Digital Transformation . API . Integration . IAM

In this post I'll describe how this wonderful tool has helped me in creating business diagrams on the fly and that's absolutely at zero cost, yes absolutely zero cost. Let's quickly see this wonderful tool. So are you looking for creating workflows/flowchart/diagrams for your business needs? Draw.io might be one of the good solution you can definitely give a try. This tool has a number of features that can help you to build your diagrams more quickly, especially need of icons/images/arrows/outline images etc are available on the fly(some might require internet connectivity). So let's see how you can get start with draw.io- Availability- Online & Offline Online- Just open the URL- https://draw.io (Save your diagrams on different cloud options-GoogleDrive & Onedrive or local disk as well) Offline-  Download the installer and get this working on your local machine (windows, linux, macOS) Download Link -  https://github.com/jgr...

In this post, I'll discuss about the recent issue of multi-step human task approval workflow. The scenario belongs to issue of a multi step user task approval where the request was initiated by Oracle IDAM and workflow being fulfilled using Oracle SOA. Below is the summary of the use case- Environment Oracle Soa Suite 12c, Oracle IDAM 12c Problem There was a two step approval process where approval request was initiated from Oracle IDAM system (OIM). All user base resides in OIM system at LDAP/DB level. Dynamic user assignment was there to act on user task. Initially, there was two level approval task where one user per level was assigned i.e. one user can act on a task. Later, the requirement changed as task assignment to group for level 2 approval. The task assignment was being done using business rules. So, changes done and the composite was deployed and tested out. The approval flow was fine up to level 1 but after approval by level 2 (any...

Recently one of the strange issue came with one of my colleague with respect to jDeveloper 12c Startup. Below is the summary of the issue and solution- Environment: macOS Sierra, jDeveloper 12c (SOA12c QuickStart) Problem:  macOS was continuously giving the prompt for update. Mistakenly update was clicked and macOS updated to  macOS Mojave (10.1.4.6).  System reboot done. When  jDeveloper was started, only jDev splash screen came and gone.  However, jDeveloper was not started After several attempts, same thing happened and jDev was failed to start. Alternatively when tried to start via terminal, following logs were shown   Oracle JDeveloper 12c Release 12.2.1.3.0  Copyright (c) 1997, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.SystemBundleActivator.start() of bundle org.eclipse.osgi. at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Interna...

Oracle Database 12c RAC In this post I'll list down the stepwise process to create a JNDI connection with Oracle RAC (Real application cluster) database. Following are the steps of the same- Step 1 Login to Weblogic server console. Navigate to left pagination menu and select data sources. Now, create a new data source connection with type- GridLink   Step 2 Specify the connection & JNDI name- Step 3 Set transaction(s) type- Step 4 Specify various GridLink options- Step 5 Setting connection properties- Step 6 Testing the connection specified in step 5 Step 7 Now click on Test All Listeners if you fill everything correctly you will come up with “connection test for jdbc…. Succeeded ”. Step 8 Now check FAN Enabled .which means  Fast Application Notification (FAN) that is a high availability notification mechanism that Oracle RAC uses to notify other processes about cluster configuration and service-level information, including status c...

Guided Learning path I have received a lot of queries regarding the Guided Learning Path (GLP)    of Oracle SOA Suite. Based on my experience, I'll try to list down the prerequisites and the learning path to Oracle SOA Suite 12c that will help for a beginner/intermediate developer to move further in this domain. Overview- Oracle SOA What is SOA ? Overview of Oracle SOA Real Life Examples Benefits of using Oracle SOA Suite Importance- Oracle SOA Suite Introduction to Web Services Overview of XML, XSD, Web-Services, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL Overview of XML, XSD, Web-Services, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL Web Services Sample Demonstration. Understanding WSDL Service Component Architecture (SCA) Introduction to Service Component Architecture Building blocks of SCA Overview of Oracle SOA Suite 12c Introduction to Components of Oracle SOA Suite Installation Oracle SOA Suite- QuickStart Overview of WebLogic server Overview WebLogic Domains and Server instances Setting...

In this post I'll describe about the business scenario where following requirements came for human task assignment in SOA suite 12c- Environment Oracle EISS (Enterprise Identity Services Suite) consists of a bundle that contains SOA suite with IDAM for workflows management. Scenario The current scenario involves 2 level approval of a task where approval request was processed in serial mode i.e. participants of task were in serial mode. Users at level 1 & 2 were identified dynamically and business rule was enforced for task assignment. Business Requirement Human task approval level 1 should be assigned to a single user and approval level 2 shoud go to a group rather than a single user. Once approved from level 1 the task should be assigned to a group of N members where each member can see the task in their inbox (in worklist app). Now if any participant has claimed the task and approved/rejected, the task should be marked as complete and should be removed from grou...