Saturday, April 25, 2009

DB2 is getting Oracle emulation,

IBM DB2 is getting Oracle emulation,

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Oracle Tuxedo 10gR3 releases

Intresting

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 (Build 4270)

Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 is avaliable for download

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10.1.3.4 28-JUL-2008 Patchset 7272722

BPEL and ESB 10.1.3.4 seems to be on Metalink now as Patchset 7272722.

The readme and the following notes are good to read
Note:728366.1 Alert Notice For SOA Customers Planning to Upgrade to 10.1.3.4
Note:727068.1 Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.4) Patch Set Notes Addendum

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10.1.3 MLR#12, 7167518 Jul 15, 2008

MLR#12 is out as patch 7167518

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# BUGS ADDED IN MLR#12, 7167518 :
# **************************************************************************
# BUG 7020422 - RAYTHEON: RETUNED FAULT CODE HAS INCORRECT SOAP ENV NAMESPACE
# BUG 7005636 - ESB RETURNS REMOTE EXCEPTION WITHOUT FAULTSTRING ELEMENT ERROR MESSAGE
# BUG 7206453 - ESB ROUTING SERVICE WITH DISABLED ENDPOINT STOPS EXECUTION TO OTHER ENDPOINTS
# BUG 7146163 - ADDITION OF NICKNAMEATTRIBUTE IN IS_CONFIG TO MAP UID TO AD
# BUG 7225636 - USER SEARCH SCOPE ALWAYS WORKS TO SUBTREE SCOPE AND CANNOT BE SET TO ONE LEVEL
# BUG 6477149 - WSSE HEADER NOT PROCESSED PROPERLY EVEN AFTER FIX FOR BUG 6009121
# BUG 7147508 - WS-SECURITY HEADER NOT BEING PARSED CORRECTLY
# BUG 6081867 - ERROR MESSAGE FIELD IN EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS IS 'NULL'.
# BUG 7228590 - PATCHED FTP ADAPTER DOES NOT PROVIDE CORRECT ERROR INFORMATION WHEN IT FAILS
# BUG 6367285 - [AIA2.0] BPEL IS NOT ABLE TO INVOKE MULTIPLE OPS IN THE SAME PORTTYPE OF AN ESB
# BUG 7175733 - XQUERY TRANSFORMATION FAILS WITH FOTY0001: TYPE ERROR
# BUG 6445656 - ALLOW FILE PROCESSING BY CREATION DATE

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Oracle BEA Strategy Briefing

Reports and summaries of the Oracle + BEA strategy are in, here is a list of the most prominent summaries:

  1. Sandy Kernsley
  2. Bruce Silver
  3. Anthony Renoylds
  4. Justin Kestelyn

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Friday, June 13, 2008

World Wide Webber on Guerilla SOA

  • Interview by Herbjörn Wilhelmsen here
  • Jim with Martin Fowler on "Does My Bus Look Big in This?" aka "Enterprise Man Boobs" here

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10.1.3.3.1 MLR#10

7013663 MLR#10 ON TOP OF 10.1.3.3.1

# **************************************************************************
# BUGS ADDED IN MLR#10, 7013663 :
# **************************************************************************
# BUG 5999832 - NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION IN DECISIONSERVICE DURING STRESS TEST OF BPEL PROCESS
# BUG 6861498 - LDAP SEARCH IN ACTIVEDIRECTORY FOR SUBGROUPS DOES NOT WORK
# BUG 6746867 - BPEL IDENTTITY SERVICE DOES NOT SOPPORT OID STRUCTURE CN <> UID
# BUG 6930522 - CUSTOMER POC ISSUE-BPEL HANDLING OF XML CDATA SECTION
# BUG 6954825 - IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE FLOW IF HUMAN TASK ACTIVITY CONTAINS EMAIL
# BUG 7017660 - FTPS DOES NOT WORK IN LINUX AND SOLARIS IF CIPHER SUITES ARE NOT CONFIGURED
# BUG 7010875 - JNDI LOOKUP ISSUE AS REPORTED IN BUG:6189268 IS STILL NOT INCLUDED IN THE MLRS
# BUG 6067219 - GROUP VOTING NOT WORKING
# BUG 6314009 - ESB CANNOT INVOKE EJBS - CLASSCAST EXCEPTION
# BUG 6817058 - ESB 2 WAY RS CALLING POJO THROUGH WSIF LOSES THE RETURN VALUE
# BUG 6975458 - BPELC COMPILER ERROR FOR MISSING SERVICE DEFINITION ON REMOTE HOSTED WDSL/PL
# BUG 7018925 - CORRELATION OF AQ MESSAGES NO LONGER WORKING

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Monday, May 19, 2008

BPEL 10.1.3.4 Update

Here is a link to a BPEL 10.1.3.4 update webinar documentation.

Contents:
• Improved Visibility of Engine Threading Model
• Improved Statistics Collection
• Minimize XML Coding Errors
• Rescuing Lost Instances
• Automated Recovery Agent
• Collection of Support Information
• Deployment Plan
• 10.1.3.5

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Friday, May 02, 2008

Now available: SOA 11g Technology Preview version 4

SOA 11g Technology Preview version 4 is out now! (May 1, 2008)

Links:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/11/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/techpreview/index.html

You will need a valid Metalink customer account to download it though.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

jdev.conf

Thease are my JDeveloper "performence" settings I use today:

- tools->preferences->extensions
I disabled all the extentions I do not currently use such as ADF, Webcenter ...

I edited my jdev conf file ("C:\java\jdevstudio10133\jdev\bin\jdev.conf") and added/changed the following parameteres:

AddVMOption -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=false
AddVMOption -Dsun.java2d.ddoffscreen=false

#SetJavaVM server
AddVMOption -Xmx1024M
AddVMOption -Xms512M
AddVMOption -Dcompiler.vmargs=-mx1024m

#
# Use this to prevent Windows from paging JDev's memory
# when you minimize it.
# This option should have the same effect as
# the KeepResident plug-in with the advantage
# of being a built-in feature in Sun's JVM 5.
# @see http://java2go.blogspot.com/2007/06/jdeveloper-tips-2-fine-tuning.html
AddVMOption -Dsun.awt.keepWorkingSetOnMinimize=true

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Useful links

Some links to blogentries I looked on today:


How to dynamically call a partnerlink:

"In most basic process designs, partner links are static; they refer to a single external process selected by the developer at design time. This approach is appropriate for highly targeted or constrained systems. However, in larger systems business processes are more complex. They interact with multiple external services and define multiple partner links, and some of these partner links might not be known at design time. As a result, all potential callouts and logic for deciding which partner links to use must be built inside the business process itself—unnecessarily complicating that process. Furthermore, as additional partner links are added, the resulting process grows more and more unwieldy, as any changes to the partner links require modification of the entire business process."

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/bpel_cookbook/carey.html

How to call a process again over and over again for error managment, caching etc
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=2813

How to setup java.util.logging.Handler for OC4J
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/web.1013/b28952/logging.htm
http://java2go.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-setup-java-logging-in-oc4j.html

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Oracle and BEA

January 16, 2008: Oracle announces an agreement to acquire BEA Systems.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Oracle® SOA Suite Best Practices Guide 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.3.0)

I stumbled on the document "Oracle® SOA Suite Best Practices Guide 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.3.0)" dated December 2007 today, intresting!

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture

The following two articles gives an insight on how the Tangosol Coherence product has been utilized in the 11g version of Oracle SOA Suite ( I hope )

The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture

Next-Generation Grid-Enabled SOA: Not Your MOM's Bus

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Oracle SOA Suite 11 g - Technology Preview

Here is the link to Oracle SOA Suite 11g - Technical Preview 3

Happy new 2008!

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Patch 6501312 - BPEL Repository spring cleaning

A new patch with id 6501312 creates a purge_instances procedure in the oraclebpel schema that you can use to delete your old BPEL Process instances.

Currently (Thu Dec 13 15:36:56 CET 2007) there seemes to be a problem with the paths for this patch in unix so I installed it using the following procedure:

1 Copy the files in 6501312/files/bpel\system\database\scripts to $ORACLE_HOME/bpel/system/database/scripts

2. Run the sqlplus scrip to create index and create the procedure "purge_instances".

Example:

bash$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Dec 13 10:19:06 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> connect orabpel@instance
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> @upgrade_6501312_oracle.sql
SQL> commit;
SQL> @purge_instances_oracle.sql

After this you may start your spring cleaning:

BEGIN
purge_instances(to_timestamp('2007-12-13 10:30:25','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'));
COMMIT;
END;

Happy cleaning!

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[Error ORABPEL-10902]: compilation failed, XML parsing failed because ""

ORABPEL-10902 shows up from time to time to annoy any BPEL developer.

It could be (I think) somthing like:

  1. General namespace errors
  2. Incorrect variable errors
  3. Variables that you try to access "out-of-scope"

The error message "" is not that helpful in any case, but if we change the 'verbose' setting to true in the ant build.properties file we get better information.

deployment tasksverbose = true

Thanks to Marc Kelderman, I can't wait until I get the next ORABPEL-10902!

Today we saw an ORA-600 when we added a diskgroup into our ASM instance... but that is a different story.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Trick Question - "good but expensive" vs "quick and dirty"

Your project manager has asked you to estimate the difference in cost between the "good but expensive", "quick and dirty" path or solution!

What should you do?

Steve McConnells answer in this blogentry is that you should ask three more questions:

1.How much it will cost to backfill the good path after you've already gone down the quick path?
2.If you choose the quick path now, how much does that slow down other work until you're able to retrofit the good path?
3.Is there a path that is quicker than the good path and that won't affect the rest of the system?

Steves Bottom line: When facing the prospect of taking on technical debt, be sure to generate more than two design options.

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10.1.3.3.1 deployment

After deploying 10.1.3.3.1 I got the following startup errors (even if I followed the README to the point)

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07/12/11 22:10:41 Start process--------
07/12/11 22:11:39 log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (wsif).
07/12/11 22:11:39 log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.¨

07/12/11 22:11:44 WARNING: Application.setConfig Application: orabpel is in failed state as initialization failed. java.lang.InstantiationException: Error initializing ejb-modules: error in opening zip file; nested exception is: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
07/12/11 22:11:44 WARNING: Application.setConfig Application: hw_services is in failed state as initialization failed. java.lang.InstantiationException: Error initializing ejb-modules: [hw_services:hw_services_ejb:RemoteWorklistService] - Unable to load ejb-class oracle.tip.pc.services.hw.worklist.RemoteWorklistServiceBean, see section 23.2 of the EJB 2.1 specificationoracle.classloader.util.AnnotatedClassNotFoundException:
Missing class: oracle.tip.pc.services.hw.worklist.RemoteWorklistServiceBean
Dependent class: com.evermind.server.ejb.deployment.BeanDescriptor Loader: oc4j:10.1.3 Code-Source: /oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/j2ee/home/lib/oc4j-internal.jar Configuration: in META-INF/boot.xml in /oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/j2ee/home/oc4j.jar
This load was initiated at hw_services.root:0.0.0 using the Class.forName() method.
The missing class is available from the following locations:
1. Code-Source: /oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/bpel/system/services/lib/bpm-services.jar (from in /oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/j2ee/oc4j_soa/config/server.xml) This code-source is available in loader oracle.bpel.common:10.1.3. This shared-library can be imported by the "hw_services" application.

07/12/11 22:11:50 Initializing B2BDiscoveryServlet07/12/11 22:11:54 Finished initializing B2BDiscoveryServlet07/12/11 22:11:56 Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) initialized


I then tried to redeploy BPEL services by using the $ORACLE_HOME/config/deploy_bpel.sh script.

This script gave me the following error:

config>> ./deploy_bpel.sh
BUILD FAILED/oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/bpel/system/services/install/ant-tasks/redeploy.xml:33: The following error occurred while executing this line:/oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/bpel/system/services/install/ant-tasks/redeploy.xml:66: Error while expanding /oracle/product/soa_10.1.3/bpel/system/services/lib/workflow_javadoc.jar


I then commeted out the workflow_javadoc.jar from bpel/system/services/install/ant-tasks/redeploy.xml, and then the redeploy works again!

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