Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

I recently learned that Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst is collaborating on a new SOA Governance article with Dave Berry  from the Oracle SOA Governance team. Even better: Mike and Dave are using their respective blogs to flesh out the article, so you can follow along as they toss ideas around. The discussion starts with Dave’s post, Point to Point = SOA, Huh? and continues with Mike’s post, My Take on SOA Governance: People, Process, and Tools, which, as of yesterday,...

Failure to implement and adhere to SOA Governance Guest blogger Mervin Chang of Leonardo Consulting steps into the Red Room to discuss the importance of understanding the SOA ecosystem in implementing effective SOA governance. (tags: soa soagovernance) Implementing Multiple web service operations using a single BPEL project Sudheer Dhurjati uses four mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) to illustrate how to build a web service that has four...

Analyst: Getting Grounded in the Cloud "Clearly there is some loss of control associated with cloud services and with outsourcing in general. You have to be willing to let somebody else be the custodian of your data. In some cases, companies are putting their intellectual property out there in the cloud. In response, service-level agreements [SLAs] and user license agreements have become much more systematized and granular. They permit CIOs to buy into multiple levels of...

The Software, Standards and Society in 2020 Series: 3. The Messy Globalization of Standards (Trond's Opening Standard) "Some of the people who are currently have a role in managing the system of standards at various levels, appear stuck in their old institutions," writes Trond-Arne Undheim, "insisting their processes, charters, or mandates should not change. Some defend their fossilized quarters as if they would provide more than temporary shelter from the relentless logic of...

Understanding Innovation (Virtual Identity Dialogue) This fascinating post by Mark Wilcox weaves TinyUrl, coffee, the Bacon and Cheese McGriddle, and badger-hunting dacshunds into a concise, coherent explanation of how imitation breeds innovation. (tags: innovation) Using Oracle Enterprise Linux with SOA Suite 10.1.3 (Antony Reynolds' Blog) Antony Reynolds to the rescue with a quick but useful tip for those who may have hit a snag while installing Oracle SOA Suite. (tags: soa linux...

Just got word that Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst (an architect with IT-Eye in the Netherlands) and Dave Berry (a Redwood Shores-based senior manager on Oracle’s SOA Governance team) are collaborating on an article on SOA governance that should see the light of day this summer.  That collaboration is interesting in itself, but the best part is that Mike and Dave are using their respective blogs as a collaboration space, so readers will be able to follow along as...

The Underground Oracle VM Manual | ITNewsCast Everything you ever wanted to know about Oracle VM, but were afraid to ask. Roddy Rodstein covers it all, from an introductory overview to details on Dom0, DomU, and more. (tags: virtualization oraclevm linux roddyrodstein) Book Review: Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL (Olaf Heimburger's Blog) "Compared to the UML books on my book-shelf, " says Olaf Heimburger, "this one is a refreshingly small [and easy to...