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 version of JDeveloper released with Maven support and better performance

Oracle has released a new version of JDeveloper, 11.1.2.0, with a whole bunch of new features, including Maven support, and a lot of performance enhancements.  You can check out details of the new features here. Please note that this version … Continue reading

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Java 7 is nearly here…

That’s right, Java 7 is just around the corner. Here’s a few of the new language features that I really like: Match on Strings in a switch statement No longer do we have to write those ugly case statements like … Continue reading

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Purging data from SOA/BPM 11g

We often get questions about how to manage purging old data (finished processes instances, task histories, etc.) from SOA and BPM 11g when those data are no longer wanted. There are some scripts provided to do this in 11.1.1.2, 11.1.1.3 … Continue reading

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Extending Continuous Integration to include MDS-dependent components

In this earlier post, I presented a simple approach to get started with continuous integration for SOA and BPM projects and showed how you can build and deploy an SCA composite using Hudson and Maven.  In that example, we just … Continue reading

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Using Java/Spring components in SOA/BPM 11g

Oracle SOA and BPM Suites 11g include the ability to use Java components in a composite application through the Spring component implementation type. Let’s look first at why you might want to do this and then take a look at … Continue reading

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New pre-built WebCenter VM available

Oracle has just released a new pre-built WebCenter VM.  You can find details and download links here. This VM includes WebCenter 11.1.1.4 (also known as ‘patchset 3’) with UCM and two full demonstration sites – an employee portal and a … Continue reading

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Viewing Task Attachments

This post relates to the custom BPM worklist sample presented in this blog. In this post, we will look at how to add support for viewing a list of the attachments for a Human Task. You may recall from the … Continue reading

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Worklist update

I have released the first small update to the worklist that adds some new functionality: The ability to view and download attachments from Task Detail page, Proper handling for over 200 tasks in the Task List page – previously only … Continue reading

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New updated iPhone app for Oracle WebCenter Spaces

The newly updated iPhone app for Oracle WebCenter Spaces 11g Release 1 is now available, with support for PS3 as well as PS2 servers. This new version represents a major change, not merely an incremental update of the previous version. … Continue reading

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Getting started with Continuous Integration for SOA projects

This post is part of a series on Continuous Integration. I am exploring how to use Maven and Hudson to create a continuous integration capability for SOA and BPM projects.  This will be the first post of several on this … Continue reading

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