Entries from ArchBeat tagged with 'soa'

OTN Arch2Arch Podcasts: Spring Cleaning; Upcoming Programs

Spring Cleaning As mentioned here previously, the Architect Roundtable series of podcasts that was carried as part of the OTN TechCast now has its own channel, OTN Arch2Arch Podcast. The good news is that programs from the Architect Roundtable series...

Includes the Parrot Sketch

Well, a few lines from it, anyway. Oracle's Andrew Sutherland invokes Monty Python and several other cultural references in this entertaining response to the "death of SOA" kerfuffle. Technorati Tags: otn, oracle, soa, annethomasmanes, andrewsutherland,...

Excerpt from Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns

Over the last week or so the Oracle blogosphere has been buzzing about SOA guru Thomas Erl's new book, SOA Design Patterns, and with good reason. A number of Oracle community bloggers -- more than a few Oracle ACEs...

SOA and BPM Webinar 1/30/09

If you enjoyed the two-part SOA and BPM: Understanding the Connection podcast last month (part one, part two), you'll want to check out a new webinar the folks behind Oracle's BPM platform are presenting this Friday, 1/30/09.Get more info on:...

Architect Roundtable Podcast Series Debut

Thanks to community input and collaboration on the Architect Roundtable group on Oracle Mix, the first of an ongoing series of Architect Roundtable podcasts is now available. The first program in the series is part one of my two-part discussion...

Talking about the architecture that refuses to die

In the wake of Anne Thomas Mane's demonstration of the blogging value of bold pronouncements (See SOA is Dead, Long Live Services), tracking reaction to her article has been more fun than watching YouTube videos of skateboarders demonstrating Darwin's theories...

Has social computing changed attitudes toward reuse?

The concept of software reuse always struck me as a no-brainer. Why write new code if the functionality is already available? So whenever the word pops up somewhere, I take notice. In an article about the proceedings of last...

links for 2008-10-31

Blog: A look at Oracle Service Bus 10g Release 3 Chris Tomkins provides an overview of Oracle Service Bus 10g Release 3, the first release of the product formerly known as AquaLogic Service Bus since the Oracle acquisition of...

De-Babelizing Architecture

Jeff Davies has embarked on a project that offers great promise in improving communication around all things architecture. The first installment in the project offers concise yet thorough definitions and comparisons of point-to-point integration, enterprise application integration, and SOA.

Best Practice Center: JD Edwards EntepriseOne and Oracle Fusion Middleware

Want to learn how to create SOA with JDE EnterpriseOne applications? Want to build integrations, business processes, and composite apps using Fusion Middleware technologies? The Fusion Middleware team, working in conjunction with JDE experts and customers, have put together a...

SOA Governance Chatter

William Vambenepe jumps into the discussion of the evolution of SOA governance with a great round-up of recent  industry chatter on SOA governance in general and on the design-time/runtime divide, and offers this insight:   I like the approach of keeping...

The answer is: Not as much as you might think

ebizQ blogger Joe McKendrick picks up on David Linthicum's recent podcast interview with Oracle SOA Governance expert Mike Stamback. Joe particularly focuses on Mike's assertion that technology has a limited role in successful SOA Governance...

Performing an "S"-ectomy

In SOA Without the S, Part I: Reusable Applications, Avrom Roy-Faderman suggests removing services from the SOA equation: ADF 11g allows you to package up an application, containing business components, page fragments, and a bounded task flow, into a JAR...

Confessing to Business Process Dissection

Jan Kettenis (Confessions of a Software Developer) has published the third post in his series About Business Processes, Use Cases & SOA: This posting is a follow-up on a previous posting in which I explained business process models can be...

More Architecture Analogies

A few days ago I referenced Mary Beijleveld's post on the Approach Alliance blog, in which she offers a high-level explanation of IT architecture by comparing it to building architecture. Rajesh Raheja's recent post on The Official AIA Blog takes the shopworn Lego(tm) metaphor for SOA to task, and in the process provides an excellent drill-down that perfectly complements Mary's post...

SOA adoption: Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug

SearchSOA.com editor-in-chief Michael  Meehan blogs on recent Burton Group research on SOA adoption: According to Burton Group vice president and research director Anne Thomas Manes, some users had executed nearly perfectly in terms of doing SOA on the IT side,...

Security: SOA's Velvet Rope

Part of the SOA Governance @ Work Series To describe security as an important part of SOA Governance is bit like describing water as an important part of the lives of fish, which is to say, it's an obvious point....

SOA Value: Reuse or Agility?

In SOA Spending Up, So Where is the Value?, Dave Linthicum makes an interesting point about the value of reuse in the overall SOA picture:  The core issue is that reuse, as a notion, is not core to the value...

Son of SOA Governance and Architecture

In yesterday's post I mentioned experiencing some confusion about a point David Linthicum made in his post Too Much Focus on SOA Governance…Not Enough on Architecture. In a post today, David offers this clarification: SOA governance is indeed a part...

Effective SOA Governance keeps the focus on architecture

Thanks to a post by Joe McKendrick, InfoWorld blogger David Linthicum picked up on my recent post about an informal survey we conducted at an industry event late last year. In his post, David suggests that there is too much...