Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

Associative Arrays 101 | Lewis Cunninghamit.toolbox.com Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham shares an example. Difference between GlassFish Open Source and Commercial Editions | Arun Guptablogs.oracle.com Arun Gupta explains it all. Creating a Web Service Proxy in ADF to Consume a Web Service | Mark Pillerblogs.oracle.com"There is more than one way to design your ADF application to consume web services," says Pillar. "One example is to use the ADF wizards to create data...

The Architect Community column in the November/December 2011 issue of Oracle Magazine focused on why IT architects are often subject to disrespect and disregard from development teams. Given the title of the article -- Out of the Tower; Into the Trenches -- I wasn't at all surprised that several readers took the time to email their comments to the magazine's editors. Those readers were kind enough to grant permission to post their comments here. One of those readers is Zoran...

Case Study: Igloo's Move to a Virtualized Sun SPARC/Solaris platformwww.oracle.com An overview, with diagrams, of how Igloo's move to a virtualized Sun SPARC/Solaris platform "literally opened the floodgates in terms of capacity and flexibility." The Scoop on WebCenter Evangelism | The AppsLabtheappslab.com"WebCenter has undergone a metamorphosis recently, and it now encompasses a much larger set of capabilities than it did years ago when I first joined the team," says Jake...

This week the OTN ArchBeat Podcast kicks off a wide-ranging, three-part conversation with members of the product team behind Oracle WebLogic Server 12c. Topics covered include community involvment in the development of WebLogic 12c, an exploration of the relationship between Weblogic 12c and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, plus a look at WebLogic 12c’s role in the evolution of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 Representing the...

The following OTN Architect Day Phoenix presentations are now available on Slideshare. Engineered Systems: Oracle's Vision for the Future | Ralf DossmannOracle's Exadata and Exalogic are impressive products in their own right. But working in combination they deliver unparalleled transaction processing performance with up to a 30x increase over existing legacy systems, with the lowest cost of ownership over a 3 or 5 year basis than any other hardware. In this session...

New WebCenter Portal Releases Now Available | Kellsey Ruppelblogs.oracle.com Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.3 is a full feature-bearing release of WebCenter Interaction that contains significant enhancements to social networking, tagging and other social and collaboration features. WCI 10.3.3 further expands the list of supported platforms and 3rd party software to include both 32bit and 64bit Intel platforms and latest releases of Oracle and Microsoft databases. SOA paves...

Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin’ Architects! | Michael Stiefelwww.infoq.com Michael Stiefel attempts to clear up some misunderstandings regarding the role played by the software architect. Is GoldenGate the golden gate? | Michael S. Abbeywww.pythian.com "Only time will tell," says Abbey. "I for one would look forward to the opportunity to get my hands dirty with this technology..." Oracle JRockit Mission Control 4.1 released | Markus Eiseleblog.eisele.net"The 4.1 version...