SOA Suite Docker Image Release – 21.2.2 by Ravi Pinto

The new release of SOA Suite Docker Image has landed in the repositories!

Here is a look at the features in the new release

• This Docker image supports Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 domains deployment, using April 2021 PSU and known bug fixes. It also leverages WebLogic Kubernetes Operator version 3.2.1.
• On the underlying infrastructure front, this release is certified for deployment on Kubernetes version 1.19.7+. We are now supporting Calico v3.16.10 for networking.
• And last but not the least, we have further tightened security with the access to the domain home and image restrictions.

Download the latest image by logging in to your My Oracle Support account and access patch number 32794257.

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Some Ideas for OIC Fleet Management by Niall Commiskey

As you can see, the above graphic is WIP. I am getting some ideas together on this and seeing how the OIC Monitoring APIs can help me out here. Use case is I have a fleet of OIC instances and need some intel on them.

Connections

Here I want a list of my configured connections and their status – I will write the salient data to a file.

I test these in Postman to get the response JSON for use in defining the OIC Invokes. I orchestrate the calls via an OIC integration – creating a REST connection to my OIC instance. Read the complete article here.

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Using REST APIs to manage Connections in OIC by Pranav Davar

In cases, when we have many connections created on the OIC instance, it becomes hard to manage connections using the OIC console. Also, to achieve automation, manually going and updating each and every connection is never a feasible task. OIC provides various REST APIs to fetch connection details, update connection properties and delete connections. With the help of these APIs, we can overcome such scenarios.

In this blog, we will be discussing how to use various OIC connections REST APIs. A postman collection in the public workspace, which contains some of the use cases for this and can be forked, updated, and used accordingly.

Below are various REST APIs, that are covered in this blog.

1. Retrieve Connections
2. Retrieve a Connection
3. Update a Connection
4. Test a Connection
5. Refresh Metadata for a Connection
6. Delete a Connection

In this blog, we will be using Postman to test and run various APIs. Below is the link to the Postman collection, which will be helpful to try and test different REST APIs.

https://www.postman.com/deciphermiddleware/workspace/deciphermiddleware/collection/1913239-659e77cf-2c07-423b-a15f-d0157426c8f0?ctx=documentation

Authentication for REST APIs

To invoke OIC connections REST APIs, BASIC AUTH can be used to authenticate and authorize calls. The user whose credentials are used to call these APIs must have access to edit the connection.

OAuth can also be used to authenticate to REST APIs. In this blog, we will be using Basic Auth to authenticate/authorize API calls. Read the complete article here.

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OIC Salesforce Integration Demo by Deb Mukherjee

In older editions of OIC while connecting to Salesforce we need to save and upload Enterprise WSDL, however this process has changed now.
Its better to create developer account using https://developer.salesforce.com/signup as this developer edition of Salesforce provides more in aspect to Development capabilities.Once Done we need to do few things :-

Search ‘API’ in Quick Find and hit ‘Generate Enterprise WSDL’. Read the complete article here.

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Improving the performance of Oracle Integration flows that use REST calls by Nick Montoya

Oracle Integration connects disparate SaaS and on-premises applications to help businesses move faster. This interaction between Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Oracle SaaS (or on-premise) applications needs to be carefully designed and planned for performance and scalability. Overloaded integration flows may run within acceptable timeframes during design phase. They may even pass User Acceptance Testing especially if testers are just going through functional testing. However, when testing for performance and scalability, problems may arise. It is imperative to design solutions that would meet expected peak volumes at runtime. This blog will provide some helpful pointers that you could use to make your solutions achieve better performance and scalability.

Identify Peak Volume Profile and test downstream systems

When designing an Oracle Integration solution for Performance and Scalability, it is very important to identify the peak-hour and peak-day volume. Knowing how many integrations will be running at peak hour will not only help you size your Production OIC environment accordingly, but also, it will help in the testing of your downstream (from OIC point of view) systems.

Testing of downstream systems with expected volumes early in the implementation cycle will help you validate a scalable implementation and/or identify performance bottlenecks in your design. If these outbound calls take longer than a few seconds, then there is plenty of design work to do. Longer synchronous calls to outbound systems may cause OIC to wait for these calls to finish and it may block other processes from running in OIC. Therefore, end users may experience longer response times. Below, you can find several areas where you could explore to help improve the performance of your integration flows that use REST calls. Read the complete article here

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Integrate SaaS hands-on Bootcamps Webtraining

Oracle Product Management is pleased to invite Oracle Partners to attend a 3-days hands-on workshop on how to integrate with ERP & HCM applications using Oracle Integration Cloud. This Invite-Only hands-on workshop will be delivered at No-Fee to Partners. It will consist of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs.

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) offers Integration, Process Automation and Visual design capabilities that help business analysts and IT specialists to automate end to end business processes across departments. Oracle Integration Cloud offers a simple recipe to be successful in this application integration and process automation journey: Build, Integrate and Engage.

Schedule:

• On-demand training

• US & Canada August 10^th, 12^th & 17^th 2021

• India August 24^th, 26^th & September 3^rd 2021

• South America, September 8^th, 9^th, 10^th 2021

For additional location please visit our website here (community membership required).

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SOA Suite and OIC – how easy is it? Part 3 – co-existence by Niall Commiskey

Many of our SOA Suite customers are in the process of "migrating" their software real estate to the cloud; think of folks moving from EBS to Fusion ERP, for example. These customers will have many EBS focused integrations, running on SOA Suite.

These same integrations can now be leveraged from OIC.

That same EBS customer may be adopting SFDC; her on premise SOA based integrations can now invoke OIC services to update SFDC Account details etc. Net, net – we have bidirectional interoperability. One can create SOA Suite connections in OIC, leveraging the SOA Suite adapter. One can also create OIC Connections in JDeveloper – Read the complete article here.

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4 Things those with Digital Integration Hubs (DIH) do that others can’t – and how they fuel innovation

DIH architecture design principles to help you innovate faster featuring Gartner

We’re excited to have Gartner’s Massimo Pezzini, VP Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow Emeritus, and Suhas Uliyar, VP Digital Assistant, AI & Integration at Oracle, exploring how Digital Integration Hub design principles are shaping connected business strategy and accelerating innovation for your end-to-end ERP, HCM, and CX processes. In this webinar you will learn:

• Which enterprise integration use cases and patterns matter most to connecting applications, data, and devices over the next three years.
• How Packaged Integration Processes for commodity connectivity can create differentiation by accelerating delivery with prebuilt recipes.
• How democratizing API-led integration enables self-service sharing of resources to speed delivery of your event streaming, IoT, RPA, Blockchain, and AI projects.
• How DIH design principles are shaping best practices and off-the-shelf solutions to help you level-up your continuous innovation game.

Watch the on-demand webcast here

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