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For a short summary of our key monthly information watch the PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The December edition highlights the resources to become a certified Oracle Integration Expert and our Slack channel to support you! This month’s you have the opportunity to watch all community webcasts free on-demand.
Want to publish your best practice article & news in the next community newsletter? Please feel free to send it via Twitter @soaCommunity #PaaSCommunity! |
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Free on-demand PaaS Partner Community Webcasts |
Thanks for attending our monthly community webcasts. Every monthly a speaker from the Oracle product management teams presents the latest updates on the Oracle Cloud Platform. As it’s Christmas time, take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand: |
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PaaS Partner Success Video: John Sim JSECOIN Oracle's Chatbot answers cryptocurrency questions. |
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JSECOIN implemented a chatbot to answer customer’s question via their website and social media. Which improves customer satisfaction and allows the startup to focus on new features for their cryptocurrency. |
We want to promote your customer success! Have you implemented successful a solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform? Submit your success story via the customer reference program. |
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New 2019 Implementation Certifications |
Enablement and certification is key to cloud success. |
At the Oracle Competence Center and Online Learning Library partners can attend free on-line classes and certifications. Additional we offer the latest implementation exams ($245 or free vouchers) for: |
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Help Wanted: How A Grocer Finds Workers Willing To ‘Do It All’ With A Smile by Linda Currey |
To work in Britain’s Co-op food stores, employees have to do a little bit of everything during any given shift. To keep the Co-op convenience stores and neighborhood markets running smoothly, staffers may accept deliveries, unpack boxes of groceries, flowers, and household items, stock the shelves, clean up spills, or run the registers, all while welcoming customers. New hires need the qualifications to do it all. |
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Why did Ovum name Oracle a leader in Hybrid Integration Platforms and why is it important? By Daryl Eicher |
Integration is the lifeblood of today’s digital economy... Looking for practical ways to accelerate your digital business development? Do you have a mix of SaaS and on-premises business systems from multiple vendors? What would it mean to your application modernization and transformation projects if you could cut your time to connect and extend any application from months to minutes? That's what Oracle Integration has done for thousands of connected businesses like yours. |
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Oracle Integration now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Gen 2 by Niall Commiskey |
Since last week, new Oracle Cloud accounts can create OIC instances on OCI Gen2. The step by step creation instructions are available here. So what does Gen2 give me? I will go into more details in a future post - but, to begin with – 1. OCI Gen2 Compartments - create your OIC instance in your own compartment for administrative Lifecycle Mgt isolation. 2. OOTB integration with OCI services such as Events, Functions, Streaming and Notification. 3. OIC integration in OCI One Console |
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Calling JD Edwards Orchestrations from Oracle Integration: Quickly and Easily by Prakash Masand |
JD Edwards orchestrations empowers army of citizen developers/business analyst resources to design business applications REST APIs without writing a single line of code. JD Edwards orchestrations exposes business process steps tied together graphically through the robust semantics of REST standards. JD Edwards orchestrations are great way to simplify, integrate and automate repeated tasks through digital technologies. JD Edwards orchestrations are executed at AIS Server however they are designed via a tool called as Orchestrator studio, with JD Edwards tools release 9.2.4.0, Orchestrator studio is also part of AIS Server that further simplifies deployment of Orchestrator studio. |
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Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Adapter in OIC by Ankur Jain |
The Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Adapter enables you to integrate the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing database with Oracle Integration through use of direct connectivity. Use the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Adapter to execute SQL queries or stored procedures in the Oracle database. |
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OIC SOA Suite Adapter available as feature flag by Niall Commiskey |
The feature flag is called - oic.cloudadapter.adapters.soaadapter This can be activated on your OIC environment via an SR. Example to follow. Just downloading the latest and greatest SOA Suite version 12.2.1.4. from here. That was quick - SOA Suite Quick Start downloaded and configured/started within 30 minutes. |
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Oracle Integration Cloud Navigation Walkthrough by Ankur Jain |
Oracle Integration Cloud Navigation Walkthough video will help you to understand the different screen provided by OIC. This post might be interested for all who is just jumping into the Oracle Integration Cloud and struggling to learn Oracle Integration Cloud. When you start OIC, you will see lots of screen which might difficult for you to understand initially. Here is the video for you which will help you to understand each and every screen in OIC. |
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OIC - CPQ Integration by Niall Commiskey |
Here is a short introduction to the OIC CPQ adapter. As a pre-requisite, I suggest you read the Oracle CPQ Cloud - Service descriptions It is available here. Now back to the OIC CPQ adapter - A short introduction from the adapter docs - available here. |
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OIC - CPQ Integration part II by Niall Commiskey |
Before looking more deeply at how one integrates with CPQ, let's look at the product itself - CPQ in 5 minutes... CPQ has its own scripting tool - BML – BML (BigMachines Extensible Language) is a scripting tool that is used to capture a company's complex business logic within CPQ Cloud Configuration and Commerce. More in-depth info in the CPQ eBook - available here. |
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Using the next generation Activity Stream by Mamta Sangwan |
For debugging an instance or check payload in an instance, user had to use Audit Trail and Tracing on Tracking details screen. Since the information was scattered at two places, user had to keep switching between them to get the complete picture of the Instance. With this new Activity Stream, we are clubbing Audit Trail with Tracing information and showing more compact and easily readable Activity Stream. |
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Oracle Integration Cloud REST Adapter capabilities by Ankur Jain |
Oracle Integration Cloud REST Adapter video will help you to understand about REST Adapter capabilities and limitations. This post might be interested for all who is just jumping into the Oracle Integration Cloud and want to understand how REST adapter works and how to create REST connection with the help of REST adapter in OIC. Here is the video for you which will help you to understand REST adapter in OIC. |
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API Management for Cloud Native Development by Robert Wunderlich |
We’re pleased to announce the Limited Availability (LA) release of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway service. This service is a highly available, fully managed gateway that enables developers to create governed HTTP/S interfaces for other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, including Oracle Functions, Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Compute. |
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Notifications from Oracle API Platform Cloud Service by Phil Wilkins |
There are circumstances in which notifications from the Oracle API Platform CS could be seen as desirable. For example, if you wish to ensure that the developers are defining good APIs and not accidentally implementing APIs that hit the OWASP Top 10 for APIs. Then you will probably configure things such that developer users can design the APIs, configure the policies, but only request an API to be deployed. |
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API Platform – Developer Portal Delegated Authentication by Phil Wilkins |
The API Platform when you configure IDCS to provide the option to authenticate users against a corporate Identity Provider such as Active Directory will automatically update the Management Portal Login screen accordingly. However today it doesn’t automatically update the Developer Portal login page. Whilst perhaps an oversight, it is very easy to fix manually when you know how. |
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Jarvis Pizzeria: Input and Output Storage of Decision Model Invokes by Marcel van de Glind |
In this blog we describe a way to store the Input and Output of Decision Model Invokes (in JSON format). From an administrative point of view, we at Jarvis believe it is important that we can always see how we have achieved certain results. In this case this means that we want to know with which variables the Decision Model was invoked and what the outcomes were. How we do this is subject of this blog. |
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Jarvis Pizzeria: Managing DM Masterdata Validity Period by Marcel van de Glind |
In a previous blog we described how to retrieving the masterdata from a VBCS Business Object. In this blog we will expand this further with a validity period for the masterdata. Now let’s expand our scenario (see previous blog) a little further. Currently, one of the means of transport in the Decision model is a bike. Many bikes in the Netherlands are currently being replaced by an electrically powered version. Jarvis Pizzeria will also replace regular bikes with electric bikes from the new year. The change must also be implemented in the system (read Decision Model). |
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OIC Process: Auto-Mapping Elements in the Data Mapper by Jan Kettenis |
When mapping data in the Oracle Integration Cloud (or OIC for short) you sometimes discover that elements you want to map from are not always available as a source on the left-hand side. As I recently found out (thank you Eduardo Chiocconi!) that does not necessarily mean that they are not available for mapping. An example might be including some elements of the request in the title of the process instance. Until now I always did this by including a Data Mapper right after the Start Event. However, the same I could have achieved in the Start Activity itself. |
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Jarvis Pizzeria: ICS – XSLT parameters that are not found but are being used? By Marcel van de Glind |
Recently I came across an odd phenomenon in an ICS mapping that I want to share with the community via this blog. In short: XSLT parameters that are not found but are being used. Let me explain: at VBCS we have a Business Object whose data can be accessed via a REST call. Here the “q” parameter can be used to filter on characteristics that are stored in the BO. In the maximum variant, the “q” parameter can contain 8 characteristics (see screenshot below). |
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Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups |
We launched three new local Meetup locations in Cairo, Frankfurt and Porto! Want to learn more about developing Enterprise-grade Cloud Native applications on the Oracle Cloud Platform, covering topics like Microservices Architecture, developing in Node, Python and PHP, using Low Code development tools to build Mobile apps, and much more?
Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups if you want to follow Oracle’s solutions in this area, or participate in the events and hands-on labs we organize: |
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PaaS free trial accounts OIC & SOA CS and PaaS for SaaS at Demo.Oracle.com |
As part of our communities we do offer free PaaS accounts. To request a free 30 days cloud trial, which can be extended or an additional month, please add yourself to our community wiki: PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required). |
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