Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

SCA Composites: Java or BPEL? | Lonneke Dikmans Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans shares insight gained in moving a composite service from Oracle Service Bus to BPEL. "Moving the Java from OSB to the Spring context was very easy," she says. Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: More on Upstart | Chris JohnsonOracle Fusion Middleware A-Team Architect Chris Johnson published a couple of posts on UIpstart. But his readers wanted more. "More explanation, more clarity, and more...

It takes a special kind of IT pro to risk additional carpal tunnel damage to pound out a technical article after spending the day wrestling with a keyboard in dealing with other duties. That kind of dedication is noteworthy, even more so if people actually take the time to read the resulting article. So if you know any of the authors listed below, skip the handshake and give them a congratulatory slap on the back for all that time spent torturing their tendons. Their hard...

The opening remarks for Real Software Engineering, Living Social developer Glenn Vanderburg's keynote presentation at QCon 2012 in San Francisco, include this: The people who started the software engineering field and movement, from the very beginning, misunderstood two very important things: software and engineering. And as a result, the field went off in the wrong direction from the very start, and legitimized certain ways of doing things and certain paths of research that...

You click, we listen. The following list reflects the Top 10 most popular items posted on the OTN ArchBeat Facefbook page for the week of December 9-15, 2012. DevOps Basics II: What is Listening on Open Ports and Files – WebLogic Essentials | Dr. Frank Munz "Can you easily find out which WebLogic servers are listening to which port numbers and addresses?" asks Dr. Frank Munz. The good doctor has an answer—and a tech tip. Using OBIEE against Transactional Schemas Part 4: Complex...

The topic on the table for the latest OTN ArchBeat series of programs is DevOps. The panelists for this conversation are three gentlemen who, by no small coincidence, have some expertise on the topic. The Panel Tim Hall is the Senior Director of product management for Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture. Robert Wunderlich is Principal Product Manager for Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack. Peter Belknap is...

JMS Step 6 - How to Set Up an AQ JMS (Advanced Queueing JMS) for SOA Purposes | John-Brown EvansJohn Brown Evans' post continues the series of JMS articles that demonstrate how to use JMS queues in a SOA context. "This example leads you through the creation of an Oracle database Advanced Queue and the related WebLogic server objects in order to use AQ JMS in connection with a SOA composite," John explains. And if you missed the first 5 steps, don't worry – the post includes...

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2012 | Abel Avram Abel Avram's InfoQ article "summarizes the key takeaways from QConSF 2012, including blog entries written by editors and practitioner attendees for all keynotes, tracks and sessions along with aggregated twitter feedback during the event." Pick Bex's Deep Dive Talk for Collaborate 2013 | Bex HuffBezzotech, Oracle ACE Director Bex Huff's outfit, is presenting a two-hour deep-dive session on ECM at...

“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? | Bruce Tierney The answer is 'True, but..." according to Bruce Tierney. "Connecting on-premise and cloud applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud integration touch points." Get the rest of the story in Bruce's detailed post. Tech World Discovers New Species: The Cloud Architect | Wired Enterprise | Wired.comThis Wired article by Cade Metz...

Good To Know - Conflicting View Objects and Shared Entity | Andrejus Baranovskis Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis shares his thoughts—and a sample application—dealing with an "interesting ADF behavior" encountered over the weekend. Patching Oracle Exalogic - Updating Linux on the Compute Nodes - Part 1 | Jos NijhoffJos Nijhoff launches a series of posts the deal with "patching the operating system on the modified Sun Fire X4170 M2 servers...dubbed compute nodes in...