Archive for January, 2012

Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook has been published!

Good news today from the publisher! The book of which i'm coauthor of has been published! After months of hard work it's finally there. Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook : http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-service-bus-11g-development-cookbook/book I hope you will all like it. Thanks to the other authors (Guido, Edwin, Jan and Mischa) for all their hard work and for the great few months of working together to establish this great piece of work. Special thanks go out to Guido...

Oracle Service Bus : Using custom xpath functions in xslt

One of the readers of my blog post 'Oracle Service Bus 11g, Using Custom Xpath Functions asked we can reuse the custom xpath functions in a xsl transformation. It's possibel to reuse the jar and calll the custom functions from within a xsl transformation. Starting with creating the resources needed for the custom xpath function : XML Configuration file (osb-custom.xml) Property file (optional, osb-custom.properties) Custom Function Class (jar package) Restart the osb service so...

Oracle SOA Suite : import in xsl from mds location

In one of my xsl transformations i needed to import a generic xsl from the mds store. For this i created a new jdeveloper application with a soa sar deployment descriptor and jar descriptor in it. Contents of the jar : [sourcecode language="xml"] SharedMDSResources/generic.xsl [/sourcecode] When i browse the mds repository i see the SharedMDSResources folder in the root of the tree (instead of in the apps folder). For testing i deployed the jar manually in the EM. In my...