Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Mark Rittman: Inside the Oracle BI Server Part 1 : The BI Server Architecture Oracle A CE Director Mark Rittman offers a preview of the presentation he'll give at the BI Forum in Brighton (UK) in May. (tags: oracle otn oracleace businessintelligence) Setting Web Service and JCA Adapter Endpoints Dynamically in Oracle SOA Suite Simone Geib's step-by-step guide to handling dynamic endpoints in Oracle WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Oracle SOA Suite. (tags: oracle soa otn bpm weblogic)

Making Architecture Success Visible “Nobody notices us because we’re no longer in the way of moving on. We’re actually speeding stuff up, but they can’t see that it’s because of the architecture,” -- Lonneke Dikmans (tags: oracle otn entarch) @myfear: JVM 1.5 GC Tuning and WebLogic Server - Part II garbage collection algorithms Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele talks trash. (tags: otn oracle oracleace weblogic garbagecollection virtualization) @rsim: ActiveRecord Oracle enhanced adapter...

@oraclenerd: Connect to HP Neoview using Heterogenous Services Oracle ACE Chet Justice describes how he used his local Oracle instance to access an HP Neoview database. (tags: oracle otn oracleace datawarehousing) Robbrecht van Amerongen: Automatic testing Oracle Service Bus using Hudson, maven and SoapUI « AMIS Technology blog Amis Technology's Robbrecht van Amerongen illustrates how to use the soapUI to create automated SOAP tests for an Oracle Service Bus implementation. (tags: o...

James Taylor: Configuring MSSQL with SOA Suite Oracle Middleware blogger James Taylor takes you step-by-step through the process (tags: oracle otn soa soasuite) Blog: Configuring MSSQL with SOA Suite James Taylor takes you step-by-step through the process. (tags: oracle otn soa soasuite) Brenda Michelson: Enterprise Architecture in 140 Characters “The ultimate outcome of Enterprise Architecture is change-friendly capability delivery.” -- Brenda Michelson (tags: enterprisearchitecture)

Stephen Bennett: My Fear for the embrace of SOA and Cloud Computing "[My hope] that with all the limitless access to resources that Cloud Computing seems to offer, architects and developers do not make the same mistake I made and start to give architecture and design short thrift." (tags: cloud architecture soa)

Pat Shepherd: The Process Centric vs. Information Centric approach to SOA "The Info-centric approach...strives to make each operation ultra-self- sufficient because the services need to be built to handle pre- and post-conditions. I worry that this approach takes the idea of atomic operations to a whole new level and risks death by over-engineering." -- Pat Shepherd (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture soa) Code-Free Application Extensions and Integrations Sandeep Banerjie,...

The latest ArchBeat podcast  (part 1 | part 2)  is the result of an experiment. Not a big deal, but one that warrants an explanation… The programs in the Arch2Arch series feature panel discussions. The topics for the panel discussions are agreed on in advance, and the panelists for each discussion are selected on the basis of their expertise on the selected topic. But that’s really the extent of the preparation. I typically compose my questions for the panels only an hour or...

@vambenepe: Waiting for events (in Cloud APIs) "Events/alerts/notifications have been a central concept in IT management at least since the first SNMP trap was emitted, and probably even long before that. And yet they are curiously absent from all the Cloud management APIs/protocols. If you think that’s because “THE CLOUD CHANGES EVERYTHING” then you may have to think again." -- William Vambenepe (tags: oracle otn cloud) Data Tier Caching for SOA Performance Kiran Dattani, Milind...

Randy Heffner: Business Capability Architecture: Technology Strategy For Business Impact "Rather than centering on individual siloed applications, business architecture, at its best, centers conversation on the design of business outcomes and what it takes to achieve them. Within the realm of business architecture, models like business capability maps provide strong mechanisms for understanding and designing a business." Randy Heffner, Forrester Research (tags: enterprisearchit...