Introduction Recently I was working on a project using Maven, and I really wanted to be able to run the project easily without needing to worry about all the...
Introduction Recently I was working on a project using Maven, and I really wanted to be able to run the project easily without needing to worry about all the classpath entries. Turns out it is relatively easy to set up Maven to run your project for you and to automatically handle providing the right classpath for your code and all the dependencies. Main Article I created a simple Maven JAR project using an archetype as shown below: $mvn...
Introduction Recently I was working on a project using Maven, and I really wanted to be able to run the project easily without needing to worry about all the classpath entries. Turns out it...
Introduction At different process steps, Oracle BPEL engine dehydrates (stores) information about process instances in a database, and retrieves them when the...
Introduction At different process steps, Oracle BPEL engine dehydrates (stores) information about process instances in a database, and retrieves them when the process instance is ready to resume. The dehydration store is critical to Oracle BPEL integrity and performance. Over time, the dehydration store can grow and affect overall performance of the solution. How do you manage the data growth in the dehydration store? Main Article My colleague Deepak Arora (see his blog...
Introduction At different process steps, Oracle BPEL engine dehydrates (stores) information about process instances in a database, and retrieves them when the process instance is ready to resume. The...
Update: There is now a bundle patch available that contains all the recommended patches on top of BPM 11.1.1.3 – the patch number is 9958661 and this patch...
Update: There is now a bundle patch available that contains all the recommended patches on top of BPM 11.1.1.3 – the patch number is 9958661 and this patch should be installed in preference to the individual patches listed below. A number of customers have reported some issues with memory usage on SOA or BPM 11g (11.1.1.2 and 11.1.1.3) after a number of composite deployments or redeployments. This tends to only occur in development environments where you are frequently...
Update: There is now a bundle patch available that contains all the recommended patches on top of BPM 11.1.1.3 – the patch number is 9958661 and this patch should be installed in preference to the...
Introduction After many years, I took a fresh look at Ubuntu, and I found it to be great! So naturally, I wanted to install Oracle XE database to play around...
Introduction After many years, I took a fresh look at Ubuntu, and I found it to be great! So naturally, I wanted to install Oracle XE database to play around with. But this comes as a 32-bit rpm. What to do? Main Article Fortunately, I found a great post over at littlebrain.org that describes the process and pitfalls in some details. I wont repeat the whole post here, just the key steps, but I strongly encourage you to head on over and take a look at Aldiantoro’s post!...
Introduction After many years, I took a fresh look at Ubuntu, and I found it to be great! So naturally, I wanted to install Oracle XE database to play around with. But this comes as a 32-bit rpm. ...
Note: This post is an updated and extended version of this older post. This post was produced jointly with Shawn Xin and Wellen Lau along with help and support...
Note: This post is an updated and extended version of this older post. This post was produced jointly with Shawn Xin and Wellen Lau along with help and support from several other people. 1 Introduction Often customers wish to expose a small part of PeopleSoft functionality to end users, without the need for those users to learn how to use the whole PeopleSoft user interface. For example, there may be a desire to expose the absence request function in Employee...
Note: This post is an updated and extended version of this older post. This post was produced jointly with Shawn Xin and Wellen Lau along with help and support from several other people. 1 ...
Introduction In this post, I provide detailed instructions on how to install WebLogic Server 10.3 on Ubuntu (64-bit). Main Article Update: This post describes...
Introduction In this post, I provide detailed instructions on how to install WebLogic Server 10.3 on Ubuntu (64-bit). Main Article Update: This post describes a method for installing WebLogic Server 10.3.3 which involves first installing 10.3.2 and then patching up to 10.3.3. It also now possible to just install 10.3.3 directly. If you are an Oracle customer, you can download the 10.3.3 installer from eDelivery. Another update: You can now download a 10.3.3 installer from...
Introduction In this post, I provide detailed instructions on how to install WebLogic Server 10.3 on Ubuntu (64-bit). Main Article Update: This post describes a method for installing WebLogic Server...
Introduction Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 introduced a new “Integrated SOA Gateway” that makes it very easy to expose functionality from E-Business Suite...
Introduction Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 introduced a new “Integrated SOA Gateway” that makes it very easy to expose functionality from E-Business Suite as web services. This allows much easier integration to and from E-Business Suite. In this post, we look at how to expose a piece of functionality in E-Business Suite as a service. Here we are using Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.2, a “Vision” system. Main Article First we log on to E-Business Suite as the SYSADMIN...
Introduction Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 introduced a new “Integrated SOA Gateway” that makes it very easy to expose functionality from E-Business Suite as web services. This allows much...
Introduction If you are like me, you have an existing WebCenter and SOA Suite 11.1.1.2 installation that you need to upgrade to the new 11.1.1.3 release, but...
Introduction If you are like me, you have an existing WebCenter and SOA Suite 11.1.1.2 installation that you need to upgrade to the new 11.1.1.3 release, but you may find the task a little daunting, as I did. However, a little bit of careful research paid off, as I found that the Installation Planning Guide, particularly this section, particularly useful and made the process very simple. Main Article First, you need to upgrade your WebLogic Server from 10.3.2 to 10.3.3. ...
Introduction If you are like me, you have an existing WebCenter and SOA Suite 11.1.1.2 installation that you need to upgrade to the new 11.1.1.3 release, but you may find the task a little daunting,...
Introduction Today, I was setting up an internal (intranet) deployment of WebCenter and one of the things I needed to display was the company share price,...
Introduction Today, I was setting up an internal (intranet) deployment of WebCenter and one of the things I needed to display was the company share price, pulled from the Internet. In order to do this, I used the built in Web Clipping portlet. However, it needs to be configured to use an HTTP proxy so that it can access content on the Internet. This is done by adding some settings to the provider.xml configuration file used by the portlet. Main Article This configuration...
Introduction Today, I was setting up an internal (intranet) deployment of WebCenter and one of the things I needed to display was the company share price, pulled from the Internet. In order to do...
