Case UI browser compatibility

For Oracle Patners, Oracle provides a non-productive patch that enables an OOTB case UI in Oracle Business Process Composer 11g for Adaptive Case Management (cf. notice by Jürgen Kress).

Testing around a bit on my local environment, I was wondering why I could access this case UI but none of my case instances showed up.

Fig. 1: Case UI in Firefox 27.0 without case instances shown

Finally testing in the web browser on my linux VM where the server is running, indeed everything was there!

 Fig. 2: Case UI in IE 11 mode IE 8 showing case instances

So I guess it's about browser compatibility issues ... which is pretty much ok since the case UI is still in beta stage. Following settings have been tested by me so fare:

Browser	OS	Remote/Host	Result
Firefox 26.0 x86	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Fail
Firefox 27.0 x86	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Fail
IE 11.0.9600.16476 in Document Mode = IE 5 and User Agent = Standard (IE 6)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	BPM Workspace not supported
IE 11.0.9600.16476 in Document Mode = IE 7 and User Agent = Standard (IE 7)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Working, but rendering issues
IE 11.0.9600.16476 in Document Mode = IE 8 and User Agent = Standard (IE 8)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Working
IE 11.0.9600.16476 in Document Mode = IE 9 and User Agent = Standard (IE 9)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Working
IE 11.0.9600.16476 in Document Mode = IE 10 and User Agent = Standard (IE 10)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Working
IE 11.0.9600.16476 Document Mode = Standard (IE 11) and User Agent = Standard (IE 11)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Failed to load Case UI, Worklist loeded
SRWare Iron 32.0.1750.1 (Chrome)	Windows 7 x64	Remote	Fail
Firefox 24.3.0 x32	OEL 6.5 x64	Host	Working

Test Case Initialization with Web Service end point

The Oracle Adaptive Case Management Demo for HelloWorld introduces how to test a Case Management application by invoking a web service end point. This web service on the other hand will initiate a case instance.
Oracle promotes to invoke this web service using the test end point available at http://<your-server>:<your-port>/soa-infra/ This cause a little bit of frustration to me since this end point did not show the web service payload attributes unless I knew I implemented them.

Checking forth and back, reimplementing the web service again and again, I finally had the idea to check in Enterprise Manager ... and voila: everything there!

I don't really know why the test end point at soa-infra doesn't do the job any more or even if others faced the problem. But if ever, you run into it, you'll at least have a workaround by now.