Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Bex Huff: Top 10 New Years Resolutions for ECM "A lot of folks are doing end-of-year predictions about what will happen in 2010 in the Enterprise Content Management universe. In general I'm not a huge fan of making predictions on the future of technology... the easiest way to predict the future of technology is to build it. " -- Oracle ACE Director Bex Huffs (tags: oracle otn oracleace enterprise2.0 ecm) John Minkjan: OBIEE PATCHES 10.1.3.4.1 part 2 John Minkjan's updated list of...

Oracle Magazine - Architect Community Column: Snowball Battles Hair Ball Oracle ACEs Basheer Khan (Innowave Technology) and Jordan Braunstein (Rolta TUSC) and Oracle Enterprise Architects Bob Covington and Hamza Jahangir share their thoughts on getting from bad architecture to good architecture in this article in the latest edition of Oracle Magazine. (tags: otn oracle oraclemagazine entarch enterprise architecture framework)

Upper Mismanagement,  Noam Schieber's article in The New Republic,  fixes some of the blame for the decline in American manufacturing on executives with backgrounds in finance. The article is chock-full of stuff that will resonate with enterprise architects and others in IT. For instance: [T]hese executives were frequently numb to the sorts of innovations that enable high-quality production at low cost. And there's this: The new managerial class tended to neglect...

Andrejus Baranovskis: Producing JSR 168 Portlets Directly From ADF Task Flows with Oracle WebCenter 11g Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis illustrates how to expose an ADF Task Flow as a portlet, and then consume that portlet from WebCenter 11g. (tags: otn oracle enterprise2.0 webcenter java)

Andrej Koelewijn: SOA Governance: implicit or explicit "Today, during a SOA workshop we had a discussion about governance. Most people see the need for Governance when applying SOA. Without governance your beautiful flexible architecture will soon evolve into SOA spaghetti..." -- Andrej Koelewijn (tags: oracle otn soa soagovernance) Mike van Alst on Oracle SOA Suite 11g (YouTube) Oracle ACE Director Mike van Alst from IT-Eye talks about his experience with Oracle SOA Suite 11g. (tags...

You may not be familiar with the Masons of SOA as a group. But if you're involved in service-oriented architecture, the chances are very good that one or more members of this international cabal of SOA experts is behind a book or article you've read, a conference session you've attended, or a podcast or webcast you've downloaded. In the latest Arch2Arch program you’ll meet the members of the Masons of SOA and learn about who they are, what they do, and why. Listen to Part 1 List...

David Allan: OWB 11gR2 – Change Data Capture Web Services Building on a post from Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman, David Allan illustrates the web services Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) exposes for Change Data Capture (CDC). (tags: oracle otn datawarehousing) New York Coherence SIG Meeting 1/14/10 Taylor Gautier (Grid Dynamics), Shaun Smith and Doug Clarke (Oracle TopLink Grid team ), and Noah Arliss (Oracle Coherence Incubator team) will be presenting.at the NYC Coherence SIG...

Lucas Jellema: SOA Suite 11g - introducing Mediator Java Callouts for debug, audit and … Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema illustrates "a simple example of creating a SOA Composite Application - the simplest one you can create...using the new 11g feature of Echo - with use of the Java Callout class." (tags: oracle otn oracleace soa soasuite java) Richard Veryard: Demanding Change: Getting the Big Picture "[Some believe that] enterprise architects have some special power to...

Writing in Fast Company, journalist Cliff Kuang   describes several high-profile architectural blunders (of the stone and steel variety). Kaung makes this observation: For all the money good architecture commands (the National Gallery cost half a billion to make--and will cost 85 million to fix), we want it to last forever, a monument to wealth, power, and genius. But they don't. Nothing we make really does, it's just buildings are vessels for so much emotion (and ego) that we...