The BIApps 11.1.1.7.1 ODI Cumulative Patch 1 has been released.  This is available for download via My Oracle Support | Patches & Updates.

BIAPPS 11.1.1.7.1 ODI CUMULATIVE PATCH 1
Patch 17546336

Be sure to review the related Readme file for important pre-requisites and post installation details.  This is available via the "Read Me" button on the "Patches & Updates" download screen.

For a summary list of Bugs resolved in this patch visit:

OBIA 11g: BIAPPS 11.1.1.7.1 ODI CUMULATIVE PATCH 1 Released
Doc ID 1629879.1

For information on BIApps 11.1.1.7.1 release visit our previous Blog Post
"BIApps 11.1.1.7.1 is ready for download".

A web page that is behind "Windows Authentication" is in fact protected by Kerberos and NTLM, and is accessible whichever auth scheme a client supports. In JDK 7, Kerberos works out-of-the-box on a Windows machine that already joins a domain (well, not exactly, see below), so it's always tried first. However, without the allowtgtsessionkey registry key being set, Java still needs a password to login. There is no way to get this password (unless you program JAAS directly) so Java tries the empty password. Obviously, the KDC (Windows domain controller) does not like it and blocks the user if it's tried multiple times.

The thread mentions the .java.login.config trick. When Java wants to use that file but cannot find it, it just fails without trying to login at all. The bug report mentions that disabling kerberos pre-authentication is also a workaround. In this case, no encrypted timestamp is sent so the KDC has no chance to know the client does not have the correct password.

In all these cases, Kerberos always fails and Java falls back to NTLM and the web page is still reached. However, the terrible thing about the empty password case is that you can read the page when you first access it, but if you access it again and again, your account is finally blocked and even NTLM does not work anymore.

 Production Redeployment/Side by Side Deployment using Weblogic.Deployer utility

 Example

Use the following command to deploy the new application

java weblogic.Deployer -adminurl localhost:7001 -username weblogic -password weblogic1 -deploy -name Sample  -appversion v2 -targets AdminServer -source Sample.ear

To redeploy the application , use the below command.

java weblogic.Deployer -adminurl localhost:7001 -username weblogic -password weblogic1 -redeploy -name Sample  -appversion v1 -targets AdminServer -source Sample.ear

Limitations of Production Deployment on WLS 12.x

Introduction

I visited a customer recently who asked a very interesting question…. they’d been performing a series of stress tests of their Business Process Management project made up of many & complex Business Process Management processes and they wanted to know if there were any activities/paths in any of their processes which they hadn’t traversed… sort of like “Clover” for Business Process Management, This led me to thinking about Business Process Management auditing and cross-referencing this with the Business Process Management activities.

BPMN Code Coverage: The Theory

Let us take a look at the relevant tables in the SOAINFRA schema….

BPM_AUDIT_QUERY

Providing that the audit level has been set sufficiently high (for example “Production” would do), this table stores details of all BPMN activities instantiated at any given time.

BPM_CUBE_ACTIVITY & BPM_CUBE_PROCESS

These tables are a static view of all activities in all deployed process at any given time.

Deployed Business Process Management activities not in BPM_AUDIT_QUERY

It became obvious that selecting all activities in the join of BPM_CUBE_ACTIVITY and BPM_CUBE_PROCESS for a given deployed process/composite which did not exist in BPM_AUDIT_QUERY during a given time period would highlight activities not invoked as part of out testing. As a result I ended up with a piece of SQL thus….

…i.e. which activities in processes “BpmClover” and “BpmCallable” were not traversed in the last 24 hours.

BPMN Code Coverage: The Practice

I needed a fairly simple process to test with, not too complex but with a good selection of activities, human tasks, boundary events, gateways etc… and ended up with the following (not BPMN best practices by any means)….
…i.e. a main process and a callable sub-process. Read the complete article here.

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In one of our SOA/BPM environments, the stability of the WebLogic server running the SOA and BPM Suite was not as it should be. There were problems deploying ear files and accessing the BPM workspace etcetera. Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware control homepage would show that everything is running fine. But accessing the soainfra pages would fail.

In the AdminServer logs the following relevant entries were found. Apparently the AdminServer fails at communicating with the soa_server1 managed server. Read the complete article here.

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PL/SQL Logik in APEX zu platzieren ist etwas völlig Normales und findet nahezu überall täglich statt. Gelegentlich kommt es aber vor, dass aus APEX heraus solche PL/SQL-Logik angestoßen werden soll, die länger laufen wird. Hinterlegt man diese ganz normal als PL/SQL-Prozess im onLoad oder onSubmit-Bereich, so müsste der Anwender mit dem Browser solange warten, bis der Prozess durchgelaufen ist. Das kann für eine bis zwei Minuten noch eben akzeptabel sein (ein Hinweis ist unbedingt nötig), dauert es aber länger, so muss der PL/SQL-Prozess in den Hintergrund gebracht werden.

In diesem Community-Tipp erfahren Sie, wie Sie PL/SQL-Code mit dem Paket DBMS_SCHEDULER im Hintergrund ausführen, den Status Ihres Jobs abfragen und dem Endanwender als "Fortschrittsbalken" präsentieren können.

Übrigens: am 8. April 2014 findet nochmals ein Webseminar für die APEX Community statt. Das Thema ist diesmal "Eigene APEX Plugins bauen - leicht gemacht!". In einer Stunde bekommen Sie einen Einblick in die Entwicklung von APEX Plugins und erfahren, warum die Entwicklung von Plugins auch dann sinnvoll ist, wenn Sie nicht vorhaben, es zu veröffentlichen. Interessiert? Dann am besten gleich anmelden.

This is a fantastic career journey starting with joining Oracle Graduate Development Program. As a member of this program, you will receive a wonderful, enjoyable and exciting experience. It is not only a program about how to work but also a program about personal drive, about self-discovering also combined with about business professional.

As a graduate with limited experience and idea about working position, the Graduate Development Program is definitely valuable for you to know your real career path with solid confidence. Within this program, not only will you participate in fantastic training, but also have rotation opportunities in different departments.

Don’t worry about your non-technical background; Oracle will provide all of you a fertile field to learn, to experience, and to grow. In this program, you will meet your colleagues from diverse educations, cultures and backgrounds; during the first-phase of foundation training, both your technical background team members and substantial products training courses delivered by our senior presales accelerate speed on learning Oracle information technology; and the second-phase of rotation will also consider your characters, capabilities, intelligences and follow a mutually supplemental principal.

My first and second rotations were in Government Affairs team and Business Planning team respectively; by experiencing different working positions, business style, team environment and considering my personalities, finally I find my real career interest and decide to join Government Affairs team as the final placement.

Take opportunities, take challenges, and take journey. Join us to embrace tomorrow!

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        Oracle总裁Mark Hurd在LinkedIn上的最新发表了文章“CEO完美风暴：人口统计、数据和设备改变了一切”。文章指出即将放生的人口统计学革命（伴随着数据和设备革命）将改变CEO的游戏规则。

    我并不感到惊讶。在我和我的客户及合作伙伴的每一次交谈中都会涉及到雇用和保存合适人才所面临的挑战。Hurd指出“在未来的5-10年中，至少有25%，甚至可能高达40%的劳动力将要退休。”随着大批的婴儿潮一代开始在Florida和Scottsdale 购买房车和度假公寓，他们的职位将由千禧一代填充。而正如我们都知道的，千禧一代和婴儿潮一代很不同。

    我是头脑还顽固认为自己在二十岁的婴儿潮一代。在Pew Research Center的“你有多少千禧一代的特质”测试中，我得到了满分为100分的69分。如果不是因为分身和身上打孔，我还可以得分更高。

    我父母的经验帮助我更理解千禧一代的行为。我从不回他们的电话（或者是古老的座机）。他们只有在和婴儿潮一代联系时才使用电子邮件。解决他们的电子设备和应用产品的问题是他们的第二天性，正如我在一个闷热的明尼苏达夏日的下午在路边修理自行车。

    作为成长型企业，需要努力吸引和留存现代的劳动力，同时要和福利待遇更好的大企业进行人才竞争。对他们而言，现代化的HCM和人才寻源解决方案就成为必须拥有的内容。而千禧年一代期待从现代化的ERP中获得比他们父亲一代部署的千年虫版本更多的东西。

    我近期还没打算退休，我的三个孩子正在最花钱的年龄，我正忙着投资大学学费以及汽车修理。当我真的退休时，我想在我家附近的山上，Loveland Ski Area的滑雪服务工作。在电梯运行前后，开着一辆装满千禧一代的班车，从员工区到基地。白天的时候，查看坡道小屋的电路，烧木柴炉子或者在孩子们身后收拾。

    嗯，给千禧一代开班车或者跟着孩子后面收拾，我觉得我很符合这个工作的要求。

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I heard from its authors that "NetBeans Platform for Beginners" is selling really well. If you look at the Leanpub Bestsellers page, you'll see it's second in "earnings in last 7 days". And the reviews are really good, too, for example, here's a review from a newbie to the NetBeans Platform:

And here's the review of a very experienced NetBeans Platform developer:

And there's a growing list of other reviews at the bottom of the book page, check it out, also from Benno Markiewicz and Michael Bishop. 

Would be great to support this wonderful effort by... writing reviews of it and blogging about it too. I'm going to send them (walternyland@yahoo.com) a review of the book, so that they can add it to the great set of reviews they have there already. Will you too, whoever you are reading this blog? Small and useful weekend task in support of the NetBeans community.

Friendly reminder, feel free to post OUD-related questions on the OUD Forum available at
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Dear WebLogic Partner Community member,

In the last 10 years Oracle drove the market to consolidate database platforms into a single high available private cloud. The next step is to consolidate applications on a single WebLogic platform, which opens great service opportunities for you as a partner. Many of our joint customers still use iAS and other obsolete technologies. A good opportunity to start the consolidation during a hardware refresh based on a certified platform.

Thanks for the community for sharing all the content on Configure Coherence HotCache , Common WebLogic Problems , WebLogic &JRockit FlightRecording scheduling , Deploying Jenkins to a WebLogic Server , REST, SSE or WebSockets on WebLogic 10.3.6 , Simple Sample Custom Database Authenticator for Oracle Weblogic Server 11g& Af InputDate Default Message hint - Disable.

In the ADF and JDeveloper section we announce the Virtual Developer Day: Oracle ADF Development – Web, Mobile, and Beyond. Our ADF Architecture TV published new classes on Design - Service Integration Architectures - SOAP Services. If you work on ADF projects you better know Top Ten Secrets of Successful ADF Projects and improve Your Oracle ADF App Response Time by as Much as 70 Percent by using the ADF Performance Monitor. Thanks the community for sharing all the content on Working with the select Many Checkbox component& Explaining change indicator property for ADF attribute.

One of the next big trends in IT might be the Internet of Things. Iot brings all together from embedded Java, data and process integration to pattern matching to make and execute decisions. Get Ready for IoT!

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The Top 10 most popular updates from the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page for the week of February 21-27, 2014.

1. Simplifying Enterprise Mobile Integration | Mala Ramakrishnan
   "There are two ways to developing an enterprise mobile strategy with SOA -- controlling the end-to-end integration experience from the enterprise to the hand held, or exposing enterprise assets through APIs for third parties to build out mobile solutions," says Mala Ramakrishnan. This post kicks off a three-part series that looks at the role Oracle SOA Suite can play in Mobile Service Enablement and API Management.
2. Why use Groovy with WebCenter Sites? | Michael Sullivan
   "Leveraging a Groovy element gives the developer all the advantages of cleanly packaging business logic in a JAVA syntax scripting language while maintaining the ability to publish and reload code changes dynamically," says solution architect Micheal Sullivan. Read his detailed post to learn how.
3. Podcast: Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Disruptive Tech - Part 1
   In part one of this three-part program, Oracle ACE Directors Ron Batra, Basheer Khan, and Floyd Teter discuss the importance of understanding the difference between technologies that disrupt and technologies that sustain innovation, and acting on that knowledge.
4. EclipseCon Session: Developing On-Device Java Mobile Apps for iOS ... and Android too | Shay Shmeltzer
   Shay Shmeltzer's EclipseCon session (Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 13:30 to 14:05) will show you how you can leverage your Java development skills to build mobile applications that install and run on both iOS and Android phones and tablets.
5. Java 8 Day at EclipseCon 2014 - March 18
   Java 8 makes its debut in March 2014. In celebration of the event, the Eclipse Foundation and Oracle are hosting a Java 8 Day at EclipseCon 2014 on Tuesday March 18 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel San Francisco Airport. Scheduled speakers include Oracle Java Platform Group VP George Saab, Java language spec lead Alex Buckley, and Eclipse JDT committer Stephan Hermann. Click the link for additional details.
6. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse at EclipseCon 2014 | Carlos Chang
   Heading to EclipseCon 2014? Carlos Chang's post includes information on two sessions covering the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse: "Developing On-Device Java Mobile Apps...and Android too!" and "Java Application Development Lifecycle in the Cloud." Click the link for the details on these sessions.
7. The Long Tail of Application Usage | Sten Vesterli
   "If you are re-developing your application, for example moving from Oracle Forms to ADF, focus on the head – the 10% of the application that is used 90% of the time," says Oracle ACE Director Sten Vesterli.
8. Video: Oracle SOA Suite on Oracle Data Appliance | Lonneke Dikmans
   SOA in a box? You bet! In this OTN ArchBeat Video Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans talks about running Oracle SOA Suite on Oracle Database Appliance.
9. WebCenter Sites Cluster deployment with a single war | Dolf Dijkstra
   "The default installation method for WebCenter Sites in deployments with a large number of cluster nodes is far from ideal," says Dolf Dijkstra. His article presents a workaround that uses one WAR file and one installation folder per cluster.
10. Top 10 solution documents for Weblogic Server J2EE by the support team | Jurgen Kress
    Jurgen Kress shares "the top 10 documents that are linked to SRs as solutions, for Weblogic Server J2EE issues, during the last quarter."

Thought for the Day

"You've got to bumble forward into the unknown."

—Frank Gehry, architect
(born February 28, 1929)

Source: brainyquote.com

You can use the following SQL statements to recreate this example in your environment. It will create the source (PIVOT_TEST) and target (TRG_PIVOT_TEST) tables used in this article in your database then you can reverse engineer them in ODI.

Our goal is to pivot the data on the Quarter column when going from PIVOT_TEST into TRG_PIVOT_TEST as shown below:

Follow these steps to add and configure a Pivot Component in an ODI 12c Mapping:

1. First add the Source table PIVOT_TEST into your Mapping, to do so drag and drop the PIVOT_TEST datastore from the Models into the Mapping.
2. Next add a Pivot component into the Mapping. This is done by clicking on the Pivot Component in the Component palette and then clicking on the Mapping diagram. A new PIVOT component will appear in the Mapping:
   
   
3. Drag and drop the YEAR column from PIVOT_TEST into the PIVOT component. There is no need to add the QUARTER and SALES attributes yet, they will be used later in the Row Locator and Attributes sections.
   
   
4. Click on the PIVOT component and in the Properties window select the Row Locator panel. In our example the Row Locator will be the QUARTER column which is transposed from rows into 4 columns in our target table TRG_PIVOT_TEST.
   
   
5. Open up the Expression Editor next to the Row Locator field and select the QUARTER column from our source table PIVOT_TEST. Then click OK.
   
   
   
6. Now specify the various values the QUARTER column can take. This is done using the Row Locator Values table. Click on the + icon under Row Locator Values and add the 4 possible values: ‘Q1’, ‘Q2’, ‘Q3’ and ‘Q4’.
   
   
7. Then click on the Attributes panel and add the 4 output attributes which correspond to each Row Locator values: Q1_SALES, Q2_SALES, Q3_SALES and Q4_SALES.
   
   
8. Next select a Matching Row for the output attributes you just created. The Matching Row values come from the Row Locator Values entered earlier.
   Pick ‘Q1’ for Q1_SALES, ‘Q2’ for Q2_SALES, ‘Q3’ for Q3_SALES and ‘Q4’ for Q4_SALES.
   Finally enter an expression for each of the new attributes, use PIVOT_TEST.SALES for all of them as we are interested in getting the Sales data into those columns. You can type the expression using the Expression Editor or drag and drop the SALES column from PIVOT_TEST into each of the newly created attributes.
   
   
9. Finally add the target table TRG_PIVOT_TEST and connect the PIVOT component to it. Unselect the Create Attributes on Source checkbox in the Attribute Matching window and click OK to finish the Mapping configuration.
   
   
10. In this example you can use the default Physical settings for your Mapping. Integration Type is set to Control Append by default and the IKM Oracle Insert is used.
11. Click on Run to execute the Mapping, 2 inserts are performed and you should see the following data in your target table.
    
    
12. If you review the generated code you will notice that ODI leverages the PIVOT function on Oracle to perform such operation. The Pivot component supports Oracle as well as any other database supported by ODI 12c.

You can recreate the following example using the ODI 12c Getting Started VirtualBox image which is available on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/odi-demo-2032565.html

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NoSQL databases are becoming part of the enterprise developer's big data toolkit. Join Andy Mendelsohn, Executive Vice President - Oracle Database Server Technologies, and Paul Sonderegger, Big Data Strategist - Oracle, to learn about the role of NoSQL in the enterprise, how it complements the relational database, and why you should be looking at Oracle NoSQL Database for your next project.

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Im Herbst 2013 wurden die neuen Modelle der Exadata Database Machine X4-2 offiziell vorgestellt. Neben der Aktualisierung der Hardware auf die aktuelle Intel x86 Prozessorgeneration mit Ivy Bridge Architektur verfügen die neuen Maschinen über größere Flash Karten und die Möglichkeit einer Hauptspeichererweiterung auf den Datenbank Servern. Die interessanteren Änderungen betreffen jedoch die Softwarekomponente des Exadata Storage Server, ohne die die ausserordentliche Performance der Exadata nicht möglich wäre. Seit dem 26.12.2013 steht die Software Exadata Storager Server 12.1.1.1.0 bereit, mit der Oracle Database 12c in vollem Umfang unterstützt wird. Insbesondere in Verbindung mit Oracle Multitenant ist die Exadata Database Machine besonders gut für Konsolidierungsprojekte geeignet.

Nachdem seit den interessanten Ankündigungen bereits einige Zeit vergangen ist, sollen am Freitag, den 07.03.2014 um 11:00 in einem einstündigen Webseminar die neuen Exadata Modelle und Möglichkeiten in Exadata Storage Server 12.1.1.1.0 sowie Oracle Database 12c mit Fokus auf Datenbankkonsolidierung vorgestellt werden. Investieren Sie eine Stunde und lernen Sie die Techologien in komprimierter Form kennen, mit denen Projekte zur Konsolidierung von Oracle Datenbanken auf Exadata umgesetzt werden können.

Die Details zum Webseminar finden Sie unter diesem Anmelde-Link. Melden Sie sich am besten gleich dort an! 

March 2014 edition of "Oracle Fusion Middleware Support News" is published!

Oracle Fusion Middleware Support News : Current Edition - Volume 11 : March 2014 [ID 1347075.1]

Highlights:

• Reasons for upgrading to Oracle Forms 11g Release 2 …
• Remote Diagnostic Agent Now Available in OPatch Format …
• WebCenter Content Clustering and High Availability …
• WebCenter Customer Advisory Board (CAB) Meetings in March and April, 2014 …
• Critical Patch Update For Oracle Fusion Middleware - CPU January 2013 …
• Oracle Fusion Middleware - Proactive Patching Corner …
• Fusion Middleware Proactive Support Blogging …
• And Finally ... New Look Support Communities! …

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We have extended the original Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition ODSEE / Sun DSEE to also cover Oracle Unified Directory.

Feel free to join the community here.