Author Archives: Mark Nelson

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is an Architect in the Enterprise Cloud-Native Java Team at Oracle. Mark works mainly on making Java (traditional and microservices) easy to use in Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem. Before joining this team, Mark 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.

Learn more about the Chef and Puppet sample code

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Mark Nelson

For those who are interested in the Chef and Puppet sample code we published on github, please enjoy this video:

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JDBC Drivers in Oracle Maven Repository

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Mark Nelson

In case you missed the public announcement made on Stackoverflow,  OTN and on JDBC Forum – Oracle is now making JDBC and UCP drivers available in our Maven repository (https://maven.oracle.com). You can learn more in this blog.

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Oracle publishes official Chef and Puppet samples on github

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Mark Nelson

With Edwin Biemond Oracle official sample Chef cookbooks and Puppet modules are now available on Oracle’s official GitHub page at https://github.com/oracle/chef-samples and https://github.com/oracle/puppet-samples for Java, WebLogic and Fusion Middleware. Chef and Puppet are arguably the most popular provisioning frameworks and … Continue reading →

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Using Coherence on Oracle Java Cloud Service

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Mark Nelson

Originally posted on Coherence Down Under:
There are a number of Tutorials on using Oracle’s Java Cloud Service (JCS).  One in particular shows how to configure a Coherence instance in JCS. See here for more details. For the full list…

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Docker panel discussion on OTN ArchBeat

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Mark Nelson

Recently, I participated in an OTN ArchBeat panel discussion on Docker with Edwin Biemond, Lucas Jellema, Jim Clark and Matt Wright.  We chatted about topics like Docker’s readiness for production use, how Docker and containerization in general impact our views … Continue reading →

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“Getting Started with Oracle Maven Repository” from the OTN Virtual Technology Summit

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Mark Nelson

Whew!  The third and final broadcast of the Oracle Technology Network Virtual Technology Summit just finished with the APAC broadcast a few minutes ago.  If you missed it – I had a session called “Getting Started with the Oracle Maven … Continue reading →

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Nexus Support for Oracle Maven Repository

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Mark Nelson

More good news, Nexus 2.11.2 is now available and supports proxying the Oracle Maven Repository, in both the OSS and Pro versions.  You can find all the details here including a video demonstration. The Sonatype guys, especially Manfred Moser (@simpligility) … Continue reading →

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Nexus and Atifactory support for proxying Oracle Maven Repository

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Mark Nelson

Good news for folks using their own Maven Repository Manager, as the two major players both add support to their products to allow proxying of the Oracle Maven Repository. Nexus 2.11.2 (to be released soon) will have the necessary support … Continue reading →

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WebLogic Docker images added to Oracle’s github

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Mark Nelson

For those interested in Docker – you might like to check out the new WebLogic Docker images in Oracle’s github repo: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images

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Oracle Maven Repository – Index now available – more to come

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Mark Nelson

I am happy to announce that we now have an index available for the Oracle Maven Repository.  This is a standard Maven index, built with the Maven Core Indexer code (donated by Sonatype to Maven – thanks!) and is available … Continue reading →

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