Java / Oracle SOA blog

Offline Oracle Service Bus Configuration export

2013-04-30T19:24:00.002+02:00

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 OSB projects or even with more then one OSB Configuration projects. Plus have total control what to include or exclude. In this blogpost I

Token Configurations in Oracle SOA Suite PS6 ( 11.1.1.7.0)

2013-04-02T22:49:00.000+02:00

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 right you can kick out the all those Soa Suite deployment plans :-) Important to know this only works on

Testing Activiti BPM on WebLogic 12c

2013-03-24T21:28:00.002+01:00

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 export this to the Activiti applications. In blogpost I will show you the steps how to get this working on the

Active Directory user management with the IdentityStore framework of FMW

2013-01-27T19:09:00.001+01:00

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 LDAP or know what LDAP server is used. IdentityStore framework will automatically detect the configured

JPA SQL and Fetching tuning ( EclipseLink )

2012-11-19T22:50:00.003+01:00

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 can lead to big problems ( higher load and more data). In our project we also use ADF DataControls, Web Services or

Easy way to access JPA with REST (JSON / XML)

2012-10-30T21:55:00.000+01:00

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 is and howto setup your own EclipseLink REST service. This is also possible when you want to expose database tables as SOAP

Using JSON-REST in ADF Mobile

2012-10-28T12:39:00.000+01:00

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 us converting JSON to Java. I made a little ADF Mobile demo based on

Build and Deploy OSB projects with Maven

2012-10-07T16:45:00.002+02:00

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 a customization plan. Here you can find my code https://github.com/biemond/soa_tools/tree/master/maven_osb_ps5 or the PS6 version https:

Generating an EJB SDO Service Interface for Oracle SOA Suite

2012-08-09T20:51:00.000+02:00

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 this follows the JAX-WS way. It means you need to use Calendar for your Java date types and leads to one

Return a fault from an Asynchronous Web Service

2012-08-02T22:14:00.003+02:00

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. In the response message you can add a section ( a XSD choice with success and fault section) which can be

Do WebLogic configuration from ANT

2012-07-03T21:13:00.000+02:00

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 new WebLogic domain in minutes and you can repeat this task with always the same result. I started a

ADF development with Eclipse (OEPE)

2012-06-21T20:55:00.001+02:00

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 a Technical Preview) we can fully develop ADF applications in Eclipse. Off course you don't have the ADF BC wizards of JDeveloper and you need to

WebLogic JMS / AQ bridge with JBoss AS 7

2012-06-13T20:37:00.001+02:00

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 help of a WebLogic JMS Bridge). This even works with AQ. For JBoss AS 7 I will use the JMS ( HornetQ ) / JBoss configuration

Remote JMS with JBoss AS 7.1 / HornetQ JMS

2012-06-08T22:01:00.001+02:00

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 located at jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone\configuration Add org.jboss.as.messaging to the extensions

SOA Suite PS5 Email (UMS) Adapter

2012-05-18T13:45:00.000+02:00

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. To read more and test it yourself check my blogpost on Amis Technology.

Publish EDN JMS events from ADF BC

2012-04-26T15:10:00.004+02:00

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 to the SOA Suite server ( this way we can bounce SOA without effecting the Web Applications ). To make this

Retrieve or set a HTTP header from Oracle BPEL

2012-04-14T20:50:00.001+02:00

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 http://support.oracle.com I made a simple test case with soapUI which adds an username and a message as HTTP header to the service invocation. In a second testcase I

Deploy your ADF UIX applications to WebLogic

2012-04-04T22:09:00.000+02:00

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. When it works, it works :-) First you need to create a JDBC DataSource in the WebLogic Console. You need to use the oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver driver class (

How to use the Human WorkFlow Web Services

2012-04-03T20:29:00.002+02:00

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 I will describe how you can do that and especially how you can query the Human task with your own ordering and

JCache on NoSQL MySQL Cluster 7.2 ( Memcached )

2012-03-31T18:56:00.000+02:00

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 part of Java EE 7 and it will also work in Java 6 ). JCache defines a standard Java Caching API for use by developers and a standard SPI (“Service

Oracle bulk insert or select from Java with Eclipselink

2012-03-25T18:26:00.002+02:00

Database Bulk operations like a 10.000 rows insert operation from java can be hard and costly plus you won't come near the time when you do the same in PL/SQL. So the solution is to pass on the array of java JPA entities to a PL/SQL package and let the optimized Oracle Database do the hard work. To make this work in java we need to use eclipselink at least version 2.3.2, this has the required

Processing EDIFACT documents in Oracle B2B

2012-03-14T22:31:00.004+01:00

In my previous blogpost I already showed you how to process custom xml documents in Oracle B2B and pass it to the Oracle SOA Suite. In part two we will try to process an EDIFACT document. This time we need to use the Oracle Document Editor where we change the EDIFACT guideline, analyze the EDI documents against this guideline and do an export which we can import into Oracle B2B. Here is an

Handling Custom XML documents in Oracle B2B

2012-03-11T21:24:00.001+01:00

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 like AS2, Email , FTP , File etc. B2B can listen on those channels and tries to identify the

Changing your ADF Connections in Enterprise Manager with PS5

2012-02-28T00:35:00.001+01:00

With Patch Set 5 of Fusion Middleware you can finally change your ADF connections ( like a Web Service connection ) in the Enterprise Manager Web Application. So you can make one application deployment and deploy it to acceptance and production. In many cases ADF and JDeveloper automatically creates connections ( like a ADF WS DataControl ) which could not be changed after deployment, you need

Use MySQL 5.5 as MDS database repository in FMW 11g R1 PS5

2012-02-25T15:42:00.003+01:00

One of the new features of Fusion Middleware 11G R1 PatchSet 5 (PS5) is the support for MySQL 5.5 as Meta Data Services (MDS) repository. This means you can use MySQL database as a store for ADF personifications or as policies store for your OWSM domain. For MDS you just need a small database which store these configurations. For the SOA infra repository ( not supported on MySQL ) I think the