Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The most popular items shared via my social networks for the week of March 4-10, 2012. Listed in descending order of popularity. Oracle Weblogic Server 12c is available on Oracle Solaris 11 (SPARC and x86) WebLogic Server Weekly for March 5th: Virtual Developer Day, Java EE 6, Appc from Ant, more... Oracle Hardware Systems: The Extreme Performance Tour - Dates and Locations Worldwide Java Champion Jonas Bonér Explains the Akka Platform Who is afraid of the big bad "MVC"? | Chris...

What Is Business Intelligence 3.0? | Bill Cabiroblog.strat-wise.com Thanks to Grant Schofield for recommending this article by Bill Cabiro. Grant describes the article as "an agnostic overview of the emerging trend in the BI market towards what has recently been called 'BI 3.0.'" Using Oracle BPM Activity Guide APIs | Kavitha Srinivasanredstack.wordpress.comKavitha Srinivasan illustrates the use of the Activity Guide APIs to generate the data seen on the workspace Activity...

Thought for the Day "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture." — Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder Creating custom report templates with BI Publisher | Kyle Hatlestadblogs.oracle.com Kyle Hatlestad walks you through "a simple example of creating a new report template from scratch and then adding that template into WebCenter Content: Records." Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI | Daniel Amadeiwww.oracle.comThanks to its support for Mocking...

Development Debate Wrap-up; Large Scale Transformations; Creating Architecturewww.oracle.com Featured this week on the OTN Architect homepage, along with an updated events list, links to product downloads, and the usual collection of resources by and for software architects. Coherence Clustering Principles | David Felceyblogs.oracle.com"A Coherence environment consists of a number of components," says Felcey. In this post he describes how they work and explains some of the...

Five Fusion Middleware developers walk into... That may sound like the introduction to a joke, but in this case, those five Fusion Middleware developers walked into a collaborative project that resulted in the Oracle Service Bus 11g Cookbook, fresh off the presses from Packt Publishing. The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a conversation with those five Fusion Middleware experts (three of them members of the Oracle ACE program), in which they talk about why they...

Development Debate Wrap-up; Large Scale Transformations; Creating Architecturewww.oracle.com Featured this week on the OTN Architect homepage, along with an updated events list, links to product downloads, and the usual collection of resources by and for software architects. Webcast: Simplify Oracle RAC Deployment with Oracle VMevent.on24.com Tuesday March 20, 2012 - 9am PT / Noon ET Learn how you can: Deploy an Oracle (RAC) Database environment in minutes with Oracle VM...

Application-Driven Virtualization with Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder | Ronen Kofmanblogs.oracle.com Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder is now GA/ Ronen Kofman shares details. Is it security or privacy or both that we should think about? | Andy Mulhollandwww.capgemini.com"From one direction we see how businesses want to use clouds, mobility, big data and social tools to create new capabilities externally to do business in new interactive ways with customers," says Mulholland....

Are You a Member? | David Hope-Rossblogs.oracle.com Hope-Ross plugs "Are You a Member Yet," the International Oracle User Group's is a quarterly newsletter as a resource for finding the right user group to suit your needs and interests. Planning an IDM Build Out for Fusion Apps Part 1 – Discussion Topics | Brian Eidelmanfusionsecurity.blogspot.comEidelman begins a series of posts on planning an Oracle IDM build out for Fusion Apps with a discussion of several topics that...

Oracle Coherence: First Steps Using Clusters and Basic API Usage | Ricardo Ferreirablogs.oracle.com Ricardo Ferreira shares three videos created to "guide you in the process of creating a data grid cluster, managing data using both Java API and CohQL (Coherence Query Language) to finally test the reliability and fail over features of the product." What role does creativity play in the day-to-day work of IT architects?www.oracle.comGiven its sharp focus on designing practical...