By david.chappell on February 18, 2008 2:49 PM
I recently helped Khanderao Kand, one of Oracle's Fusion Middleware lead architects, co-author an article on the current state of OSGi. Here's an excerpt -
....The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Alliance is working to realize the vision of a "universal middleware" that will address issues such as application packaging, versioning, deployment, publication, and discovery.
In this article we'll examine the need for the kind of container model provided by the OSGi, outline the capabilities it would provide, and discuss its relationship to complementary technologies such as SOA, SCA, and Spring....[read more]
By david.chappell on February 18, 2008 3:20 PM
I recently did an interview with Rich Seeley for SearchSOA/TechTarget on the relationship between eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM. Here's an excerpt -
Oracle mixes extreme transaction processing with SOA
SearchSOA.com
Feb. 12, 2008
Rich Seeley
Extreme transaction processing (XTP) is being added to complex event processing (CEP) in service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations for the financial services industry, explains David Chappell, vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corp. Matching XTP technology is acquired from Tangosol Coherence in March 2007 with the Oracle SOA Suite, companies can sort through massive transaction data streams and flag exceptions that may indicate crimes such as credit card fraud. Alerts in the SOA application can go through business process engineering language (BPEL) processors to business activity monitoring (BAM) dashboards. Chappell, who has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and has written and lectured on SOA, the enterprise service bus (ESB) and message oriented middleware (MOM), calls XTP the "future for financial services infrastructure." [read more]
Dave
By david.chappell on February 18, 2008 3:37 PM
This is part 2 of an interview I recently did with Rich Seeley for SearchSOA/TechTarget on the relationship between eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM. This one focuses mostly on some of the details of Oracle Coherence and how it helps enable the "Not Your MOM's Bus" concept. Here's an excerpt -
...Of the SOA grid, he says, "It's based on an architecture that combines horizontally scaleable database independent middle tier data caching with intelligent parallelization and affinity of business logic with cached data. What this enables is more efficient models for highly scalable SOA-based applications that can take full advantage of event-driven architectures." It also changes message-oriented middleware (MOM) into something Chappell dubs "not your MOM's enterprise service bus...." [read more]
Dave
