As you might have guessed, there was a lot going on about the cloud. So much, it was almost confusing. The most interesting clouds that stayed with me after OOW14 where:
- The Integration Cloud Service (ICS).
- The Java Cloud Services (JCS) in combination with the Developer Cloud Service (DCS).
- Mobile Cloud Service (MAX).
However, since I am not really working with any cloud related product, my main focus was on the on-premise Oracle FMW stack. So if you want to know more about the cloud, there are plenty of other, better blogs to tell you more about these details.
SOA Suite Upgrade to 12c
First of all, very impressive, you can smoothly upgrade from 11g to 12c. There is an extensive upgrade manual that you can follow, to upgrade from your 11g to the new 12.1.3. release. If you follow the step by step guide, the upgrade will even work if you have running instances on your production environment.
This upgrade has been proven to work on multiple customer cases.
API Management
Oracle will be announcing two new product which will help you with your API management, this features will be on top of the Oracle Service Bus. There are two sides of this product, which are actually separated products. One is to help out with your catalog of services, which are you running on the service bus. This information can be harvested from the bus and will be available in a catalog.
The second product is to help you with managing the consumers of your services. Your consumers must explicitly subscribe to your service in order to get an API key. They must use this API key in the http header when they call the service in order to get a result. Using this feature you get a complete overview of the consumers calling your service.
Oracle Stream Explorer
Oracle Stream Explorer (OSX) is a tool that can help you with getting information out of Oracle Event Processing (OEP). OSX can help you transforming lots of data into information. Stream Explorer can not only listen to edn, but also get input from csv files, database tables and other sources. It is a standalone product that helps you manipulate streams of data (events). Once the data is transformed into information, Stream Explorer can publish this again, for example to a JMS queue.
You can build a custom ADF UI to present this information or you can use Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).
Mobile Application Framework
The Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.0 is out and it starts to become a really mature product, one of the key things is the new release cycle for MAF. They intend to release every 2 months from now on.
One of the most named down sides of MAF is that it still runs on Java 4. However, not in the upcoming, but the release after that (meaning early next year), MAF will be upgraded to use Java 8. If you ever doubted on starting to investigate on MAF, now might be a good time.
The skills for a ADF developer are pretty transferable, MAF does not use JSF and does not have the ADF lifecycle as we know it from his big brother, but we do have java, taskflows, data controls and the binding layer.
Mobile Cloud Service
In the session ‘Next-Generation Application Development’, Chris Tonas said “The cloud is not just a deployment platform anymore”. Chris announced the coming of the Mobile Cloud Service (MCS), which is coming soon.
In a fifteen minute demonstration Chris showed how you can create an online mobile application, using the Mobile Application Accelerator (MAX) for Mobile Cloud Service. An application based on reusable MAF components you can deploy to either Android or iOS devices.
Service Bus & ADF
For both Service Bus & ADF I gathered so much info that I decided to create two separated blogs for these subject.
Online available resources
- SOA Suite Upgrade Guide
- Mobile Application Framework
- Event Processing
- Oracle Cloud
- Mobile Cloud Service
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