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The Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing V2.5.0.2. 

It is ready for customers and partners to download and install via Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and My Oracle Support.

Key features in this release include:

• Support for integrating with Customer Experience (CX) Solutions:

o    Oracle Social Cloud or Social Relationship Management applications: Enables utilities to receive notifications of social conversations or posts requiring action in CCB
o    Oracle RightNow Knowledge Cloud Service: Enables users of CCB to be presented with a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) or topics that are relevant to the page they are on with links to the relevant content in Oracle RightNow Knowledge Cloud Service

• Additional Support for integrating with Oracle DataRaker:

o    Enable CCB to receive business flags or exceptions from other applications and manage those that require further investigation
o    Customer program management module enhancements to enable an initiative’s lead details to be extracted for advanced segmentation analysis and to receive updates to activate eligible leads for processing

• Enhanced customer care and billing features including customer contact enhancements, auto pay enhancement, off-cycle service provider switching, and increasing system wide support for person contacts
• Support for Pitney Bowes DOC1 for Online / Batch Printing and Online Display
• Oracle Scheduler (DBMS_SCHEDULER) Integration for scheduling and executing background (batch) processes.  Oracle Scheduler is included as part of the Oracle database.

Supporting Material: 
Refer to the Release Notes in the product download for a list of features provided in Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing V2.5.0.2.

Software Download Options:

• Option 1:  Oracle Software Delivery Cloud

1. Navigate to Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
2. Search for the Release ‘Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.5.0.2.0
3. Select the platform, e.g. Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit) and click ‘Continue’
4. Download the selected item

• Option 2:  My Oracle Support (product release available now)

1. Navigate to My Oracle Support
2. Click on Patches & Updates
3. Search for patch number 23629545
4. Download the patch for your platform

Software Installation and Product Documentation:
The complete set of installation and product documentation for Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing Version 2.5.0.2 is available with the product download. 

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Today I spent some time with Oracle colleagues in presenting Oracle JET to a company in the Netherlands. The company was using a technology stack that included a front-end technology that needs to be modernized for various reasons and Oracle JET was presented to them as the way to bring the front-end of an application into the modern world of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Of course, many small demos were done to make the key points of the benefits of Oracle JET. And those demos were all done in NetBeans IDE, with the great Oracle JET Support plugin!

Does your company want to modernize web front-ends? Take a look at Oracle JET, it's all open source and free, and available at http://github.com/oracle/oraclejet. We're doing company presentations on Oracle JET all over the world, if you're interested, let me know!

I met with Cojan van Ballegooijen who is involved with the Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization project. Read about that here:

http://www.jboss.org/products/datavirt/overview

I'm interested in setting up a scenario where Oracle JET could provide a dashboard on top of a VDB (virtual database).

Here's the steps we took to get started.

1. We started by downloading the 6.3.0 Beta of JBoss Data Virtualization: http://developers.redhat.com/products/datavirt/download.
   
   
2. After running "java -jar" on the JAR downloaded above, we had installed the product and had a folder named "EAP-6.4.0".
   
   
3. In the folder "quickstarts/dynamicvdb-datafederation", there's a folder "src/teiidfiles", which we copied into the root, i.e., into the "EAP-6.4.0" folder.
   
   
4. In the folder "standalone/configuration", there's a file named "standalone.xml", where we tweaked the reference to "jboss.dir" so that it pointed to the hardcoded location of the EAP-6.4.0 folder, i.e., there was a problem with slash escaping on Windows of the "jboss.dir" reference and to workaround that we hardcoded the path, for the data source with the jndi-name "java:/accounts-ds".
   
   
5. Then we ran "bin/standalone.bat", the process started, the "teiidfiles" were loaded, and at this location we saw the JSON payload: http://localhost:8080/odata4/Portfolio/Accounts/CUSTOMER?$format=json

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OAuth is an open protocol to allow secure authorization in a simple and standard method from web, mobile, and desktop applications. Oracle JET includes OAuth and there is documentation for the combination in the Oracle JET Developer Guide, in a chapter named Using oj.OAuth in Your Oracle JET Application.

In your "define" block, you need to include "ojs/ojmodel", since that's where the OAuth class is provided. The OAuth class provides the methods you can use to initialize the oj.OAuth object, verify initialization, and calculate the authorization header based on client credentials or access token.

Once you have included "ojs/model", you initialize "oj.OAuth", as described in the chapter, e.g.:

self.myOAuth = new oj.OAuth('X-Authorization');

When you use the Oracle JET Common Model, you'll find the "oj.Collection.extend" enables you to reference your "oj.OAuth" object. Also see the related JavaScript documentation:

http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jet/jsdocs/oj.OAuth.html

Here's all the code for a real "define" block that includes OAuth for working with Twitter. Take note of the bits in bold below, which are the statements relating to OAuth:

define(['ojs/ojcore', 
        'knockout', 
        'jquery', 
        'ojs/ojmodel', 
        'ojs/ojtable', 
        'ojs/ojcollectiontabledatasource'],
    function (oj, ko, $) {
        function HeaderViewModel() {
            var self = this;
            self.TweetCol = ko.observable();
            self.datasource = ko.observable();
            self.serviceURL = 'https://api.jublo.net/codebird/1.1/search/tweets.json';
            self.myOAuth = new oj.OAuth('X-Authorization');
            self.parseTweet = function (response) {
                return {
                    id_str: response['id_str'],
                    text: response['text'],
                    userName: response['user']['name']
                };
            };
            var Tweet = oj.Model.extend({
                urlRoot: self.serviceURL,
                parse: self.parseTweet,
                idAttribute: 'id_str'
            });
            var myTweet = new Tweet();
            var TweetCollection = oj.Collection.extend({
                url: self.serviceURL + '?q=NetBeans',
                model: myTweet,
                oauth: self.myOAuth
            });
            self.getData = function () {
                self.datasource(null);
                self.TweetCol(new TweetCollection());
                self.myOAuth.setAccessTokenRequest(
                    JSON.parse(sessionStorage.getItem('credentials'))
                );
                self.TweetCol().fetch({
                    success: function () {
                        self.datasource(
                            new oj.CollectionTableDataSource(self.TweetCol())
                        );
                    },
                    error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                        console.log('Error in fetch: ' + textStatus);
                    }
                });
            };
        }
        return new HeaderViewModel();
    }
);

In "main.js", the "credentials.js" file is loaded:

var prop;
$.ajax({
    url: 'js/credentials.json',
    dataType: 'json',
    async: false,
    success: function (data) {
        sessionStorage.setItem('credentials', JSON.stringify(data));
    },
    error: function (req, status, err) {
        console.log('something went wrong', status, err);
    }
});

The "credentials.js" file has this content:

{
    "client_id": "blabla",
    "client_secret": "blabla",
    "bearer_url": "https://api.jublo.net/codebird/oauth2/token",
    "access_token": "blabla"
}

Above, Codebird is used. Codebird is a library that is commonly used to manage OAuth2 connections to Twitter. And, instead of setting up your own code, you can use Codebird's proxy service.

In the "define" block above, notice the "self.getData" at the end, which ties everything together, and is called from the view:

<button data-bind="click: getData, 
                   ojComponent: { 
                       component: 'ojButton', 
                       label: 'Get Data'}">Get Data</button>
<hr>
<table 
    data-bind="ojComponent: {
            component: 'ojTable', 
            data: datasource,
	    columnsDefault: {headerStyle: 'text-align: left; white-space:nowrap;'}, 
            columns:
               [
               {headerText: 'User ', field: 'userName'},
               {headerText: 'Text', field: 'text'}
               ]}">
</table>

That's it. A complete sample scenario that uses OAuth with Oracle JET.

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In my "bower.json" file, I have a dependency set like this:

"codebird-js": "2.6.0"

That enables Codebird to be installed.

Next, I went to apps.twitter.com and created a new application, so that I now have a Consumer Key (API Key) and a Consumer Secret (API Secret).

<script type="text/javascript">
    var cb = new Codebird;
    cb.setConsumerKey(
            "replace-with-consumer-key",
            "replace-with-consumer-secret");
    cb.__call(
            "search_tweets",
            "q=NetBeans",
            function (response) {
                var statuses = response.statuses;
                for (var i = 0; i  
            }, true);
</script>

The point of this blog entry is really to come to a point where you can see how to parse Twitter. Above, in bold, is the code needed for that. Printed out into the console you'll now see names/texts of those who have tweeted about NetBeans.

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This is essentially a revamp of a previous post on API Manager,
albeit for the SOA CS environment.
You can read the original post here
I created an API Manager instance on SOA CS -

Let's look at the Fusion Middleware Control -
Here we can create API Manager users.
I have covered this is a previous API Manager post, but to save you time,
here are the screenshots - Read the complete article here.

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