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Integration Cloud or SOA Suite?

02 Thursday Sep 2021

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ICS, integration, OIC, Oracle, SOA, SOA Suite

A periodic conversation I get involved is the the relationship between Oracle’s SOA Suite and Integration Cloud. We’ve long held a view based on our conversations with Oracle product management.

There is a formal statement of direction for SOA Suite available ….

The bottom line as we read it:

SOA Suite isn’t going to be scrapped and customers will not be forced onto Integration Cloud.
Future changes are going to be on making transitions easier to the cloud, and a customer decision to adopt OIC.
Releases will focus on keeping things up to date and aligned with the underlying technologies from Java 8 to Java 11 as a long term release of Java. WebLogic version updates.
We’ll see mechanisms to cloud deliver integrations as the primary focus.

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OIC, Aces and Video

01 Tuesday Sep 2020

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OIC & Aces

As some may know we have continued to support our book on Oracle Integration through our site Oracle-Integration.cloud with monthly a roundup of new articles and posts coming from the community. Today we posted the August roundup. This compliments our own writing, and the possibility of adding a cookbook to compliment the original book. There are two sources that we don’t take look at too deeply, the use of videos resources and courses. Primarily because these sources cost, or take time to determine what the content covers. Whilst I’m not providing guarantees, two members of the Ace community that I have had regular contact and respect have developed course ware and video content these are:

Ankur Jain‘s TechSupper blog and course on Udemy
Atul Kumar’s K21 Academy which includes a blog
Oracle Learning on You Tube – the Integration content has its own playlist

Meetup – magic of correlations in SOA, BPM and Oracle Integration Cloud

30 Thursday Jul 2020

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Earlier this month as part of the Virtual Oracle Developer Meetups, we were very fortunate to have Oracle Ace, Martien van den Akker present on the subject of the magic of correlations in SOA, BPM, and Oracle Integration Cloud. Martien not only presents to the Oracle community but also is very active on the Oracle community sites (community.oracle.com and Cloud Customer Connect) sharing his wealth of knowledge. When it comes to the tough questions about Oracle middleware tech on these platforms, you stand a good chance that Martien will be the one answering your question.

This insightful presentation not only addressed the traditional Oracle Integration approach using SOA and BPM but also contrasted the capabilities as provided by Oracle Cloud. Martien was generous enough to allow us to record the presentation and share it (below), along with the demo resources from:

Martien also blogs at https://blog.darwin-it.nl/ which contains a wealth of insightful articles – recommended reading.

Integrating API Management with the rest of your Development Pipeline

30 Thursday May 2019

Posted by mp3monster in API Platform CS, APIs & microservices, General, OIC - ICS, Oracle, Technology

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API, CI/CD, Flexagon, Flexdeploy, OIC, SOASuite

Oracle API Management keeps API policy configuration and management internalized for a number of reasons including security (after all you don’t want your security rules for APIs out in the open). The Platform does provide simple versioning. But you need to able to link the policies to the back end implementations – so the policy configuration is aligned to what is implemented. For example you don’t want the policy to accept parameters that your back end can’t handle in version 1, but does in version 2 of your solution. I have blogged about some of these considerations in the past here.

We have had the good fortune to sit and discuss the challenges of how API configurations could be managed with Flexagon. As a result of our input and from others Flexdeploy has a number of new features making the configuration management of APIs very easy. In addition to this is further simplifying gateway deployment processes. When combined with a very powerful CI/CD that can handle traditional development, microservices and development with integration products such as like SOA Suite and OIC a huge amount of flexibility is made available enabling configuration management, multi environment deployments.

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Flexagon have started a series of blogs on the subject – recommend checking them out – here.

UKOUG Conference 2018

04 Tuesday Dec 2018

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With the start of December comes the UK Oracle User Group conference, or to be more precise the Independent UKOUG. This year the conference is back in Blackpool, a slightly smaller venue than the ICC in Birmingham, but in many respects that made the event feel more vibrant and busy.

The user group also announced some of the changes it is making going forwards reflecting the changing needs of its members – SIGs being largely superseded by multi-stream single day events (Summits) with the Call for Papers for the first of these here. A wider list of Oracle related Calls for Papers is available here.

Of course being a UKOUG Volunteer, I have been presenting and co-presenting. The slides from my presentation sessions can be found at:

This was an abridged version of the an update on my presentation here

My second presentation was a review of Oracle Integration Cloud, in which I presented some customer use cases of OCI as part of a wider presentation on OIC by Sid Joshi.

This was followed on the second day with two API based sessions, the first being a deep dive into custom API Policies on the Oracle API Platform.

The final session, was another short one looking at Apiary which was primarily a demo of what the solution can do.

On top of trying to keep up with my usual workload – a very hectic couple of days.

A busy 25 hours at UKOUG Conference

05 Tuesday Dec 2017

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Cloud, conference, integration, messaging, OIC, OIC - ICS, OMESA, OraWorld, PushListener, UKOUG, WebScript

I’ve just come to the end of a very busy 25 hours at the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) Conference in Birmingham. Four presentations – interestingly the same subject area, that of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) / Integration Cloud Service (ICS) started and ended the day. Between this we also covered some approaches to start working towards Microservices in a Monolith World and Oracle Messaging Cloud.

Below are the presentations on the Microservices and ICS/OIC. The piece on Oracle Messaging Cloud was largely demo based, so rather than sharing the presentation slides, which won’t tell you too much. The best way to find out about this is to read the 2 articles about the capability in the OraWorld magazine (issues 6 & 7). With issue 7 perfectly timed by becoming available in the last couple of days.

With the Oracle Messaging Cloud article, there is one word of caution. When the article was written and submitted I used a free cloud service (which using contemporary terminology we’d describe as Serverless) called WebScript.io. The WebScript piece served to make it easy to consume the webservice calls illustrating the PushListener feature. This service however is being closed down – a shame as it was an elegantly simple solution. Given this I am currently working on a blog post which will show how another services can take the place of WebScript.io; whilst not finalised, this maybe Google Cloud Functions.

If this wasn’t enough we also squeezed in the keynote presentations, a meeting with several other contributors to OMESA (Open Modern Enterprise Software Architecture) , a lunch conversation with our Publisher (Packt) and several other Oracle book authors, Oracle Ace dinner (great food with a lot of brilliant & friendly people), some very valuable incidental conversations and some work for a customer.