Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a three-part series recorded during the panel discussion conducted at OTN Architect Day in Phoeniz, AZ on December 14, 2011.  Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 These panel discussions are a fixture of the Architect Day events, and feature all speakers from all of the day's sessions.  The panel responds to questions from the audience, either submitted in writing, or, as you'll hear, shouted out during the discussion. The...

Today's Quote "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." Unknown Today's Links Virtual Developer Day: Oracle WebLogic Server 12c font-size: 10px; ">blogs.oracle.com Virtual Developer Days are such a huge hit, we just can't help ourselves. We'll be churning them out across 2012! Oracle Service Bus integration with Oracle Financials for message transformationsblogs.oracle.comOracle Service Bus integration with...

How to Build a Trusted Wisdom of the Crowd Model | Peter Reiser and Mike Briggsblogs.oracle.com "A key objective of a Social Enterprise strategy is to leverage the wisdom of the crowd to quickly find the right answers to question related to an enterprise business. This blog post describes a best practice called Onestop which was very successfully implemented at Sun Microsystems." Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum in Malaga, Spain (Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog)blo...

Oracle Technology Network Member Discountswww.oracle.com Registered OTN members can save big on books from Oracle Press, Manning, Packt, CRC, Pearson, Apress, Murach, and O'Reilly. Also, save up to 15% on purchases from the Oracle Store. Oracle 11.2.0.3 is now available for Exadata | Marc Fieldingwww.pythian.com Fielding shares his thoughts on "a few things that jumped out" at him in the recent upgrade document. Analyzing Interrupt Activity with DTrace | Tim Cookblogs.oracle.com...

Using DBWS to call PL/SQL APIs | Lonneke Dikmans Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans explains "how to setup DBWS in Eclipse so you can generate webservices based on PL/SQL APIs in your database." Oracle ADF - Storing temporary values in PageFlowScope created at Run time | Zeeshan Baig How-to from Oracle ACE Zeeshan Baig. The Art of Enterprise Architecture - Section 13 - The use of architects | Jörgen Dahlberg Jörgen Dahlberg continues his extensive series. InfoQ: Oracle Provider...

What’s in your architecture toolbox? By Bob Rhubart January/February 2012 It is said that there’s a tool for every job. But when that job is IT architecture, in all its permutations, the definition of tool can be a bit fuzzy. When I set out to get a sense of what community members consider the most important tool in their respective architectural toolboxes, I intentionally left the definition of tool open. I was curious to see how those who responded to my questions...

The ArchBeat blog and social media channels are going into hibernation for a few days as I take some vacation time over the holidays. I may not be able to resist the temptation to share a few links via Twitter and Facebook, but in general I plan to spend time with family and friends, read, play guitar, see a few movies, and just chill. But it'll be business as usual come Tuesday January 3, 2012.In the meantime, I want to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season, and a...

Is Software Architecture Creative? | Christine Miyachiabstractsoftware.blogspot.com"So while building architecture is obviously artistic and creative, software architecture must also be," says Miyachi. "What happens sometimes with buildings is that they are so creative, the architect misses the function of the building...In the field of software architecture, we strive to deliver functionality with a form that has the properties we desire over time – like maintainability,...

Data Storage for Extreme Use Cases: The Lay of the Land and a Peek at ODC | Ben Stopfordwww.BenStopford.com Ben Stopford shares slides and notes for his Advanced Database Course. Agile Data Warehousing with Exadata and OBIEE: Introduction | Stewart Brysonwww.rittmanmead.com The first in a series of blog posts in which Bryson will make his case for "an Agile approach to data warehousing using the combination of Extreme Performance and Extreme Metadata." OAM 11g - UCM Integration...