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 Fusion Middleware 11g Launched!

By david.chappell on July 1, 2009 10:56 AM

Today is the day we officially launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=150299&s=1&k=409AAB2E4D0C341FD02DC012B04173EB&userreg=n&partnerref=3 Fusion Middleware 11gR1 is the result of a herculean effort that is 3+ years in the making.

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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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JavaOne XTP: Patterns for Scaling SOA, WOA, and REST Predictably with a Java(TM) Technology-Based Data Grid (TS-5154)

By david.chappell on June 1, 2009 5:57 PM

Come check out my talk at JavaOne this week on Wed at 11:05. Its entitled - "XTP: Patterns for Scaling SOA, WOA, and REST Predictably with a Java(TM) Technology-Based Data Grid (TS-5154)" Here is an excerpt from the session abstract...

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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 Podcast on OTN: Interview with "SOA Design Patterns" authors

By david.chappell on May 21, 2009 3:50 PM

I recently did an interview along with co-author's Thomas Erl and Clemens Utschig-Utschig regarding the SOA Design Patterns book that we recently published. The interview is located here as a podcast. If you can get past the first couple of...

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Techtarget Survey: SOA Still on the Rise

By david.chappell on March 23, 2009 10:00 AM

Among the survey respondents, 49% said their organization has one or more SOA projects under way, and 60% characterize their current or future SOA projects as enterprise level as opposed to departmental/divisional level (21%), or single, isolated projects (19%).

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New SOA Design Patterns book by Thomas Erl

By david.chappell on January 16, 2009 2:21 PM

A new book on SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl, which I helped contribute to, has just been published by Prentice Hall. This has been an industry wide effort which included contributors and reviewers from many leaders in technology. The...

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SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business

By david.chappell on January 8, 2009 4:29 PM

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!". In her posting, she...

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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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