SOA Tech Magazine

During the OFM Summer Camp for Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) it was all going very smooth. In fact too good!! until I had to set up MAF 2.1.2 in JDevleoper and configure the utility provided in the lab (maf-mcs-utility-2.1.3.1.4). At this point nothing worked…The fact that I use Mac didn’t make things easier either as most people were on Windows and the lab sort of assumed the same….. So after at least 6 hours banging my head against the wall I finally found a solution. Word of Caution I initially tried to make this work in an existing Jdeveloper 12.1.3 soaquickstart installation. I tried to set up MAF 2.1.2 in this environment (following the docs steps) and it got to the point that I was getting all sort of weird errors (many related to MDS not loading and others around compilation). So at this point I decided to do a full clean install of everything (including Java). Below the steps: Preparation: Uninstall JDK 1.8 or JRE 1.8 (if you don’t have a JDK installed yet) b...

This years was not only the first time that I attend Oracle Open World, but more over the first time that I presented in this event as well.  Overall it was a fantastic experience and it was worth every minute of my time not only because of the presentations and other sessions I was able to attend, but also the people I was able to network with. Team USA Oracle won the America's Cup Overall it was a fantastic experience but also exhausting as it was literally none-stop from 7am untill 1am (if I was lucky). Amongst the many things you could do in your spare time, the thing I enjoyed doing the most was actually the Oracle demos product stands located all over the conference centres. One could just pop up, sit down with an Oracle product manager and watch an actual demo, ask questions and even play with the tool. Because the person doing the demo was actually an expert, I was able go into details of the code, try the tools and also ask detailed questions. Some of the product...