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.

Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI

This is a topic I have been interested in for a while.  I have seen it done by some of my colleagues, especially in AIA environments, and I have been waiting to get an opportunity to work on it and … Continue reading

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Be aware of JDK 1.6.0_30 with BPM or SOA on Windows Server

Have not done extensive testing of this, but I have noticed on a few BPM 11.1.1.6 installs on Windows Server 2008 R2 and also on Windows 7 – both 64-bit – that BPM is very unstable with JDK 1.6.0_30 (64-bit).  … Continue reading

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PS5 released

In case you missed it – Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.6 (the long awaited ‘PatchSet 5’) has been released.  You can find some info about new features in BPM here and SOA here. The documentation is here – note that we … Continue reading

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Choosing BPMN or BPEL to model your processes

With Dave Shaffer Recently, I had a discussion with several colleagues and one of our large customers about when to use BPMN and when to use BPEL to model business processes.  I have discussed this topic before in this post … Continue reading

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Writing a Human Task UI in .Net (C#/ASP.NET) or in fact anything other than ADF

As you know, you can create the user interfaces for your human tasks using ADF.  JDeveloper allows you to auto-generate a human task user interface (form) and it also includes a wizard that gives you a bit more control over … Continue reading

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SOA/BPM 11g purging whitepaper

The long awaited whitepaper on purging SOA/BPM 11g databases by Michael Bousamra with Deepak Arora and Sai Sudarsan Pogaru has been released and is available here. I recommend you take a look!  

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Installing OSB and its IDE on 64-bit Linux

We often hear people ask how to install Oracle Service Bus, and also its integrated development environment (which is based on Eclipse) on 64-bit systems.  The confusion comes from the apparent unavailability of the 64-bit installer for the WebLogic and … Continue reading

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Updating a task from .Net

In this previous post I showed how to use the TaskQueryService to query tasks.  In this post, I am going to take this one step further and update the task payload and process the task.  In order to do this, … Continue reading

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WebLogic 12c Released

Just a quick post the let you all know that WebLogic Server 12c is now generally available and can be downloaded from OTN.  

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New build of custom worklist for BPM 11.1.1.5 ‘Feature Pack’ patched systems

I have just uploaded a new build of the custom worklist sample which is compiled against (and will therefore work with) BPM 11.1.1.5 systems which have the feature pack patch installed.  You can download this from the links on the … Continue reading

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