This January, I came up with Scan your SOA Suite JCA Files, where I explained how to use Apache ANT to find all your JCA files and fetch relevant info from them to create a CSV file from it. This week, at my current customer I wanted to gather all…

It’s been around for a while: the with-clause in Oracle SQL. And indeed, I used it in the past. The with clause is very useful to modularize your SQLs, especially in views. The first time I used it, I had a case that I did not know how to solve…

Introduction The contents of this article I wrote about 20 years ago, already, for our consulting magazine ‘the Snapshot’. But, from time to time, I get myself to refer back to it. Even this very week. …

My previous story was about Modularizing Multi-machine Vagrant projects, and my first article in creating a Multi-Node Kubernetes cluster on my laptop. Since Kubernetes is a container orchestration manager, we’ll need a container runtime engine as a prerequisite. In my previous article, I focussed on how to create a multi-VM…

I’ve been studying for my Certified Kubernetes for Admins exam for a few months. For this, I want to practice creating a Kubernetes cluster on my laptop. The Udemy Course I follow provides a (Kodekloud) Vagrant project for this purpose. …

With Fusion Middleware 12c, Oracle introduced another topology for JDeveloper to develop SOA, BPM, and OSB projects. The SOA and BPM Quickstarts. It comes with an embedded Weblogic with a complete SOA and OSB installation. …

A cryptic title, isn’t it? In my Certified Kubernetes for Admin course, I needed to install Weave in a lab. Weave can be installed as pods and to do so, you can find YAML files from GitHub here. Pipe wget to kubectl apply Now, you can download the latest YAML file and feed that to…

Lately, I helped a customer with problems with a Fusion Middleware deployment. To compare their installation with a default one, I created a new installation with a corresponding domain. For the installation, I downloaded a recent Oracle JDK8, update 341 at the time, which is currently 351: https://www.oracle.com/nl/java/technologies/javase/javase8u211-later-archive-downloads.html. But after…

Many customers have a large code base on SOA Suite Projects. Typically, those projects distribute messages over different technologies. For that, Oracle SOA Suite provides a shipload of JCA Adapters. The most commonly used adapters are the technology adapters, like Database, File of FTP, JMS, and Advanced Queueing. The large…