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.

Starting a cluster

Recently, I have been involved in a number of discussions with people who are setting up clusters of various Fusion Middleware products, often on an Exalogic machine.  These discussions have led me to feel that it would be worth sharing … Continue reading

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How to know that a method was run, when you didn’t write that method

Recently, I was posed with a situation where I needed to ensure that a particular method was being run by an application, but that method was part of the framework (ADF in this case) not a method that I had … Continue reading

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Using Oracle Service Registry in an automated (Maven) SOA/BPM build

Today, I feel very privileged to share with you a post from one of my readers, Phani Khrisna, who was kind enough to allow me to post this updated Maven POM which allows you to use resources in the Oracle … Continue reading

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Identity Virtualization for BPM – or Using Multiple Directories

We often get questions about how to configure BPM to use multiple identity providers (directories, database, etc.) so that users of BPM Workspace (for example) can be authenticated against different providers. A little known fact about BPM is that it … Continue reading

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How to disable B2B

That’s a provocative title!  Let’s start by talking about why you might want to disable B2B! If you are using BPM (or SOA) and you are not using any of the B2B functionality, then you might want to consider disabling … Continue reading

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Testing Business Rules

Today I learned about a really neat utility that was developed by my colleague, Olivier Lediouris, which allows you to test Business Rules in a standalone/offline fashion – without the need to deploy them to a SOA/BPM server and build … Continue reading

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Where our readers come from

Just a curiosity for those interested in such things – WordPress has just given us bloggers the ability to see where our readers are coming from.  Hopefully they will provide a widget so that we can put this on our … Continue reading

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Worklist build for 11.1.1.6 (PatchSet 5) released

Have just uploaded a build of the custom BPM worklist sample which is built against BPM 11.1.1.6.  You can find the download links and JavaDoc on the main worklist page.  The code is available in the subversion trunk (for now) … Continue reading

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Oracle Fusion Middleware on JDK 7

In case you did not notice, you may be interested to know that most of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g platform is now supported on Java 7.  This is effective from WebLogic Server 10.3.6 and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.6.  You … Continue reading

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Step by step instructions on building a SOA cluster – with video

Just came across this and wanted to share – step by step video instructions on building a two node SOA (and AIA Foundation Pack) cluster!  Cool!

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