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Cluster Configuration for the Oracle Service Bus (OSB)

I was speaking to a colleague today on IM trying to explain clustering configuration for the OSB (or SB for those on 12c now), which is quite simple but very difficult to explain over IM. So I thought a quick entry here would be useful for my colleague and anyone else who might find this interesting.

The Setup

For this example, we’ll assume a simple cluster with – perhaps – the most complicated…

OIM and OAM Resource Cluster Targets

Oracle quite conveniently provide guidelines for targeting resources to clusters / managed servers / etc. in the Enterprise Deployment Guide for SOA Suite. For those how haven’t seen it , it’s available here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/core.1111/e12036/target_appendix_soa.htm

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be such a guide for an Enterprise Deployment of OAM and OIM, which presents a…

I was first introduced to Agile methodologies about 8 years ago, specifically the Scrum framework.  Like many people, I was sceptical at first.  I had worked in environments using waterfall methods, some very successfully for many years and the idea of throwing away heavily detailed requirements documents in favour of lighter weight user stories that were ‘fleshed out’ by the team via discussions…

Upsert Considered Harmful (for integration)

It’s been a long time since the last entry here – commercial and project pressures always seem to push blog updates to the bottom of the “to do” list (or in my case the OmniFocus next action list). We’ve been extremely busy over the last months actually delivering many of the things I’ve intended to discuss on the blog here so in many ways this is a good thing since we can describe actual…

One of the main areas of interest in our consultancy practice is continuous delivery focusing on the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. In this series of posts, I will demonstrate the key concepts of continuous delivery with examples for various Fusion…

Installing Weblogic IIS plugins 7.5

Over the past few years, I have had to use IIS as a front-end to OSB services in quite a few client…