David Chappell Blog

The Coherence field experts have been hard at work building new and exciting solutions at customer sites, and they have made these solutions available to everyone as examples on the
Coherence Incubator Project web site. Congrats to Brian Oliver and Rob Misek of the Oracle Coherence team for making this happen!

Here is a brief description of the freely downloadable solutions from Cameron Purdy's posting -

Command Pattern - This is a scale-out and Highly Available distributed implementation of the classic "Command Pattern".
Store and Forward Messaging Pattern - This is a scale-out and Highly Available framework for distributed Store and Forward Messaging.
Push Replication Pattern - This is a powerful framework for replicating the transactional data in real-time systems from one data center to another; it supports bi-directional WAN replication with application-customizable collision-reconciliation policies.

Please feel free to have a look at these and let us know what you think.
Cheers,
Dave

Unified Release Delivers Enhancements Based on Technology from Oracle and BEA Systems

Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Business Process Management 10g Release 3.

Available as part of the Oracle Business Process Management Suite, which addresses the needs of both audiences by uniquely enabling collaboration between business analysts and IT personnel

Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3 is the latest in a series of offerings that integrates technology from Oracle and BEA Systems and is another proof point to show our rapid progress in unifying the best industry-leading software components from the two companies.

Some highlights that Business Analysts can appreciate:
- Intuitive modeling with enhanced support of BPMN
- Integration with Oracle BPA Suite and XPDL 1.0/2.0 support
- Improved complex rule definition and documentation linked to dynamic routing on business processes
- BPM Project inheritance to promote service and process reusability

For the IT folks, here are some of the capabilities to look forward to in this release -
- Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 and Sybase ASE 15.0
- Out of the box certified interoperability with Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Service Bus and Oracle WebCenter Suite
- Ability to create and edit process forms from any location with a WYSIWYG forms editor
- Ability to aggregate multiple BPM instances with federated access to BPM deployments to unify administration experience
- Enhanced performance and security
- New process level debugging in BPM Studio complementing the existing activity level debugging

For more information, have a look at http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/bpm-suite.html

I recently teamed up with my colleague Mohamad Afshar to publish an article on eBizq around the ongoing subject of what we're now calling "SOA on App Grid" (a.k.a. SOA Grid). In part 1, we talk about a use case of caching results from repeatedly making expensive backend system calls in a Telco HSS (Home Subscriber System) environment, and also explain the details of the relationship between the services in the SOA and the middle tier data grid that is holding the service state data. Check out the article and give me your comments.

- Dave

Back on Earth Day 2008 I blogged about how Verizon Wireless is “Going Green” with SOA and EDA, and measuring the resulting ROI by reduction in tonnage of hardware in the datacenter. Reduction of hardware means less power consumption from the hardware itself, usually accompanied by an equal amount of reduction in power for air conditioning in the datacenter.

I’m happy to announce that this same customer, Jan Shook of Verizon Wireless, has been named as the recipient of the Oracle Magazine Editors Choice Award for “Green IT Architect of the Year”

Jan recently co-presented with me at OpenWorld where Rich Seeley of SearchSOA.com was in the audience and subsequently did a nice writeup which includes this -

Speaking from Oracle Open World, Jan Shook, principal architect for the fraud team at Verizon Wireless, noted that J2EE coders may be disappointed because he has re-architected the fraud detection application using Oracle Business Process Scripting Language, so there is no Java code left.
He also explained how a BPEL-based application is reducing hardware and power consumption while providing the fraud detection team with better information for decision making.

Nice job Rich for capturing the essence of the salient points from the talk, and nice job Jan for earning that award! Lets all keep "Going Green with SOA"
-Dave