Introduction With the help of the other members of the BPM A-Team (Sushil Shukla, John Featherly, Siming Mu) I have put together a concise list of points that...
Introduction With the help of the other members of the BPM A-Team (Sushil Shukla, John Featherly, Siming Mu) I have put together a concise list of points that should be at least visited prior to moving into production with BPM 11g/12c. Note that it is BPM 11g/12c specific: although it touches on areas common to other common parts of SOA Suite (such as clustering etc...) it does not cover in any way other products within SOA Suite (such as BPEL, Mediator etc...). The list is...
Introduction With the help of the other members of the BPM A-Team (Sushil Shukla, John Featherly, Siming Mu) I have put together a concise list of points that should be at least visited prior...
Introduction Many times when working with customers, we hear "We were told never to use Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) to do initial loads, so how do we load our...
Introduction Many times when working with customers, we hear "We were told never to use Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) to do initial loads, so how do we load our non-Oracle data to Oracle?" It is true that native database utilities can be used to make copies of large databases faster than OGG in a homogeneous (like-to-like) implementation. However, when loading data of dissimilar structure OGG may be the best, and possibly only, data load solution. The key is to use some of the more...
Introduction Many times when working with customers, we hear "We were told never to use Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) to do initial loads, so how do we load our non-Oracle data to Oracle?" It is true...
Introduction This is part 3 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or...
Introduction This is part 3 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or failures at the engine level. Part 1 can be found here. Part 3: Understanding BPM Messages Rollback Now that we’ve seen how the important SOAINFRA tables are used by the engine we can look at how unhandled exceptions are rolled back by the engine to the last dehydration point. Remember, using appropriate fault...
Introduction This is part 3 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or failures at the engine level. Part...
Introduction This is part 2 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or...
Introduction This is part 2 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or failures at the engine level. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2: Understanding BPM Messages, Threads & Transactions Given SOA Suite & BPM’s ability to control timeouts and to handle faults, why do we need to understand any further inside the BPM engine ? Well, there are always going to be exceptional circumstances,...
Introduction This is part 2 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or failures at the engine level. Part...
Introduction This is part 1 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or...
Introduction This is part 1 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or failures at the engine level. Part 1 - will set the scene by explaining timeouts and their values & fault handling Part 2 - will explain how the BPM engine handles messages, threads & transaction Part 3 - will explain how & when the BPM engine rolls back transactions Part 4 - will show how BPM messages can be...
Introduction This is part 1 of a 4 part blog explaining how the BPM engine functions under the covers when "faults" occur, be they unhandled technical faults or failures at the engine level. Part 1 -...
Introduction I visited a customer recently who asked a very interesting question.... they'd been performing a series of stress tests of their BPM project made...
Introduction I visited a customer recently who asked a very interesting question.... they'd been performing a series of stress tests of their BPM project made up of many & complex BPM processes and they wanted to know if there were any activities/paths in any of their processes which they hadn't traversed... sort of like "Clover" for BPM, This led me to thinking about BPM auditing and cross-referencing this with the BPM activities. BPMN Code Coverage: The Theory Let us take a...
Introduction I visited a customer recently who asked a very interesting question.... they'd been performing a series of stress tests of their BPM project made up of many & complex BPM processes and...
With the latest release of the Exalogic Virtual Environment (2.0.6.0.0) an number of modifications have been implemented and one of these is the introduction of...
With the latest release of the Exalogic Virtual Environment (2.0.6.0.0) an number of modifications have been implemented and one of these is the introduction of an LVM based Guest Template. LVM was a much requested feature for the base template but it's introduction means the information provided in my blog entry Exalogic Virtual Tea Break Snippets - Modifying the Default Shipped (Base) Template is no longer appropriate because modifyjeos does not work with an LVM based...
With the latest release of the Exalogic Virtual Environment (2.0.6.0.0) an number of modifications have been implemented and one of these is the introduction of an LVM based Guest Template. LVM was a...
Introduction High availability is very important in large WebCenter installations. It allows users to gracefuly switch from one node to another node in the...
Introduction High availability is very important in large WebCenter installations. It allows users to gracefuly switch from one node to another node in the cluster. This allows user to keep their session in case a node goes down. In order for this to work, some conciderations need to be made when implementing a WebCenter Portal application. In this article we will explain some guidelines which should help implementing with High Availability in mind. Even if you are not...
Introduction High availability is very important in large WebCenter installations. It allows users to gracefuly switch from one node to another node in the cluster. This allows user to keep their...
I've heard from a couple of customers recently asking about BPM audit table growth, specifically BPM_AUDIT_QUERY. It led me to investigate the impact of the...
I've heard from a couple of customers recently asking about BPM audit table growth, specifically BPM_AUDIT_QUERY. It led me to investigate the impact of the various audit levels in SOA/BPM on these table and to propose options to them. It is important to note up-front that BPM is a human-centric workflow application and therefore should be expected to audit often and in detail... the reality is that business users probably will want to know who did what and when, and also who...
I've heard from a couple of customers recently asking about BPM audit table growth, specifically BPM_AUDIT_QUERY. It led me to investigate the impact of the various audit levels in SOA/BPM on these...
