The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud
applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the
connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud
integration touch points.
At the recent Gartner AADI conference,
230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive
answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying
Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall
described cloud connectivity and then, equally importantly, the other
essential and sometimes overlooked aspects of integration required to
ensure a long term application and service integration strategy. To
understand the challenges (more...)
In one of my projects we have to be able to set up a (cold) backup Oracle Service Bus domain in a different data center from a domain backup. One of the requirements was that this data center is -for security reasons- completely independent of the “main” data center. In (more...)
At my previous customer, a Dutch energy infrastructure managing company, I worked on an implementation of AS2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS2)
message exchanging with Oracle B2B (part of SOASuite 11g) The company
needed to exchange information about energy delivery with other
companies that supply and transport energy (in this case natural gas).
Problem
Since
there are many companies in the Netherlands that supply and transport
gas, we needed to enter about 80 tradingpartners (TP's), that were very
similar in message-exchange capabilities. Instead of entering those 80
TP’s in Oracle B2B by hand, which is a lot of error-prone work, (more...)
Mediator supports three modes for instance tracking by changing the audit level in Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control-Mediator Properties
- Off - No instance tracking for successfully completed instances and faulted instances are created even in this mode.
- Production - Instance tracking is on for all the instances and payloads are not captured.
- Development - Instance tracking is on for all the instances and payloads are also captured.
When Mediator receives a massage, it creates a mediator instance, then one or more case instance will be created depends on the number of routing rule in the Mediator Case (more...)

In Februray 2013 the Oracle Fusion Middleware Community Forum 2013 will take place in Faro, Portugal!
The OFM Partner Community Forum is a wonderful opportunity to:
- learn how to sell the value of Fusion Middleware by combining SOA & BPM & WebLogic & ADF solutions
- meet with the Oracle SOA (more...)
Oracle Open world 2012 is already past and I’m back in Europe. Here is just a quick wrap up of my involvements at OOW 2012.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Live Application Development (UGF10464)
For the fourth time, the Live FMW Application Development show has been held. This time at Oracle (more...)
This blog post is just a short notice to point to a JEE6 based sample, which was prepared for a JavaOne session "CON5020 - Using JSR 303, Bean Validation, with the Common Data Model in SOA".
The sample, available at github, contains a list of NetBeans (maven) projects showing the
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The last UKOUG Development SIG focused on Forms. Its theme was Forms in the 21st Century: modernise, integrate, migrate? I think we covered modernisation and migration very well. But even in a packed day we couldn't cover everything, and I fear integration was not done full justice.
It wasn't planned this way, but it so happens the upcoming UKOUG Development SIG is all about Application Integraton and SOA. Integration is a topic which is in everybody's baliwick. The business people want to get the best value from their existing IT investments. The architects need to understand the interfaces bewteen the (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.
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If you want to know
how to create custom XPath functions, then have a look for example at
Anthony Reynold's Blog entry on the topic. I have little to add to that excellent posting except for how to add parameters, which is done using the <param> tag as in the
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With Oracle B2B which is a part of Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 you can handle / interchange all kind of messages between partners. Oracle B2B supports many Documents Protocols like off course your own, EDIFACT, HL7, RosettaNet and many more. Besides this it also supports many interchange channel protocols
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CFP extended to mid-March - see details here: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPSERVICECOMPUTATION12.html
Almost a year ago I started to think about writing a cookbook for the Oracle Service Bus (OSB). I first discussed it with Mischa Kölliker, a colleague at Trivadis and he was happy to join the team. Next I have used the Oracle SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum (more...)
The long silence on my blog in the past 10 months has a one reason: I was rea
lly busy writing the upcoming Oracle Service Bus Development Cookbook, published by Packt Publishing.
I’m co-writing this book together with the following friends from the European SOA community:
Vom 12. bis 13. Oktober findet in Düsseldorf die 2ten SOA, BPM und Integration Days statt.
Die SOA, BPM und Integration Days vereinen 23 der bedeutesten Experten und Praktiker im deutschsprachigen Raum rund um die Themen SOA, BPM und Integration. Am ersten Tag wird in jeweils 3 parallelen Tracks über (more...)