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