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.

New blog – BPM in Practice – launched

Oracle North America Consulting’s BPM practice has set up a new blog where they plan to host articles from a variety of guest bloggers (me included) covering practical aspects of BPM implementation.  I would encourage you to take a look … Continue reading

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Using the TaskQueryService from .Net (C#)

As regular readers will know, I am working on a .Net version of the custom worklist sample.  As I work on this, I am playing with a few different things in .Net along the way, and it seemed like it … Continue reading

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Getting started with tuning your SOA/BPM database using AWR

Update:  When I initially published this post, I was relying on information from a single source inside Oracle, however since publishing it, I have been discussing the content further with other sources in the Oracle community, and in the course … Continue reading

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Finding which activities will execute next in a process instance

We have had a few queries lately about how to find out what activity (or activities) will be the next to execute in a particular process instance.  It is possible to do this, however you will need to use a … Continue reading

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An event not to be missed… WebLogic 12c Launch and Deep Dive

If you are using WebLogic Server, you wont want to miss the launch for the brand spanking new WebLogic Server 12c on December 1.  Find all the details here.  The second half is a deep dive session for developers! Trivia:  … Continue reading

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Don’t install JDev and BPM in the same Home

I don’t think this is actually documented anywhere, but it is something that you will want to be aware of if you are using the BPM 11.1.1.5 Feature Pack. It is not supported to install the Feature Pack patch into … Continue reading

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Correlation in BPM

Arun Pareek has a very detailed post about the new correlation capabilities introduced in the BPM 11.1.1.5 ‘Feature Pack’ patch – I recommend taking a look.

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Building a job dispatcher in BPM -or- Iterating over collections in BPM

Recently I was working with a customer who wanted to create a kind of ‘job dispatcher’ in BPM – basically a process that could take an array of things as input and do something different to each thing, depending on … Continue reading

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API documentation for BPM APIs is now available

You can now download the documentation for the BPM APIs from here.  This includes both the Human Workflow APIs and the BPM APIs.  The BPM APIs were previously undocumented.  I have shown how to use some of them in the … Continue reading

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See you at OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is almost upon us, and we will be there.  We hope to meet some of you there! Here are the sessions that we will be participating in, come along and say hello! Session ID: 02523 Session Title: … Continue reading

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