Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Grumpy Architect week: There is more to services than re-use - Business-Driven Architect eBizQ Business-Driven Architect columnist Brenda Michelson questions "the paired notions that the sole reason to implement services (or not) is re-use potential, and that the main architectural aspect of SOA is governing said services for re-use." SOA, she says, "doesn’t begin and end with re-use potential and enforcement." Do you agree? (tags: soa reuse soagovernance) Exposing physical disks...

RESTful Services with Oracle Service Bus (SOA Thinker) SOA author Jeff Davies illustrates how easy it is to use Oracle Service Bus to call existing REST services, and to have OSB provide a REST interface to existing SOAP services. (tags: esb Middleware oracle rest servicebus soa webservices osb)

Web Services Support in Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Orace ACE architect Ronald van Luttikhuizen illustates the value-add Web Services development support in Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g in this step-by-step tutorial. (tags: weblogic eclipse java Middleware oracle otn soa webservices) Mastering SOA: SOA: Process driven, message driven or event driven? "For a long time I thought that SOA is process driven, meaning that the functional requirements were discovered by...

Tactical SOA Governance Processes. AKA, where to start? (SOA Governance@work) The collaboration between Oracle ACE Director Mike van Alst and Oracle SOA Governance team member Dave Berry continues with this post from Dave. (tags: otn community oracleace soa governance soagovernance) The Enterprise Implications of Google Wave | The AppsLab AppsLab's Rich Malang predicts Google Wave will become the glue code for the user experience. "It won’t replace existing back-end apps, but...

Ajay Patel and Bill Dettelback from the Oracle Application Grid product team did a very good and very substantive presentation at the OTN Architect Day event in NYC back in April. I’ve been hounding them since then to do an OTN Arch2Arch Podcast, and I’m happy to report that they’ve backed off on the threat of a restraining order and agreed to do the podcast. I’ll record that interview next week. But rather than come up with a set of questions on my own, I thought I’d toss...

Why an Application Grid? | SOA World Magazine "Much remains to be done at the application server layer," according to Adam Messinger and Mike Piech. "One area ripe for innovation is the ability for application server instances to work together to enable more rapid deployment of new applications and hardware while at the same time improving the utilization of underlying physical resources." (tags: grid soa applicationgrid) Oracle CEP at JavaOne (Oracle CEP Blog) Seth White provides...

The Software, Standards and Society in 2020 Series: 6. What if? (Trond's Opening Standard) The latest installment in Trond-Arne Undheim's ongoing series. (tags: technology standards software) How ONE Bad Business Process Doomed GM | Bex Huff "A friend of mine was on a flight a few years back with a Business Process Management (BPM) expert, who had done a lot of consulting for various car companies, " explains Bex Huff. "The fellow told an interesting tale about how one single bad...

All three segments of the OTN Arch2Arch Podcast interviews with Thomas Erl, David Chappell, and Clemens Utschig-Utschig are now available. In this series, the panelists discuss the role members of the Oracle community played in the creation and review of patterns featured in Erl’s recent book, SOA Design Patterns and on the book’s companion Web site SOAPatterns.org. The three interview segments are: Part 1 -  Pattern Recognition: Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns Part 2 -  SOA...

SOA World Expo: Improving the Efficiency of SOA-Based Applications | SOA World Magazine "Given that memory and storage are always increasing in the realm of enterprise computing, software needs to keep up with the pace," says Oracle's David Chappell. "We need to architect from the beginning using the proper approach toward achieving linear scalability with predictable latency." (tags: oracle otn soa xml) Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA: It's Dead, Jim! Burton's Anne Thomas...