#356 Oracle Business Rules 12c --> Verbal Rules and testing

Here is a concise lab that shows you how to create verbal rules and also how to leverage the
new rules test functionality that comes with 12c.

Lab available here 

#355 Install files for BPM 12c install

Here we are not referring to quickstart...


You need an Oracle DB, with one of the following versions -

12.1.0.1+; 11.1.0.7+; 11.2.0.3+;

and the following from edelivery

and

You can also check out the certification matrix here

It would also do no harm to read the official install doc, available here

#354 R Statistics engine in the Oracle Database

Got some people asking about this...
here are some useful links -

R on OTN - Here and there

What the heck is R? - answer here

#353 The Hare of the Dog --> the right medicine for all you developers out there...

Believe it or not, there's more  to life besides SOA and BPM.
My first novel is the perfect antidote for those in need of some R&R.

  























The book deals with the world of work, albeit from a totally different angle.
Check it out on Amazon today, in fact, don't just check it out, buy it!

Book on Amazon DE

Book on Amazon.com

Book on Amazon UK

Kindle version available from November 21st.

Enjoy!

#352 Oracle API Catalog on OTN

Check it out here

#351 BPM 12c Webcast from Oracle Product Management

Please see here

#350 Using API Catalog for harvesting Service Bus APIs

Same modus operandi as in the previous post - except we now us the osbharvester directory.

I had to make some changes to the following files - setenv.bat and HarvesterSettings.xml

BTW. my SB install is part of the JDEV SOA Quickstart environment.

JDEV Quickstart is installed at D:\Work\envs\FMW12c\SOA\jdev

setenv.bat

@echo off

@rem    Common Environment, including JAVA, ANT etc...

set MW_HOME=..\..\..\

call %MW_HOME%\oracle_common\common\bin\commEnv.cmd

echo %MW_HOME%

@rem    OSB / ConfigJar Tool Home directories

@rem NiallC changed the following 3 entries

set OSB_HOME=D:\Work\envs\FMW12c\SOA\jdev\osb

set OER_HOME=%MW_HOME%oer

set HARVESTER_HOME=%OER_HOME%\tools\osbharvester

@rem end of NiallC changes

@rem    System properties required by OSB

set OSB_OPTS=

set OSB_OPTS= %OSB_OPTS% -Dweblogic.home="%WL_HOME%/server"

set OSB_OPTS= %OSB_OPTS% -Dosb.home="%OSB_HOME%"

set OSB_OPTS= %OSB_OPTS% -Djava.util.logging.config.class=oracle.core.ojdl.logging.LoggingConfiguration

set OSB_OPTS= %OSB_OPTS% -Doracle.core.ojdl.logging.config.file="%HARVESTER_HOME%/logging.xml"

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% %OSB_OPTS%

set ANT_OPTS=%ANT_OPTS% %OSB_OPTS%

@rem  classpath representing OSB

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%MW_HOME%\wlserver\server\lib\weblogic.jar

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%MW_HOME%\oracle_common\modules\internal\features\jrf_wlsFmw_oracle.jrf.wls.classpath_12.1.3.jar

@rem NiallC reset the next line 

@rem set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%MW_HOME%\soa\soa\modules\oracle.soa.common.adapters_11.1.1\oracle.soa.common.adapters.jar

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;D:\Work\envs\FMW12c\SOA\jdev\soa\soa\modules\oracle.soa.common.adapters_11.1.1\oracle.soa.common.adapters.jar

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%OSB_HOME%\lib\servicebus.jar

@rem  classpath for OER Harvester

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HARVESTER_HOME%\client.harvester.jar

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HARVESTER_HOME%\client.harvester-osb.jar

@rem  ANT classpath

set LOCALCLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%

Now, I probably could have done the above more elegantly, but it's late...

HarvesterSettings.xml

   

I run the cmd as follows -

D:\Work\envs\APICatalog\WLS\oer\tools\osbharvester>

osb-harvest -remote_url http://ncommisk-de.de.oracle.com:7101 -remote_username weblogic -remote_server_type OSB

I then check the result in OAC - here is my SB (REST) API

Here is the definition in em -

I now harvest another SB project -

Here are the APIS in OAC -

Here are the details of one of the services -

#349 Using the API Catalog for harvesting SOA service APIs

Now to the usage of the catalog itself.

It leverages the OER concept of the harvester and has the concept of Departments for User management.

The Admin function - I have clicked on the Admin link -

I create a new department -

I create a new user -

I give myself the roles curator and developer.

Now what can they do?
The descriptions are taken from the official ORCL docs.

developer -

Users with the developer role have the ability to search OAC for published APIs from the OAC console or using the Oracle Enterprise Repository JDeveloper plug-in. The developer can examine the API metadata to better understand the API. The developer also has the ability to declare interest in the API and submit ratings and reviews for an API.

curator -

In addition to the capabilities available to the developer role, users with the curator role can run the harvester to create new API assets in OAC. After API assets have been created, curators edit them to update their metadata. The curator also has the ability to publish an API, which makes the API available for discovery by developers.

admin -

In addition to the capabilities available to the curator and the developer roles, users with the admin role have access to the Adminpage in OAC. From this page users with this role can administer the infrastructure of OAC by editing system settings, creating new users, creating new departments, managing sessions, and using the import/export tool. Users with this role can also configure the security features included with OAC.

Now I harvest some assets.

Again, to quote the docs -

The first activity in the asset lifecycle is to harvest APIs into OAC. The curator uses the harvester to populate OAC with API assets from SOA Suite and Service Bus or other deployed services. The harvester can be run from the command line or be integrated into the build process to automatically do the harvest at build time. The harvester creates API assets in a "Draft" state, meaning they are not discoverable by developers searching OAC.

I begin by harvesting my SOA assets -

here they are, listed in em -

To begin with, I will harvest the GetOrder composite.

Steps

1. Edit HarvesterSettings.xml

2. Run encrypt.bat on this file to encrypt the password.

Mine is already run, in the screenshot above.

3. Open a CMD window in the /harvester directory

4. Set JAVa_HOME to point to your JDK.

5. run setenv.bat

6. run the harvester e.g.

D:\Work\envs\APICatalog\WLS\oer\tools\harvester>harvest.bat -remote_url http://n

commisk-de.de.oracle.com:7101 -remote_username weblogic -remote_server_type SOAS

uite -remote_project GetOrder_rev1.0 -soa_partition default

Note: I use my machine name and not localhost.

Review in OAC -

I check out the details -

I can set the status to published -

and add a nice icon.

I log in to OAC as NiallC and see the asset.

Simple, yet effective!

#348 Installing API Catalog

Very simple -

download the required files from OTN.

1. Install XEDB

2. Install WebLogic Server. I installed to d:\work\envs\APICatalog\WLS

3. Install OER (API Catalog is contained within) - point to WLS install

java -jar oer_generic.jar

4. Download and apply RCU patch for OER 12c.

Apply the patch using the OPatch from /WLS.

5. Download and apply patch 18718889 for WebLogic

Apply the patch using the OPatch from /WLS.

6. Run RCU

    Ensure your XEDB is up and running.

rcu can be found in the /oracle_common/bin directory.

Set JAVA_HOME, if not already set.
then run rcu.

Click Ignore

Nearly there... here is the summary.

Click Create

7. Configure the WebLogic domain

Run config.cmd

Create a new domain

Set the password.

accept the defaults on the next screens.
Then click Create

8. Start the OAC server

  Login to the WebLogic console

start oac_server1 from the cmdline or from the console(after starting nodeManager)

9. Login to the OAC Server

http://localhost:8111/oac

login as admin/weblogic1

You will be prompted to change the password.

Simple Stuff!