David Chappell Blog

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Using SOA and Application Grid to both enhance performance and availability of customer facing applications and reduce mainframe usage charges

By david.chappell on July 24, 2009 10:12 AM

I have been working with Carl Dumont, the CTO of Wellpoint, for some time now on integrating Application Grid into Wellpoint’s SOA projects. Next week, at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference in San Diego, I will co-present with Carl on two exciting projects that both involve using Oracle Application Grid in a SOA environment to cache results from service calls to dramatically reduce load on backend systems.

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Oracle Excellence Awards for most innovative use of Application Grid

By david.chappell on June 24, 2009 2:14 PM

Oracle is announcing the call for submissions for the 2009 Oracle Excellence Awards for application grid solutions. This award is designed to recognize organizations using Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies to create an application grid foundation. Does your company use Oracle...

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The XML Grid: Using an Application Grid with large XML documents to build SOA applications that scale linearly and predictably

By david.chappell on May 27, 2009 4:15 PM

An article that I co-authored, which highlites the use of large XML documents in a SOA using Application Grid,has just been published online in SOA Journal. The article includes a downloadable example that shows how to use JAXB and a...

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New SOA on App Grid article published on eBizQ: Making SOA Leaner and Cleaner to Maximize Profits

By david.chappell on October 24, 2008 11:00 AM

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...

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My SOA on App Grid Session at OpenWorld, featuring customers!

By david.chappell on September 23, 2008 12:26 PM

This afternoon at OpenWorld I have a session which features customers using SOA on App Grid (a.k.a. SOA Grid) technologies and concepts. Today's session at OracleDevelop (S299392 - Beyond Performance: Pushing Transaction Processing, J2EE, and SOA to the Limit and...

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