Publish a REST service from PL/SQL to handle HTTP POST requests – using the...
Share this on .. Oracle Database can act as an HTTP server – using the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (the 10g successor of the MOD_PLSQL gateway). With just a few statements, we can have the Oracle Database...
View ArticleUse DB Vault to protect password strength policy
Share this on .. Suppose your organization wants to enforce a security policy on database password strength. The DBA’s have implemented a password strength verification function in PLSQL such as the...
View ArticleHow to create an if-then-else expression (aka ternary operator) in an XPath...
Share this on .. There are situations where I have to create an XPath expression that performs something like if-then-else logic (similar to a CASE or DECODE expression in SQL or a ternary operator in...
View ArticleHow to use WLST as a Jython 2.7 module
Share this on .. WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) in WebLogic Server 12.1.3 uses Jython version 2.2.1 (based on Python 2.2.1). This can be an important limitation when using WLST. Many modules are not...
View ArticleHighlights and roadmaps from JavaOne 2015 Keynote session
Share this on .. The following are slides and scenes from the JavaOne 2015 Keynote on Sunday October 25th 2015. You can watch the on demand replay of this keynote at:...
View ArticleReflections after JavaOne 2015 – the platform (SE, ME, EE) and the community...
Share this on .. In terms of actual news, this year’s JavaOne conference had not very much to offer. It was a party – celebrating 20 years of Java, and at the same time a confirmation of the strength...
View Articleas_json: Relational to JSON in Oracle Database
Share this on .. Some time ago I noticed this blog from Dan McGhan. In that blog he compares several ways to generate JSON from relational data in a Oracle Database. I had some spare time, so I tried...
View ArticleConsuming a REST service from your ADF 12.2.1 application
Share this on .. With the release of ADF 12.2.1 in the fall of 2015, Oracle finally added support for declaratively consuming a RESTful web service that responds in JSON format. Until then, processing...
View ArticleDoing performance measurements of an OSB Proxy Service by programmatically...
Share this on .. This article explains how the process of doing performance measurements of an OSB Proxy Service and presenting them in a “performance analysis document” was partly automated. After...
View ArticleREST API on Node.js and Express for data retrieved from Oracle Database with...
Share this on .. This article is a follow up on my previous article Linking Application Container Cloud to DBaaS – Expose REST API from node.js application leveraging node-oracle-database driver. That...
View ArticleDeploying an Oracle JET application to Application Container Cloud and...
Share this on .. An article from the Oracle A-Team (http://www.ateam-oracle.com/oracle-jet-with-nodejs/) describes how to run a sample Oracle JET application on a Node.js server. I have followed the...
View ArticleFirst setup of a connection from Node.js to an Oracle Database
Share this on .. In this article I will demonstrate how to make a connection to a remote Oracle database from Node.js running on linux 7. We will be using the node-oracledb module to accomplish this....
View ArticleCreate an oracledb enabled Node.js application container
Share this on .. In my previous article, First setup of a connection from Node.js to an Oracle Database, I demonstrated how to make a connection to a remote database using Node.js and the node-oracledb...
View ArticleMy first NodeJS service
Share this on .. Microservices implemented in JavaScript running on NodeJS are becoming quite popular lately. In order to gain some experience with this, I created a little in memory NodeJS cache...
View ArticleBlog Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database (II)
Share this on .. In the previous Blog I have described how to implement CD for an Oracle database by using migration scripts. In this Blog I will describe how to create migration scripts...
View ArticleParse JSON Array in SQL and PL/SQL – turn to a Nested Table
Share this on .. Transferring data between technologies and application tiers is done using various formats – binary, native on the one hand and open, text based such as CSV, XML and JSON on the other....
View ArticleContinuous Delivery and the Oracle database (III)
Share this on .. In this series of blogs about Continuous Delivery and the Oracle database, I describe how to automate deployments (installations). In the previous two Blogs I have described the tools...
View ArticleVirtual Private Database…
Share this on .. Some time ago I was asked to assist in fixing or at least finding the cause of a performance problem. The application ran fine until the Virtual Private Database (VPD) policy was...
View ArticleVirtual columns
Share this on .. Maarten wrote a post on Virtual Columns in the oracle database. I read a blogpost on preventing people issuing SELECT * on a table. This was done in a different database, so I decided...
View ArticleBenefits of a Canonical Data Model (CDM) in a SOA environment
Share this on .. Introduction The last few years I’ve been working in several SOA related projects, small projects as well as quite large projects. Almost all of these projects use a Canonical Data...
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