Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

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...