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  • Taking the Mystique out of the Remote Diagnostics Agent (RDA)

    - by Robert Schweighardt
    Ever wondered why you were asked for the RDA? When you open an SR with support you may be asked to upload the RDA.   We realize that this might take you some time, however the RDA contains a lot of diagnostic information about your environment which may help us resolve the SR faster. The following document goes through all the key stages involved in collating the RDA :- Get Proactive with Fusion Middleware : Resolve SRs Faster! Use Remote Diagnostic Agent [ID 1498376.1]  Click on the Tabs within the document to have all your questions answered. Further Information for specific Data Integration Products can be found in the following Notes:- How To Run RDA for Oracle Data Integrator 11g (Note 1457914.1)  Using OCM (Oracle Configuration Manager) and RDA (Remote Diagnostic Agent) For Troubleshooting ODI (Note 1398483.1)  How To Run RDA for Oracle Warehouse Builder [ID 1098485.1] Always ensure you have the latest RDA this can be downloaded from:- Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) 4 - Getting Started [ID 314422.1] 

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  • Help Improve Oracle Products Usability at OOW

    - by Shay Shmeltzer
    We already wrote about all the great ADF related activities at OOW. But we wanted to also let you know about an additional activity you can participate in at OpenWorld: The Oracle Middleware User Experience team will be conducting focus groups and customer feedback activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 (Oct. 1st - Oct. 3rd). Customer participation helps Oracle develop outstanding products and solutions. Professionals of all types are invited to participate: Directors, Project & Product Managers, Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Marketing, Recruiters, Budget Managers,  and more. **To participate in these sessions you do not have to be registered for Oracle OpenWorld.** If you or someone you know is interested in participating, please email [email protected] with the following information: Name: Company Name:  Job Title: Email: Phone Number (work, mobile, include country code):

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  • Oracle Unveils Oracle Java Embedded Suite 7.0

    - by user12612705
    Today Oracle announced the Oracle Java Embedded Suite 7.0. What is the Java Embedded Suite (JES)? It's a middleware stack designed to be run on embedded devices. It's a suite which includes an application server (Glassfish for Embedded Suite), database (Java DB), and web services (Jersey Web Services Framework). Putting these services on the embedded device gives you the ability to provide a set of services at the device point. It also lets you aggregate data at the device point, which you can later sync with your enterprise systems.

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  • Looking for Java Developers Using Mac

    - by Shay Shmeltzer
    The Oracle's Middleware User Experience team is currently looking for Java developers on Mac OS . If Mac OS is your primary development platform, we would like to invite you to participate in a customer usability feedback session allowing us to learn more about your experiences developing Java software on Mac OS. Sessions are typically 1.5 hours and would be conducted in your office via web conferencing. If interested, please send an email to this email address with the following information: Name: Job Title / Role: Daytime Phone: Provide a brief description of the programs you create in Java: Is MacOS your primary development platform? What is your primary development environment, tool, or IDE? What version(s) of the JDK do you currently use?

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  • Now's the Time to Register for Oracle OpenWorld Latin America 2012!

    - by Oracle OpenWorld Blog Team
    The recent Oracle OpenWorld conference held in San Francisco was a huge success. If you weren't able to attend, you'll be glad to know that key content and speakers from that conference will be featured in São Paulo on 4-6 December at Oracle OpenWorld Latin America 2012. Session tracks this year include: Applications, Business Intelligence, Database, Industries, Middleware, Oracle Services, and Servers and Storage Systems. At Oracle OpenWorld there's so much to see and do: keynotes, technical sessions, Oracle and partner demonstrations, hands-on labs, networking events, and more. Check the Website often as more details get added. And if you register between now and 15 November, you can save 35% off of the onsite price. We look forward to seeing you there!  (photo montage by Arun Gupta)

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  • Come visit us at OOW 2012 B2B Demo Booth!

    - by user701307
    You’re invited to visit us at the Oracle B2B Demo POD at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne 2012. OOW offers a unique opportunity to meet the engineers who have developed the Oracle B2B product. Please stop by at our booth to see cool demos on EDI X12, EDIFACT and SBRES (used in Airlines industry). We will also be showing integration with OSB, SOA Suite and BAM. Use this opportunity to see the product in action, learn, and get answers to your questions. We will be happy to meet you and hear about your B2B integration usecases and discuss our roadmap. The demo pod will be available at the Fusion Middleware Demo POD area on Monday, October 1 through Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Look forward to seeing you there! Happy OOW 2012!

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  • Oracle Partner Specialists – Sell & Deliver High Value Products to Customers

    - by Richard Lefebvre
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Do you want to know where to find useful information about partner training and other activities to complete Oracle Specialization available in the country you are personally based? Go to the EMEA partner enablement blog and read latest information regarding training opportunities ready to join for Cloud Services, Applications, Business Intelligence, Middleware, Database 12c, Engineered System as well as Server & Storage. Recently, we announced new TestFest events in France, which you can join to pass your own Implementation Assessment within the Specialization category you have already chosen. To find out where and when the next TestFest close to your location will take place, please contact [email protected] or watch out for further announcements of TestFest events in your home country. Turnback to the EMEA Partner Enablement Blog from time to time to update your own Specialization and join the latest training for Sales, Presales or Implementation Specialists:  https://blogs.oracle.com/opnenablement/

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  • Announcing Oracle WebLogic 12c

    - by alexismp
    While this blog is mostly devoted to GlassFish, you may be interested in the Oracle WebLogic Server 12c announcement scheduled for December 1st, 2011. The launch event is called "Introducing Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, the #1 Application Server Across Conventional and Cloud Environments" and will be split into Executive Overview and Developer Deep Dive sessions. The agenda description includes the following (emphasis is mine) : • Optimized to run your solutions for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE); Oracle Fusion Middleware; and Oracle Fusion Applications • Enhanced with transformational platforms and technologies such as Java EE 6, Oracle’sActive GridLink for RAC, Oracle Traffic Director, and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder On a slightly less official note but on that same topic, you should check out Steve Button's blog and twitter stream.

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  • Calling Knowledge Workers: Make a Difference in the User Experience

    - by Charles Knapp
    Do you consider yourself a knowledge worker? Do you have ideas of how to make CRM software work smarter so you don't have to work harder? The Oracle Middleware User Experience team will be conducting customer feedback focus groups at Oracle OpenWorld, October 1-3. All it takes is a couple of hours or less for us to learn from you. Customer participation helps Oracle develop outstanding products and solutions. Knowledge workers of all types are invited to participate: Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Marketing, Recruiters, Budget Managers, Project & Product Managers and more. To participate in these sessions you do not have to be registered for Oracle OpenWorld. If you or someone you know is interested in participating, please email muxtesting_us at oracle.com with your name, company, job title, work and mobile phone numbers with country code, and email address.

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  • Windows Azure : Microsoft et Oracle enterrent la hache de guerre avec un accord sur Java, le SGBD, le Linux et les applications d'Oracle

    Windows Azure : Microsoft et Oracle enterrent la hache de guerre Avec un accord qui concerne Java, le SGBD, Linux, le middleware et les applications d'OracleQui l'eût cru ? Les frères ennemis Microsoft et Oracle viennent de passer un accord. Ces retombés se feront en plusieurs temps.Dès aujourd'hui, les applications certifiées par Oracle pourront tourner sur Hyper-V (l'outil de virtualisation de Windows Server) et être hébergées dans Windows Azure. En sens inverse, la plateforme Cloud de Microsoft devient un revendeur de service Cloud approuvé par Oracle (le seul avec AWS). Mais ...

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  • Coherence on YouTube

    - by jeckels
    As we're busy preparing the next version of Coherence for you to enjoy, don't forget you can always take a peek at our YouTube channel for customer testimonials, how-to tutorials and a plethora of content around the #1 in-memory solution across conventional and cloud environments. Spoiler alert: we have a bunch more coming very soon. Stay tuned... Also, don't forget to join us at Oracle Open World in September for in-depth sessions on Coherence and other Fusion Middleware products. We look forward to seeing you there! 

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  • Java EE???????????!? ?Oracle ADF???????!!|WebLogic Channel|??????

    - by ???02
    WebLogic Server???Java EE??????????????????????Oracle Application Development Framework(ADF)????????????Oracle ADF????????????????????????????????????????GUI?????????????????Web???????????????????????????????????????/??????????????????????Fusion Application???????/?????????Oracle ADF?????????Java EE????????????????????????????? Fusion Middleware?????????????????????????Oracle ADF???????????????(???)??????????????????? ???Web??????????????????????????????1???MVC???????????????????????·????????Model?????????????????????View?????Model?View??????Controller????3???????????????????????????????????????Model?View?Controller?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????MVC???????????????????????????Controller?Model?????????EJB????????Web???????Model????????????????????????????View?Model??????Model????????????????????????????????????????????????2004???????????Oracle ADF???????????????????????????Java EE???????????????·??·???????????Oracle Technology Network:?Oracle Applicastion Development Framework????Java EE????????????????? Oracle ADF??????????????????????????????????????????????????IDE?JDeveloper??????????????????????????????WYSIWYG????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????SQL??????????·????·??????????????????????????Oracle Technology Network:?Oracle JDeveloper ????????Oracle JDeveloper 11g ????????  ???Oracle ADF??????????????????????/????????????Web UI??????????????????????????????????Oracle Enterprise Manager?Oracle Enterprise Performance Management?Oracle Business Intelligence??????????????????????????????????·?????????Fusion Application????????????????Oracle ADF??????????????????????/???????????????????????????????????150?????GUI?????????·??????????? Oracle ADF???????????????ADF Faces???ADF Task Flow???ADF Model?????????????View?Controller?Model?????????????????????????????????????ADF Security??????????????????????????????????ADF Business Components???????????? ??Oracle ADF???????Web??????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle ADF???ADF Faces???JSF?????150?????GUI???????????????&????????????????Ajax?????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????GUI??????????????????????????????????????????????GUI????????????·???????????????????????????????Web??????????????? Oracle ADF???Web?????????????????????????????Excel?????????????????????????????????????Desktop Integration???????????????????????????????????????Excel?????????????????????????? ????????????????????·????????????????????????ADF Mobile???????????????????????????Web???????????????????????????????·???????????????·??????????????????????????????????ADF Mobile??????·????????????????????????·?????????????????ADF????????????????? ?ADF Business Components???ADF Task Flow???????????????ADF Business Components?J2EE????·???????????????·?????????????????????????·????·??????????????????????????????????????·??????Java???????????????????????JDBC?????????????????????????? ???ADF Task Flow?JSF?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????URL???????????????????????????????????????????? ??????Java EE??????????????????Oracle ADF???????????????????????.NET Framework?????????????????????·?????Oracle ADF????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle ADF??????????????????????????????????????Java EE 6?HTML5???????? Oracle ADF????????Java EE?????Java EE6??????????Web???????????????????HTML5??????????????????????????????·??????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????1????????????????????·??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????Oracle ADF?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle ADF????????????·???????????????????????????????????Oracle ADF???Java EE?????????????????????????????????:?Oracle JDeveloper?Oracle ADF 11g?Release 2(11.1.2.x):????

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  • Oracle WebLogic Server 11g(10.3.4) ?????????

    - by Natsuki.Wakabayashi
    Fusion Middleware 11g(11.1.1.4.0)?????????????Oracle WebLogic Server 11g(10.3.4)????????????????????????????????????????????????????"Get Started"???????????????????????????? WebLogic Server????·??? WebLogic Server???? ????·???????????????·??? ?????????????????? ?????????·????·??? Oracle WebLogic Server?????????·?????? ?????????·??? Oracle WebLogic Server??? WebLogic Server?????????    Smart Update????????????·?????????? ???????·??? Oracle WebLogic Server???? ?????????????????????????????????~~ ??????????????????????????Oracle WebLogic Server 11g(10.3.4)??????

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  • ????????!?Oracle DBA & Developer Day 2012? ????????

    - by OTN-J Master
    ?????!DBA & Developer Day ??????????????????????????????!????????????DBA & Developer Day ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? OTN ??????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Database Cloud Service??????????????????????????????·?????????Michael Hichwa??????Oracle OpenWorld 2012 ????????????????????????????????????Oracle Database Cloud Service???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Pluggable Database(???????????)??????????????????????????? ????2?????????6????????????24???????????????????????? Oracle Database ???????? ???????(MAA) Oracle Database ???????? BIG DATA Oracle Fusion Middleware???????? Oracle Solaris OTN ?????????????????????????????????????? – ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? (???????????????????????)??????SPARC T4-1????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????24?????????(??·??)??????????! ????????????????????????????????????? (????: ?????????????????????????????????????????????)  

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  • ?????!?Oracle ACE??

    - by OTN-J Master
    OTN???????????????????????????3???????Oracle ACE???????????????????! ??????Oracle ACE??????????????????????????????????(?????????????????????????) ?? ??? (Oracle Database??????)”Oracle ?????????” ????? (Oracle Database??????)”???????????~???????????????”  ????? (Oracle Fusion Middleware??????) ”??????????~???????????”??????????????????????????Oracle ACE ?????????????????????????IT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Oracle ACE?????????????????(?????????????????????????)???????????·?????????Oracle ACE????????!? ???Oracle ACE????????Oracle ACE?????????????????????OTN Japan???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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  • How To Create Per-Request Singleton in Pylons?

    - by dave mankoff
    In our Pylons based web-app, we're creating a class that essentially provides some logging functionality. We need a new instance of this class for each http request that comes in, but only one per request. What is the proper way to go about this? Should we just create the object in middleware and store in in request.environ? Is there a more appropriate way to go about this?

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  • Anyone have experience integrating with MYOB?

    - by 1nsane
    Looking to integrate a web application with MYOB. There's not much in terms of documentation out there. I've found a couple of companies that provide middleware, but nothing promising. Just thought I'd see if anyone else out there has had experience with this and might be able to save me a bit of time. Cheers

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  • How to locally test Django's Sites Framework

    - by Off Rhoden
    Django has the sites framework to support multiple web site hosting from a single Django installation. EDIT (below is an incorrect assumption of the system) I understand that middleware sets the settings.SITE_ID value based on a lookup/cache of the request domain. ENDEDIT But when testing locally, I'm at http://127.0.0.1:8000/, not http://my-actual-domain.com/ How do I locally view my different sites during development?

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  • Django: What's the correct way to get the requesting IP address?

    - by swisstony
    I'm trying to develop an app using Django 1.1 on Webfaction. I'd like to get the IP address of the incoming request, but when I use request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] it returns 127.0.0.1. There seems to be a number of different ways of getting the address, such as using HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or plugging in some middleware called SetRemoteAddrFromForwardedFor. Just wondering what the best approach was?

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  • How to add django-db-log models to admin panel?

    - by Enchantner
    Just installed django-db-log module and trying to make it work properly. 'python manage.py syncdb' command created databases, it seems like logging works, but there is nothing about it in admin panel. As I found in documentation, it should add itself in admin panel without any additional configuration, but then I added 'djangodblog.middleware.DBLogMiddleware' in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES and 'djangodblog' in INSTALLED_APPS it looks like nothing happens. What I'm doing wrong?

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  • How to notify a Windows .net service from PHP on Linux?

    - by Louis Haußknecht
    I'm writing a service in C# on Windows which should be triggert by an PHP driven web frontend, which runs on Linux. Both processes share the same SQL Server 2005 database. There is no messaging middleware available atm. The PHP process inserts an row in a SQL Server table. The Windows process should read this entry and process it. I have no experience in PHP, so what would you suggest to notify the Windows process?

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  • Embedding ADF UI Components into OAF regions

    - by Juan Camilo Ruiz
    Having finished the 2 Webcast on ADF integration with Oracle E-Business Suite, Sara Woodhull, Principal Product Manager on the Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Technology team and I are going to continue adding entries to the series on this topic, trying to cover as many use cases as possible. In this entry, Sara created an overview on how Oracle ADF pages can be embedded into an Oracle Application Framework region. This is a very interesting approach that will enable those of you who are exploring ADF as a technology stack to enhanced some of the Oracle E-Business Suite flows and leverage your skill on Oracle Applications Framework (OAF). In upcoming entries we will start unveiling the internals needed to achieve session sharing between the regions. Stay tuned for more entries and enjoy this new post.   Document Scope This document only covers information that is specific to embedding an Oracle ADF page in an Oracle Application Framework–based page. It assumes knowledge of Oracle ADF and Oracle Application Framework development. It also assumes knowledge of the material in My Oracle Support Note 974949.1, “Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java” and My Oracle Support Note 1296491.1, "FAQ for Integration of Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Applications". Prerequisite Patch Download Patch 12726556:R12.FND.B from My Oracle Support and install it. The implementation described below requires Patch 12726556:R12.FND.B to provide the accessors for the ADF page. This patch is required in addition to the Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java patch described in My Oracle Support Note 974949.1. Development Environments You need two different JDeveloper environments: Oracle ADF and OA Framework. Oracle ADF Development Environment You build your Oracle ADF page using JDeveloper 11g. You should use JDeveloper 11g R1 (the latest is 11.1.1.6.0) if you need to use other products in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack, such as Oracle WebCenter, Oracle SOA Suite, or BI. You should use JDeveloper 11g R2 (the latest is 11.1.2.3.0) if you do not need other Oracle Fusion Middleware products. JDeveloper 11g R2 is an Oracle ADF-specific release that supports the latest Java EE standards and has various core improvements. Oracle Application Framework Development Environment Build your OA Framework page using a development environment corresponding to your Oracle E-Business Suite version. You must use Release 12.1.2 or later because the rich content container was introduced in Release 12.1.2. See “OA Framework - How to find the correct version of JDeveloper to use with eBusiness Suite 11i or Release 12.x” (My Oracle Support Doc ID 416708.1). Building your Oracle ADF Page Typically you build your ADF page using the session management feature of the Oracle E-Business Suite SDK for Java as described in My Oracle Support Note 974949.1. Also see My Oracle Support Note 1296491.1, "FAQ for Integration of Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Applications". Building an ADF Page with the Hierarchy Viewer If you are using the ADF hierarchy viewer, you should set up the structure and settings of the ADF page as follows or the hierarchy viewer may not fill the entire area it is supposed to fill (especially a problem in Firefox). Create a stretchable component as the parent component for the hierarchy viewer, such as af:panelStretchLayout (underneath the af:form component in the structure). Use af:panelStretchLayout for Oracle ADF 11.1.1.6 and earlier. For later versions of Oracle ADF, use af:panelGridLayout. Create your hierarchy viewer component inside the stretchable component. Create Function in Oracle E-Business Suite Instance In your Oracle E-Business Suite instance, create a function for your ADF page with the following parameters. You can use either the Functions window in the System Administrator responsibility or the Functions page in the Functional Administrator responsibility. Function Function Name Type=External ADF Function (ADFX) HTML Call=GWY.jsp?targetPage=faces/<your ADF page> ">You must also add your function to an Oracle E-Business Suite menu or permission set and set up function security or role-based access control (RBAC) so that the user has authorization to access the function. If you do not want the function to appear on the navigation menu, add the function without a menu prompt. See the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide Documentation Set for more information. Testing the Function from the Oracle E-Business Suite Home Page It’s a good idea to test launching your ADF page from the Oracle E-Business Suite Home Page. Add your function to the navigation menu for your responsibility with a prompt and try launching it. If your ADF page expects parameters from the surrounding page, those might not be available, however. Setting up the Oracle Application Framework Rich Container Once you have built your Oracle ADF 11g page, you need to embed it in your Oracle Application Framework page. Create Rich Content Container in your OA Framework JDeveloper environment In the OA Extension Structure pane for your OAF page, select the region where you want to add the rich content, and add a richContainer item to the region. Set the following properties on the richContainer item: id Content Type=Others (for Release 12.1.3. This property value may change in a future release.) Destination Function=[function code] Width (in pixels or percent, such as 100%) Height (in pixels) Parameters=[any parameters your Oracle ADF page is expecting to receive from the Oracle Application Framework page] Parameters In the Parameters property, specify parameters that will be passed to the embedded content as a list of comma-separated, name-value pairs. Dynamic parameters may be specified as paramName={@viewAttr}. Dynamic Rich Content Container Properties If you want your rich content container to display a different Oracle ADF page depending on other information, you would set up a different function for each different Oracle ADF page. You would then set the Destination Function and Parameters properties programmatically, instead of setting them in the Property Inspector. In the processRequest() method of your Oracle Application Framework page controller, where OAFRichContentPage is the ID of your richContainer item and the parameters are whatever parameters your ADF page expects, your code might look similar to this code fragment: OARichContainerBean richBean = (OARichContainerBean) webBean.findChildRecursive("OAFRichContentPage"); if(richBean != null){ if(isFirstCondition){ richBean.setFunctionName("ADF_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDED"); richBean.setParameters("ParamLoginPersonId="+loginPersonId +"&ParamPersonId="+personId+"&ParamUserId="+userId +"&ParamRespId="+respId+"&ParamRespApplId="+respApplId +"&ParamFromOA=Y"+"&ParamSecurityGroupId="+securityGroupId); } else if(isSecondCondition){ richBean.setFunctionName("ADF_EXAMPLE_OTHER_FUNCTION"); richBean.setParameters("ParamLoginPersonId=" +loginPersonId+"&ParamPersonId="+personId +"&ParamUserId="+userId+"&ParamRespId="+respId +"&ParamRespApplId="+respApplId +"&ParamFromOA=Y" +"&ParamSecurityGroupId="+securityGroupId); } }

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  • Cloud MBaaS : The Next Big Thing in Enterprise Mobility

    - by shiju
    In this blog post, I will take a look at Cloud Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) and how we can leverage Cloud based Mobile Backend as a Service for building enterprise mobile apps. Today, mobile apps are incredibly significant in both consumer and enterprise space and the demand for the mobile apps is unbelievably increasing in day to day business. An enterprise can’t survive in business without a proper mobility strategy. A better mobility strategy and faster delivery of your mobile apps will give you an extra mileage for your business and IT strategy. So organizations and mobile developers are looking for different strategy for meeting this demand and adopting different development strategy for their mobile apps. Some developers are adopting hybrid mobile app development platforms, for delivering their products for multiple platforms, for fast time-to-market. Others are adopting a Mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) such as Kony for their enterprise mobile apps for fast time-to-market and better business integration. The Challenges of Enterprise Mobility The real challenge of enterprise mobile apps, is not about creating the front-end environment or developing front-end for multiple platforms. The most important thing of enterprise mobile apps is to expose your enterprise data to mobile devices where the real pain is your business data might be residing in lot of different systems including legacy systems, ERP systems etc., and these systems will be deployed with lot of security restrictions. Exposing your data from the on-premises servers, is not a easy thing for most of the business organizations. Many organizations are spending too much time for their front-end development strategy, but they are really lacking for building a strategy on their back-end for exposing the business data to mobile apps. So building a REST services layer and mobile back-end services, on the top of legacy systems and existing middleware systems, is the key part of most of the enterprise mobile apps, where multiple mobile platforms can easily consume these REST services and other mobile back-end services for building mobile apps. For some mobile apps, we can’t predict its user base, especially for products where customers can gradually increase at any time. And for today’s mobile apps, faster time-to-market is very critical so that spending too much time for mobile app’s scalability, will not be worth. The real power of Cloud is the agility and on-demand scalability, where we can scale-up and scale-down our applications very easily. It would be great if we could use the power of Cloud to mobile apps. So using Cloud for mobile apps is a natural fit, where we can use Cloud as the storage for mobile apps and hosting mechanism for mobile back-end services, where we can enjoy the full power of Cloud with greater level of on-demand scalability and operational agility. So Cloud based Mobile Backend as a Service is great choice for building enterprise mobile apps, where enterprises can enjoy the massive scalability power of their mobile apps, provided by public cloud vendors such as Microsoft Windows Azure. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) We have discussed the key challenges of enterprise mobile apps and how we can leverage Cloud for hosting mobile backend services. MBaaS is a set of cloud-based, server-side mobile services for multiple mobile platforms and HTML5 platform, which can be used as a backend for your mobile apps with the scalability power of Cloud. The information below provides the key features of a typical MBaaS platform: Cloud based storage for your application data. Automatic REST API services on the application data, for CRUD operations. Native push notification services with massive scalability power. User management services for authenticate users. User authentication via Social accounts such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter. Scheduler services for periodically sending data to mobile devices. Native SDKs for multiple mobile platforms such as Windows Phone and Windows Store, Android, Apple iOS, and HTML5, for easily accessing the mobile services from mobile apps, with better security.  Typically, a MBaaS platform will provide native SDKs for multiple mobile platforms so that we can easily consume the server-side mobile services. MBaaS based REST APIs can use for integrating to enterprise backend systems. We can use the same mobile services for multiple platform so hat we can reuse the application logic to multiple mobile platforms. Public cloud vendors are building the mobile services on the top of their PaaS offerings. Windows Azure Mobile Services is a great platform for a MBaaS offering that is leveraging Windows Azure Cloud platform’s PaaS capabilities. Hybrid mobile development platform Titanium provides their own MBaaS services. LoopBack is a new MBaaS service provided by Node.js consulting firm StrongLoop, which can be hosted on multiple cloud platforms and also for on-premises servers. The Challenges of MBaaS Solutions If you are building your mobile apps with a new data storage, it will be very easy, since there is not any integration challenges you have to face. But most of the use cases, you have to extract your application data in which stored in on-premises servers which might be under VPNs and firewalls. So exposing these data to your MBaaS solution with a proper security would be a big challenge. The capability of your MBaaS vendor is very important as you have to interact with your legacy systems for many enterprise mobile apps. So you should be very careful about choosing for MBaaS vendor. At the same time, you should have a proper strategy for mobilizing your application data which stored in on-premises legacy systems, where your solution architecture and strategy is more important than platforms and tools.  Windows Azure Mobile Services Windows Azure Mobile Services is an MBaaS offerings from Windows Azure cloud platform. IMHO, Microsoft Windows Azure is the best PaaS platform in the Cloud space. Windows Azure Mobile Services extends the PaaS capabilities of Windows Azure, to mobile devices, which can be used as a cloud backend for your mobile apps, which will provide global availability and reach for your mobile apps. Windows Azure Mobile Services provides storage services, user management with social network integration, push notification services and scheduler services and provides native SDKs for all major mobile platforms and HTML5. In Windows Azure Mobile Services, you can write server-side scripts in Node.js where you can enjoy the full power of Node.js including the use of NPM modules for your server-side scripts. In the previous section, we had discussed some challenges of MBaaS solutions. You can leverage Windows Azure Cloud platform for solving many challenges regarding with enterprise mobility. The entire Windows Azure platform can play a key role for working as the backend for your mobile apps where you can leverage the entire Windows Azure platform for your mobile apps. With Windows Azure, you can easily connect to your on-premises systems which is a key thing for mobile backend solutions. Another key point is that Windows Azure provides better integration with services like Active Directory, which makes Windows Azure as the de facto platform for enterprise mobility, for enterprises, who have been leveraging Microsoft ecosystem for their application and IT infrastructure. Windows Azure Mobile Services  is going to next evolution where you can expect some exciting features in near future. One area, where Windows Azure Mobile Services should definitely need an improvement, is about the default storage mechanism in which currently it is depends on SQL Server. IMHO, developers should be able to choose multiple default storage option when creating a new mobile service instance. Let’s say, there should be a different storage providers such as SQL Server storage provider and Table storage provider where developers should be able to choose their choice of storage provider when creating a new mobile services project. I have been used Windows Azure and Windows Azure Mobile Services as the backend for production apps for mobile, where it performed very well. MBaaS Over MEAP Recently, many larger enterprises has been adopted Mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) for their mobile apps. I haven’t worked on any production MEAP solution, but I heard that developers are really struggling with MEAP in different way. The learning curve for a proprietary MEAP platform is very high. I am completely against for using larger proprietary ecosystem for mobile apps. For enterprise mobile apps, I highly recommend to use native iOS/Android/Windows Phone or HTML5  for front-end with a cloud hosted MBaaS solution as the middleware. A MBaaS service can be consumed from multiple mobile apps where REST APIs are using to integrating with enterprise backend systems. Enterprise mobility should start with exposing REST APIs on the enterprise backend systems and these REST APIs can host on Cloud where we can enjoy the power of Cloud for our services. If you are having REST APIs for your enterprise data, then you can easily build mobile frontends for multiple platforms.   You can follow me on Twitter @shijucv

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