Middleware & SOA

After a while of non blogging – I started again – this time, under the oracle flag – at blogs.oracle.com/soabpm. Hope to see you there.

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There are two behaviours in JDev 11g ps1 that you do not want in conjuction with a Subversion checkout source directory: 1) Open SCA composite in JDeveloperWhen you create SCA compsities with the latest release of JDeveloper 11g patch set 1, you could run into an frustrating error: One or more metadata store location(s) configured [...]

Here is a (linux) script that can be used during for starting Oracle Weblogic during startup and shutdown of the machine. The script only a framework that is at the various run-levels. The actual code of stopping and starting WLS is in another script (/home/oracle/bin/wls.sh). Create the folloing script in /etc/init.d (as root) /etc/init.d/oracle-wls#!/bin/bash## /etc/rc.d/init.d/oracle-wls## [...]

Exception handling is an often ignored area in enterprise software design. It comes out more as an after thought rather than being an integral part of initial design.I’ve seen cases where logs are polluted with too many exceptions leading to delay in performing root cause analysis root cause exceptions get eaten up when thrown to [...]

Enterprise Single Sign On (ESSO) solutions provide SSO for desktop apps such as Outlook by providing the storing the username/password securely and passing it to the desktop app when required.Now, if the desktop app (such as Outlook) needs to go out to the cloud to fetch data, and the cloud app if federation enabled, then [...]

There are many testing tools (including one bundled with Oracle Fusion Middleware Control) that allow creating WS-Security username token and inserts it into the request message. But, if the service accepts a SAML token, then such tools don’t come in handy. One has to develop a client application and apply SAML client policy to add [...]

See what Gartner’s John Pescatore has to say about emerging security threats and trends in 2010. There are two very new challenges. What we’re seeing happening right now is certainly the threats have changed, but also business processes and the demands put on the IT organization and the information security organization are changing at the [...]

Surprisingly few of the clients I work with use Oracle Enterprise Manager to manage their Oracle SOA Environment.  I’ve found this even to be the case when the database side of the shop does.  I got an email the other day from Packt asking if I’d review a copy of Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise [...]

Try this “little hack”: connect to Database as sysdba and execute following commands: SQL> select * from dual;D-XSQL> select count(*) from dual;COUNT(*)——–1SQL> insert into dual values (‘Y’);SQL> commit; Connect in another session with a normal user and try to drop one table:SQL> conn scott/tigerSQL> drop table t1;ERROR at line 1:ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL [...]