oracle RightNow adapter has been released for the SOA 12.1.3 just couple of months ago, and I tested as soon as I’ve heard of it!

What it is needed for this tip
  • JDeveloper 12.1.3
  • An account with read right on the WebServices exposed by an Oracle Rightnow instance
Before starting!

Make sure the following patch bundle has been applied to your SOA/jdev Home.
Bundle Patch for Bug: 20423408
The patch can be downloaded from Oracle support of course, and installed using opatch apply.
The patch must be applied to both, the SOA Server home (if not in the jdev home) and Jdev home, since the new plugin which will shows the RightNow adapter wizard, must be configured into JDeveloper.
Remember to perform the post-installation steps (patch READ-ME for details):

1. Log in to Fusion Middleware Control Enterprise Manager.
2. Expand "Weblogic Domain" in the left panel
3. Right click on the domain you want to modify and select Security > System Policies to display the page System Policies. Read the complete article here

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Packt Skill up

December 19, 2015 Leave a comment

 

Back in June, we asked you what tech skills you were using most and what you were hoping to learn in the coming months. Over 20,000 of you replied and helped us to produce the most informative salary and skills reports of 2015.

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Take our quick 5 minute survey and you will receive a code for buying any eBook or video for just $5! Find more here. For the latest books please visit our wikis SOA Books and BPM Books.

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How to customize your Service Bus 12c pipeline templates by Jan van Zoggel

December 18, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001One of the new features in Service Bus 12c is the ability to use pipeline templates. Usually the Oracle Service Bus pipelines in an environment have many common steps. Think of the re-use of logging, error handling, alerts and pattern + naming convention for your stages. In practice with OSB 11g we often used a “template” or existing OSB project which we then copied and modified. With the “clone” option of 12c this task is already easier, but the use of pipeline templates is even better. Since templates and concrete pipelines (generated pipelines from a template) remain linked we can update our services easier with new insights. For example, when you want to change your default logging or fault handling behavior.

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To use pipeline templates to their fullest potential we can customize them to our own needs. For this we have multiple options.

Generic configuration

The essential configuration of most actions can be left empty in the template without any problem. As soon as they are implemented in concrete pipelines the actions there will come into an ERROR state. The example below shows the Routing which is empty in the pipeline template. When developing the concrete pipelines we can then easily set the correct business service. Read the complete article here.

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter December 2015

December 17, 2015 Leave a comment

Registration for our Oracle Fusion Middleware & PaaS EMEA Partner Community Forum 2016 is open. Don’t miss our annual conference to get the latest updates on middleware products, hybrid PaaS, network and get hands-on trained. Since the first conference in Copenhagen 2007 we have been always booked out! Don’t miss this opportunity to attend March 2016 in Valencia!

With Internet of Things (Io) Cloud Service the next PaaS Service is available. Make sure you become familiar with it and build an industry showcase like HCL has done with predictive maintenance. To get started with PaaS we do offer free trial services.

In case you missed Oracle Open World read Lucas Jellema’s reflections. We offer the OpenWorld presentations and demos for you to run events & workshops for your customer base. Also our Community workspace (membership required) we published the latest Hybrid and SOA Cloud Service material.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: SOA_BPM_12 2 1_Install_and_Config_Workshop & Processing large XML files & SOA 12.2.1 New Feature – End to End JSON and Javascript Example & Error Resilient Adapters – SOA 12.2.1 & Handling inbound Attachments by Service Bus & Custom Transports in Service Bus 12.2.1 & Increase speed to deployment of SOA.

Also for BPM Suite and PCS we want to encourage you to build industry solutions. A great example are the Pharma and Automotive applications from OpRisk. Or the PCS travel requset template for PCS build by Red Mavericks. To start with PCS read Waslley’s blog or Dan’s blog. Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: Business Activity Monitoring videos & Process Timers & BPM 12c Event Subprocesses.

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we published excellent SaaS integration articles for HCM Cloud & ServiceCloud Rightnow. You can learn more about SaaS Cloud integration by joining our Webcast December 17th 2015.

Yes this newsletter is again long – make sure you read it! For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware Partner Updates on YouTube. The December edition of the Middleware Partner Update includes tips for PaaS Industry Showcases and reminds you to register for our Partner Community Forum 2016. For details about Process Cloud Service V2 join our Community Webcast December 15th 2015.

Jürgen Kress

Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA

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5 Best practices for SoapUI Pro and Oracle SOA Suite by Martijn van der Kamp

December 16, 2015 Leave a comment

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Over the last year I had the opportunity to be involved in an Oracle SOA Suite 10g to 11g upgrade. At the starting point, the 10g situation, automated tests were not yet part of the landscape. As part of our approach to upgrade the SOA Suite from 10g to 11g, we created SoapUI tests to check that the 11g code would behave functionally the same as the 10g code. This ensured the quality of the code and it also enabled us to run a full regression test within 30 minutes. During the project we created around 300 test cases in SoapUI. Next to that we continuously leveraged our experiences while working in an upgrade environment, and improved our test approach during the project. In this blog I will elaborate on five best practices while using SoapUI in combination with Oracle SOA Suite.

1. Minimize groovy scripting.

As we made the SoapUI tests based on functional flows we realized that a large part of the SOA Suite projects are reused in various functional flows. To make the maintainability easier, we created some groovy scripts that handle the messaging for these steps. It shortens the number of steps in the test case by letting the groovy script handle multiple steps in the background. Also we would be able to store the groovy script in a scripts folder, and call it from any test cases we would create. See figure 1.

Figure 1 Using Groovy script to shorten the number of steps

It started out simple, with a few generic post and get message steps. But not long after that, the first if-then-else statements started to introduce themselves inside the scripts. After that started, the scripts gained in complexity. Read the complete article here.

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Configuring a Compact Domain for SOA Suite by Waslley Souza

December 15, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002A compact domain is a developer domain consisting of a single administration server and in this post you will learn how to create it!

After the installation of SOA Suite 12c and required schemas, open a command prompt and go to ORACLE_HOME/soa/common/bin. Set the environment variable CONFIG_JVM_ARGS to -Dcom.oracle.cie.config.showProfile=true. This will activate the compact domain option in the configuration wizard.

cd ORACLE_HOME\soa\common\bin
SET CONFIG_JVM_ARGS=-Dcom.oracle.cie.config.showProfile=true
config.cmd

In the Configuration Type screen, select Create a new compact domain. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Process Cloud Service version 2–Webcast with Ralf Müller & Chris Peytier December 15th 2015

December 14, 2015 Leave a comment

SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – December 15th get a Process Cloud Service update

clip_image001Attend our December edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on December 15th 2015 17:00 CET. Chris Peytier will give an update on the brand new Process Cloud Service version 2.

Visit the registration page here.

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Get the latest Process Cloud Service 2 udpate from the Oracle experts Chris Peytier & Ralf Müller , topics include
– How PCS is altering the BPM selection procedures with our customers
– Going through some of the use cases that we see now with PCS
PaaS4SaaS integration: How PCS can be an instrument to extend functionalities of Oracle applications.

Schedule:

December 15th 2015 17:00-18:00 CET

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Inline Subprocesses in SOA Suite 12c by Herman Brunnekreef

December 14, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001In a project I work in I had to create a process that does calculations based on the input. This calculations must be done from different parts in the input. So the only difference where the input variables. For this I used the option Inline Subprocesses in BPEL. An Inline Subprocess is embedded in the main BPEL-proces and can be called from different scope’s in the main process.
In this blogpost I will give a brief introduction of the use of Inline Subprocesses in BPEL.

The Inline Subprocess can be created from the main BPEL-window in the menu-bar.
When selecting this you see the next window. Here you type a name for your subprocess.

When you created the subprocess you can here select the subprocess store_output. When it’s opened it’s look like a brand new BPEL-process. Read the complete article here

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Patching your JDeveloper 12.1.3 with SOA Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.2 by Jan van Zoggel

December 13, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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The SOA(/BPM) Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.2 is available for download from Oracle Support (http://support.oracle.com)
Just use the search on patch number ‘20423408’ and it will bring you the patch details page with the download (approx. 662MB).
You can deploy the patch on top of your basic 12.1.3.0.0 or the earlier released SOA Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.1

So I patched my own JDeveloper 12.1.3 environment with the OPATCH tool.
Extract the downloaded patch, I’ll use C:\temp\p20423408_121300_Generic\20423408
This folder is called ‘patch_TOP’ in opatch terminology.

Since I use Windows as local OS you will need to First open a command prompt with Administrator rights (right-click, run as Administrator).
If we don’t use the right permissions we will get the error: Unable to lock Central Inventory. OPatch will attempt to re-lock

First we set our ORACLE_HOME to the Jdeveloper 12.1.3 folder:
SET ORACLE_HOME=C:\ORACLE\middleware\12.1.3
And make sure opatch is in our path:
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\ORACLE\middleware\12.1.3\OPatch
We browse to the patch_top folder:
cd C:\temp\p20423408_121300_Generic\20423408
And run opatch:
opatch apply

Read the complete article here.

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Continuous Delivery for Oracle SOA and BPM by Matt Wright

December 12, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The goal of continuous delivery is to help software development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously automating the process of software delivery and reducing the batch size of their work. This allows organizations to rapidly, reliably, and repeatedly deliver software enhancements faster, with less risk and less cost.

Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of automatically building and testing a piece of software; either each time code is committed by a developer or in environments with a large number of small commits, or a long-running build on a regular scheduled basis.

Continuous Delivery (CD) goes a step further to automate the build, packaging, deployment, and regression testing, so that it can be released at any time into production.

Continuous deployment takes this another step further, in that code is automatically deployed into production, rather than when the business decides to release the code. Read the complete article here.

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