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.

RCU cannot connect to database with SYS user

Today I found an interesting little issue when trying to use RCU to create schemas for a middleware installation.  RCU could not connect to the database with the SYS user.  I could connect with other users, like SYSTEM for example, … Continue reading

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Getting started with Continuous Integration for OSB

As a first step towards including Oracle Service Bus projects into our Continuous Integration environment, let’s look at how to script exporting some project(s) from Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (the IDE for OSB) and deploying those project(s) to an … Continue reading

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SOA Quickstart Guide

Our Product Management team have released an updated verison of the SOA Quickstart Guide, which is available here.

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Mastering BPM Webinar Series

On Thursdays starting August 18th and running to September 29, Oracle will be hosting a seven part webinar series on Mastering BPM 11g. For more details see here.  If you would like to attend, please register here. The September 15 … Continue reading

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Extending Continuous Integration to include Human Task UI projects

If you have been following our series of posts on Continuous Integration, you will have seen that we have got SCA composites containing various components including BPEL, BPMN, Spring and Rules and also SCA Test working in a Hudson/Maven/Subversion continuous … Continue reading

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Adding attachment support to the worklist

I have just posted a new version of the worklist sample which adds the ability to add an attachment to a task.  Let’s take a look how we add and view (download) task attachments. First, let’s review the addAttachment method … Continue reading

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Adding Process Instance Audit Images to the Worklist

I have just uploaded another update for the custom BPM worklist sample, the second one this week!  This update adds the ‘process instance audit image’ to the ‘process instance detail’ page.  That means the a picture of the actual process … Continue reading

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Process Instance List and Detail added to Worklist

I have just uploaded an update to the custom BPM worklist sample which adds some new functionality around process instances, including the ability to list process instances: And also view details for a process instance, including a list of the … Continue reading

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Continuous Integration with SCA Tests

This post builds on the earlier posts in this series which showed an approach to getting started with continuous integration for Oracle SOA and BPM.  In this post, we will look at how to add SCA Tests to our continuous … Continue reading

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Allowing limited access to Enterprise Manager

Customers often ask about how to give certain people limited access to Enterprise Manager, often they talk about ‘read only’ access.  Enterprise Manager does in fact have three roles defined out-of-the-box that provide various levels of access.  You can see … Continue reading

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