Before a couple of days Oracle release WebLogic 12c R2 (12.2.1). There are a lot of cool features like Java EE 7 support and Multitenancy Support for WebLogic domains. Installation of WebLogic server along with ADF runtime (Fusion Middleware Infrastructure) are not hard but requires a lot of parameters to be configured and a significant time when you need to …
Using Ansible to configure an Oracle Linux 7.1 server with Oracle 12c R1 Enterprise Edition Database
Ansible is the leading tool for configuring software and various parameters on servers. It does not require agents and other software installed on nodes like other popular tools (puppet or chef). Also, it is modular and already has hundreds of modules that help us configure our servers in several ways. In this article I will demonstrate how we can install …
Ansible playbook to provision a WebLogic Fusion Middleware Domain on RHEL 7
An Ansible Playbook for installing and configuring a WebLogic 12c server with Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.1.3 software in Redhat Linux 7 (RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux) system. This playbook is for version 12.1.3 of WebLogic and Fusion Middleware Infrastructure software. You can download the code here: https://github.com/cvezalis/weblogic-ansible Prerequisites for running the playbook – Configure your environment variables in infra-vars.yml. This file contains variables …
Reusing ADF Business Components to develop web services
There are already numerous ADF applications that have been developed these latest years, mostly using Business Components in the model layer. With the increased need of SOA processes and mobile applications based on web services, there is a big and growing need of exposing the same functionality via web services. According to the documentation “the same application module can support …
Maven replace tokens inside files before application build using profiles
When building projects on multiple environments (for example a developer test server, a system test server, a user acceptance test server, a training server and finally a production server), application need to be passed environment variables. One way to solve this is to use tokens on files that Maven will replace will real values found on separate property files for …
Cross platform Maven ADF JDeveloper 12c projects
When you create a new ADF project on JDeveloper 12c that supports Maven or convert a new project to support maven the JDeveloper wizard will add to project or application pom files ojmake and ojdeploy plugins for compile source code and generate jar, adf library jars, view controller war or ear file. If you are in a windows machine the …
Maven add dependencies from central repository to ADF project in JDeveloper
ADF Projects often need jars from popular open source libraries and frameworks. JDeveloper supports the addition of dependencies from public (and private) repositories. To add a new dependency to project we need to: Go to Project folder in Application browser and expand the Resources folder under Project. Then open pom.xml file and go to dependencies section. The click the Green …