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Welcome back......and welcome

By Chris Tomkins on July 9, 2008 10:31 AM

To those of you who used to read my Dev2Dev blog whilst I was working for BEA, welcome back and for those of you who are finding this blog for the first time, welcome. Before I begin posting to this...

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Load balancing in Oracle Service Bus v3.0 (Part 2)

By Chris Tomkins on June 6, 2008 8:43 PM

Are you performing load balancing across multiple unreliable service endpoints? If so, this post explains how to best handle this using Oracle Service Bus.

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Load balancing in Oracle Service Bus (Part 1)

By Chris Tomkins on April 17, 2008 8:54 PM

Do you have a service which is overloaded with requests? If so, then you might want to consider introducing a new instance of that service and load balancing across them. This post explains how this can be achieved using Oracle Service Bus.

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Oracle Service Bus - Getting started with Workspace Studio

By Chris Tomkins on April 11, 2008 8:11 PM

One of the major changes in Oracle Service Bus v3.0 was to enable you to create service bus artifacts in Workspace Studio as well as the web-based console. This post explains how to get started with Workspace Studio including - how to add a server, how to create an ALSB project, how to start creating ALSB resources and how to deploy and test them.

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Reusing data type definitions in Oracle Service Bus

By Chris Tomkins on January 21, 2008 4:06 PM

One of the main goals of Service Oriented Architecture is to promote reuse, not just of services but also of things like data type definitions - after all, once you've defined something once you don't typically want to have to do it again. One common web services practice however, actually prevents the reuse of data type definitions. In the remainder of this post I will describe the practice, how it prevents reuse and explain an improved practice which allows these data type definitions to be reused in other services.

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Sending an Email from Oracle Service Bus - Part 2

By Chris Tomkins on December 19, 2007 3:39 PM

Discover how Oracle Service Bus can be used to create a flexible and reusable email service.

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Sending an Email from Oracle Service Bus - Part 1

By Chris Tomkins on December 12, 2007 3:24 PM

Oracle Service Bus treats sending an email in much the same way as sending a service request to any other service provider. In this post I describe how to create an email business service which can be reused by any proxy service hosted on your service bus. In the next post in this set I describe how to use this business service from a proxy service and some tips for customising the email sent.

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Exposing a new service via Oracle Service Bus

By Chris Tomkins on December 6, 2007 3:10 PM

In my previous post I discussed how to add a service to Oracle Service Bus. This post takes the example one step further and discusses how you may expose this as a new service with a different endpoint.

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Adding a service to Oracle Service Bus

By Chris Tomkins on November 14, 2007 2:35 PM

Just starting with Oracle Service Bus and need to add a service to the bus? This post will take you through the basic steps and offer some best practices around how to do this.

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