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EM Cloud Administration Guide released

PeterPaul — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:01:06 +0000

Oracle released the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Administration Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1) documentation. It is part of the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Documentation.

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is system management software that delivers centralized monitoring, administration, and life-cycle management functionality for the complete IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

Have a great 2012

PeterPaul — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:55:21 +0000

Wishing you and your loved ones all the best for 2012!

That you may enjoy life’s little (and not so little) miracles each and every day.

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.1) available

PeterPaul — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:28:55 +0000

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.1) is available for download. The main themes of the new release are according to Oracle:

Java EE 6 and Developer Productivity
Simplified Deployment and Management with Virtualization
Integrated Traffic Management
Enhanced Availability and Disaster Recovery
Much Higher Performance
Seamless Upgrade

WebLogic Server 12 is available as installer or ZIP distribution. Download WebLogic Server 12c. Other useful links:

The documentation library, including the Installation Guide.
Blog post by Arun Gupta on using the WLS 12c – Using Zip Installer
Markus Eisele already published already quite some 12c post on his blog.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (12.1.1) available

Shortly after WLS 12c Oracle also has released OEPE 12.1.1 – Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. It is certified on Windows 7/XP/Vista, MacOS, and Linux. OEPE is supported on JDK 6.

The installation guide for OEPE.
The installer is available both as ZIP and Full Installer. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse full installers include Oracle WebLogic Server 12c and Oracle Coherence 3.7.1.
OEPE Homepage

Update: WebLogic 12.1.1 VirtualBox Appliance available

With OTN Virtual Developer Day a WebLogic 12c VirtualBox appliance became available. On the appliance there are Labs and other Java development tools like: Hudson, Subversion, Maven, NetBeans IDE, and Eclipse (including OEPE).

Oracle BPM Suite 11g Handbook and free resources

PeterPaul — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:13:07 +0000

Recently McGraw Hill published the Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook. It is available on their site and at Amazon.com.

Here is the table of contents with the links to the free chapters:

Part I: Introduction

BPM – Background
Standards in BPM
BPM Suite 11g – Overview

Part II: Mastering Oracle BPM 11g

Quick Learners Guide to Oracle BPM 11g
Business Process Modeling and Implementation using BPMN 2.0
Mastering Business Rules
Advanced Human Tasks
Developing Rich User Interfaces for BPM with ADF

Part III: Essentials of Oracle BPM Methodology

Planning a BPM Adoption
Strategic Analysis, Process Selection and Design
Technical Design and Project Delivery Strategies

Oracle releases NoSQL Database, Enterprise Edition 1.1.100

PeterPaul — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:42:36 +0000

While the NoSQL Database Community Edition still waits for final license approval, Oracle has released it’s NoSQL Database, Enterprise Edition 1.1.100. The download is available on OTN.

The Oracle NoSQL Database is a distributed key-value database. It is designed to provide highly reliable, scalable and available data storage across a configurable set of systems that function as storage nodes.

The documentation page is still rather empty. However Technical Overview and a Data Sheet are already available.

Oracle NoSQL is a key offering in Oracle’s portfolio of Big Data products. The product is based on the Java version of Berkeley DB, an open source database used in embedded systems.

Update

The NoSQL documentation is available.
A great in depth look into Oracle NoSQL. Also read the discussion over there.

Have a Great 2011

PeterPaul — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:07:44 +0000

Wishing you and your family all the best for 2011!

That you may enjoy life’s little (and not so little) miracles each and every day.

A pre-JavaOne peek into the future of Java

PeterPaul — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:41:35 +0000

In this week just before JavaOne and Oracle OpenWorld the topic “the future of Java” keeps coming up again and again. Today the tweets coming out of the Oracle ACE Director briefing, that some how aren’t affected by a non-disclosure agreement, seem strong and positive: Ranging from Extremely passionate and very impressive, and incredibly passionate address to amazingly open words. Resulting in the statement Oracle is on the good side of the force… as far as Java is concerned. As close as we mere mortals can get at this point in time…

In one of the tweets Thomas Kurian is quoted:

After my keynote, there is no longer any confusion about the Java feature roadmap.

To see for yourself what the future of Java looks like, watch Thomas Kurian’s keynote live via the stream on JavaOne and Java Develop. To be continued…

Note that the Java Champions have joined the Oracle ACE Directors. As was stated here this significantly raised the number of Eclipse users

Another easy way to test drive SOA Suite and BPM 11g R1 PS2

PeterPaul — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:07:46 +0000

In June an AMI (Amazon Machine Image to use on the EC2 platform) for SOA Suite and BPM 11g R1 PS2 became available. In the last days it was announced that a VirtualBox Appliance is available. The timing, just before Oracle OpenWorld 2010 cannot be a coincidence…

This appliance contains a fully configured, ready-to-use SOA/BPM 11g R1 installation. It contains the following software:

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4
Oracle XE Universal database 10.2.0.1
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.3.0
SOA Suite 11gR1 PS2
BPM Suite 11gR1 PS2 (with bundle patch #1)
BAM 11gR1 PS2
B2B 11gR1 PS2
JDeveloper 11.1.1.3

The download and setup instructions can be found on Oracle Technet.

SOA Suite 11gR1 PS2 released

PeterPaul — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:22:16 +0000

Previous I mentioned a preview of the 11g R1 PS2 new features. Here are a few links for this new release – 11.1.1.3.0:

SOA Suite 11g R1 PS2 new features.
Download page
The documentation index will probably be updated soon.

Existing PS1 users simply apply the patch to upgrade to 11.1.1.3.0.

Other releases

Oracle Service Bus OSB 11g R1
Business Process Management BPM 11g R1

Oracle SOA Governance 11g release?

PeterPaul — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:01:42 +0000

Recently, in a press release, Oracle introduced Oracle SOA Governance. This component of Fusion Middleware consist of the following components:

Oracle Enterprise Repository – OER
Oracle Service Registry
SOA Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager (SOA Management Pack)
Web Service Manager

According to the press release it is already fully integrated with Oracle Amberpoint:

Oracle SOA Goverance 11g is fully integrated with Oracle AmberPoint, a leader in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management. The new solution provides organizations more continuity of closed-loop governance processes across both Oracle and third party applications.

Besides that it is not clear to me what is new. The latest version of the Enterprise Repository was release a month ago. Any ideas? Please leave them in the comments.