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With Oracle Service Bus PS6 or 11.1.1.7 we finally have an new offline build tool with does not require Eclipse (OEPE).  With this OSB configjar tool ( located in the OSB home /tools/configjar/ folder ) you can make OSB export sbconfig jar based on 1 or more (more...)

Oracle Soa Suite PatchSet 6 or 11.1.1.7.0  now has support for Token configurations which really can help administrators in configuring or overriding external Web Service Reference parameters like the protocol ( http, oramds or https ),  the remote host etc. And more important if you do it (more...)

Activiti is a great open source workflow + BPM platform, which you can use in your own java application (embedded) or test it in the provided Rest or Web demo applications. Activiti also provides  an Eclipse designer plugin which you can use to create your own BPMN 2.0 definitions and (more...)

With the IdentityStore framework of Fusion Middleware you can change or create any user or role in almost every LDAP server. With this framework the authenticated user change their own password from ADF or in your own ADF Admin page you can create an user with its roles without knowing (more...)

When you use JPA in your project and your model project contains many entities with some Eager fetching relation attributes then you probably notice that EclipseLink can fire a lot of SQL queries on the database. This works ok & fast on Dev or Test but in production these queries (more...)

With the release of EclipseLink 2.4, JPA persistence units can be accessed using REST with JSON or XML formatted messages. The 2.4 version supports JPA-RS which is a RESTful API for dealing with JPA. In this blogpost I will show you what is possible with JPA-RS, how easy it (more...)

In the current version of ADF Mobile the ADF DataControls ( URL and WS ) only supports SOAP and JSON-XML. But this does not mean we cannot use JSON. To handle JSON we can use the  RestServiceAdapter and JSONBeanSerializationHelper classes. The RestServiceAdapter will handle the Rest Service and JSONBeanSerializationHelper helps (more...)

2 years ago I already did the same with ANT and now I migrated these scripts to Maven. These Maven poms can still do the same like my ANT scripts.

• Build and deploy an OSB OEPE workplace
• Build one OSB project.
• Export OSB projects from an OSB server and generate (more...)

In Oracle SOA Suite you can use the EJB adapter as a reference or service in your composite applications. The EJB adapter has a flexible binding integration, there are 3 ways for integrating the remote interface with your composite.

First you have the java interface way which I described here (more...)

In an asynchronous web service we can't return a soap fault like a synchronous service but that does not mean you can't report back the fault to the calling asynchronous process.

basically you got three options.

• Off course handle the fault in the error hospital and give back the response. (more...)

With WebLogic WLST you can script the creation of all your Application DataSources or SOA Integration artifacts( like JMS etc). This is necessary if your domain contains many WebLogic artifacts or you have more then one WebLogic environment. If so, you want to script this so you can configure a (more...)

Finally with Eclipse ( OEPE ) as IDE we can use the ADF Binding framework in our ADF applications development ( works with PS3 and higher ) . Last year I already blogged about the support for ADF Rich Faces and with this release of  OEPE ( it is still (more...)

There are different ways to exchange JMS messages between WebLogic and JBoss Application Server 7. In this blogpost I will explain how you can retrieve JMS messages from JBoss ( with the help of a WebLogic Foreign Server ) and how to push messages to JBoss AS ( with the (more...)

When you want to connect to a Queue or Topic on JBoss Application Server 7.1.1 with a remote jms client you can follow the next steps.

First step is to add messaging configuration to the JBoss configuration xml. In this case I will use the standalone configuration.

Open standalone.xml (more...)

With the release of Soa Suite Patch Set 5 we can now try out the new UMS Email adapter. The UMS adapter allows you to listen for new mail or send a mail from a service component. Combined with BPEL it’s now relative easy to process email bodies or attachments. (more...)

With ADF BC ( Business Components ) you can fire Event Delivery Network CRUD events from ADF BC entities which can be captured and handled by the Oracle SOA Suite. In this blogpost we will use the JMS implementation of EDN plus WebLogic Store and Forward for the reliable delivery (more...)

With Oracle SOA Suite 11g patch 12928372  you can finally retrieve or set a HTTP header from BPEL. This patch comes with Patch Set 5 ( 11.1.1.6 )  and this patch can also be applied on PS3 ( 11.1.1.4 ), please download it from (more...)

Just a quick blogpost how you can deploy your old ADF UIX ( 10.1.2)  applications to the WebLogic 11g ( 10.3.5 ) application server. Off course this is not supported by Oracle, who cares, your old 10.1.2 OC4J container is also end of life. (more...)

There are different ways to interact with the Human WorkFlow services of the Oracle SOA Suite or  BPM. You can use java and use it in your own application, like I did in this blogpost, use the BPM Worklist application or invoke the Human WorkFlow web services.

In this blogpost (more...)

With the release of MySQL Cluster 7.2 and the support for the native Memcached API we can also use the HA cluster for NoSQL besides JPA, SQL.
In this blogpost I will try out this NoSQL feature with JCache ( alias JSR 107 or javax.cache , it will be (more...)