Oracle ADF Framework Security is an authentication and authorization framework in Oracle ADF. This session explains ADF-Security from ground up. It starts with container managed security and JAAS to how they to fit into ADF Security. It then explains the ADF Security architecture with Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) and the WebLogic security platform for authentication. Topics discussed include authorization, page protection, task flow protection as well as security-expressions ADF provides for EL.
 
Deploying ADF Security-Enabled Applications to a Standalone WebLogic Domain - Part 1 : In Part-1 of this series you learn how to package your application in an ear file, start Oracle WebLogic Server Domain as well as setup OID authenticator, Oracle Internet Directory (OID) , setup a jdbc datasource and deploy your ADF application using Oracle-FMW-Control.
 
Deploying ADF Security-Enabled Applications to a Standalone WebLogic Domain - Part 2 : This session, Part 2, picks up where Part 1 of this series left off by showing you how to map application roles to the OID groups and test the application, update role permissions at run-time and redeploy the application with different security-related settings.

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Enabling SSO for the ADF application using Oracle Access Manager 11g : In this session you'll learn how to enable SSO in an ADF application through the use of Oracle Access Manager 11g. Specifically you'll walk away with an understanding of the installation process for Oracle HTTP Server 11g (OHS) as a reverse proxy for Oracle WebLogic Server, the installation process of Oracle Access Manager 11g (OAM) Web Gate within OHS and then enable SSO through OAM.
 
Oracle ADF BC Application Module Pooling : Oracle ADF Business Component Application Module pooling parameters are one of the least understood parts of ADF applications, but they are key to making a scalable application This set of videos will undertake a deep dive for developers on how to configure the parameters and what the impact of setting them is, all with the goal of building successful ADF applications This series of videos takes a progressive learning approach to introducing the AM pool and its settings. As such new viewers are recommended to watch the video series end-to-end to ensure they understand the full set of concepts.
 
Using Groovy in ADF Application : Groovy is a Java-like scripting language that gives you huge amounts of flexibility when building ADF applications.  In this ADF Insider you will see how Groovy can be used in ADF Business Components to define default values, validation and dynamic error messages.
 
ADF Faces Skinning : Skinning in ADF Faces enables application developers to change  the color scheme of an application without changing the application itself. To build a skin, developers use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) referenced from the trinidad-skins.xml file and configured in the trinidad-config.xml file. The session explains how skinning works, starting from skin selectors and their usage.
 
Using JavaScript in Oracle ADF Faces : ADF Faces provides developers with a component oriented client side JavaScript architecture that provides a consistent development environment across browsers. This session explains the server and client architecture of ADF Faces and how developers can use JavaScript in their ADF Faces applications. It explains client listeners, server listeners (Ajax calls to the server) and calls from Java to the client.
 
ADF Page Templates and Declarative Components : Learn how you can build a consistent look and feel to your ADF application pages using page templates and declarative components.  In this session you will see how you can use template facets to define content areas in a template, and how attributes can be used to control features of the template such as initial layout.  You will also see how you can build reusable composite components.
 
A closer look at integrating SOA and ADF : Oracle ADF has built in integration with the Oracle SOA Suite. In this session we'll show you how to expose your business services to SOA consumers, and how to integrate SOA processes into your ADF application.
 
ADF Region Interaction - An Overview : This session covers most of the options that exist for communicating between regions. It briefly discusses what it takes to build regions from bounded task flows before going into details using slides and samples. The following interaction is explained: contextual events, queue action in region, input parameters and drag and drop, PPR, shared Data Controls, parent action and region navigation listener.
 
ADF Region Interaction - Contextual Events :
 
Contextual events is a power solution for inter region communication and can be used as a communication channel between a parent view and its contained regions, as well as between regions. This session explains how to set up contextual events, how to define producers and event listeners and how to define the payload message. In a live example the session shows developers the building process too.
 
Classic Mistakes with Oracle ADF Internal APIs - Part 1
 
This session focuses on classical mistakes developers make when working with the Oracle ADF binding layer and the ADF Controller - Task Flows. It shows examples of how not to do it and the correct way of using ADF in Oracle JDeveloper.
 
Classic Mistakes with Oracle ADF Internal APIs - Part 2
 
This second part of classic API mistakes focuses on Expression Language problems, the use of ADF Faces and JavaScript. Developers learn best practices and pitfalls to avoid.
 
Project Considerations for Team Development : This session covers many aspects of team development including how to set up your team's resources for developing projects and how to use source control repositories in a team environment. Additionally, an overview of the features of Team Productivity Center is provided. Finally, several considerations for reusing code are covered, including best practices for setting up business components and using ADF libraries to distribute shared code.
 
Redeveloping an Oracle Forms Application with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF : Many customers developing ADF applications may be looking to re-implement applications originally built using Oracle Forms. In this presentation you will hear about the options for redevelopment, and see demonstrations of how you can re-implement common Forms features in ADF based on a redevelopment case study.
 
Building Visually Appealing Web 2.0 Data Dashboards : This session will show you how to turn data into information by presenting it visually to your users. You'll learn how you can turn simple queries into powerful graphs, maps, pivot tables, and other dynamic graphical representations.
 
Oracle ADF provides a mechanism for implementing and viewing logging information as an aid to debugging. This presentation shows how you can use ADF-Logger and the dashboard to view logging information.
 
Building User Interfaces : This session explains the process of developing layouts with ADF-Faces. Prototyping strategies are discussed, including ADF's own Placeholder Data Control. The remainder of the session covers the ADF Faces layout components in detail, highlighting their uses and providing examples of how the components might work in various scenarios. Finally, a demonstration shows how to work with layout components to define the way nested ADF Faces content appears.
 
In a Nutshell : The ADF UI Shell
 
Beyond the basic training on Oracle's JDeveloper ADF, developers are left with an over-whelming list of options for presenting a rich application to users. Buttons, graphs, sliders and more. Yet individually, these don't make an application, these don't make a user experience; how will your application pull this into a consistent look-and-feel, how will the application flow, how will they navigate in your application? This session looks at Oracle's ADF UI Shell, a working combination of page templates, navigation controls, and application structure bringing the many parts of ADF applications together into a living application experience.

​Oracle ADF Business Components :
 
Creating RESTFul web services with ADF BCs :Often you need to create a REST-Ful web services and would like to call ADF BC logic inside them. Unfortunately, service interfaces for Application Modules are SOAP only at present. This can be achieved by combining custom code that makes use of a JAX RS implementation.
 
Programmatically iterating through rows of a view object : A common use case is to be able to programmatic access the rows in a view object. This Application Development Framework Insider Essentials shows you how.
 
Building a dependent list of values : Find out how you can use the declarative features of Application Development Framework Business Components to build a dependent list of values that automatically limit its choices based on another attribute value.

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Implementing Sequences in an ADF Applications : Most, if not all, ADF applications based on database tables will have to manage assigning sequence numbers to unique and primary key attribute values. Find out how you can do this in ADF Business Components.
 
Extending ADF Framework Security with Resource Permissions : This sample shows how to use the OPSS Resource Permission in ADF Security to protect an entity attribute from update when an entity row is newly created.
 
Programmatical access a view criteria : View criteria allow you to define parameterized filters on a view object. This ADF Insider Essentials explains how you can apply, remove, and append view criteria from code - Oracle ADF
 
Setting a row as non editable based on a value :In this ADF-Insider-Essentials you will see how you can set a row of data to be non editable depending on the value in another field or attribute.
 
ADF BC Model Driven LOV Switcher : In this ADF-Insider-Essentials you will learn a feature of model driven list-of-values where the LOV definition can be switched at runtime. This is usually triggered by data in a related view object-attribute.
 
Referencing a default value from an attribute in a different EO :In this ADF-Insider-Essentials you will learn how you can default an attribute's value with a value populated from a different entity-object. For example, an order item price is defaulted to the suggested wholesale price for the product.
 
Implementing a total : Often in an application you will want to display a sum or total of a particular attribute, for example the total salaries in a department. In this ADF Insider Essential you will see how you can implement using a Groovy expression.
 
Building a test client for testing ADF Business Components : Application Development Framework Business Components can be tested in the ADF Model Tester or in simple Test Client classes. These Test Client classes can work with generic view objects or set and use bind variables and view criteria. This ADF-Insider shows you how to write the class using a template and set all the appropriate component values.
 
Basing ADF Business Component View Objects on more than one Entity Object : Tables are littered with foreign keys that have little meaning to users. Often we want to show fields from other tables with more meaningful values to the user, and, if the user changes the foreign key then the lookup values are instantly changed. This presentation will show you how to create ADF Business Component View-Objects where the View Object is based on more than one Entity-Object: An updatable  Entity-Object and a reference lookup Entity-Object.
 
Retrieving the previous value of an ADF BC attribute : Sometimes we will have a requirement to show the previous value of an ADF BC attribute, or even create a business rule that needs to compare an old and new value for an attribute. You will learn how easy it is to do this in this Application Development Framework(ADF) Insider Essential.

Apache JMeter can be used to run load, performance and stress tests on Oracle ADF applications. However, JMeter has no intelligence on understanding ADF applications and requires careful configuration to route the ADF cookies and HTTP state variables. This presentation shows how to configure demonstrates a live stress test, JMeter for ADF testing, and highlights some gotchas that can break the tests you create.
 
One-Size-Doesn't-Fit-All: Oracle ADF Architectural Fundamentals : Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle Application Development Framework) practitioners will quickly realize that there’s no one-size fits all approach to creating an Oracle ADF application architecture. The unique challenges and requirements of your system will have a strong influence on the solution you finally build. Taking a step back from the nitty-gritty details of Oracle ADF, this presentation looks at the early decisions you need to make and what architectural choices you have in meeting your requirements.
 
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Integrating SOAP and REST Services in Oracle ADF : Oracle Application Development Framework Integrates with SOAP and REST services as a service client and service provider. This ADF Insider session shows the options you have for accessing remote SOAP and REST services from ADF and the best practices involved with this. In its second part, this session gives the available options to make ADF Business Components models accessible to SOAP and REST clients. Exposing ADF BC as a service provider allows you to support multi channel access, e.g. from Web, SOA-and-ADF mobile-client, to your business logic and data.
 
Building Web Services from an existing ADF : Each new line of code your write is a potential bug. Moreover, each line of code you add to your existing applications reduces your ROI. On the other hand, service integration is more important today than ever. Mobile applications require deep integration with your line-of-business applications to reach their true potential. Did you know that you can leverage the Oracle ADF applications you already have to build web services here it shows you how to build web services from an existing ADF application by refactoring the Summit ADF sample-application and discusses the various technology choices you will have to make.
 
Using a standalone WebLogic Server instance : With JDeveloper and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse-OEPE, you can use two great IDEs to develop your ADF applications. Did you know that both can use standalone WebLogic Server instances instead of the integrated one? In this session, you will learn how to install such an instance and what benefits it will provide you. You will also see how to configure your favorite-IDEs to use a standalone WebLogic-instance.
 
Building Performant ADF Business Component Applications : This video gives you an insight into the workings of ADF-Business-Components and how you can use various parameters and features of the framework to ensure you build performant and scalable ADF Business-Component-Applications.
 
ADF Mobile Insider - Calling REST Services from an ADF Mobile App : REST services are one of the primary-mechanisms for communicating with server side business logic from a mobile-application. In this ADF Insider you'll learn how to call REST services from an ADF Mobile application.
 
Avoiding JSF and ADF Lifecycle Frustrations : The request lifecycle in web applications defines individual steps that incoming requests needs to pass before a response is returned to the requesting client. JavaServer Faces knows of 6 life cycle steps that need to process in order to read, insert, update and delete form data and to process navigation. Oracle ADF seamlessly integrates with the Java-Server Faces lifecycle, which makes understanding the lifecycle an important skill for every ADF application developer. This session explains the JavaServer Faces lifecycle from ground-up and how ADF fits into it. This session then continues discussing three popular use cases to provide expert insight to the lifecycle behavior and the required lifecycle manipulations to avoid developer frustration. Be aware the information in this sessions is not easy to digest and you want to plan in to watch it twice.
 
Take a Tour of  the Improved Apache Maven Support in JDeveloper 12c : With JDeveloper 12c, Oracle has significantly improved the support for Apache Maven. Not only is there a new POM file editor, but also Maven plugins for both ojmake and ojdeploy. Discover the new features and see how you can create new Maven-enabled ADF applications and also add Maven support to existing ADF applications. If you don't know what Maven is, this ADF-Insider will explain the basics of Maven as well as some of the more advanced features.
 
Oracle Diagnostic Log Analyzer - ADF Request Analyzer and the JSF Lifecycle : In this ADF Insider we investigate the ADF Request Analyzer, a tool within JDeveloper's Oracle Diagnostic Log Analyzer which is designed to help you understand the runtime behavior of your program, including looking under the covers of the JSF & ADF Lifecycle. The ADF Request Analyzer is therefore an excellent debugging-aid in assisting developers with building their ADF-applications.

This Article provides an introduction to Oracle Data Integrator, the technical architecture, and the contents of this Getting Started guide.
This Post includes the following sections:
Section 1.1. Introduction to Oracle Data Integrator
Section 1.2. ODI Component Architecture
Section 1.3. Get Started with Oracle Data Integrator

1.1 Introduction to Oracle Data Integrator
A widely used data integration software product, ODI provides a new declarative design approach to defining data transformation and integration processes, resulting in faster and simpler development and maintenance. Based on a unique E-LT architecture (Extract - Load Transform), Oracle-Data-Integrator not only guarantees the highest level of performance possible for the execution of data transformation and validation processes but is also the most cost-effective solution available today.

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1.1.1 The Business Problem
In today's increasingly fast-paced business environment, organizations need to use more specialized software-applications, they also need to ensure the coexistence of these applications on heterogeneous hardware-platforms and systems and guarantee the ability to share data between applications and systems. Projects that implement these integration requirements need to be delivered on-spec, on-time and on-budget.

1.1.2 A Unique Solution
Oracle Data Integrator employs a powerful declarative design approach to data integration, which separates the declarative rules from the implementation details. Oracle Data Integrator is also based on a unique E-LT (Extract - Load Transform) architecture which eliminates the need for a standalone ETL server and proprietary engine, and instead leverages the inherent power of your RDBMS engines. This combination provides the greatest productivity for both development and maintenance, and the highest performance for the execution of data transformation and validation-processes.

Here are the key reasons why companies choose Oracle Data Integrator for their data integration needs:
Faster and simpler development and maintenance: The declarative rules driven approach to data integration greatly reduces the learning curve of the product and increases developer productivity while facilitating ongoing maintenance. This approach separates the definition of the processes from their actual implementation, and separates the declarative rules (the "what") from the data flows (the "how").
Data quality firewall : Oracle Data Integrator ensures that faulty data is automatically detected and recycled before insertion in the target application. This is performed without the need for programming, following the data integrity rules and constraints defined both on the target application and in Oracle Data Integrator.

Better execution performance: traditional data integration software (ETL) is based on proprietary engines that perform data transformations row by row, thus limiting performance. By implementing an E-LT architecture, based on your existing RDBMS engines and SQL, you are capable of executing data transformations on the target server at a set-based level, giving you much higher performance.

Simpler and more efficient architecture: the E-LT architecture removes the need for an ETL Server sitting between the sources and the target server. It utilizes the source and target servers to perform complex transformations, most of which happen in batch mode when the server is not busy processing end-user queries.

Platform Independence: Oracle Data Integrator supports all platforms, hardware and OSs with the same software.

Data Connectivity : Oracle Data Integrator supports all RDBMSs including all leading Data Warehousing platforms such as Oracle, Exadata, Teradata, IBM DB2, Netezza, Sybase IQ and numerous other technologies such as flat files, ERPs, LDAP, XML.

Cost-savings : the elimination of the ETL Server and ETL engine reduces both the initial hardware and software acquisition and maintenance costs. The reduced learning curve and increased developer productivity significantly reduce the overall labor costs of the project, as well as the cost of ongoing enhancements.

1.2 ODI Component Architecture
The Oracle Data Integrator platform integrates in the broader Fusion Middleware platform and becomes a key component of this stack. Oracle Data Integrator provides its run-time components as Java EE applications, enhanced to fully leverage the capabilities of the Oracle WebLogic Application Server. Oracle Data Integrator components include exclusive features for Enterprise-Scale Deployments, high availability, scalability, and hardened security. Figure 1-1 shows the ODI component architecture.
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Figure 1-1 Oracle Data Integrator Component Architecture
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1.2.1 Repositories
The central component of the architecture is the Oracle Data Integrator / ODI Repository. It stores configuration information about the IT infrastructure, metadata of all applications, projects, scenarios, and the execution logs. Many instances of the repository can coexist in the IT infrastructure, for example Development, QA, User Acceptance, and Production. The architecture of the repository is designed to allow several separated environments that exchange metadata and scenarios (for example: Maintenance, Development, Test, and Production environments). The repository also acts as a version control system where objects are archived and assigned a version number.

The Oracle Data Integrator Repository is composed of one Master Repository and several Work Repositories. Objects developed or configured through the user interfaces are stored in one of these repository types.
There is usually only one master repository that stores the following information:

• Security information including users, profiles and rights for the ODI platform
• Topology information including technologies, server definitions, schemas, contexts, languages and so forth.
• Versioned and archived objects.

The work repository is the one that contains actual developed objects. Several work repositories may coexist in the same ODI installation (for example, to have separate environments or to match a particular versioning life cycle). A Work Repository stores information for:

• Models, including schema definition, datastores structures and metadata, fields and columns definitions, data quality constraints, cross references, data lineage and so forth.
• Projects, including business rules, packages, procedures, folders, Knowledge Modules, variables and so forth.
• Scenario execution, including scenarios, scheduling information and logs.

When the Work Repository contains only the execution information (typically for production purposes), it is then called an Execution Repository.

1.2.2 ODI Studio and User Interfaces
Administrators, Developers and Operators use the Oracle Data Integrator Studio to access the repositories. This Fusion Client Platform (FCP) based UI is used for administering the infrastructure (security and topology), reverse-engineering the metadata, developing projects, scheduling, operating and monitoring executions.

ODI Studio provides four Navigators for managing the different aspects and steps of an ODI integration project:
Designer Navigator is used to design data integrity checks and to build transformations such as for example:

• Automatic reverse-engineering of existing applications or databases
• Graphical development and maintenance of transformation and integration interfaces
• Visualization of data flows in the interfaces
• Automatic documentation generation
• Customization of the generated code

Operator Navigator is the production management and monitoring tool. It is designed for IT production operators. Through Operator Navigator, you can manage your interface executions in the sessions, as well as the scenarios in production.

Topology Navigator is used to manage the data describing the information system's physical and logical architecture. Through Topology Navigator you can manage the topology of your information system, the technologies and their datatypes, the data servers linked to these technologies and the schemas they contain, the contexts, the languages and the agents, as well as the repositories. The machine, site, and data server descriptions will enable Oracle Data Integrator to execute the same integration interfaces in different physical-environments.

Security Navigator is the tool for managing the security information in Oracle Data Integrator. Through Security Navigator you can create users and profiles and assign user rights for methods (edit, delete, etc) on generic objects (data server, data-types, etc), and fine-tune these rights on the object instances (Server 1, Server 2, and so forth).

Oracle Data Integrator also provides a Java API for performing all these run-time and design-time operations. This Oracle Data Integrator Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for standalone Java applications and application servers.

1.2.3 Run-Time Agent

At design time, developers generate scenarios from the business rules that they have designed. The code of these scenarios is then retrieved from the repository by the Run-Time Agent. This agent then connects to the data servers and orchestrates the code execution on these servers. It retrieves the return codes and messages for the execution, as well as additional logging information - such as the number of processed records, execution time and so forth-in the Repository. The Agent comes in two different flavors:

• The Java EE Agent can be deployed as a web application and benefit from the features of an application server.
• The Standalone Agent runs in a simple Java Machine and can be deployed where needed to perform the integration flows.

Both these agents are multi-threaded java programs that support load balancing and can be distributed across the information system. This agent holds its own execution schedule which can be defined in Oracle Data Integrator, and can also be called from an external scheduler. It can also be invoked from a Java API or a web service interface.

1.2.4 Oracle Data Integrator Console

Business users (as well as developers, administrators and operators), can have read access to the repository, perform topology configuration and production operations through a web based UI called Oracle-Data-Integrator Console. This web application can deployed in a Java EE application server such as Oracle-WebLogic.
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To manage and monitor the Java EE and Standalone Agents as well as the ODI Console, Oracle Data Integrator provides a new plug-in that integrates in Oracle Fusion Middleware Control-Console.

Oracle Data Integrator is a comprehensive data integration platform that covers all data integration requirements: from high-volume, high-performance batch-loads, to event-driven, trickle-feed integration processes, to SOA-enabled data services. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 12c, the latest version of Oracle’s strategic Data Integration offering, provides superior developer productivity and improved user experience with a redesigned flow-based declarative user interface and deeper integration with Oracle Golden-Gate. ODI-12c further builds on its flexible and high-performance architecture with comprehensive big data support and added parallelism when executing data integration processes.  It includes interoperability with Oracle-Warehouse-Builder (OWB) for a quick and simple migration for OWB customers to ODI-12c.  Additionally, ODI can be monitored from a single solution along with other Oracle technologies and applications through the integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager / OEM.

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Recent Press Release:  Oracle Fusion Middleware Enhancements Enable Organizations to Innovate and Consolidate On-Premises and in the Cloud
Press Release:  Oracle Adds New Data Integration Technologies to Enterprise Big Data Portfolio
Press Release:  Oracle Expands Data Integration Portfolio with Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management 12c
Press Release:  Oracle Data Integration Drives Business Results for a Wide Range of Customers and Receives Analyst Recognition

Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Data Sheet
Oracle Data Integrator 12c New Features Overview

Oracle Data Integrator and Big Data
Oracle-Data-Integrator Enterprise Edition Advanced Big Data Option Data Sheet
The Five Most Common Big Data Integration Mistakes to Avoid (PDF)
Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Management Pack for Oracle Data Integrator Data Sheet

Getting Started
Download the Getting Started Guide (PDF) From the IBM Official Site. This document guides you through a first project with Oracle Data Integrator 12c.
Run the Getting Started Demo environment installed and pre-configured in a Virtual Machine, by downloading the ODI 12c Getting Started Virtual Machine.
If you are interested in leveraging Oracle Data Integrator in a Big Data environment, save time by downloading the pre-configured Big Data Lite Virtual Machine which includes ODI.
If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding the Getting Started Environment or ODI in general, there is platform to discuss on the ODI OTN Forum.
Read the Release Notes for Oracle Data Integrator 12c.
Learn More about Oracle Data Integrator, including FAQ, Oracle By Example, Sample Code, and White Papers From Official ODI Website. 

Product Technical Briefs

• Oracle Data Integrator 12c Certification Matrix
• The Oracle Data Integrator Architecture (PDF)
• Best Practices for Real-time Data Warehousing (PDF)
• Oracle Data Integrator Performance Guide (PDF)
• Take SOA Deployments to the Next Level with Oracle Data Integrator (PDF)

Related Products

• Oracle Data Integration Products Page
• Oracle Golden-Gate
• Oracle Enterprise Data Quality
• Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management

IBM has provided customers with a Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) tool where you can locate and find complete lists of supported operating systems, system requirements, prerequisites, and optional supported software for WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus versions, including IBM Integration Bus version10.0.

The SPCR tool links to information about the minimum product levels that must be installed before opening a problem report with IBM Integration Bus Technical Support. The software versions and any maintenance levels listed in the tool have been explicitly verified as working.

Virtualization Environments
Defect support is available for virtualization environments where they relate to releases of this platform already supported by IBM Integration Bus. IBM will not undertake to troubleshoot issues which are caused solely as a result of running in a virtualized environment.

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Referral topics :
Software support for IBM SWG products in a VMware environment.
Server virtualization policy for IBM software

Supported System Requirements:
The links below are located in the SPCR tool and go directly to the supported operating systems, prerequisites, system requirements, and optional supported software for the specific operating system.

IBM Integration Bus 10.0 by platform

• AIX
• HP
• Linux
• Solaris
• Windows
• z/OS

SPCR tool available for all software products:
The generic link to the IBM Integration Bus Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) tool is below. You can access the tool for any product and obtain the supported operating systems, system requirements, and optional supported software for your product version.

Click the link below to reach the front page of SPCR:
Detailed system requirements for a specific product in SPCR
Then choose the following options to obtain the supported operating systems, system requirements, and optional supported software for your product version.
1. Select the desired product.
2. Select the desired version.
3. Select your operating system.

About this Installation task

The tasks that you perform to complete the installation of IBM IBus version10 are listed in the following simple 10 steps; each task indicates whether it is required or optional. A summary of each task is provided, along with pointers to topics or sections that describe the task in more detail.

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Procedure
step1 - Required: Make sure that you have acquired the product-packages that you need for installation.
Physical and electronic packages are available for IBM Integration Bus. DVDs are supplied in the physical-package, and electronic-images are available from the IBM-Passport Advantage website.

step2 - Required: Make sure that you have access to the product documentation that you need for installation.

step3 - Required: Determine the platforms on which to install IBM-Integration-Bus. On Windows and Linux, the IBM Integration Bus installation includes IBM Integration Tool-kit.
Note: WebSphere Message Queue is no longer a pre-requisite for using IBM Integration Bus.

steop4 - Optional: If you have installed previous versions of IBM Integration Bus on your computer, you can install the latest version alongside the existing deployment, or you can migrate your existing deployment to the latest version; see Coexistence of IBM Integration Bus Version 10.0 with previous versions.

step5 : Required: Prepare each computer on which you are installing IBM Integration Bus.

1.Required: Check that your target computers meet the initial hardware, storage, and software requirements.
2.Required: Understand the security requirements for running IBM-Integration-Bus; Security-requirements.
3.Optional: If you are installing IBM Integration Bus on distributed systems, then configure temporary directory space to enable IBM Integration Bus Java components to operate correctly; Configuring temporary space on distributed-systems.
4.Optional: If you are installing IBM Integration Bus on Linux or UNIX systems, check your kernel configuration; see Checking the kernel configuration on Linux and UNIX systems.
5.Optional: If you are installing IBM Integration Bus on z/OS, then you must complete the following steps:

• Install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
• Check the available disk space on your system; see Checking available disk space on z/OS.

step6 - Required: Install IBM Integration Bus; see Installing IBM Integration Bus software.

step7 - Optional: If required, install one or more language packs for IBM Integration Toolkit; check Installing language packs for the IBM Integration Tool-kit.

step8 - Optional: Set up a command environment so that you can run administrative commands; check Setting up a command environment.

step9 - Optional: If required, change the integration node operation mode to conform to your license; see the topic like Configuring your integration nodes to conform to your license.

step10 - Optional: If required, install any complementary products; see Installing and uninstalling complementary products.

DevOps is a relatively recent phenomenon - especially compared to the world of open source. While DevOps and open source are two entirely separate things, though, the reality is that it’s difficult to separate the two at this point. Many open source projects rely on DevOps tools and principles, and DevOps depends heavily on open source applications as both the glue that binds it all together and the engine that keeps everything moving. A new report from DevOps.com, DevOps and Open Source, digs in to understand the symbiotic relationship driving the next generation of IT.

DevOps and Open Source examines the role of open source in DevOps, whether DevOps can succeed without open source, the unique challenges of leveraging open source tools, and the benefits of open source partnerships with large corporations such as Microsoft and IBM. The report also includes a list of some of the most widely used open source tools for DevOps, including Chef, Puppet and Docker.

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Leveraging open source tools gives organizations and developers much more flexibility and control. Because the underlying code is available, it provides an opportunity to customize it to fit unique scenarios or to create the necessary APIs to integrate the open source software with other tools. The fact that there is no single vendor that owns the software also means that organizations and developers can build on open-source tools with the confidence that the apps will not arbitrarily disappear one day.

You can definitely develop or use open-source applications without embracing DevOps, but is it possible to do DevOps effectively without using open-source? Maybe, says Randy-Kilmon, vice president of Engineering at Black Duck. But who would want to do it that way? With so many great open-source tools and components out there, deliberately shunning them would be a mistake. Besides, there is a piece of open source somewhere in your stack, whether you know it or not.

That statement seems to be more true with each passing-day. The growing momentum of DevOps and the mainstream acceptance of open source software form a powerful partnership that is transforming how applications are developed, deployed, monitored and maintained.

Industries want to advance their technology practices and stay ahead in very competitive industries, and do so in a mindful way, explains Jose Miguel Parrella, senior product marketing manager of Cloud Platform Marketing for Microsoft, in the report. “DevOps can help reconcile the organizational needs, add value to the business, streamline the IT value delivery process and leverage open source innovation.”
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The report sums up with this: 'The simple fact is that the fundamental concept of DevOps - the culture shift organizations embrace to change how teams cooperate and collaborate so that projects can be delivered more effectively and efficiently - more or less requires a dependence on open source tools. A DevOps environment is too fluid and evolving to sit idly, waiting for a commercial vendor to develop a product with just the right set of features and capabilities.'

The Echidna e-commerce firm install and evolves e-commerce platforms, providing ongoing development so its clients can leverage e-commerce experiences to the satisfaction of their customers. We apply carefully selected user experience marketing, technology and analytics abilities to our clients’ strategic goals to do this, taking what it calls an anti-Big Bang approach to continuous deployment, says Mike Pierce, CTO of Echidna.

Traditional e-commerce deployments were often Big Bang deployments that people developed on the basis that they had to pressure the business leaders into feeling like they had only one chance to pack as much scope as possible into a large software development project. That approach voids any practical innovation,” says Pierce. With that mindset, it can take years to finish e-commerce sites, and e-commerce companies can go out of business by the time they actually finish such a site, since it would be far out of date by then.

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Echidna sees continuous deployment as one piece in a much larger agility play designed to ensure that businesses compete in digital economies, now and in the future. Continuous deployment is the ultimate goal of DevOps, an approach that enables the business to innovate fast enough to maintain the business’ sharp marketplace edge through acute, turn-on-a-dime competitive dexterity. “In order to do this, continuous deployment helps companies learn to develop high-quality software and deploy it on a rapid, reliable and repeatable schedule,” says Pierce.

Continuous Deployment Timelines and Challenges

Depending on the client, its needs and the features in the pipeline, Echidna deploys software to each Ecommerce platform from monthly to daily, and at intervals in between those extremes. Echidna seeks to increase the degree of automation of each deployment over time. The challenge is that with so many different clients and platforms, Echidna must achieve its automation victories for each customer individually, solving similar and unique issues. We are finding our greatest success using PaaS (platform-as-a-service) Ecommerce platforms like Four51 because it eliminates a lot of the administrative overhead that is typical with deployments to on-premise platforms, says Pierce.

The development model Echidna follows to deploy e-commerce sites affects each software component, even though components deploy at different times. Payment system modifications require significantly different testing - more testing - and we must deploy them much less often than other components. Marketing components don’t need as much regression testing as other software modules and so we can deploy them much more quickly,” he says.

The most difficult software to move into continuous deployment in an e-commerce platform are the components that integrate deeply into enterprise systems. That is why Echidna advises business customers to use DevOps methodologies to deploy their enterprise production software at accelerated rates. When they do this, Echidna potentially can speed its deployment of the e-commerce platform components that are enmeshed with those production systems.

The Four51 Path, Through Jitterbit

Echidna connects Four51’s OrderCloud to the Jitterbit iPaaS integration server platform, a point-and-click integration tool. This enables us to streamline further integrations and data exchanges with many of the disparate systems in an ecosystem, says Pierce. Echidna sees increasing continuous deployment orchestration opportunities as more and more third-party application vendors become compatible with these kinds of integration tools.

Four51 enables an ecosystem of connected digital services and applications where e-commerce uses numerous disparate systems that exchange data and facilitate work streams in the enterprise in question, Pierce says. As these systems eliminate disparities and we align them on the central integration and deployment standards that we use, there will be increasing opportunities to introduce clients to lean development practices like continuous delivery and continuous deployment.

Conclusion

Continuous deployment is miles apart from what information technology is used to, especially where manual change management and change control are concerned. But once Echidna exposes its customers to continuous deployment, their managers, C-levels and boards soon begin to witness the accelerated software innovation continuous deployment provides and how this makes information technology - and the business - more nimble, both technologically and competitively.

DevOps CNCF is a non-profit comprised of some 49 industry participants that have come together to drive development and adoption of cloud-native applications and services. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is uniting such giants as Google, IBM, Intel and Cisco Systems to distill a collection of container technologies that end-user companies deem praiseworthy to reach its goal.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation CNCF intends its membership to represent end users (the CNCF website lists one end user, Goldman Sachs), cloud and container technologies, online and IT services, and academic institutions. The Technical Oversight Committee representative, weigh in on leading the DevOps transformation and instilling a DevOps culture in this two - part Q-and-A.

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How is the CNCF specifically involved in leading the DevOps transformation by instilling the DevOps culture, in the industry or in member companies, for example?

We believe that at the heart of the DevOps culture is the need to reduce the friction and, indeed, the barriers between teams that build an application and the teams that run an application. Developers learn to think about an application as a living service that evolves continuously and rapidly to meet the evolving business needs. Operations is there to deliver the tools and environment needed for them to successfully drive their application.

Why do developers need an environment that is safe to change? What kind of change? Safe how?

Safe change has many potential meanings: The first kind of “safe” is about creating deterministic behavior in operations. Does the system handle a change correctly every time? If I make a change to two systems, will they have the same state? How about to 1,000 systems? It’s important to focus on creating strong determinism by removing the moving parts in a production deployment.

The second kind of “safe” is about being able to validate that a change is good not just in pre -production environments, but in the actual production environment with a simple and deterministic rollback. It is important to make it trivial to replicate environments, and offer a way to run a simple experiment in production (e.g. route 1 percent of my traffic to this new version) with the option to deterministically roll forward or backward without effort.

A third kind of “safe” is about being able to ensure that every change is deliberate. One of the problems we often see in production systems is “configuration drift” that isn’t driven through any kind of formal process. This should be addressed by creating a strongly declarative toolset that makes every change deliberate and trackable.

How do you recommend providing these things that developers need? How do you help provide them?

There are multiple issues like data, security governance and applications that need to be addressed. Additionally, companies want to deliver apps with high velocity. How do you solve all of this? A vendor-neutral organization that can harmonize emerging technologies is important for facilitating cloud-native. Given the large number of players in the marketplace with competing approaches, having an open source way to solve this is also important.

Cloud-native infrastructure enables self-service and “hands-off” operation, including provisioning, deployment, scaling, healing, discovery, monitoring and more, with relatively little marginal effort for specific applications. By supporting open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus that provide such functionality, the CNCF hopes to democratize high-velocity application delivery, which was previously achievable mainly by web-scale companies.

How does this align with instilling a DevOps culture?

In a DevOps culture, operators are both partners and customers of the developers. Developers take responsibility for meeting operational requirements: security, availability, scalability, efficiency, actionable monitoring and logging output, reliability, necessary configurability, compatibility with the production environment, etc. Cloud-native infrastructure provides mechanisms developers-and-operators need to facilitate and capitalize on those capabilities.