Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Reza Shafii, senior principal product manager for Oracle Coherence and Oracle Fusion Middleware Lifecycle, got in touch to let me know that he and co-authors Stephen Lee and Gangadhar Konduri have just published Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management (Oracle Press). I asked Reza to suggest a sample chapter for members of the OTN architect community who might want to take the book out for a test drive. Reza picked Chapter 3: Fusion Middleware...

Rethink SOA - A Recipe for Business Transformation | SOA World Magazine "Imagine you had the ability to create an entirely new business offering," says Bruce Tierney, "unlike anything available from your competition..." Desktop Virtualization for Contact Centers at ICMI ACCE | Oracle's Virtualization Blog Chris Kawalek shares information on this week's ICMI ACCE Conferrence & Expo in the Big Easy. Challenges aired at Health Data Initiative Forum - O'Reilly Radar | Andy Oram"A...

Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens | John Mead Ritman Mead's John Mead shares his key take-aways from this recent Exadata-focused event. Enhance your business with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring | Capgemini "Within my latest project I had the opportunity to get acquainted with BAM," says Martijn van der Kamp,"and I’d like to share my enthusiasm about the product with you." Developing Custom Providers: HelloWorld and a Mail Provider | WebCenter PersonalizationCindy...

The trouble with APIs | Stuart Charlton "Charlton says: "The point of REST was to *eliminate* specific APIs. Not cause their proliferation." (A tip of the ArchBeat hat to William Vambenepe for sharing the link.) Chief Information Officers Council - IT Reform at the U.S. Agency for International Development "By moving to a cloud-based solution, USAID...expects to realize cost savings of nearly $20 million over the next five years." Using OIM 11g APIs in Fusion Web Applications |...

Glimpses of E-Business Suite 12.2: WebLogic Server and Online Patching | Steven Chan "There are lots of updates coming in this release," says Chan, "but from a technology stack perspective, EBS 12.2 will be notable for two things..." A first look at Oracle on Amazon RDS | Guy HarrisonHarrison says: "Using RDS, Amazon takes complete responsibility for database management providing a more complete Database As A Service (DBaaS) offering, similar to what Microsoft offers with...

Unhappy with the size of your brain? Tired of those behind-your-back whispers, those snarky comments: "How ya doin' dinky brain?" Now you can posses a massive, formidable brain, thanks to these new courses from Oracle University, specifically designed with architects in mind.  Oracle BPM 11/g/: Implement the Process ModelLearn how to define the underlying implementation for BPM process tasks such as user tasks, business rule tasks, and service tasks and how to manage the...

Setting-up Web-Tier Components in a SOA Environment | René van Wijk Oracle ACE René van Wijk sets up "Web-Tier components, i.e., the HTTP Server and WebCache, as a front-end for the Oracle SOA Suite." E2.0 Workbench Podcast 5 – WebCenter Image Gallery with Content Presenter | John Brunswick In this installment of the Enterprise 2.0 Workbench John Brunswick examines dynamic image gallery functionality within WebCenter. TOGAF Certification Success: More than 7,000 individuals...

Because it makes the customer happy | Lewis Cunningham"As an architect, I try very hard to make my customers happy," says Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham. "I have a wide range of customers, too. The business folks are my primary customer. They are why I, and my organization, exists. But the DBA group, the development group and the SCM/Testing/Quality groups are all my customers. I try to keep them happy by following best practices. discusses what architects and others...

Why KScope? | Cary Millsap Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap responds to a question from ODTUG's Mike Riley. Oracle Content Management: Deploying Content Services to the Enterprise | Ryan White Ryan White, VP of Business Development for DTI, offers suggestions for establishing standards for enterprise content management. Understanding ADF BC View Object Instances | Andrejus BaranovskisOracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovski explains "what you should know when using the same View...