ArchBeat

Throughout the afternoon of day one of the QCon conference in San Francisco, a group of young women at the InfoQ table repeatedly burst into song. Repeatedly. So let’s file this under “revenge.”

• Podcast: ACEs to Win: An Insider's View of the Oracle ACE Program (Part 1)
  Floyd Teter (Systems Engineer with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab) and Ronald van Luttikhuizen (consultant and architect with Approach Alliance) join host Bob Rhubart to talk about their participation in the Oracle ACE Program.
  (tags: oracle otn oracleace community)

• Rethinking Information Architecture for the New World (Part 3) (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle)
  "Given [that] we are almost always starting with a legacy environment where systems have many, often inconsistent, data models, rationalizing all the data [and] their semantic and their physical structures is where we tend to spend overwhelming amounts of time [usually ending in frustration]." Hamza Jahangir
  (tags: oracle otn entarch enterprisearchitecture dataintegration)
• EA Bashing?!? Open Season on EA’s??? Who is at Fault? (Or should the question be how do we fix it?)
  "I have seen so many projects recently where everyone gets the value of doing it right (deep integration of the EA with Business Units, using SOA, Governance, Virtualization, etc..) but these notions are the first to get killed as pressure mounts. A lot of people I meet want to get it right and have enough “personal power” to overcome the shortcomings posed by a less than optimal environment." -- Pat Shepherd
  (tags: oracle otn entarch enterprisearchitecture)
• SOA@Oracle BPEL & ServiceBus: New version of WLS & SOA Available
  Architect Mark Kelderman put together this list of resources covering the recently released Oracle WebLogic Server 11gr1.
  (tags: oracle otn soa weblogic)
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/soa/soasuite/demos/scalight/springcomponentbasedemo.html
  Clemens Ustchig-Utschig, Platform Architect for Oracle's SOA Product Management team and Masons of SOA member, created this SCA Spring C&I component tutorial.
  (tags: oracle otn soa soasuite java spring)
• Java / Oracle SOA blog: Soa Suite 11g MDS deploy and removal ANT scripts
  Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond (Architect at Whitehorses) shares his ANT scripts for Oracle SOA Suite 11g.
  (tags: oracle otn oracleace soa soasuite)

• SOA Magazine: Preventing SOA Failures: A Revealing Interview About Effective SOA Governance
  Dave Berry (Senior Manager, Oracle SOA Products) and Mike Van Alst (Architect, IT-eye and Oracle ACE Director) collaborated on this article that combines a number of common mistakes and remarks from a range of IT architects into a SOA-cratic dialog to illustrate and highlight common and critical governance issues.
  (tags: otn oracle oracleace soa enterprisearchitecture governance)

Both segments of my interview with SOA Manifesto survivors Dave Chappell and Clemens Utschig-Utschig are now available.

• Listen to Part 1 (mp3)
• Listen to Part 2 (mp3)

In Part 2, Dave and Clemens talk about why the manifesto’s authors avoided any attempt to define SOA or what a service is, about the relationship between vendors and non-vendors during the three-day collaboration, and about what they’ll do if there’s ever  movie version of the SOA Manifesto.

If you have your own questions for Dave or Clemens – on the SOA Manifesto or anything else --  you can connect with them through various social networks:

• David Chappell: Blog / Twitter / Oracle Mix / LinkedIn
• Clemens Utschig-Utschig: Blog / Oracle Mix / LinkedIn

Coming Soon

Upcoming Arch2Arch Podcast programs include:

• A look inside the Oracle ACE Program with Floyd Teter (Systems Engineer for Institutional Business Systems at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Ronald van Luttikhizen (consultant and architect at Approach Alliance)
  
• An interview with the Masons of SOA, an international group of software architects that includes Clemens Utschig-Utschig (Oracle), Bertold Maier (Oracle), Torsten Winterberg (Oracle ACE Director -- Opitz Consulting GmbH),  Bernd Trops (Sopera GmbH), and Hajo Normann (Oracle ACE Director - EDS). 
  
• A preview of the presentation to be given by Oracle’s Hamidou Dia and Hamza Jahangir at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Foundation Seminar

Stay tuned: RSS

(Programs/schedules subject to change.)

• Oracle Webservices manager (OWSM), 10.1.3.4 configuration in a nutshell – 2 « Oracle SOA, BPEL, ESB, JDeveloper
  Seshagiri Rayala's documentation for creating a new gateway in OWSM.
  (tags: oracle otn soa owsm)
• Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R2 « Kavin's SOA Blog
  Kavin Mehta did a very nice job documenting OFM 11gr2 installation in this post.
  (tags: oracle otn soa ofm11gr2)

• Webcast: Transform E-Business Suite Processes with Integrated Document Management
  Kevin de Smidt (Product Management Director, Oracle) and Stephen Schleifer (Senior Product Manager, Oracle) show you how to create a company-wide document repository that will streamline operations, decrease cycle times, reduce document storage and shipping costs,a and eliminate paper from all of your high-volume transaction processes.
  (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 contentmanagement)
• Webcast: Gain Quick and Easy Access to All of Your HR Documents
  Brian Dirking (Principal Product Director, Oracle) and Kevin de Smidt (Product Management Director, Oracle) show you how to create an enterprise-wide document repository, decrease costs and cycle times of HR processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve your PeopleSoft implementation.
  (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 contentmanagement)

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Architecture for Very Large Sites
  "In this article I will offer an overview of the architecture used to achieve this high scalability in Grid Control. This kind of information will be useful for customers that are contemplating the use of Grid Control but need guidance about properly architecting their solutions." -- Umar Farooq
  (tags: oracle grid architecture)
• To Customize or Not to Customize? (Oracle E-Business Suite Technology)
  "The E-Business Suite's personalization features, while useful, may not be sufficient to meet these types of specialized requirements. At this point of your analysis, it will be useful to consider the advantages, disadvantages, and implications of customizing your the E-Business Suite in an invasive way." -- Steven Chan
  (tags: oracle otn ebs)
• Rittman Mead Consulting » Blog Archive » Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 – Single Table Repository Design – Part 1
  "Apart from providing a beginner’s perspective this type of design actually provides a very good understanding of the BI EE repository modeling." -- Venkat Janakiraman
  (tags: oracle otn businessintelligence obiee)
• Preview feature: SCA Spring C&I support (Inside scoop on Oracle SOA Suite, BPM and EDA)
  "The idea is to give the developer full Java support, and a powerful IOC container. Only thing needed, annotate your beans, and wire them on composite level." -- Clemens Utschig-Utschig
  (tags: otn oracle sca soa java)
• View Slide Deck to Oracle's Keynote at 4th Cloud Expo | Cloud Computing Journal
  Journalist Roger Strukhoff reports on Oracle Product Marketing VP Rex Wang's keynote address at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara.
  (tags: oracle cloudcomputing rexwang)