Testing Oracle ICS Integrations Using SOAP UI

Some people struggle with testing ICS integrations, simply your first few tests should be using SOAPUI and here is how to do it:

1. Copy the integration Endpoint URL from ICS

2. Open SOAPUI, and create new SOAP project



3. Open the project and choose the request
4. Under request properties, add username and password 



5. Ensure WSS-Password Type has the value "Password Text"
6. Right click Click on request payload and in the context menu you will see the options to add WSS Username Token and WSS-Timestamp

Now you will be ready to test your ICS integrations. Enjoy Integration!

Oracle PaaS Cloud Services

This month I decided to return back to blogging, as I found a topic that's lucrative and few resources are there to help people in understanding, implementing and maintaining Oracle PaaS Cloud Services.

If you know nothing about Oracle PaaS Cloud Services, then you miss a lot of cool stuff.

Oracle released more than 40+ services, and in this blog I will focus on FMW PaaS Services like integration, process, IoT, and mobile cloud services. Two places that you can start from:

• Cloud Homepage 
• Documentation Page

But Why Oracle PaaS? Because of many reasons:

• If you are J2EE and ADF developer, then having Weblogic Server on a cloud service called Java Cloud Service is good news for you. 
• If you are SOA and Integration expert, Oracle brings its SOA and Service Bus capabilities on a some cloud services called SOA Cloud Service, Integration Cloud Service (Simplified Service Bus), MFT Cloud Service, API Manager Cloud Service, and other services are coming soon.
• If you are looking for fast and enhanced way to implement workflows and business process, then Process Cloud Service is there for you.
• If you want to enhanced your skills and business, by implementing and developing IoT solutions, Oracle has developed an innovative IoT Cloud Service platform for you. 
• Many other services there, and Oracle is enhancing their cloud services every day and emphasizing the integration and compatibility of cloud services with each other.

If you still didn't try those new innovations, then you are behind and I would recommend to start to take a look!

2013 is the FOCUS year

Happy new year my followers/readers :)

Last year since I joined Oracle, I was busy and I didn't blog as I used to do. This year I will try to post gradually however my focus will change a little to be more focused on new FMW products features, business value and how to sell & market for solutions based on those products.

One more thing, I have created an open facebook group that I'd like to invite you to join https://www.facebook.com/groups/MEWFMW/ the group purpose is sharing and I created it on facebook because I found most of Oracle FMW experts in Middle East & Africa (if you are not from this region still you can join us it will be helpful) are accessing Facebook daily :) 

One last thing, I want to give you an advice for this year that I gave to myself: Manage Your Focus Manage Your Focus Manage Your Focus

Sales Lessons

I want to share with you all some sales lessons, that I have learnt recently from Eamonn Ward and Declan Tyrrell.

What I learnt?
1- Ask don't tell (Quantify impacts and root cause)
2- It's not about me, it's about the customer (think in that while preparing for presentation or meeting)
3- Get others input (Really I didn't see the Gorilla)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
4- Determine high ending objective

What's the gain?
1- Credability
2- Trust
3- Quality

Ho do I get that?
1- Practice
2- Observe
3- Share

I wish it will be helpful to you too, and don't forget that you missed the gorilla

Newly Hired @ Oracle Egypt

Sorry for not posting from long time that was because I closed my last project, took a vacation, and at last joined Oracle Egypt from couple of days.

I am hired as Senior Sales Consultant for Webcenter Content, and I will try to dedicate more time for posting this year as I became part of Oracle family.

Presenting Like The Artist

Presenting Like The Artist

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Don't forget to tell your own store and use "One more thing".

WebRTC on Chrome Canary and a look on Media Capture

I have been for a while exploring around the area of capturing using HTML5 and the results were interesting for me.

 WebRTC specification is to allow web browsers to stream media through set of APIs. It is still under development, fortunately we can take a look on it on chrome canary (chrome for developers)

Visit this link to test media streaming on chrome, especially try this one http://neave.com/webcam/html5/ for Paul Neave.

Another interesting specification for me was Media Capture which focused on integration of media capture in HTML forms based on an extension to the FileAPI.

Imagine if you want to capture an image or video from your webcam, you need only to write

<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera" id="capture"/>

and I wish to capture from a scanner in the same way too, so that we don't need to write complex code to capture and care about browser compatibility or jvm memory.

Of course all of this is not yet released and it will be added values to us as web and content experts.