Oracle Forms and Reports is one of Fusion Middleware components needed for OFA installation. Forms is a GUI tool used to develop, generate and run database front end applications. Reports is a GUI tool used to develop, generate and run database reports. For the purposes of Oracle Fusion Applications installation we will secure Forms and Reports with Identity Management. Once you download and unzip Oracle Forms and Reports software and run installer you will be presented with the welcome screen.
Compounding the combinatory explosion in the number of static-based correlation rules, it is impossible to correlate 100% of all your logs, it is just too expensive and not practical. Read on... A correlation engine works really hard, even when dealing with a limited set of scenarios: - Each scenario requires lots of rules and exceptions, and most of these rules need to be interpreted further as dozen, if not hundred of simple checks and tests. For example, you may want to flag loops with a simple rule such as "IP Origin" = "IP Destination". If you have 1 000 logs this means that for each log you need to do 1 000 tests. Imagine having a million logs, a trillion logs, which is not uncommon on a medium sized infrastructure over a couple days.
Oracle Identity Management is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware and part of the Oracle Fusion Applications infrastructure. Its purpose is to manage user identities across the enterprise. We are going to install Oracle Internet Directory 11g (OID), Oracle Virtual Directory 11g (OVD), Oracle Identity Manager 11g (OIM), Oracle Access Manager 11g (OAM) as well as two instances of Oracle Database (11.2.0.2) - one for the Identity Store and the other for the Policy Store. SOA Suite is first component to be installed since Identity Manager requires it. Some SOA Suite components (Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager ) require schemas to be created in middleware repository database. We created separate database to contain Oracle Identity Manager schemas.
Scaling agile is not simple. The complexity increases not in proportion to the size of the team but at the square of the size of the team. That means a 20 member team project will be 4 times as complex as a 10 member team. To ensure that complexity does not turn into chaos it is inevitable that the pure agile way of working may have to be sacrificed – is it possible without violating agile manifesto? It is also inevitable that the agile practices will need to integrate into other practices of the enterprise.
Oracle Fusion Applications is a very complex product that relies on a number of components. One of them is Oracle Fusion Middleware for Oracle Identity Management, which in turn is built using Oracle Forms, Reports, WebLogic, HTTP server and other products. Here we are briefly describing installation of the WebLogic. Oracle Fusion Middleware components are not included in Oracle Fusion Application Media Pack - they need to be downloaded separately. Once you unpack components and start installer you will be presented with the following WebLogic welcome screen.
Oracle’s long-simmering Java infringement suit against Google, postponed from Halloween, has been scheduled to go to trial on or after March 19, according to case tracker Florian Mueller. It’s not the firmest date ever and to Oracle’s chagrin, federal Judge William Alsup has decided that the proceedings will be in three parts with a single 12-man jury deciding first Oracle’s copyright infringement charges, then its patent infringement claims, and finally any damages Google might owe and the extent of its willfulness. Oracle wanted to present all its evidence at once. It was also hoping the trial would start this month. Google, on the other hand, wanted to push it off until at least the summer. Florian says Wednesday’s order doesn’t hold out the possibility of a stay to accommodate a re-examination of five Oracle patents-in-suit by the US Patent and Trademark Office. But that doesn’t mean, he says, that Judge Alsup, who wishes Oracle and Google would settle their differences and go away, couldn’t issue a stay before the patent part of the trial starts. The jury will also be told a re-examination is in progress including the PTO’s prior art concerns and its initial findings of invalidity. However, despite a string of Google appeals, it will also be told about the compromising Lindholm e-mail in which a senior Google staffer told Google’s supreme command it needed a Java license, a piece of evidence for infringement as well as damages that the judge has previously considered damaging. At this point Florian figures that the judge realizes “the best chance to get the parties to settle is a reasonably firm trial date and, possibly, a ruling on the copyright part of the case. Once the copyright phase is over, the possibility of a stay of the patent liability part may be on the agenda once again.” Otherwise the court’s gonna need 12 jurors with well-padded bottoms and the ability to recall testimony from in a previous phase.
In the second article of the Oracle Fusion Applications installation series we are looking at Repository Creation Utility which populates transaction database with OFA schemas. The Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU) creates applications-specific tablespaces and schemas. According to the OFA installation manual: The Applications RCU loops through all the middleware components in the component definition file and applies the relevant ones to the database. For each component, the Applications RCU creates the appropriate middleware tablespace and schema user. After creating the schema user, it defines the tables, views, and other artifacts that the schema owner owns.
Surveys conducted by Scott Ambler have consistently (2008, 2010 & 2011) shown that Agile and Iterative Projects have been more successful. Apart from the fact that Agile has been consistently been more successful compared to traditional approach, these survey result show two more interesting result – one of them is very surprising. 1) The gap between “Iterative + Agile” and “Traditional + Ad-hoc” has been increasing It is not clear why there is a dip in the success rate of all types of project in 2010. But, leaving that aside, the gap has been consistently been increasing (2008=7%, 2010=13% and 2011=18%). So, does it mean that people have really mastered the art of how to manage Agile and Iterative projects? Or, does it been, people who are good at project management have abandoned Traditional approach and migrated to Agile or Iterative approach?
Oracle Fusion Applications are released for production use. We are investigating the product and installation process. Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Fusion Applications at Oracle Open World 2011. Oracle Fusion Applications is the next generation Oracle ERP that will gradually replace the existing Oracle E Business Suite, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and other products that Oracle either acquired or developed inhouse. According to Larry Ellison it took Oracle six years to develop and finalize this product. If you look at the Oracle E-Delivery Oracle Fusion Applications download page one of the reasons why it took so long becomes obvious - product comes on 24 DVDs - total size of downloaded software is over 50GB. Installation of such a humongous product requires special preparations and is a daunting task even for very experienced administrators. Oracle recognized the complexity of this product and responded by creating the provisioning framework and the suite of provisioning tools to help with the deployment process.
Today’s web sites are often cluttered up with third-party content that slows down page load and rendering times, hampering user experience. In my first blog post, I discussed how third-party content impacts your website’s performance and identified common problems with its integration. Today I want to share the experience I have had as a developer and consultant with the management of third-party content. In the following, I will show you best practices for integrating third-party content and for convincing your business that they will benefit from establishing third-party management. First the bad news: as a developer, you have to get the commitment for establishing third-party management and changing the integration of third-party content from the highest business management level possible – the best is CEO level. Otherwise you will run into problems trying to implement improvements. The good news is that, from my experience, this is an achievable goal – you just have to bring the problems up the right way with hard facts. Let’s start our journey toward implementing third-party content management from two possible starting points that I’ve seen in the past. The first one is triggered if someone from the business has a bad user experience and wants to find out who is responsible for the slow pages. The second one is that you as the developer know that your page is slow. No matter where you are starting, the first step you should make is to get the correct hard facts.
The Düsseldorf court that blocked Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Germany in September said Thursday that the changes Samsung has made in the modified Germany-only Galaxy Tab 10.1N are enough to distinguish it from the iPad and that Apple is unlikely to win a ruling against it on February 9. Apple had complained to the court that the re-worked “N” was still a dead ringer for its widget and wanted it blocked too. Apple objections are based on its European design IP. The “N” tablet has a thicker bezel design and the speakers are now on the front. Samsung’s label is also reportedly bigger.
EMC is going to raise the price of hard disk drives 5%-15% starting the first of the year. It said in an advisory to its channel that the price hikes will last for the duration of the crisis that has seen an estimated one-third of the world’s HDD supply effectively drown in the unforgiving Thai floods. That probably works out to something like 50 million-70 million drives. Senior VP of global channel sales Gregg Ambulos claimed that EMC had absorbed the cost increases produced by shortages in Q4 “to shield our partners and customers from the impact of higher drive pricing,” but now that supplies and stockpiles have shrunk further and capacity demand keeps escalating EMC’s going to have to pass the increases along “to offset the continued high drive prices we are seeing from our primary suppliers.”
After lauding Steve Jobs as the “Michelangelo of our time,” combining visionary genius with extraordinary engineering smarts, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Google means to bring its own tablet to market in the next six months as good if not better than the iPad. “Noi nei prossimi sei mesi contiamo di mettere sul mercato un tablet di altissima qualità.” Now if that’s true, do you suppose such a thing will come from Google as the failed Nexus One did or from Motorola Mobility or from Android OEMs generally? He also said competition between the iPhone and Android will be “brutal” because that’s capitalism.
Amazon, which hired an investment bank for the purpose, according to Reuters, and Microsoft together with its buddy Nokia, according to the Wall Street Journal, have kicked the tires at RIM. Reuters says RIM “turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential buyers” without knowing who those others might be before the Journal waded in. It still thinks Amazon and RIM are talking. RIM’s board and its co-CEOs, behaving like Yahoo’s, apparently prefer to try to catch the falling knives by themselves. No formal bids were supposedly made by anybody and the Journal says it’s “unclear how extensively RIM has been involved in any takeover discussions with Microsoft and Nokia.”
SYS-CON Events announced today that OCZ Technology, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. OCZ Technology Group, Inc., is a leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high performance and reliable Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and premium computer components. OCZ has built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the enterprise and consumer SSD markets, a technology that competes with traditional rotating magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). SSDs are faster, more reliable, generate less heat and use significantly less power than the HDDs used in the majority of computers today. In addition to SSD technology, OCZ also offers high performance components for computing devices and systems, including enterprise-class power management products as well as leading-edge computer gaming solutions.
If you want a well rounded introduction to JAVA 7, look no further. This book touches on all the things you would expect in an introduction to a programming languages. The book is broken down into six parts and a set of appendices. I have listed the chapters by part below. Part I: Getting Started- Becoming a Programmer, Writing Your First Program, Vacationing in Java, and Understanding How Java Programs Work. Part II: Learning the Basics of Programming- Storing and Changing Information in a Program, Using Strings to Communicate, Using Conditional Tests to Make Decisions, and Repeating an Action with Loops. Part III: Working with Information in New Ways- Storing Information with Arrays, Creating Your First Object, Describing What Your Object is Like, and Making the Most of Existing Objects. Part IV: Programming a Graphical User Interface- Building a Simple User Interface, Laying Out a User Interface, Responding to User Input, and Building a Complex User Interface.
We saw what typically happens when trying to use static rule-based log correlation to perform real-time incident management... combinatory explosion and lack of scalability. How do you automate non-deterministic attacks in a few discrete steps??? Today, we'll look at more scenarios for which static rule-based log correlation doesn't make sense. Attack Scenario Example 2: Brute Force Attack Let's look at another example scenario. Brute Force Attack.
One of my talented colleagues discovered an interesting ADF logic bomb which I thought I'd share here. The issue is with the instantiation order of ADF Faces scoped beans in JDev 11g when using Bounded Task Flows embedded as regions in another page. Regular readers would be familiar that Oracle's ADF solution is built on top of JavaServer Faces (JSF). ADF supports bean scopes such as ViewScope, PageFlowScope and BackingBeanScope on top of the regular JSF ApplicationScope, SessionScope and RequestScope beans. Readers should also be familiar that the beans have a defined life (ie. scope) as detailed in the JDev Web Guide:
Salesforce.com is taking a step outside its core contact management cloud and into very social, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) with its announcement Thursday of a definite agreement to buy three-and-a-half-year-old Toronto-based Rypple on undisclosed terms. Apparently Rypple completes the hand that salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is going to play. At least that’s what he told Reuters. Salesforce will be turning Rypple over to its new EVP, advanced applications and now head of what will be a new HCM unit John Wookey, who joined salesforce last month. A provocative hire, Wookey used to work at Oracle, responsible for its next-generation Fusion applications, then jumped to SAP, which he left last spring, running its on-demand software strategy for large enterprises. Need anybody point out that Oracle and SAP are salesforce’s biggest competitors?
StorSimple is supporting the OpenStack ecosystem with its cloud storage appliances by integrating with Rackspace’s underlying Cloud Files. It said the move reflects “industry demand for solutions that bring the economics of public cloud services to the enterprise data center.” Using the StorSimple Appliance, Rackspace customers will get primary storage, backup storage, archival storage and a disaster recovery solution without any changes to existing infrastructures. The widgetry automatically tiers deduplicated, compressed data into the Cloud Files service and is supposed to offer additional security features in the cloud through data encryption and on-premise key management.
This discussion then examines how metadata-driven data virtualization and improved orchestration can help provide the inclusion and scale to accomplish far better data management. Such access then leads to improved integration of all information into an approachable resource for actionable business activities. Perhaps half of those enterprises actually have a strategy for improving on this dismal fact. But business leaders are now recognizing that managing and exploiting information is a core business competency that will increasingly determine their overall success. That means broader solutions to data distress are being called for. This discussion then examines how metadata-driven data virtualization and improved orchestration can help provide the inclusion and scale to accomplish far better data management. Such access then leads to improved integration of all information into an approachable resource for actionable business activities.
HP is expanding its Big Data analytics appliance alliance with SAP, moving SAP’s HANA in-memory database widgetry to its BladeSystem. Used to query multiple types of SAP and non-SAP data sources in near-real-time or batch, HANA hasn’t been on blades before – unless you count Hitachi’s. HP is king of the blades but more importantly 47% of SAP’s applications run on HP hardware and this stuff is going to be targeted at SAP’s installed base. The new scale-out addition to the HP AppSystem for SAP HANA portfolio includes the HP X9300 IBRIX Network Storage System – expected in time to be the dominant storage type for HANA – with the HP P6500 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), part of HP’s Converged Infrastructure. IBM prefers local storage, plus replication for HANA.
Caught between the mobile wave that may swamp its boat and the slowing PC market that may leave it marooned, Intel has set up a new Mobile and Communications Group to chase after ARM and its minions and crack the smartphone and tablet markets. The unit combines four existing divisions: netbooks and tablets, ultra mobility (smartphone processors), mobile communications (baseband) and mobile wireless (Wi-Fi). The idea, it said, is to “speed up and improve the development process.” At least there’ll be less duplicated effort, but what Intel needs and quickly is a winning energy-efficient design. It’s supposed to have a new Atom mobile chip code named Medfield early next year. The widget and Intel’s alliance with Google to optimize Android for the Atom may or may not improve its traction (while its old buddy Microsoft cozies up to ARM and ports Windows 8 to its architecture).
Microsoft added a trial version of Apache’s open source Hadoop to its Windows Azure PaaS Monday as it said it would in October when it teamed up with Hortonworks, the Yahoo spin-off. It gives Azure Big Data capabilities and advanced data analytics and a better shot at competing with rival clouds like Amazon’s EC2 and Google’s App Engine. Users can build MapReduce jobs. Microsoft said a Hive ODBC Driver and Hive Add-in for Excel would enable data analysis of unstructured data through Excel and PowerPivot. Would-be users have to submit a form and Microsoft will pick the testers it wants based on use cases. Microsoft gave no indication when the widgetry would be more than a preview. It’s part of an upgrade that includes SQL Azure Database tickles and simplified Azure billing and management.
A new era of Business Intelligence is unfolding with users buying and deploying BI either with or without cooperation from IT. Because of this shift, users now have many choices and need to make the best decision when it comes to BI features, functionality and price. Stay up-to-date on the ever-changing BI market by reviewing the findings of the 2011 Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study. Howard Dresner, report author and worldwide authority on BI, shares the latest market trends and provides true insight into what is happening in the BI arena today. In addition, read why Actuate/BIRT is in the top position and how it exceeded its peer group and the overall sample average for all Technical Support and Product metrics by a wide margin. Read to find out: The best approach to selecting a BI solution that is easy to buy, fast to deploy and simple to use How to take a more active role in planning, managing and evolving your BI portfolio Why Actuate is named the Leader in the Open Source Business Intelligence Vendor category