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.

Setting up the development environment for the Worklist

This post is the second in a series on building a custom worklist for BPM/SOA 11g. In this post, we will set up our development environment so that we can start building the application. Version Control First, we are going … Continue reading

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Worklist Overview

This post is the first in a series on building a custom worklist application for BPM/SOA Suite 11g. In this post, we will introduce the application and outline the basic architecture. For our ‘version 1.0’ worklist sample, we decided to … Continue reading

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Installing Hudson on WebLogic Server

Today I needed to set up a Hudson server and so I decided to put it on WebLogic Server.  Turns out there is a little trick to get it working.  Thanks to Steve Button for sharing the trick with me. … Continue reading

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Finding which JAR contains a class – again!

I posted a few days ago about finding which JAR file contains a class file – something I often want to do.  My friend Chris Johnson promptly posted a better version here with caching – thanks Chris! Chris said I … Continue reading

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Finding which JAR contains a class

I often want to search through a large number of JAR files looking for a particular class, and every time I do this I wish I had some utility to make it easier.  So I finally made one: #!/bin/sh TARGET=”$1″ … Continue reading

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Improving JMS Performance on WebLogic

WebLogic Server includes a feature called the ‘JMS Wrapper’ that you can take advantage of to dramatically improve the performance of JMS applications running on WebLogic Server.  Note that this is not for remote JMS clients, this is for JMS … Continue reading

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Recommended patch for BPM and SOA 11.1.1.3 users

If you are using SOA Suite or BPM Suite 11.1.1.3 and you are not planning to upgrade to 11.1.1.4 just yet, you are strongly encouraged to install “Bundle Patch 2.”  The patch number is 12700861 and you can find information and … Continue reading

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Deploying WebLogic applications with Maven

In my last post, I talked about one exciting new feature in WebLogic 11g, support for Mac OS X.  Now, I want to cover another exciting new feature – a Maven plugin which allows you to incorporate deployment of your … Continue reading

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Installing WebLogic Server on Mac OS X

One of the exciting new features in WebLogic Server 11g is support for Mac OS X.  The new ‘ZIP Distribution’ of WebLogic Server allows developers to run WebLogic Server on Mac OS X.  The download file is much smaller and … Continue reading

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Changing the default editor/view in JDeveloper

If you work a lot with complex ADF pages in JDeveloper, you may get tired of waiting for it to open your pages in the Design view, I know I do!  Fortunately, there is a simple solution.  You can change … Continue reading

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