Author Archives: Mark Nelson

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is a Developer Evangelist at Oracle, focusing on microservices and messaging. Before this role, Mark was an Architect in the Enterprise Cloud-Native Java Team, the Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform project, worked on Wercker, WebLogic and was a senior member of the A-Team since 2010, and worked in Sales Consulting at Oracle since 2006 and various roles at IBM since 1994.

How to read the content of a JMS message using PL/SQL

This is just a short post – but all the details are in this post from Rob Van Wijk. Today I wanted to read the contents of a JMS Text Message sitting in a queue. I wrote a Spring Boot … Continue reading

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Vote for my session at VMWare Explore (Spring track)!

Vote for my People’s Choice Session “Experiences and lessons learnt building a multi-cloud #SpringBoot backend (ID 2002)” to be featured at #VMwareExplore 2023 Las Vegas! Place your vote by May 26: https://lnkd.in/eiRi-YF7 Register for VMWare Explore here. Learn more about Oracle Backend for Spring Boot … Continue reading

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Start up an Oracle Database in Kubernetes with Oracle REST Data Services and Database Actions in no time at all!

Hi everyone! Today I want to show you how easy it is to get an instance of Oracle up and running in Kubernetes, with Oracle REST Data Services and Database Actions using the Oracle Database Operator for Kubernetes Let’s assume … Continue reading

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New 23c version of Kafka-compatible Java APIs for Transactional Event Queues published

We just published the new 23c version of the Kafka-compatible Java APIs for Transactional Event Queues in Maven Central, and I wanted to show you how to use them! If you are not familiar with these APIs – they basically … Continue reading

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Spring Boot Starters for Oracle updated

Hi everyone. We have just published some updates to the Spring Boot Starters for Oracle Database – we added a starter for UCP (Universal Connection Pool) for Spring 3.0.2. This makes it easy to access the Oracle Database from a … Continue reading

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Oracle Backend for Spring Boot (and Parse Platform) introductory video plublished!

We just published a short YouTube video that introduces the Oracle Backend for Spring Boot (and Parse Platform) which makes it super easy to develop, run and manage Spring Boot microservices and mobile applications leveraging all the power of Oracle’s … Continue reading

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Implementing the Transactional Outbox pattern using Transactional Event Queues and JMS

Hi, in this post I want to provide an example of how to implement the Transactional Outbox pattern using Transactional Event Queues and JMS with the new Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release I mentioned in my last post. … Continue reading

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Big news today – Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release just released!

Hi everyone! Big news today, just announced at Oracle CloudWorld in Singapore! The new Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is now available. Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is the first release of the next-generation Oracle Database, … Continue reading

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Session catalog for DevLive Level Up 2023 released!

Hi again! In this earlier post, I mentioned that I am speaking at Level Up 2023. The session catalog has just been released on the event website. You can find my sessions in this stream: Data strategies for developers – … Continue reading

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I’m speaking at Level Up 2023

Hi! I am going to be speaking at the Level Up 2023 event at Oracle Redwood Shores in March. I will talking about our new Developer Previews for both Oracle Backend for Spring Boot and Oracle Backend for Parse Platform, … Continue reading

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