By Bob Rhubart on November 23, 2009
12:01 PM
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"For a while, I thought using the phrase “I solve problems with software” would be a good one to use. Then I heard myself say that and wanted to vomit. " - Jake Kuramoto
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'Most notably, this project would continue the recently presented invests taken by Oracle in OSGi and a WebLogic DM server. It could lead to a defined standard ways of building and running enterprise technologies (such as Java EE) in OSGi. The EEG has a wide participation: beside Oracle and SpringSource you can find IBM, IONA/Progress, Tibco, ProSyst, Siemens and LinkedIn on the list." - Markus Eisele
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Peeyush Tugnawat gets back to SOA basics.
By Bob Rhubart on November 19, 2009
3:34 PM
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.”
By Bob Rhubart on November 18, 2009
12:30 PM
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"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
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"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
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Architect Mark Kelderman put together this list of resources covering the recently released Oracle WebLogic Server 11gr1.
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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.
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Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond (Architect at Whitehorses) shares his ANT scripts for Oracle SOA Suite 11g.
By Bob Rhubart on November 17, 2009
12:01 PM
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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.
By Bob Rhubart on November 13, 2009
4:56 PM
Both segments of my interview with SOA Manifesto survivors Dave Chappell and Clemens Utschig-Utschig are now available.
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:
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.)
By Bob Rhubart on November 12, 2009
12:01 PM
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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.
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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.