“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? By Bruce Tierney

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...)

A-Team – SOA Series of new blog posts

clip_image002The Oracle A-Team shares best practice from large SOA Suite customer projects, make sure you follow their blog:

SOA & BPM Partner Community

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A small and clean WebLogic cold backup

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...)

B2B samples and training material available

Oracle B2B IntegrationAt our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find b2b training material and samples:

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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Generate Tradingpartners for Oracle B2B 11g with Ant by Martien van den Akker

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 Instance Tracking

| Mar 4, 2013

Mediator supports three modes for instance tracking by changing the audit level in Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control-Mediator Properties

  1. Off - No instance tracking for successfully completed instances and faulted instances are created even in this mode.
  2. Production -  Instance tracking is on for all the instances and payloads are not captured.
  3. 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...)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013

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...)

My presentations at Oracle Open World 2012

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...)

Using Bean Validaton in SOA – JEE 6 based sample application

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 (more...)

ADF & Event driven Integration with a BPMN process


The usecase for my sample application is:
A standalone application exists to create/update 'Departments'. Originally, it was not intended to be part of an automated process (BPEL or BPMN) but now business decided that their process for the creation of a department is actually more than just data entry in (more...)

Application integration: reorganise, recycle, repurpose

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...)

SOA Suite PS5 Email (UMS) Adapter

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...)

When to Use Custom XPath Functions in the SOA Suite

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 (more...)

Handling Custom XML documents in Oracle B2B

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 (more...)

Service Computation 2012

CFP extended to mid-March - see details here: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPSERVICECOMPUTATION12.html

The making of the Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

4446OS_Oracle Service Bus 11g Developement Cookbook_FrontcoverAlmost 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...)

Was writing the Oracle Service Bus Development Cookbook….

The long silence on my blog in the past 10 months has a one reason: I was really 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:

Cloud commentary

Bruce Tierney from Oracle covered my cloud talk at Gartner's application architecture conference a few weeks back - he highlights some points I think are important.

Gartner

Speaking tomorrow at Gartner's Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit on cloud computing and integration in Vegas at 9:45am: if you are there, please stop by to talk.

SOA, BPM & Integration Days 2011

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...)