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You are browsing the archive for 2010 January.

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how can i connect java web services to mysql to insert or update the data in net beans 6.1?

10:13 pm in SOA Answers by admin

please give me the source code in net beans 6.1 and snapshot.please

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has anyone tried the walmart cell phone STRAIGHT TALK? If so what do you think about it.and the web service?

10:01 pm in SOA Answers by admin

what about the phone Samsung R451c to use on the web.Thanks

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Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g Released

7:54 pm in SOA Governance by admin

We are pleased to announce the 11g release of the Oracle Enterprise Repository. The Enterprise Repository is a key component of Oracle’s SOA Governance solution, and this release features some exciting new capabilities including…

Highly Automated Closed Loop Governance
In 11gR1, OER harvests assets throughout the entire lifecycle. This saves customers huge amounts of time, provides the visibility that they need to manage their SOA, and ensures that asset information is fresh, which reduces the risk associated with making decisions based on stale data. In addition, a summary of runtime performance metrics is being provided to OER from Enterprise Manager Management Pack Plus for SOA, as well as from third party tools. This allows service providers and service consumers to see whether their services are performing as expected.

Support for SOA Suite 11g
In the 11g release, OER is harvesting more deeply from Oracle’s own products, including Oracle Service Bus and SOA Suite. This provides Oracle customers with additional value – 1+1=3. Moreover OER is providing the “glue” to allow service bus and SOA Suite to seamlessly interoperate. OER is a critical part of the solution for customers that want to take advantage of both SOA Suite and OSB.

Support for Oracle Applications
The OER 11gR1 release targets the needs of Application Integration Architecture(AIA) customers. OER is teaming up with Oracle’s upcoming Application Integration Architecture 3.0, so the Enterprise repository is now the container through which customers can view their integrations. In addition, OER provides customers with a view of the adapters exposed by enterprise applications such as eBusiness, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, SAP …. OER can also harvest the WSDL services exposed by enterprise applications. Customers can use this information to build out their application integrations. OER provides end-to-end visibility between the customers applications, providing the visibility needed to conduct impact analysis.

Customers can download the new release, and access the new documentation, from the OER OTN site:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/soa/repository/index.html

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US Defense Department Goes ‘Primitive;’ Fortifies SOAs

5:05 pm in SOA Implementation, SOA Solutions by admin

I met Dennis Wisnosky, the business mission area chief technical officer and chief architect at the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer at the US Department of Defense, at last year’s SOA Symposium.

Along with incredible charity work, he has been working tirelessly at bringing a common set of standards and protocols to the DoD’s procurement and administrative systems, as well as service-oriented principles, and his work is worth emulating across the private sector.

Dennis was recently interviewed by Rutrell Yasin of DefenseSystems.com about the progress of the effort. The problem for the Defense Department’s Business Transformation Agency was engineers and developers tended to work in silos, and end up developing systems that duplicate services and have propriety interfaces that can’t work easily with other systems.

The solution has been the development of concepts called Primitives, Common Vocabulary and Design Patterns, according to Yasin’s report. The Department of Defense Architecture Framework 2.0 is the foundation for architecture Primitives. Primitives are a standard set of viewing elements and associated symbols mapped to the framework’s Meta-Model concepts and applied to viewing techniques.

According to Wisnosky, BTA is applying Primitives based on Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). Also, “the idea of Primitives fits nicely into service-oriented architecture,” Wisnosky said. “SOA represents the first time in the information technology world where it is clear how IT and business fit together. So an SOA pattern made up of Primitives that are associated with business processes could execute those business processes with standard services.”

There’s been a lot of SOA developments emerging within the US Defense Department. In another piece of news, a new cybersecurity initiative sponsored by the US Air Force seeks to harden service oriented architectures against outside threats. 

Sami
Lais, writing in Washington Technology, says a five-year, $2.9 million
Air Force Research Laboratory award “could change the way DoD –
perhaps the world — approaches information security.”

How is this so? Lais says the USAF’s Advanced Protected Services program is gearing up to “enable networks to withstand attacks that are as yet unknown, limit the effectiveness of the attacks, slow the attackers’ progress by building multiple layers they have to penetrate, let them diagnose the attack more quickly,” and “help them react and recover more quickly and completely.”

Jim Loyall of BBN Technologies, chief scientist and program manager on the project, is working with a team that is concentrating on developing new approaches to better protect DoD SOAs against malicious attacks. The team is building extensions to the middleware stacks in SOA, and using strategies such as creating “crumple zones,” or proxy layers between the service and users allows different users to share the same services. “Users go into this initial buffer area, where much of the service functionality is repeated,” Loyall is quoted as saying. “If an attack succeeds, it’ll get some initial success, but it won’t go past that proxy layer to the service itself, and other users will be uncompromised by the attack.”

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AMD & Intel Trade Share

4:45 pm in SOA Solutions by admin

AMD took PC unit share from Intel and Intel took server share from AMD last year according to IDC. Intel reportedly went from 80.3% to 79.7%, down 0.6%, in total PC MPU shipments last year while AMD went from 19.2% to 20.1%, up 0.7%. In servers Intel was up 3.2% to 89.9% while AMD slid the same 3.2% to 10.1%. With shipments up 31% in Q4, IDC figures total processor shipments were up 2.5% last year and though revenues dropped 7.1% to $28.6 billion, ASPs improved in Q4 by 6.7% sequentially.

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Exor Manages Infrastructure Assets with Oracle Database 11g

4:25 pm in SOA Solutions by admin

Exor Manages Infrastructure Assets with Oracle Database 11g

Oracle implementation expert Steven Feldman discusses how Exor – the world’s leading provider of highways software – uses Oracle Application Express and Oracle Spatial to deliver integrated road management systems.

Listen to the podcast.

Have a database success story you’d like to share with others?
Please leave a comment to let us know that you’d like to participate in Oracle’s Database Podcast Series.

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BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 Now Available!!!

4:13 pm in ESB SOA by admin

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2009 release, as well as some additional enhancements.

Important Links:

  1. Location: Download Location
  2. Detailed Article: KB Article
  3. BizTalk Server Roadmap: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/roadmap.aspx

Additional Details

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2. The SP1 installation program offers a unified installation experience: It will automatically detect and update all of the BizTalk Server components that are currently installed. It will also detect all BizTalk Server hotfixes currently installed, and will distinguish between hotfixes that predate this service pack, and those which were issued after this service pack was released.

SP1 includes a roll-up of hotfixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hotfixes from the BizTalk Server 2009 release, as well as some additional enhancements. Some of the key fixes and enhancements in this service pack are the following:

New Features

  • For WCF-Custom and WCF-CustomIsolated Adapters, the ability to look up custom bindings from locations other than machine.config.
  • Support for using multiple certificates to sign outgoing AS2 messages

Better reliability, performance, and scale for the following key features

  • Throttling and dehydration of orchestrations.
  • Archiving and purging operations.
  • BAM alerts and archiving.
  • HIPAA.
  • Reduced memory consumption in scenarios using scripting functoids.
  • Improvement in the bts_FindSubscription stored proc, resulting in faster execution and lower CPU utilization.

Better management and deployment experiences

  • Performance and user experience improvements of key scenarios.
  • WCF configuration management.
  • Significant improvement in deployment time for send ports using a map.

Improved support

  • X12 and EDIFACT updates.
  • Increased footprint of supported FTP servers and locale.
  • XMLDocument message types in orchestrations.
  • Configurable timeout for Basic HTTP.
  • WCF adaptor now suspends messages instead of terminating when the host instance is stopped.
  • Configurable transaction timeout for WCF Adaptors.
  • Mapping of inline schema for SQL Adaptor now allows for using $ characters as part of the updategram.
  • The SQL Adaptor now supports calling from a BizTalk Server dynamic send port. The following properties can be set on the call to the dynamic port:
          Connection string (all the SQL connection properties)
          Document Target Namespace
          Response Document Root Element
  • Ability to disable generation of Routing Failure Report.
  • Fixes to some issues that used to cause high CPU usage by BizTalk Server hosts due to certain .NET updates.
  • Ability to use multiple certificates for signing outbound messages.
  • Message Pack 2009.
  • Message property tracking with BAM for all messages in the interchange, irrespective of the usage of pipeline or mapping.

Integrated tracing to help in debugging EDI specific issues. This improvement is aimed at reducing the time taken for diagnosing and isolating an EDI problem.

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The Benefits of Oracle Certification – For Professionals

2:07 pm in SOA Solutions by admin

Reposted to update a segment originally intended to publish in November.

In this segment of a two-part video series, Joel Goodman – Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam development team – gives some great insight to Oracle’s philosophy to why certification is important to professionals and their employers.

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Blog Objectives

1:52 pm in SOA Solutions by admin

I’d just like to get some goals written down for this blog.

Short term, I’d consider this blog successful if I:

  1. Post more frequently than once per week.
  2. Improve my writing ability and clearly express myself
  3. Write about things relevant to my work and things that interest me. This includes – Oracle Healthcare Applications, Cool New Technologies, Traveling, Clinical Terminologies, Healthcare Data Standards.

Long term, I am building a community of like-minded people to share knowledge around healthcare semantic interoperability.

Let the journey begin!

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How Oracle Supports XBRL

1:38 pm in SOA Solutions by admin

While grabbing my afternoon cookie and coffee, I ran into our resident accounting expert, Seamus Moran. I asked him if he could elaborate on how Oracle Applications supports XBRL reporting.

For you accountants, XBRL should be part of your vocabulary since the SEC has mandated that all public companies use XBRL to report financial results. As of June 2009, large accelerated filers were mandated to use XBRL, and all other public companies must comply by June 2011.

For you non-accountants, XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It’s a form of the XML language used for electronic communication of business and financial data. Simply put, it’s reporting electronically. Just like PDFs or spreadsheets are a type of output, XBRL is another output option in electronic form. For more information, you can visit http://www.xbrl.org.

Seamus represents Oracle as a member of the XBRL Consortium. In Seamus’ usual way of answering my questions, he gave me my answer plus some interesting tidbits that I’d like to share.

XBRL International is an independent organization that works closely with IASB. In fact, the IASB and XBRL folks all sit in the same building in the U.K. There are different XBRL jurisdictions for different countries and regions. The U.S. uses a U.S. GAAP version of XBRL while the rest of the world uses IFRS. China even uses an IFRS version of XBRL which was interesting to me because China is a Communist country using a capitalist accounting principle. China has large stock markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong so they need to require IFRS in order to attract capital. Talk about capitalist!

Question: How does Oracle support XBRL reporting?
Answer: The latest XBRL 2.1 specifications are supported by Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, which is included with the Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning products. Hyperion stores not only the financial balances needed to produce financial reports but also the disclosures and footnotes that you need to produce your 10K and 8K filings. Therefore, the logical extension is to produce XBRL-compliant reports from your consolidated data. The designer can take a report, attach XBRL metadata, then export the report as an instance document.

As you may or not know, the current XBRL taxonomies are not comprehensive across all industries. For example, when United Airlines needed to disclose fuel costs which were high last year, there was no term for it in the taxonomy. They needed the ability to extend the taxonomy but their current software didn’t support it.

Oracle has teamed up with UBmatrix, the leading provider of XBRL-based information exchange solutions, to offer capabilities to extend taxonomies.

However, the real strength of Hyperion is its ability to automate the close-to-report cycle, including the automatic tagging of financial items. A financial close management solution was showcased at the last Oracle Open World conference. It is not available yet, but you can read more about it from an analyst:
http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3335

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