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.

Great new WebCenter book available from Packt

Recently, I had the opportunity to read Yannick Ongena‘s new book, Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook, from Packt Publishing.  The book takes the form of a collection of ‘recipes’ – instructions on how to carry out common tasks and … Continue reading

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BPM PS4 Feature Pack released

The long awaited BPM 11g PS4 Feature Pack has been released.  Jan Kettenis has done a good job of providing the details here and some helpful install notes here. The Feature Pack adds a lot of exciting new functionality and … Continue reading

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Dave Shaffer joins the RedStack team

I am very happy to welcome Dave Shaffer into our little family of bloggers.  Until recently, Dave has run Product Management for the Integration products at Oracle, i.e. SOA Suite, BPM Suite, etc., and has now established his own consultancy … Continue reading

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Worklist moving to java.net

A quick update for those who are interested in the custom BPM worklist sample.  As our previous Subversion host is not going to be able to continue to provide that service, we have moved the sample to java.net.  All download … Continue reading

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Setting up Process Portal

My colleague George posted an article on configuring the BPM Process Portal on WebCenter 11.1.1.5 here.

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BPM 10g Performance Tuning Whitepaper published

My colleague Sushil Shukla and I have just published our BPM 10g Performance Tuning whitepaper on the Oracle BPM website, you can access the PDF directly here. The whitepaper covers topics like: Environment considerations Application design considerations Tuning the BPM … Continue reading

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Mobile worklist

Inspired by a comment from Flávio Fonseca, I decided to experiment with making the worklist render for a mobile device using JQuery Mobile. Turns out it is pretty easy to do.  All I did was change the style sheets and the … Continue reading

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Introduction to the Sales Order Entry application

This post is part of a series on building a modern web-based interface for E-Business Suite using Oracle ADF with Oracle Service Bus providing services between EBS and the front end. Our (imaginary) client wants a new, modern, web-based Sales … Continue reading

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Introductory presentation on custom worklist

Last week, I did a presentation at the InSync11 conference which is organised by Oracle User Groups that provided an overview of the custom worklist sample.  I am sharing the presentation material here for those who may be interested but … Continue reading

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Installer cannot access the oraInventory

Ran into another interesting little challenge today.  While installing SOA Suite onto a machine which already had another, completely separate Oracle product installation on it (albeit under a different userid), the installer helpfully reported that it could not access /home/oracle/oraInventory. … Continue reading

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