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BPM update adds Case Management Web Interface and REST APIs

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Mark Nelson

Oracle has just released BPM 11.1.1.7 Bundle Patch 3 which adds the out of the box web interface for Advanced Case Management and REST APIs for working with BPM. The patch is available from Oracle Support, it is patch number … Continue reading →

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JDK 8 Now Available on OTN

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Mark Nelson

Originally posted on Coherence Down Under:
Happy (belated) new year to all. Been a crazy start to the year so its been a challenge to get a detailed post going. I am working on one as we speak so watch…

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Want a free trip to JavaOne?

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Mark Nelson

Oracle Academy is pleased to be supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) Developer Challenge! This is not open to Oracle employees or their immediate families, but other readers may be interested in participating for the chance to win a pass … Continue reading →

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Manipulating Human Tasks (for testing)

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Mark Nelson

A few months ago, while working on a BPM migration, I had the need to look at the status of human tasks, and to manipulate them – essentially to just have a single user take random actions on them at … Continue reading →

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How to tell if the SOA Platform is running

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Mark Nelson

When you start up a SOA managed server, there is a time interval when the managed server is up, but the SOA platform is not yet up. This is the time while SOA is loading all of the composites, and … Continue reading →

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Programming with Hand Tools

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Mark Nelson

This is a bit off topic, but I thought I would share it anyway.  This is a recording of a presentation Tim Ewald gave at Clojure/conj (a conference about the Clojure programming language).  It would have to be one of … Continue reading →

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Doing more with the WebLogic Maven Plugin (Robot, Selenium and Sonar too!)

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Mark Nelson

The ‘new and improved’ WebLogic Maven Plugin in WebLogic Server 12.1.2 provides a bunch of additional capabilities above and beyond your straight compile/package/deploy operations.  In this post I wanted to take you on a journey of some of these additional … Continue reading →

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Setting up a Maven Repository Manager with Artifactory

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Mark Nelson

As you start to work more with Maven, you will undoubtedly reach the point where you feel the need for a repository manager – something that manages all of your repositories of artifacts for you.  You will likely have a … Continue reading →

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Writing a Robot Remote Library

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Mark Nelson

After reading the quick introduction to Robot Framework, you might have been asking yourself “so, what else can I do with this Robot thing?” – well there are, of course, a lot of things you can do with it.  Today, … Continue reading →

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A Roadmap for SOA Development and Delivery

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Mark Nelson

This post is part of a series on SOA Development and Delivery. In this post I will present a roadmap and a target state for SOA Development and Delivery.  This will serve as the basis for an extended open ‘proof … Continue reading →

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