Introduction

Oracle Cloud is the industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud. It offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your own data center. Oracle Cloud helps organizations drive innovation and business transformation by increasing business agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity. The workshop content shows different aspects of Application Development in the cloud with different set of Oracle Cloud Services.

Prerequisites

The workshop is intended to work with an Oracle PaaS trial account. To get an account look into here. Get the following account details ready to complete the tutorial and replace to your values when it is required:

• Oracle Cloud account username and password
• Oracle Cloud identity domain
• Data center/region

NOTE: Before you start to use your new Oracle Public Cloud services make sure that the replication policy has been set for your account. Otherwise you can not create storage container which is necessary for most of the services. See Selecting a Replication Policy for Oracle Storage Cloud Service.

Important

During the execution you will create several public cloud service instances what will be available on the world wide web. Even if these instances are for demo purposes keep in mind it is not a best practice to use weak or known (stored here in the tutorial) passwords especially in such open environment. Thus this workshop content does not recommend any password so you need to define those. You will be asked to provide password at certain points and please remember them for later usage.
The content contains several independent modules that cover different aspects of the application development in the Oracle Cloud. These modules could be executed independently unless you find in the Prerequisites that they are dependent on each other.

Support SpringBoot application development lifecycle using Oracle Developer Cloud Service, Application Container Cloud Service and Oracle Enterprise Pack For Eclipse

• Create Oracle Developer Cloud Service project for SpringBoot application
• Create continuous build integration using Oracle Developer Cloud Service and Oracle Application Container Cloud Service
• Using Eclipse IDE (Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse) with Oracle Developer Cloud Service

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How fast can you provision a WebLogic 12c domain? Oracle ACE Arturo Viveros claims he can do it in two minutes or less.

FlexDeploy’s WebLogic plugin provides various operations to automate the management of domain configurations. Similar to build and deploy of J2EE applications, you can utilize SCM repositories like Subversion, Git, TFS, CVS etc. to maintain configuration files and setup Build and Deploy workflows in FlexDeploy.

Let me show you show it works:

See a very simple Data Source configuration file below, which defines two Data Sources.

We are delighted to announce the availability of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, Version 3.1. Our goal with every release is to deliver high quality differentiating features. Mobile Cloud Service is ranked as a leader in Forrester Wave and now ranked leader in the IDC Mobile App Development Report. In this latest release, we are announcing Express API, an exciting new feature that allows you to design and author APIs, in less than 5 minutes without writing any code, Zero footprint Enterprise SSO a way to Authenticate and Authorize mobile users without the need to import them to Shared Identity Manager, and SMS notifications for engaging customers in Apps.  In addition, we continue to innovate with our Bots platform and Advanced analytics coming soon.  We are confident that these features will help your customers build amazing and differentiated apps faster and better than ever before.

Digital Transformation creates new business opportunities through the ability to engage people with the latest mobile, social, cloud and collaboration capabilities. You can create value, create loyalty and reduce cost of operations by optimizing your mobile presence and start using intelligent, in-the-moment experiences in your mobile strategy, in-context and collaboratively. Build engaging innovative apps with context and location and be ready for new channels such as chat bots, so the organization can support consumers in a fun, useful, and meaningful ways in an environment that presents the least friction possible. It’s all about Innovation at speed and being able to build your mobile apps faster. Join Rene de Boer, Business Development Digital Experience, Oracle, and Martin Cookson, Director of Mobility Oracle EMEA, Oracle in this on demand webcast series (part 1 and part 2) to learn how:

• Enable a challenging mobile presence for Digital Business by setting up an end-to-end Mobile Platform
• Start using the newest chat bot technology and provide value for your customers
• Integrate marketing tooling into your mobile apps

Additional On-Demand Assets:

• [Webcast Series] Part 1: Build Better Mobile Apps Faster (link)
• [Webcast Series] Part 2: Build Better Apps Faster with Reusable API Services (link)
• [Webcast] RESTful APIs and Oracle MAX, Enabling Codeless Mobile Development for Everyone (link)

At Oracle Open World 2016, Larry Ellison demoed the upcoming Oracle Intelligent Bots Cloud Service (IBCS), if you haven’t seen the demo, you can watch the recording on youtube.

Chatbots employ a conversational interface that is both lean and smart, and if designed properly is even charming. Chat helps people find the things they want and need, as well as delivering great services and information directly into an interface they already know and love.Think about how much work it takes to compare and decide on which app to download. Then actually downloading it is never as easy as it sounds, and then the anxiety of where on your home screen to put it on, and then learning yet another new interface. Chatbots are the singularity that smart devices have been waiting for, the streamlined experience that will finally unshackle us from the burden that our apps put on our devices. For most of what we do on our mobile devices, the chatbot and chat interface are ideal.

Want to try the Chat bot? Get your MCS and ACC trial here and get the chat bot code here.

In this short video demonstration I'd like to show you how easy it is to get a full development platform provided as a service to enable an agile development process and to automate DevOps & delivery. 

Here I am using Oracle DevCS 16.4.1, which has a new UI and over 30 new features. The video has been created as part of my presentation with Sven Bernhardt at DOAG Conference in Nuremberg.

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Something that you do not explicitly have to pay for may feel as having no value. The Developer Cloud Service is available free of additional charge with most Oracle PaaS services – and as such may suffer from a perceived lack of value. That would indeed be unfortunate – given the enormous strides made by the team behind this service, one of the oldest on the Oracle public cloud. DevCS has a clear goal: deliver better applications faster and cheaper – through agile development and DevOps. DevCS offers tools and integrations with target platforms that support increasing the agility for delivering features in products in a more frequent pattern – as well as increasing quality and productivity of professional software engineering activities in general.

ADF 12.2.1.1 and 12.2.1.2 respectively comes with improvement for Masonry Layout component. Now we can define custom sizes for tiles - 9.4.1 How to Use a masonryLayout Component. This helps to define larger tiles and organize dashboard layout in more accurate way.

I have uploaded working demo app on GitHub, you can download it directly from repository or browse through the code - ADFAltaApp. I will be using this app for ADF Bindings webinar - Live Webinar - Master Class - ADF Bindings Explained.

Last week I attended DOAG Konferenz & Ausstellung in Nürnberg Germany. The DOAG (Deutsche ORACLE-Anwendergruppe e.V.) is the biggest German Oracle user group. The conference covers all Oracle products and technologies, way too much to name them all.

As my personal center of gravity is middle-ware and here ADF and the surrounding technologies, I attended lot’s of sessions about middle-ware, cloud, ADF, MAF and JET. The big picture of Oracle becoming a cloud company is getting clearer.

I'm going to post a series of articles about CRUD functionality (on top of ADF BC) implementation in JET. I already had a couple of posts about JET CRUD implementation, this new series will bring improved and simplified structure for JET code implementation.

Today I will start with explanation and example how to pass selected object ID from search screen into edit screen. I have uploaded complete sample (with ADF BC and JET) into GitHub repository. Download ready to be run code or browse it directly from GitHub repository.

You can end up into long lines of JavaScript code when implementing more complex use cases in JET. This will complicate maintenance and make code hardly readable. To prevent this - plan code structure carefully and use your own modules. Structure code into different modules - to reuse common code across multiple use cases.

Check my JET/ADF BC sample available on GitHub - jetcrud. This sample implements one common module - Customer Controller. Module is responsible to define ADF BC REST service connection. It contains REST service URL, JET model definition with ID attribute and JET collection created based on JET model and assigned with fetch size. This allows not to repeat same definitions again and again in each of JET modules implementing use cases (edit, add, etc.).

In this three week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) you will learn how to:

• Apply basic JET principles to create Oracle JET application including JET modules, layouts and components
• Apply more advanced JET functionality, including navigation, routing, validation, layouts, and responsive design.
• Create hybrid mobile applications with Cordova in combination with Oracle JET.
• Integrate with the world outside Oracle JET, e.g., JQuery components and the Oracle Cloud.

Deal with the remaining enterprise-level challenges, i.e., internationalization, accessibility, and security.

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