Author Archives: Mark Nelson

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is a Developer Evangelist at Oracle, focusing on microservices and AI. Mark has served as a Section Leader in Stanford's Code in Place program that has introduced tens of thousands of people to the joy of programming, he is a published author, a reviewer and contributor, a content creator and a lifelong learner. He enjoys traveling, meeting people and learning about foods and cultures of the world. Mark has worked at Oracle since 2006 and before that at IBM since 1994.

Exploring MDS Explorer

Recently, I posted about my colleague Olivier’s MDS Explorer tool, which is a great way to get a look inside your MDS repository.  I have been playing around with it a little bit, nothing much really, just some cosmetic stuff, … Continue reading

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Automating creation of JMS Queues and JmsAdapter plan updates and redeployment

Following on from my recent post on automation of creation of JDBC resources, I am happy to report I now have a script which can be used for JMS Queues! Again, this is not as wonderful as I would like … Continue reading

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Automating creation of JDBC Data Sources and DbAdapter plan updates and redeployment

That’s a long title… anyway, as part of the desire to have a fully automated continuous integration environment for SOA and BPM, there is another bridge that we need to cross. SOA/BPM Composites can contain dependencies on resources in the … Continue reading

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Making Coherence play nice in your test environment

This issue has popped up a couple of times for me recently, so I thought I would do a quick post on it. When you are running a number of Fusion Middleware environments in the same IP subnet, as you … Continue reading

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What happened to oracle-validated?

I am not a big fan of renaming things for the sake of renaming things, and to be fair, I am not sure that this is a case of that, but the much loved oracle-validated package that existed on Oracle … Continue reading

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Getting Oracle artifacts into a Maven environment

If you want to build an application to run on the Fusion Middleware platform, you may find that you want to use some Oracle provided JAR files in your build process.  These may be things like API’s (interfaces) that are … Continue reading

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Maven Repository Managers

In this post I just want to share a couple of thoughts on Maven Repository Managers – what they are, and why you would want to use one.  Let’s start out with a couple of definitions: A Maven Repository is … Continue reading

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MDS Explorer -or- What is in my MDS?

My colleague Olivier LeDiouris has published a utility that allows you to connect to your MDS and see what is inside there, as well us uploading and downloading contents.  You might like to take a look at it over on … Continue reading

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BPMN process editor problems in 11.1.1.6

A small number of people have been seeing an error when using the BPMN process editor in JDeveloper 11.1.1.6 (PS5).  The symptom is a NullPointerException, as seen in the log, an example below, and a dialog box telling you an … Continue reading

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BPM – Disable DBMS job to refresh B2B Materialized View

If you are running BPM and you are not using B2B, you might want to disable the DBMS job that refreshes the B2B materialized view.  This job runs every minute by default. To find the job, use a query like … Continue reading

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