Working with SSL certificates on Oracle Enterprise Gateway or OWSM
Working with SSL certificates is not common sense. Applying a new certificate on a server for outgoing messages is not a walk in the park. Do not think installing a client certificate on top of SSL...
View ArticlePurging SOA Suite 11g, the Extreme Edition
Did you ever wondered how purging is working in SOA 11g? I tried to look into the scripts from PS1 until PS4. From PS3 they redesigned the concept and focussed on scheduling and parallel execution. My...
View ArticleSOA Suite 11g: AQ a tuning tip
When you use AQ to dequeue message to the SOA Suite, keep in mind the maximum number of connections to your database.A 4 node OSB cluster the does the dequeue and sends the messages to a 4 node SOA11g...
View ArticleSOA 11g PS3/PS4: Significant Purging Performance Improvement
Create the following index in the *_soainfra schema to improve the purging significantly. And with significant I mean SIGNIFICANT in upper-case :-). We have loads of instances too purge, +100K. The...
View ArticleOSB using BLOB data with DBAdapter results in ora-2049
When you want to poll data in the OSB, you will use the DBAdapter. In a 4-node production cluster we saw some strange errors periodically. These errors came up in the log file of any of the application...
View ArticleTuning SOA 11g in a nutshell
Tuning SOA 11g can be done in a few quick steps, this will tackle most common performance issues at infrastructure level. On the other hand, most performance issues are in the application (composite)...
View ArticlePurging OSB Report data
Deleting report data generated by Oracle Service Bus (OSB) can be done via the Service Bus console.Make sure you have deployed the " Message Reporting Purger " application. By default the application...
View ArticleSOA 11g: Improved Memory and Garbage Consumption
There is a huge difference in memory consumption when you run SOA11g (PS4 in my case). The screens are based on a full-production clustered environment. One node is running with sub-optimal settings,...
View ArticleOSB: AdminServer spinning 100% CPU
Sometimes for no reason, or I did not find a reason..., the AdminServer is spinning into 100% CPU. Communication is impossible; deployment is failing or take a long time (hours...), Console will not...
View ArticleOSB: Deployment issues with DBAdapter
In normal circumstances changing the configuration of the DBAdapter should work. You create a JDBC datasource and create in the outbound connections of the DbAdpater a new JNDI entry. After saving your...
View ArticleOWSM: Loading private and public certifcates
As written in my blog article on SSL, handling certificates is not easy. One of the goals I had was to load a public and private certificate into a JKS key-store. With tools such as keytool and...
View ArticleMeet me @ Oracle Partner Event Partner Community Forum – February 7th & 8th...
I will join the OPN Forum in Malaga Spain, on February 7th & 8th 2012. If you want to join just click on the link: In this event you will meet other fellows on related stuff on Weblogic 12c, BPM,...
View ArticleOracle Service Bus Cookbook
Former Oracle collegueus and business parnerts wrote a nice cok book on the usages of Oracle Service Bus. The book is full of examples and guide you through the working and usage of the Oracle Service...
View ArticleAQAdapter: Reset your datasource
Using the AQ Adapter in a cluster environment, can cost you a lot of temporary tablespace. When you use AQ for dequeuing events and process them further with OSB or SOA Suite, there is always a...
View ArticleOracle Partner Event: Málaga 2012 Edition
In the first half of February 2012, I joined the Oracle Partner Event in Málaga, Spain. This event is organized by Oracle for all partners and special guests. The goal of this event is to learn from...
View ArticleOracle Fusion Middleware PS5 is out
A short article, but Oracle Fusion Middleware patchset #5 is out! Now downloadble via: Oracle Fusion Middleware PS5 is out! https://edelivery.oracle.com or via OTN...
View ArticleMajor Memory en CPU improvement on OFM
The last few weeks we had some strange behaviour on our Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. This was first related to two different SOA 11g production clusters. One 2-node cluster and one 4-node cluster....
View ArticleReview: Do more with SOA Integration
Publishing books related to Oracle SOA technology contains a broad spectrum of products, tools and technologies. Packt Publishing is trying to fill this spectrum with al kinds of books. But buying all...
View ArticleOEM12c Patchset install: Updated cleanup script
I have updated my script to force a clean-up of de repository of OEM12c with the latest patch set. There were some new roles and synonyms introduced. The old script of OEM12c is here, new one is here,...
View ArticleWLST Script changing logfile location
While I was migrating Forms6i to Forms11g patch set #5, the configuration tool of Forms11g is a bit strict. In the silent install it is not possible to set de locations of the log files. Here is the...
View ArticleExtreme performance boost on OSB11g and CLOB objects
When using the JCA DbAdpater in the Oracle Service Bus (OSB11g) normal operations running fine. Most of us using the DbAdapter for simple DML actions (Select/Insert/Update/Delete).There is a huge...
View ArticleReview: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administration Handbook
While Packt Publishing is almost ready to publish their 1000th title. They will celebrate this with an the event. As the mentioned on their site:"Packt would like you to join them in celebrating this...
View ArticleAPEX: Running multiple version on single Weblogic Server
Sometimes you would like to have multiple versions of APEX running on one Weblogic Server, or Weblogic Cluster. For example, you would like to run APEX version 4.0 and version 4.2 along each other. To...
View ArticleOracle Fusion Middleware patchset 7, the release notes
As of April 2013, patchset 6 is out for the whole Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. It is always hard to find the release notes on the Oracle Website. To many clicks. Here are the releae notes of...
View ArticleChanging SOA properties via WLST
Hereby a script to change some properties for SOA Suite. These are some generic settings such...
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