Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

David Talamelli: Social Networking...How Much Talk About it is too Much "I think there is too much hype around Social Media/Networking at the moment - it is great everyone is finally coming around to using these tools, but there are too many "experts" saying the same thing as each other which I think is taking away some of value of what the real enthusiasts are using these tools for. How many webinars can I be invited to about using LinkedIn/Twitter for Recruiting -...

Lucas Jellema: SOA Suite 11g - Oracle BPEL Master and Detail process coordination "A BPEL process can communicatie with another BPEL process just like it can communicatie with any Web Service - as BPEL processes expose WebService interfaces to the world - or at least to their fellow components in the same Composite Application. When one process - the master in tis discussion - calls another one - it can have several types of interaction and dependency on that other process -...

Uli Bethke: Oracle Data Warehousing Books Just in time for holiday gift-giving, Uli Bethke offers reviews and recommendations on several books covering Oracle Data Warehousing. (tags: oralce datawarehousing books) Juliana Button: Building a SOA Solution with Oracle Fusion Middleware for Oracle E-Business Suite Juliana Button shares a list of links to #oow09 presentations that focus on using Oracle Fusion Middleware in an E-Business Suite environment. (tags: oracle otn oow09 fusionmiddl...

Mark Rittman: Six Weeks With an Amazon Kindle 2 "From an Oracle perspective, a surprising number of technical books are available for the Kindle. I bought Jonathan Lewis’ 'Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals,' for example, which does have a table of contents and actually works well on the format as it’s readable in a linear way but handy to have as a reference. Quite a few of the Apress and Oracle Press books are available on the Kindle, but watch out for pricing." -- Oracle ACE...

Todd Biske: Outside the Box » Blog Archive » Facebook for the Enterprise "In my opinion, viewing Facebook solely as a marketing/customer support channel is seriously limiting its use to an enterprise. The conversation should begin with an analysis of the communities that can be supported. Guess what? There’s a looming community with a very complicated social structure that exists within the walls of the company. Why can’t tools that are designed for enhancing communication and...