Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – Encrypt BOF passwords with a minimal jar file

Nowadays, with DevOps and containers approaches, you will often see components or software that try to go on a diet, to reduce the size needed to deploy them and therefore the images/containers associated to it. I was recently asked to(…)

Documentum – xPlore not able to deploy “dsearch.war”

Recently at a customer, I faced a new issue I didn’t see before on the xPlore Dsearch component. Basically, the processes appeared to be starting and the “dsearchadmin.war” was deployed properly but it always failed for the “dsearch.war” upon startup(…)

Changing Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports repository database

I have been requested to migrate the Fusion Middleware repository database from one Linux server to a new one. Here are the steps followed to successfully do this. In the following of this document, the Fusion Middleware repository created using(…)

WebLogic Licence Compliance and Out of Memory Errors

Recently, at a customer site, I faced an issue of WebLogic Admin server which crashes because it reached Java Virtual Machine (JVM) limit. Xms and Xmx were set to 1Gb. Expected behavior is that Node Manager detects it and restart(…)

How to allow users having monitoring role to view and manage messages in WebLogic JMS queues.

Recently I got the request to provide JMS Queues monitoring access to a group of users with the privileges to view and manage de messages in the queues. This can be done through the WebLogic console but for this customer,(…)

Documentum – r_server_version reset to P00 instead of correct patch version

A few weeks ago, an issue was identified at a customer which would cause the value of “dm_server_config.r_server_version” to be reset to the GA version number (16.4 P00) instead of the currently deployed patch (which is 16.4 P26) and that(…)

Alfresco – Removing JMX settings via the AttributeService since the Revert doesn’t work

At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco Administration Console and that doing so will(…)

WebLogic – No more SSO after a SSL Certificate renewal?

I had an interesting case at a customer where the Single Sign On (using SAML2) on a WebLogic Server stopped working after the renewal of the WebLogic SSL Certificate. The WebLogic Server itself and its applications were still accessible (by(…)

ORDS with TNS

The aim of that blog is to look into Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) DB connection with TNS. This is following some experience at a customer who wanted to move to latest version of ORDS with APEX(…)

Installing the ODBC drivers for Oracle RDBMS

This article is part of a series that includes SQLite, Postgresql, Firebird, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, HSQLDB, Excel, and MariaDB. The goal is to set up a self-standing environment for testing an ODBC extension for gawk presented here to be(…)