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Find and Expand all nodes of an ADF Tree

Edwin Biemond - Thu, 2009-11-19 14:48


I want to find and expand all nodes of an ADF Tree and I saw an Oracle Forum post of Kenyatta which gave me a nice solution.
First some usefull methods.

private void expandTreeChildrenNode( RichTree rt
, FacesCtrlHierNodeBinding node
, List<Key> parentRowKey) {
ArrayList children = node.getChildren();
List<Key> rowKey;

if ( children != null ) {
for (int i = 0; i < children.size(); i++) {
rowKey = new ArrayList<Key>();
rowKey.addAll(parentRowKey);
rowKey.add(((FacesCtrlHierNodeBinding)children.get(i)).getRowKey());
rt.getDisclosedRowKeys().add(rowKey);
if (((FacesCtrlHierNodeBinding)(children.get(i))).getChildren() == null)
continue;
expandTreeChildrenNode(rt
,(FacesCtrlHierNodeBinding)(node.getChildren().get(i))
, rowKey);
}
}
}

// find a jsf component
private UIComponent getUIComponent(String name) {
FacesContext facesCtx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
return facesCtx.getViewRoot().findComponent(name) ;
}

private UIComponent getUIComponent(UIComponent component,String name ){
List<UIComponent> items = component.getChildren();
for ( UIComponent item : items ) {
UIComponent found = getUIComponent(item,name);
if ( found != null ) {
return found;
}
if ( item.getId().equalsIgnoreCase(name) ) {
return item;
};
}
return null;
}

Now find the ADF tree in a region and expand the main and child nodes of this tree

// get the dymamic region of the main page
RichRegion region = (RichRegion)getUIComponent("dynam1");

if ( region != null) {
// find tree 2 and expand this tree
RichTree rt = (RichTree)getUIComponent(region,"t2");
if ( rt != null ) {
int rowCount = rt.getRowCount();
List<Key> rowKey;
for (int j = 0; j < rowCount; j++) {
// expand the main nodes
FacesCtrlHierNodeBinding node = (FacesCtrlHierNodeBinding)rt.getRowData(j);
rowKey = new ArrayList<Key>();
rowKey.add(node.getRowKey());
rt.getDisclosedRowKeys().add(rowKey);
rt.setRowKey(rowKey);
// expand the child nodes of the main nodes
expandTreeChildrenNode(rt , node, rowKey);
}
}
}

Find an UIComponent in an ADF Task Flow Region

Edwin Biemond - Thu, 2009-11-19 14:33


When you want to find an UIComponent (like a Tree) inside an ADF Region you can not use findComponent on the ViewRoot because this will only search for the component in the JSF page and not in the JSF page fragments ( Task Flows). And off course you can use a backing bean to make a binding but I want to find the component by first searching for the right Region in the JSF page and then searching the component inside the Region.

First I need to have some common methods.

// find a jsf component inside the JSF page
private UIComponent getUIComponent(String name) {
FacesContext facesCtx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
return facesCtx.getViewRoot().findComponent(name) ;
}

// find a UIComponent inside a UIComponent
private UIComponent getUIComponent(UIComponent component,String name ){
List items = component.getChildren();
for ( UIComponent item : items ) {
UIComponent found = getUIComponent(item,name);
if ( found != null ) {
return found;
}
if ( item.getId().equalsIgnoreCase(name) ) {
return item;
}
}
return null;
}


Now we can find the right Region and then search inside the Region for the ADF Tree

// get the dymamic region of the main page
RichRegion region = (RichRegion)getUIComponent("dynam1");

if ( region != null) {
// find tree 2
RichTree rt = (RichTree)getUIComponent(region,"t2");
if ( rt != null ) {
// do your thing
}
}

Accessing the Oracle Universal Connection Pool MBean using JConsole

Pas Apicella - Wed, 2009-11-18 20:47
Now I am just tranistioning to the Oracle Universal Connection Pool I found that it has a useful MBean known as "UniversalConnectionPoolMBean" which you can view/manipulate with "jconsole" using JDK 1.6. Here is a screen shot of jconsole attached to the JVM which is has a Universal Connection Pool running within it. Once attached to the JVM access it as follows.

1. Click on the MBean tab
2. Click the + symbol for "oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean"
3. Click on the "Attributes" or "Methods" node and you can view/update the pool using that MBean

The javadoc for the MBean this can be found here.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/java.111/e11990/oracle/ucp/admin/UniversalConnectionPoolManagerMBean.html

In the example below I was using Oracle's UCP within a coherence cache server for write behind to an Oracle database.

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Categories: Fusion Middleware

Using Shared Object in Soa Suite 11g with MDS

Edwin Biemond - Tue, 2009-11-17 15:44


Inspired by Eric Elzinga , who was wondering how MDS can work in Soa Suite 11g , I made some screenshots how you can use a XSD from a central MDS repository in your composite application. Clemens already blogged about re-using common metadata and he made a great ant utility to import or delete MDS files. For 11G R1 PS1 or higher use this instead of the Clemens utility
First I make a local MDS repository. If you install the Soa plugin you already have a seed folder in the integration folder. Under this folder create an new folder called apps. ( this have has to be apps else you will get a permission denied error ) . Under this apps folder we can create our own definitions.


To use my local SOA-MDS repository I create a new MDS File Connection

I want to re-use these common objects in every Soa project so I choose for the resource palette option

select the seed folder in the integration folder


Here we can see our common application objects.
Open the application resources window and open the adf-config.xml

Here we define a new metadata namespace with apps as path. And use the integration folder as metadata-path value.


We are ready to use these common objects in a mediator.. Here I will use a schema from the local MDS as input parameter for the mediator.

Import a new schema
Select the resource browser and here we can select our schema from the local MDS

I uncheck the Copy to project option, because this XSD already exists in the MDS

Our Project is ready but If we want to deploy this Soa project, we will receive a error, it can't find the schema. So we need to export the local MDS files to the SOA Suite database MDS.
To do this we have 2 options , the first option is to create a MAR deployment ( Application properties ) or do this with Ant.
I stripped the Clemens ant project so this ant build file has only two tasks , add and delete. It uses the adf-config.xml ( config folder) for the location of the target MDS and I use the local MDS as source.

Here is the target adf-config.xml which is located in the config folder

Change the build.properties so it matches your environment

This will import your local MDS object to the remote MDS. After this you can deploy your Soa Suite project.
Here you can download my ant project. Thanks to Clemens.

Soa Suite 11g MDS deploy and removal ANT scripts

Edwin Biemond - Tue, 2009-11-17 15:42


With the release of Soa Suite 11g R1 Patch Set 1 Oracle improved the standard ant scripts for MDS deployment and removal. Before PS1 we had an ant example of Clemens.
Basically this is how my ANT scripts works. First add your own metadata folders under the apps folder ( do this in jdeveloper\integration\seed\apps ).

My ANT script will do the following steps for every metadata folder under apps
  • optionally remove the metadata folder from the remote Soa Suite Database MDS repository
  • Make a zip file of the metadata files ( Local MDS file repository) .
  • Make a new Soa Bundle zip with this metadata zip
  • Deploy this soa bundle to the Soa Suite Server, The server will add this to the Database MDS
When you want to use the MDS files in your own project read this blog


To make this work copy the antcontrib jar to the jdeveloper\ant\lib folder ( because of the foreach and the propertycopy fucntion )
Here is my build.properties


# global
wn.bea.home=C:/oracle/MiddlewareJdev11gR1PS1
oracle.home=${wn.bea.home}/jdeveloper
java.passed.home=${wn.bea.home}/jdk160_14_R27.6.5-32
wl_home=${wn.bea.home}/wlserver_10.3

# temp
tmp.output.dir=c:/temp

mds.reposistory=C:/oracle/MiddlewareJdev11gR1PS1/jdeveloper/integration/seed/apps/
mds.applications=usarmy
mds.undeploy=true

deployment.plan.environment=dev

# dev deployment server weblogic
dev.serverURL=http://laptopedwin:8001
dev.overwrite=true
dev.user=weblogic
dev.password=weblogic1
dev.forceDefault=true

# acceptance deployment server weblogic
acc.serverURL=http://laptopedwin:8001
acc.overwrite=true
acc.user=weblogic
acc.password=weblogic1
acc.forceDefault=true


The build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<project name="soaDeployAll" default="deployMDS">
<echo>basedir ${basedir}</echo>

<property environment="env"/>
<echo>current folder ${env.CURRENT_FOLDER}</echo>

<property file="${env.CURRENT_FOLDER}/build.properties"/>
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"/>
<import file="${basedir}/ant-sca-deploy.xml"/>

<target name="unDeployMDS">
<echo>undeploy MDS</echo>
<foreach list="${mds.applications}" param="mds.application" target="undeployMDSApplication" inheritall="true" inheritrefs="false"/>
</target>

<target name="deployMDS">
<echo>undeploy and deploy MDS</echo>
<if>
<equals arg1="${mds.undeploy}" arg2="true"/>
<then>
<foreach list="${mds.applications}" param="mds.application" target="undeployMDSApplication" inheritall="true" inheritrefs="false"/>
</then>
</if>
<foreach list="${mds.applications}" param="mds.application" target="deployMDSApplication" inheritall="true" inheritrefs="false"/>
</target>

<target name="deployMDSApplication">
<echo>deploy MDS application ${mds.application}</echo>

<echo>remove and create local MDS temp</echo>
<property name="mds.deploy.dir" value="${tmp.output.dir}/${mds.application}"/>

<delete dir="${mds.deploy.dir}"/>
<mkdir dir="${mds.deploy.dir}"/>

<echo>create zip from file MDS store</echo>
<zip destfile="${mds.deploy.dir}/${mds.application}_mds.jar" compress="false">
<fileset dir="${mds.reposistory}" includes="${mds.application}/**"/>
</zip>

<echo>create zip with MDS jar</echo>
<zip destfile="${mds.deploy.dir}/${mds.application}_mds.zip" compress="false">
<fileset dir="${mds.deploy.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>
</zip>

<propertycopy name="deploy.serverURL" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.serverURL"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.overwrite" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.overwrite"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.user" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.user"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.password" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.password"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.forceDefault" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.forceDefault"/>

<echo>deploy MDS app</echo>

<echo>deploy on ${deploy.serverURL} with user ${deploy.user}</echo>
<echo>deploy sarFile ${mds.deploy.dir}/${mds.application}_mds.zip</echo>

<antcall target="deploy" inheritall="false">
<param name="wl_home" value="${wl_home}"/>
<param name="oracle.home" value="${oracle.home}"/>
<param name="serverURL" value="${deploy.serverURL}"/>
<param name="user" value="${deploy.user}"/>
<param name="password" value="${deploy.password}"/>
<param name="overwrite" value="${deploy.overwrite}"/>
<param name="forceDefault" value="${deploy.forceDefault}"/>
<param name="sarLocation" value="${mds.deploy.dir}/${mds.application}_mds.zip"/>
</antcall>
</target>

<target name="undeployMDSApplication">
<echo>undeploy MDS application ${mds.application}</echo>

<propertycopy name="deploy.serverURL" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.serverURL"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.overwrite" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.overwrite"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.user" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.user"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.password" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.password"/>
<propertycopy name="deploy.forceDefault" from="${deployment.plan.environment}.forceDefault"/>

<echo>undeploy MDS app folder apps/${mds.application} </echo>
<antcall target="removeSharedData" inheritall="false">
<param name="wl_home" value="${wl_home}"/>
<param name="oracle.home" value="${oracle.home}"/>
<param name="serverURL" value="${deploy.serverURL}"/>
<param name="user" value="${deploy.user}"/>
<param name="password" value="${deploy.password}"/>
<param name="folderName" value="${mds.application}"/>
</antcall>
</target>

</project>


and at last the deployMDS.bat file

set ORACLE_HOME=C:\oracle\MiddlewareJdev11gR1PS1
set ANT_HOME=%ORACLE_HOME%\jdeveloper\ant
set PATH=%ANT_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
set JAVA_HOME=%ORACLE_HOME%\jdk160_14_R27.6.5-32

set CURRENT_FOLDER=%CD%

ant -f build.xml deployMDS -Dbasedir=%ORACLE_HOME%\jdeveloper\bin

Calling a Soa Suite Direct Binding Service from Java & OSB

Edwin Biemond - Mon, 2009-11-16 16:44


I was trying to connect Oracle Soa Suite 11G R1 PS1 with the OSB when I saw this new Direct Binding Service in the Soa Suite 11G. This direct binding make it possible to start this RMI service from OSB or Java. In a previous blog I already called a Soa Service from Java using the ADF binding but this direct binding makes it also possible to call this also from OSB using the SB transport . In this Blog I will call this RMI synchronous service from Java, I can not use this binding in OSB 10.3.1, probably in the next version of the OSB I can.

First we add the Direct Binding Service to exposed Services side of the composite and use the WSDL of one of the other exposed services and add a Wire to the Component.
In the source view of the composite xml you can see that this service uses the direct binding.

<service name="RMIService" ui:wsdlLocation="BPELProcess1.wsdl">
<interface.wsdl interface="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1#wsdl.interface(BPELProcess1)"/>
<binding.direct/>
</service>

To see the WSDL of this service go to http://localhost:8001/soa-infra/ and select your RMI service.

package nl.whitehorses.soa.client;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.StringReader;

import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;

import javax.naming.Context;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import oracle.soa.api.PayloadFactory;
import oracle.soa.api.XMLMessageFactory;
import oracle.soa.api.invocation.DirectConnection;
import oracle.soa.api.message.Message;
import oracle.soa.api.message.Payload;

import oracle.soa.management.CompositeDN;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.Locator;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.LocatorFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;


public class StartRMIProcess {

public StartRMIProcess() {
super();

Hashtable jndiProps = new Hashtable();
jndiProps.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:8001/soa-infra");
jndiProps.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
jndiProps.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "weblogic");
jndiProps.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "weblogic1");
jndiProps.put("dedicated.connection", "true");

Locator locator = null;
try {
// connect to the soa server
locator = LocatorFactory.createLocator(jndiProps);

// find composite default domain, Helloworld Composite, version 1.0
CompositeDN compositedn = new CompositeDN("default", "Helloworld", "1.0");

// call the direct binding of the Helloworld composite
DirectConnection conn = locator.createDirectConnection(compositedn,"RMIService");


String inputPayload =
"<client:process xmlns:client=\"http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1\">\n" +
" <client:input>hello</client:input>\n" +
"</client:process>\n" ;

DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(inputPayload)));
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();

//<wsdl:message name="BPELProcess1RequestMessage">
// <wsdl:part name="payload" element="client:process"/>
//</wsdl:message>

Map<String, Element> partData = new HashMap<String,Element>();
// have to use payload see BPELProcess1RequestMessage
partData.put("payload", root);

Payload<Element> payload = PayloadFactory.createXMLPayload(partData);

//Messages are created using the MessageFactory
Message<Element> request = XMLMessageFactory.getInstance().createMessage();
request.setPayload(payload);

//<wsdl:portType name="BPELProcess1">
// <wsdl:operation name="process">
// <wsdl:input message="client:BPELProcess1RequestMessage" />
// <wsdl:output message="client:BPELProcess1ResponseMessage"/>
// </wsdl:operation>
//</wsdl:portType>
// this is a request-reply service so we need to use conn.request else use conn.post
// need to provide operation name so we need to use process
Message<Element> response = conn.request("process", request);

TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);

//<wsdl:message name="BPELProcess1ResponseMessage">
// <wsdl:part name="payload" element="client:processResponse"/>
//</wsdl:message>
// need to use payload again
DOMSource source = new DOMSource((Node)response.getPayload().getData().get("payload"));

transformer.transform(source, result);
System.out.println("Result\n"+sw.toString());

} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
StartRMIProcess startRMIProcess = new StartRMIProcess();
}
}

New features of the EJB Datatcontrol, Query panel and Range size

Edwin Biemond - Sun, 2009-11-15 14:15


With Patch Set 1 of JDeveloper 11G R1 Oracle improved the ADF EJB Datacontrol with two important features. We can now use this EJB Datacontrol in a Querypanel, this makes searching with EJB's a lot easier and the second big improvement is the range size option, so you don't get all the rows in one time, this can improve the performance of your ADF application and will generate less network traffic.
With JDeveloper you can generate an EJB datacontol on an EJB session bean and this Datacontol can be used in ADF. In this blog entry I will show you what the new features are and how you can do it yourself.

First we start with an entity, this is a normal entity on the country table in the HR schema ( I use the eclipselink persistence implementation, which supported very well in JDeveloper )


Next step is to create a Session Bean where we add some Facade Methods.

Here you can see that JDeveloper adds a queryByRange Facade method which we be used by ADF for the range size option.

Here you can see the Session Bean code with the queryByRange method

Generate a Datacontrol on this Session Bean,


If we now go the viewcontroller project we can use this Country EJB datacontrol ( add the EJB model project to the viewcontroller project dependency or add the EJB ADF library to the project) . In the Data Controls window you can see the Named Criteria folder in the countriesFindAll method. Drag the All Queriable Attributes on the JSF page and select the Query Panel option.
With this as result, a customizable search panel and when you configure MDS you can even save the user queries in the MDS repository.

The last feature of the EJB Datacontrol is the Range Set option. Default the ADF iterator get the data in set of 25 records ( this is a pagedef option on the iterator ). When the ADF table on the JSF view is full with rows then it won't get the rest of the rows unles you use the scrollbar or use the Next Set Operation. The Next and Previous Set are new options for the EJB Datacontrol.

Use the scrollbar or the next / previous Set button to get all the rows.


Here some eclipselink logging to let you see that is really works.

[EL Fine]: 2009-11-12 14:03:47.375--ServerSession(22965561)--SELECT COUNT(COUNTRY_ID) FROM COUNTRIES

[EL Fine]: 2009-11-12 14:03:47.39 --SELECT * FROM (SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ a.*, ROWNUM rnum FROM (SELECT COUNTRY_ID AS COUNTRY_ID1
, COUNTRY_NAME AS COUNTRY_NAME2, REGION_ID AS REGION_ID3 FROM COUNTRIES) a WHERE ROWNUM <= ?) WHERE rnum > ?
bind => [5, 0]
[EL Fine]: 2009-11-12 14:03:49.953 --SELECT * FROM (SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ a.*, ROWNUM rnum FROM (SELECT COUNTRY_ID AS COUNTRY_ID1
, COUNTRY_NAME AS COUNTRY_NAME2, REGION_ID AS REGION_ID3 FROM COUNTRIES) a WHERE ROWNUM <= ?) WHERE rnum > ?
bind => [10, 5]
[EL Fine]: 2009-11-12 14:04:39.281 --SELECT * FROM (SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ a.*, ROWNUM rnum FROM (SELECT COUNTRY_ID AS COUNTRY_ID1
, COUNTRY_NAME AS COUNTRY_NAME2, REGION_ID AS REGION_ID3 FROM COUNTRIES) a WHERE ROWNUM <= ?) WHERE rnum > ?
bind => [15, 10]

ADF Contextual Events in 11G R1 PS1

Edwin Biemond - Sat, 2009-11-14 08:29


In a previous blog I already talked about ADF events and how you can use it in the Task Flow interaction communication. With the new JDeveloper 11g Patch Set 1, Oracle really improved this event mechanism and the JDeveloper IDE support for these events.
In this blog entry I will show you the new features and give you examples of a tree and table selection Event and inputtext change Event.
First we start by adding events to the ADF application. The first way we can do it, is by selecting an af:inputtext, af:tree or af:table component . Here an example of how you can add an event to an inputtext. Contextual Events is now part of the component property window.
The second big difference is that you can change the payload of the event. You can return now what you want, for example an binding or a backing bean method. In the previous release the payload was fixed ( return of the MethodAction or the new value of an attribute). If you don't specify a payload then this is the default.
And you can restrict the events by adding a condition to the event. In this case it only fires when the value is hello
The events are registered in the pagedef of the page or fragment. This is how it can looks like.
In this case the attributeValue got a restricted event and in the bottom the default payload is changed for this event.
The pagedef editor got a Contextual Events tab, where we can add producers or subscription to an event.

Lets subscribe to this attribute event. First we need to add an MethodAction to a page or fragment. We can call this method and pass on the attribute payload. I made a java class with this method and generate a DataControl on this class.
Open the page definition and go the Subscribers tab where we add a new one subscription. We need to select the event and the publisher ( or use any ) and the handler, this is the ADF MethodAction which has 3 parameters. And we need to provide the required values for these parameters.


That's all for the Inputtext. The value is now passed on to a other page fragment.

ADF Table selection Event
We can do the same with the ADF Table component, just select the table and go to the Contextual Events part of the property window. You can now select a class and in my case is that the Department class.
To do something usefull with this Table selection event I add a method to the Java datacontrol and add this as a MethodAction to a pagedef of a page or fragment

public String tableEvent( Object payload) {
if ( payload != null) {
System.out.println("handle tableEvent");
DCBindingContainerCurrencyChangeEvent event = (DCBindingContainerCurrencyChangeEvent)payload;
DCDataRow row = (DCDataRow)event.getRow();
if ( row.getDataProvider() instanceof Department ) {
// do department stuff like displaying the department task flow
Department dept = (Context.Department)row.getDataProvider();
return "handle tableEvent for Department "+dept.getName();
}
} else {
return "empty payload tableEvent";
}
return null;
}

Now we can add a subscription to this event and we call the above method as handler of this event.


ADF Tree Selection Event
This is almost the same as an ADF Table but now we can define more events because a tree can have different levels , In my case I made a department / employee example so I can have a department and employee event and do different things with this. For example show a department or employee Task Flow.
Here you see two events in the property window of the ADF tree. One for the department selection and one for the employees

This is how it looks like in the page defintion with an event on every level of the tree.

Here is my example workspace with Task Flows who produces these different event and the index page who pass the events on to the output Task Flow.

FREE HOW TO EVENTS! Real Solutions with Oracle Fusion Middleware

Billy Cripe - Thu, 2009-11-12 10:30
Sign up now for these two upcoming free solution events with Oracle ECM and E20 EVENT 1: How To make your HR documents more secure and accessible with Oracle's content management and imaging solutions. Personnel Processes Go Paperless -... billy.cripe http://blogs.oracle.com/fusionecm
Categories: Fusion Middleware

New Oracle UCM Webcasts

Bex Huff - Wed, 2009-11-11 18:35

I just got word about two new Oracle UCM webcasts next week, and thought I'd share!

The first one is on Paperless Personnel Processes... try saying that 5 times fast! If you are interested in making you HR processes involve less paper, this webcast should have lots of good tips and tricks for those of you with Peoplesoft, and would like to integrate it with Oracle UCM. Its next Tuesday Nov. 17th, 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET.

The second one is on Enterprise Document Management. It will offer tips and tricks for paperless order management, asset management, and accounts payable. If you are an E-Business Suite customer, I would highly recommend this one. Its next Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET

These are live webcasts, and I don't know if they will be recorded. So register, watch, and grill the presenters with tough questions ;-)

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Categories: Fusion Middleware

Managers of Gen X & Gen Y folks Need To Understand This

Billy Cripe - Wed, 2009-11-11 11:44
Relative Consumption and SatisfactionView more presentations from Russell James.... billy.cripe http://blogs.oracle.com/fusionecm
Categories: Fusion Middleware

Oracle UCM Security: Challenges and Best Practices

Bex Huff - Tue, 2009-11-10 13:36

I recently gave a security talk at the Minnesota Stellent User's Group... Stellent of course being the old name for Oracle Universal Content Management. I uploaded it to Slideshare, and embedded it below:

Oracle UCM Security: Challenges and Best PracticesView more presentations from Brian Huff.

This talk is a variation on a talk I gave at Crescendo a few years back... it covers the security risks and vulnerabilities inside Oracle UCM, and countermeasures to prevent break-ins. This talk is not a how-to for integrating LDAP, Active Directory or Single Sign On... rather it's intended to be an introduction to cross site scripting, SQL injection, and other common web application attack vectors. It's a bit scary for a while, but then it tells you how to prevent attacks.

Enjoy! And don't be evil...

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Categories: Fusion Middleware

Installing Soa Suite 10.1.3.5.1 on Weblogic

Edwin Biemond - Mon, 2009-11-09 14:57


Yesterday Oracle released Soa Suite 10.1.3.5.1, the version which you can install on Weblogic 10.3.1 ( FMW11g version ). This is a full version so you don't early versions or extra patches to makes this work.

We need to download Weblogic 10.3.1 and Soa Suite 10.1.3.5.1

first step is to install Weblogic 10.3.1, I use C:\oracle\Soa10gWls as my wls middleware home folder

Now we can go to the Soa suite part, first we need to create a bpel, esb and wsm repository.

Extract the soa suite install zip and go to the rca folder located in ias_windows_x86_101351\Disk1\install\soa_schemas\irca

We need to set a database home for the jdbc driver.
set ORACLE_HOME=C:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1
We can use the jdk of the new weblogic install
set JAVA_HOME=C:\oracle\Soa10gWls\jdk160_11

Now we can start irca.bat

After a succesfull install of the repository we can start the soa suite installer in this folder ias_windows_x86_101351\Disk1

Very important the destination path must be in a folder of the just created wls middleware home so I use C:\oracle\Soa10gWls\soa10g


As weblogic home location use C:\oracle\Soa10gWls\wlserver_10.3

We are ready with the install

Now we to start script for wsm go to the C:\oracle\Soa10gWls\soa10g\config\ folder and start
configureSOA.bat

Last step is to create a Soa domain just like Soa Suite 11g and select the Soa Suite 10.1.3.5.1 option


Provide the orabpel and oraesb schema passwords.


Start the admin server and go to http://localhost:7001/console where we can take a look at the server. The soa suite server is called soa10g_server1


When we want to start the soa server we need to go the soa domain bin folder
C:\oracle\Soa10gWls\user_projects\domains\soa1013_domain\bin
and use "startManagedWebLogic.cmd soa10g_server1" to start the server.

This are the default installation url's of the Soa Suite applications
http://localhost:9700/esb
http://localhost:9700/BPELConsole
http://localhost:9700/ccore

And we need to use soaadmin as username to log in and use weblogic1 as password.


The issues that I had and luckily also solved.

Asynchronous routing fails with this error oracle.tip.esb.server.common.exceptions.BusinessEventRetriableException: Failed to enqueue deferred event "oracle.tip.esb.server.dispatch.QueueHandlerException: Publisher not exist for system "{0}"

Thanks to Juan Pablo

change the ESB_PARAMETER table on ORAESB schema the following parameters:

PROP_NAME_CONTROL_TCF_JNDI OracleASjms/ControlTCF
PROP_NAME_MONITOR_TCF_JNDI OracleASjms/MonitorTCF
PROP_NAME_ERROR_TCF_JNDI OracleASjms/ErrorTCF
PROP_NAME_ERROR_RETRY_TCF_JNDI OracleASjms/ErrorRetryTCF
PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_TCF_JNDI OracleASjms/DeferredTCF
PROP_NAME_ERROR_XATCF_JNDI OracleASjms/ErrorTCF
PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_XATCF_JNDI OracleASjms/DeferredTCF

to

PROP_NAME_CONTROL_TCF_JNDI ESB_CONTROL
PROP_NAME_MONITOR_TCF_JNDI ESB_MONITOR
PROP_NAME_ERROR_TCF_JNDI ESB_ERROR
PROP_NAME_ERROR_RETRY_TCF_JNDI ESB_ERROR_RETRY
PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_TCF_JNDI ESB_JAVA_DEFERRED
PROP_NAME_ERROR_XATCF_JNDI ESB_ERROR
PROP_NAME_DEFERRED_XATCF_JNDI ESB_JAVA_DEFERRED

and in the ESB console change the Property of Topic Location of every system to ESB_JAVA_DEFERRED

and see the comments for more fixes

Inference on the Semantic Web

Billy Cripe - Thu, 2009-11-05 03:25
A very informative slideshare on inference and the power of the Semantic Web. Hat Tip to Brian Dirking for the link to the slideshare on his facebook page. Inference on the Semantic WebView more presentations from Myungjin Lee.... billy.cripe http://blogs.oracle.com/fusionecm
Categories: Fusion Middleware

Oracle Coherence - read-write-backing-map-scheme

Pas Apicella - Wed, 2009-11-04 20:12
I spent the last 2 weeks in Boston working with the oracle coherence team and how that product works and I am impressed with it. One thing which I was keen on testing out / learning in depth was the read-write-backing-map-scheme. I specifically wanted to learn write-behind which when enabled the cache will delay writes to the back end cache store, which in my example would be an Oracle 11g database. To me there is really only 2 options for this to be as quick as possible and of course use connection pooling which UCP (Oracle Universal Connection Pool) is perfect for.

1. JDBC Batching
2. PLSQL bulk binds

Whats important though is that we only commit after X amount of records, and only go to the database when we are ready to insert those X amount of records in a single round trip. To me PLSQL bulk binds make sense here, as all it takes is to convert those cache entries into an SQL object which the database can interpret from PLSQL. Once that's done your PLSQL is as simple as this really.

FORALL i IN mid.FIRST..mid.LAST
insert into messages (message_id, message_type, message)
values (mid(i), mt(i), m(i));

COMMIT;

I will post a full example on this shortly which also shows how to read the data back into the cache.

More about this can be found here on what I want to setup. My initial testing showed 1,000,000 records inserted without too much issues BUT there are a couple of things to be aware from coherence and oracle itself.

http://coherence.oracle.com/display/COH35UG/Read-Through%2C+Write-Through%2C+Write-Behind+and+Refresh-Ahead+Cachinghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBlasFromPas
Categories: Fusion Middleware

Invoking Soa Suite 11g Service from java

Edwin Biemond - Wed, 2009-11-04 15:49


In Soa Suite 11g we can not call the composite service directly from java. We need to copy the service in the composite, change its binding to adf and wire this service to the component. All the credits goes to Jay's Blog and Clemens, Great work.

The first step is to open the composite xml and find your service.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!-- Generated by Oracle SOA Modeler version 1.0 at [8/25/09 3:01 PM]. -->
<composite name="Helloworld"
revision="1.0"
label="2009-08-25_15-01-51_078"
mode="active"
state="on"
xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/sca/1.0"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy"
xmlns:orawsp="http://schemas.oracle.com/ws/2006/01/policy"
xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/soa/designer/">
<import namespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1"
location="BPELProcess1.wsdl" importType="wsdl"/>

<service name="bpelprocess1_client_ep" ui:wsdlLocation="BPELProcess1.wsdl">
<interface.wsdl interface="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1#wsdl.interface(BPELProcess1)"/>
<binding.ws port="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1#wsdl.endpoint(bpelprocess1_client_ep/BPELProcess1_pt)">
</binding.ws>
</service>

Copy this service and give it a unique name and now we need to add the binding.adf binding to this service instead of the binding.ws

<service name="bpelprocess1_client_ep" ui:wsdlLocation="BPELProcess1.wsdl">
<interface.wsdl interface="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1#wsdl.interface(BPELProcess1)"/>
<binding.ws port="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1#wsdl.endpoint(bpelprocess1_client_ep/BPELProcess1_pt)">
</binding.ws>
</service>

<service name="bpelprocess1_client_ep2" ui:wsdlLocation="BPELProcess1.wsdl">
<interface.wsdl interface="http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1#wsdl.interface(BPELProcess1)"/>
<binding.adf serviceName="{http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1}bpelprocess1_client_ep2"
registryName=""/>
</service>

Go back to the design mode and open the new adf binding service and select the same wsdl as your other service ( this will correct the serviceName ) and at last we need to wire the new service to the component

Now we only need to call this service from java

package nl.whitehorses.bpel.unit;

import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.List;

import javax.naming.Context;

import oracle.soa.management.facade.Locator;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.LocatorFactory;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.Composite;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.Service;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.CompositeInstance;
import oracle.soa.management.facade.ComponentInstance;


import oracle.fabric.common.NormalizedMessage;
import oracle.fabric.common.NormalizedMessageImpl;

import oracle.soa.management.util.CompositeInstanceFilter;
import oracle.soa.management.util.ComponentInstanceFilter;


import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import java.io.*;



public class StartProcess {
public StartProcess() {
super();

Hashtable jndiProps = new Hashtable();
jndiProps.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:8001/soa-infra");
jndiProps.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
jndiProps.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "weblogic");
jndiProps.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "weblogic1");
jndiProps.put("dedicated.connection", "true");

String inputPayload =
"<process xmlns=\"http://xmlns.oracle.com/HelloWorld/Helloworld/BPELProcess1\">\n" +
" <input>hello</input>\n" +
"</process>\n" ;


Locator locator = null;
try {
// connect to the soa server
locator = LocatorFactory.createLocator(jndiProps);
String compositeDN = "default/Helloworld!1.0";

// find composite
Composite composite = locator.lookupComposite("default/Helloworld!1.0");
System.out.println("Got Composite : "+ composite.toString());

// find exposed service of the composite
Service service = composite.getService("bpelprocess1_client_ep2");
System.out.println("Got serviceName : "+ service.toString());

// make the input request and add this to a operation of the service
NormalizedMessage input = new NormalizedMessageImpl();
String uuid = "uuid:" + UUID.randomUUID();
input.addProperty(NormalizedMessage.PROPERTY_CONVERSATION_ID,uuid);

// payload is the partname of the process operation
input.getPayload().put("payload",inputPayload);

// process is the operation of the employee service
NormalizedMessage res = null;
try {
res = service.request("process", input);
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}


Map payload = res.getPayload();
Element element = (Element)payload.get("payload");

TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);


DOMSource source = new DOMSource(element);

transformer.transform(source, result);
System.out.println("Result\n"+sw.toString());

System.out.println("instances");


CompositeInstanceFilter filter = new CompositeInstanceFilter();
filter.setMinCreationDate(new java.util.Date((System.currentTimeMillis() - 2000000)));
// get composite instances by filter ..
List<CompositeInstance> obInstances = composite.getInstances(filter);
// for each of the returned composite instances..
for (CompositeInstance instance : obInstances) {
System.out.println(" DN: " + instance.getCompositeDN() +
" Instance: " + instance.getId() +
" creation-date: " + instance.getCreationDate() +
" state (" + instance.getState() + "): " + getStateAsString(instance.getState())
);

// setup a component filter
ComponentInstanceFilter cInstanceFilter = new ComponentInstanceFilter();
// get child component instances ..
List<ComponentInstance> childComponentInstances = instance.getChildComponentInstances(cInstanceFilter);

// for each child component instance (e.g. a bpel process)
for (ComponentInstance cInstance : childComponentInstances) {
System.out.println(" -> componentinstance: " + cInstance.getComponentName() +
" type: " + cInstance.getServiceEngine().getEngineType() +
" state: " +getStateAsString(cInstance.getState())
);
System.out.println("State: "+cInstance.getNormalizedStateAsString() );
}
}

} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}



private String getStateAsString(int state)
{
// note that this is dependent on wheter the composite state is captured or not
if (state == CompositeInstance.STATE_COMPLETED_SUCCESSFULLY)
return ("success");
else if (state == CompositeInstance.STATE_FAULTED)
return ("faulted");
else if (state == CompositeInstance.STATE_RECOVERY_REQUIRED)
return ("recovery required");
else if (state == CompositeInstance.STATE_RUNNING)
return ("running");
else if (state == CompositeInstance.STATE_STALE)
return ("stale");
else
return ("unknown");
}


public static void main(String[] args) {
StartProcess startUnitProcess = new StartProcess();
}
}

Working with Apache Tuscany, The Java SCA based platform part 1

Edwin Biemond - Tue, 2009-11-03 16:56


In this blogpost and future blogposts I will try to give you a jumpstart with Apache Tuscany Java SCA. If you follow my blog you may already know that I also work and make blogsposts over an other Service Component Architecture (SCA)-based SOA platform ( Oracle Soa Suite 11g). Soa Suite 11g has a different SCA approach and has much better designer support. But it is nice to take a look at Tuscany and see how this java SCA implementation works.

I will explain how you can make some composite applications. In this blogpost we start easy with building a composite application with
  • Simple java Component
  • Jax-ws component
  • Component with references to other components ( wires )
  • Service on a component
  • Using a second composite


Here a overview of my test project.


First we need to download Apache Tuscany Java SCA

We start with a simple java component with its interface.

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1;

public interface JavaService {
public String getData();
}

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1;

public class JavaServiceImpl implements JavaService {

public String getData() {
return "Hello from java component";
}
}

We can add this component in the step1 composite file and provide the java implementation class.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<composite xmlns="http://www.osoa.org/xmlns/sca/1.0"
targetNamespace="http://whitehorses"
name="step1">

<component name="JavaCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaServiceImpl" />
</component>

</composite>

Last part of step 1 is to run this composite application, now we have to load and test the composite application.

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1;

import org.apache.tuscany.sca.host.embedded.SCADomain;

public class ClientStep1 {

public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

SCADomain scaDomain = SCADomain.newInstance("step1.composite");
JavaService javaService = scaDomain.getService(JavaService.class, "JavaCp");

System.out.println("java: " + javaService.getData());

scaDomain.close();
}
}


In step 2 we will call a jax-ws webservice. In this step we also need to add a reference to the component.

To make this work I created first a jax-ws service and deploy this to an application server.

package nl.whitehorses.soa.ws;

import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService
public class Helloworld {

public String getResponse( String message){
return message;

}
}

In the tuscany client project we need to generate a webservice proxy client for this webservice.
Create an implemention class for this ws proxy client. In this class we need to add a reference with the name jaxws and a setter. We will use this in the composite xml

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step2;

import nl.whitehorses.soa.ws.proxy.Helloworld;
import org.osoa.sca.annotations.Reference;

public class HelloworldServiceImpl implements Helloworld{

private Helloworld jaxws;

@Reference
public void setJaxws(Helloworld jaxws) {
this.jaxws = jaxws;
}

public String getResponse( String message){
return jaxws.getResponse(message);

}
}

create a new composite file where we will add this component and its reference. In the reference we need to provide the web service binding

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<composite xmlns="http://www.osoa.org/xmlns/sca/1.0"
targetNamespace="http://whitehorses"
name="step2">

<component name="HelloworldCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step2.HelloworldServiceImpl" />
<reference name="jaxws">
<binding.ws wsdlElement="http://ws.soa.whitehorses.nl/#wsdl.port(HelloworldService/HelloworldPort)"
uri="http://localhost:7101/jaxws/HelloworldPort?wsdl#wsdl.interface(HelloworldService)"/>
</reference>
</component>

</composite>

And at last the test client

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step2;


import org.apache.tuscany.sca.host.embedded.SCADomain;
import nl.whitehorses.soa.ws.proxy.Helloworld;

public class ClientStep2 {

public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

SCADomain scaDomain = SCADomain.newInstance("step2.composite");
Helloworld helloworld = scaDomain.getService(Helloworld.class, "HelloworldCp");

System.out.println("ws: " + helloworld.getResponse("hello"));

scaDomain.close();
}
}

In step 3 we will expose an component as a service. First step is to make an interface with the methods which we want to expose in this web service. We have to add Remotable annotation.

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step3;

import org.osoa.sca.annotations.Remotable;

@Remotable
public interface TuscanyService {

public String getJaxwsResponse( String message);

public String getJavaData();

public String getJavaData2();

}

The implementatation of this component with the Service annotation and off course the references to the other components.

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step3;

import nl.whitehorses.soa.ws.proxy.Helloworld;

import org.osoa.sca.annotations.Reference;
import org.osoa.sca.annotations.Service;
import nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaService;

@Service(TuscanyService.class)
public class TuscanyServiceImpl implements TuscanyService {

private Helloworld helloworldComponent;
private JavaService javaComponent;
private JavaService javaComponent2;

@Reference
public void setHelloworldComponent(Helloworld helloworldComponent) {
this.helloworldComponent = helloworldComponent;
}

@Reference
public void setJavaComponent(JavaService javaComponent) {
this.javaComponent = javaComponent;
}

@Reference
public void setJavaComponent2(JavaService javaComponent2) {
this.javaComponent2 = javaComponent2;
}


public String getJaxwsResponse(String message) {
return helloworldComponent.getResponse(message) ;
}

public String getJavaData() {
return javaComponent.getData();
}

public String getJavaData2() {
return javaComponent2.getData();
}
}


The step3 composite file has a TuscanyServiceComponent with 3 references to the step 1 and 2 components and this component has also a service. In this service we have to provide the ws url.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<composite xmlns="http://www.osoa.org/xmlns/sca/1.0"
targetNamespace="http://whitehorses"
name="step3">

<component name="TuscanyServiceComponent">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step3.TuscanyServiceImpl" />
<reference name="helloworldComponent" target="HelloworldCp" />
<reference name="javaComponent" target="JavaCp" />
<reference name="javaComponent2" target="JavaCp2" />
<service name="TuscanyService">
<binding.ws uri="http://localhost:8085/TuscanyService"/>
</service>
</component>

<component name="JavaCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaServiceImpl" />
</component>

<component name="JavaCp2">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaServiceImpl" />
</component>

<component name="HelloworldCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step2.HelloworldServiceImpl" />
<reference name="jaxws">
<binding.ws wsdlElement="http://ws.soa.whitehorses.nl/#wsdl.port(HelloworldService/HelloworldPort)"
uri="http://localhost:7101/jaxws/HelloworldPort?wsdl#wsdl.interface(HelloworldService)"/>
</reference>
</component>

</composite>

The client code which tests the main component and start the service on this component

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step3;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.tuscany.sca.host.embedded.SCADomain;

public class ClientStep3 {

public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

SCADomain scaDomain = SCADomain.newInstance("step3.composite");
TuscanyService tuscanyService = scaDomain.getService(TuscanyService.class, "TuscanyServiceComponent");

System.out.println("ws: "+tuscanyService.getJaxwsResponse("hello"));
System.out.println("java: "+tuscanyService.getJavaData());
System.out.println("java2: "+tuscanyService.getJavaData2());

try {
System.out.println("ws service started (press enter to shutdown)");
System.in.read();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

scaDomain.close();
}
}

Now we can use soapui to test this web service.


In the last step in this blog I will use a second composite which will be called by the first composite.
First we create a new composite xml. We will copy a java component from the step3 composite to this composite. Give this composite a new name and target namespace. We will use these values to import this composite. This component needs a service else we can not call it from the main composite.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<composite xmlns="http://www.osoa.org/xmlns/sca/1.0"
targetNamespace="http://whitehorses2"
name="step4_2">

<service name="JavaCpService" promote="JavaCp">
<interface.java interface="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaService"/>
</service>

<component name="JavaCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaServiceImpl" />
</component>

</composite>

The main composite called step4_1 need the namespace of the second composite. The JavaCp2 component import the second composite by using the target namespace of the second composite and with its name. In the javaComponent2 reference of the TuscanyServiceComponent will call JavaCp2 component followed by the service name of the second composite.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<composite xmlns="http://www.osoa.org/xmlns/sca/1.0"
targetNamespace="http://whitehorses"
xmlns:whitehorses2="http://whitehorses2"
name="step4_1">

<component name="TuscanyServiceComponent">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step3.TuscanyServiceImpl" />
<reference name="helloworldComponent" target="HelloworldCp" />
<reference name="javaComponent" target="JavaCp" />
<reference name="javaComponent2" target="JavaCp2/JavaCpService" />
<service name="TuscanyService">
<binding.ws uri="http://localhost:8085/TuscanyService"/>
</service>
</component>

<component name="JavaCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step1.JavaServiceImpl" />
</component>

<component name="HelloworldCp">
<implementation.java class="nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step2.HelloworldServiceImpl" />
<reference name="jaxws">
<binding.ws wsdlElement="http://ws.soa.whitehorses.nl/#wsdl.port(HelloworldService/HelloworldPort)"
uri="http://localhost:7101/jaxws/HelloworldPort?wsdl#wsdl.interface(HelloworldService)"/>
</reference>
</component>

<component name="JavaCp2">
<implementation.composite name="whitehorses2:step4_2"/>
</component>
</composite>



and at last the step 4 test client.

package nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step4;

import nl.whitehorses.tuscany.step3.TuscanyService;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.tuscany.sca.host.embedded.SCADomain;

public class ClientStep4 {

public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

SCADomain scaDomain = SCADomain.newInstance("step4_1.composite");
TuscanyService tuscanyService = scaDomain.getService(TuscanyService.class, "TuscanyServiceComponent");

System.out.println("ws: "+tuscanyService.getJaxwsResponse("hello"));
System.out.println("java: "+tuscanyService.getJavaData());
System.out.println("java2: "+tuscanyService.getJavaData2());

try {
System.out.println("ws service started (press enter to shutdown)");
System.in.read();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

scaDomain.close();
}
}

Here you can download my jdeveloper 11G test project.

Ten Requirements for Achieving Collaboration #6:Data Accessibility for People and Computers

Billy Cripe - Mon, 2009-11-02 16:13
The data contained within information artifacts must be accessible by people and machines. We will cover 3 main advantages that data accessibility for people and computers deliver. 1. High relevance leads to lean systems. 2. People want relevant information, not... billy.cripe http://blogs.oracle.com/fusionecm
Categories: Fusion Middleware

Free 10gr3 Component: Add Tool Tips to Metadata Fields

Bex Huff - Fri, 2009-10-30 11:14

I recently got a question from a customer about how to add tool tips to metadata fields. Like if you had a field named "Comments," you could float your mouse over that field, and you'd see a small popup with a description of that field. I said, no problem, just set this flag in your config.cfg, or as a side effect to a profile rule:

xComments:description=Comments about this content item

No different than the isHidden or isInfoOnly flags. Unfortunately, it didn't work...

I thought that was built into the core, because I distinctly remember making that feature myself. Or more correctly, I made a component called ProfileExtras which added a whole bunch of useful features to the 7.5 Profiles functionality... including this. I thought I rolled that into the core for the 10gr3 release, but I left Stellent before Oracle released UCM 10gr3...

I thought about telling the customer how to do it... but I realized it would take about as much time to do it myself, as it would to describe to somebody else how to do it... So I whipped it out, and put it in the Bezzotech Library:

  • Tool Tips : A simple component that adds tool tips to metadata fields, so contributors know what to put in the fields.

Hopefully others find this useful as well...

read more

Categories: Fusion Middleware

Securing Web Services with SAML Sender Vouches

Edwin Biemond - Thu, 2009-10-29 15:36


After securing you web applications with SAML is the next step to secure your web services with SAML Sender Vouches ws-security policy, this can be complex because you need to know a lot over the weblogic server configuration and its java security frameworks. For example you need to configure two Weblogic servers, the first is the Web Service server and the second server is the Secure Token Service ( STS ). After that you need to add some client credential providers to the generated web service proxy client. Thanks to Vishal Jain of Oracle who provided me a working example.
This is how SAML Sender Vouches works and what we need to do in weblogic / java.
The short version is, the web service proxy client call the STS server to get an SAML assertion on behalf of the User to call the Web Service.

The long version, the user provides its credentials to the ws proxy client and the ws proxy client calls the STS server and provides the username / password of the user and the client key.
The STS validates the user and the ws proxy client certificate and the STS returns the STS identity assertion to the ws proxy client. The ws proxy client uses this STS assertion together with the ws client and ws server certificate to call the web service.

First we need to have 3 certificates, the first is alice, this will be used in the ws proxy client and the second certificate is bob, this will be used in the Weblogic web service server and the last we use wssipsts certificate for the Weblogic STS server. Add these keys into a java keystore.

Setting up the Secure Token Service (STS)
Create a new Weblogic 10.3.1 domain and start the admin server. First we need to enable SSL in the general tab of the server and then add our keystores in the keystore tab.
Provide the STS certificate alias, in my case wssipprv

Go the myrealm security where we add the Alice user and provide a password, Very important the username must match with the CN of the Alice certificate. The user provides the credentials and must match with user in WLS and the ws proxy client provides the Alice certificate and this must match with the PKI Credential mapping.

Go to the Credential mapping tab of the Provider tab and add a PKI Credential Mapping where we import the keystore and Add a SAML Credential Mapping version 2 where we add the Web Service URL.

Open the just created PKI credential mapping and add the keystore.

Next we open the SAML Credential Mapping version 2 and provide the Issuer URL and Name Qualifier.

Add the public key of the wssipsts

Add a WSS/Sender-Vouches Relying Party

Enable this and provide the target url of the Web Service Url and assign assertions and include key info


That is all for the STS server and now we can deploy the STS web service.

package nl.whitehorses.sts;

import weblogic.jws.Policy;
import weblogic.wsee.security.saml.SAMLTrustTokenProvider;
import weblogic.wsee.security.wst.framework.TrustTokenProviderRegistry;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;

@WebService
@Policy(uri="policy:Wssp1.2-2007-Wssc1.3-Bootstrap-Https-UNT.xml")
public class StsUnt {

static {
init();
}

@WebMethod
@Policy(uri="policy:Wssp1.2-2007-SignBody.xml")
public String dummyMethod(String s) {
return s;
}

static void init() {
TrustTokenProviderRegistry reg = TrustTokenProviderRegistry.getInstance();
SAMLTrustTokenProvider provider = new MySAMLTrustTokenProvider();
reg.registerProvider("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-2004-01-saml-token-profile-1.0#SAMLAssertionID", provider);
reg.registerProvider("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.0#SAMLAssertionID", provider);
reg.registerProvider("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.1#SAMLV2.0", provider);
reg.registerProvider("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.1#SAMLV1.0", provider);
reg.registerProvider("http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token-profile-1.1#SAMLV1.1", provider);
}

static class MySAMLTrustTokenProvider extends SAMLTrustTokenProvider {

}
}


Configure the Weblogic server for the Web Services
Create a new Weblogic domain and use the same keystore, we don't need to setup SSL on this server.

Go the myrealm security and go to providers tab where we add a new PKI Credential Mapping in the credentials tab. ( Use the same setting as the STS server )
We need to add 2 authentication providers and change the 2 default providers.
Create a SAML Authentication and SAML Identity Assertion provider.

Every authentication provider need to have the SUFFICIENT control flag.

Change the SAML Identity Assertion by adding an asserting party and the STS public certificate

Import the STS certificate

Change the just create Sender-Vouches asserting party. Enable this and provide the target url of the web service and add the issuer url, signature required and expect the STS certificate and allow virtual user.


Change the defaultIdentityAsserter and add wsse:PasswordDigest and X.509 as active types.
In the provider specific tab we need to set CN in the Default User Name Mapper Attribute Type and enable Use Default User Name Mapper.


In the DefaultAuthenticator we need to set control flag to SUFFICIENT
And in the provider specific tab. Enable Password Digests and Minimum Password Length to 1.

That's all for the Web Service server. Now we can deploy the webservice.

package nl.whitehorses.sts.ws;

import weblogic.jws.Policies;
import weblogic.jws.Policy;
import javax.jws.WebService;

@Policies(
{
@Policy(uri = "policy:Wssp1.2-2007-Saml1.1-SenderVouches-Wss1.0.xml"),
@Policy(uri = "policy:Wssp1.2-2007-SignBody.xml"),
@Policy(uri = "policy:Wssp1.2-2007-EncryptBody.xml")
}
)

@WebService
public class EchoService {
public String echo( String hello){
return hello;
}
}


Generating the Web Service Proxy Client
The last step we need to generate a web service proxy client and add the username and the client credentials mappings.

package nl.whitehorses.sts.ws.client;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import java.net.URL;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;


import javax.xml.ws.BindingProvider;
import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceRef;

import weblogic.security.SSL.TrustManager;

import weblogic.wsee.message.WlMessageContext;
import weblogic.wsee.security.bst.ClientBSTCredentialProvider;
import weblogic.wsee.security.saml.SAMLTrustCredentialProvider;
import weblogic.wsee.security.unt.ClientUNTCredentialProvider;

import weblogic.xml.crypto.wss.WSSecurityContext;
import weblogic.xml.crypto.wss.provider.CredentialProvider;

public class EchoServicePortClient
{
@WebServiceRef
private static EchoServiceService echoServiceService;

private static String stsUntPolicy =
"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" +
"<wsp:Policy\n" +
" xmlns:wsp=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy\"\n" +
" xmlns:sp=\"http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702\"\n" +
" >\n" +
" <sp:TransportBinding>\n" +
" <wsp:Policy>\n" +
" <sp:TransportToken>\n" +
" <wsp:Policy>\n" +
" <sp:HttpsToken/>\n" +
" </wsp:Policy>\n" +
" </sp:TransportToken>\n" +
" <sp:AlgorithmSuite>\n" +
" <wsp:Policy>\n" +
" <sp:Basic256/>\n" +
" </wsp:Policy>\n" +
" </sp:AlgorithmSuite>\n" +
" <sp:Layout>\n" +
" <wsp:Policy>\n" +
" <sp:Lax/>\n" +
" </wsp:Policy>\n" +
" </sp:Layout>\n" +
" <sp:IncludeTimestamp/>\n" +
" </wsp:Policy>\n" +
" </sp:TransportBinding>\n" +
" <sp:SupportingTokens>\n" +
" <wsp:Policy>\n" +
" <sp:UsernameToken\n" +
" sp:IncludeToken=\"http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/IncludeToken/AlwaysToRecipient\">\n" +
" <wsp:Policy>\n" +
" <sp:WssUsernameToken10/>\n" +
" </wsp:Policy>\n" +
" </sp:UsernameToken>\n" +
" </wsp:Policy>\n" +
" </sp:SupportingTokens>\n" +
"</wsp:Policy>";

public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump", "true");
try {

String wsURL = "http://10.10.10.10:7011/saml-ws-context-root/EchoServicePort?WSDL";

echoServiceService = new EchoServiceService( new URL(wsURL)
, new QName("http://ws.sts.whitehorses.nl/", "EchoServiceService"));
EchoService echoService = echoServiceService.getEchoServicePort();

System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "C:/projecten/workspace/11g_prod/saml1.1_ws/wsttest1/certs/cacerts");

Map<String, Object> requestContext = ((BindingProvider)echoService).getRequestContext();

List<CredentialProvider> credList = new ArrayList<CredentialProvider>();

// Add the necessary credential providers to the list
InputStream policy = new ByteArrayInputStream(stsUntPolicy.getBytes("UTF-8"));
requestContext.put(WlMessageContext.WST_BOOT_STRAP_POLICY, policy );

String stsURL = "https://localhost:7022/sts/StsUntPort";


requestContext.put(WlMessageContext.STS_ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, stsURL);
requestContext.put(WSSecurityContext.TRUST_MANAGER,
new TrustManager() {
public boolean certificateCallback(X509Certificate[] chain, int validateErr) {
// need to validate if the server cert can be trusted
return true;
}
});

credList.add(new SAMLTrustCredentialProvider());

String username = "Alice";
String password = "weblogic1";
credList.add(new ClientUNTCredentialProvider(username.getBytes(), password.getBytes()));

// ClientBSTCredentialProvider
String defaultClientcert = "C:/projecten/workspace/11g_prod/saml1.1_ws/wsttest1/certs/Alice.cer";
String clientcert = System.getProperty("target.clientcert", defaultClientcert);
String defaultClientkey = "C:/projecten/workspace/11g_prod/saml1.1_ws/wsttest1/certs/Alice.prv";
String clientkey = System.getProperty("target.clientkey", defaultClientkey);

String defaultServerCert = "C:/projecten/workspace/11g_prod/saml1.1_ws/wsttest1/certs/Bob.cer";
String serverCert = System.getProperty("target.serverCert", defaultServerCert);

credList.add(new ClientBSTCredentialProvider(clientcert, clientkey, serverCert));

requestContext.put(WSSecurityContext.CREDENTIAL_PROVIDER_LIST, credList);

// Add your code to call the desired methods.
System.out.println(echoService.echo("Hello"));

} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}

}