Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Mastering SOA: Oracle Service Bus Explained "There's a lot of confusion towards the positioning of the Oracle Service Bus," says Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst. But in five short paragraphs Mike goes a long way toward clearing that confusion. (tags: servicebus fusionmiddleware oracle bea) Using Coherence as a Cache from a J2EE Web Application (Making Software Work) David Felcey gets down to the nuts and bolts of "how you should package your Web application so that it is a...

The Beginnings of Skynet (Insight-Driven Retailing Blog) "Computers have come a long way," observes David Dorf, "and many science fiction stories depict their continued maturation ultimatly leading to Skynet, HAL, WOPR, etc. The internet represents a seemingly inexhaustable source of data, but its just data. Powerful search engines working in harmony on grids can find that data in milliseconds, but that's where computers stop. Until now." (tags: skynet computers scifi data search wol...

Top 10 Components for Oracle UCM (Fusion ECM) Billy Cripe shares the list of "top 10 components for Oracle Universal Content Management" he presented as part of a talk at Collaborate09. (tags: ecm contentmanagement web2.0 enterprise 2.0) George F. Colony's Blog: The Counterintuitive CEO: How can CEOs understand social technologies? "You can't understand Twitter, Facebook, or blogging by reading an article in a magazine or a report from your CMO," says George Colony. "Sure, they can...

The final segment in the three-part discussion of SOA governance issues now available.  In SOA Governance – Getting it Wrong,  SOA author Todd Biske and Oracle SOA Governance experts Cathy Lippert (blog) and Sharon Fay wrap up their discussion of SOA Governance issues with a look at where most organizations get governance wrong. Listen. Missed the earlier programs? No problem: Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 About the panelists Cathy Lippert, Director of...

Blog: Identity Management Part I: Making friends with the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) for Oracle Application Server 10gR2 Ben Prusinski continues his series on Oracle Fusion Middleware technology with a focus on Oracle Application Server (10gAS). (tags: soa Middleware security oas)

Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight...: Employment Perks for Enterprise Architects James McGovern offers a revealing wish-list of career perks, distilled from conversations with real-life enterprise architects. (tags: enterprisearchitecture career) Creating a Consumer-Focused EA Forrester's Jeff Scott observes that in his years as a consultant he has never seen a framework that is truly focused on the Enterprise Architecture consumer, "the people that...

So much failure, so little architecture "How many times do we have to fail," wonders Mike (Mad Greek) Kavis, "before somebody wakes up and realizes that you can't just buy the next hyped up technology solution, pop in an install disk, and click next 15-20 times? Initiatives like BPM, SOA, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, and others require a well thought out plan that includes a heavy dose of good old fashion architecture. Why do so many IT...

Panelists Cathy Lippert, Sharon Fay, and special guest Todd Biske discuss the role of reuse in SOA, and explore the angles on how much emphasis effective SOA governance should place on reuse. Listen to part 1 (mp3) Listen to part 2 (mp3) Listen to part 3 (mp3) About the Panelists:   Cathy Lippert, Director of Product Management for SOA Governance at Oracle. Cathy is one of the visionaries behind the Flashline and BEA solutions that have evolved into what is now known as Oracle...

The 24/7 cable news reports on the Swine Flu pandemic had no apparent effect on attendance at OTN Architect Day in New York City on Wednesday. But for the crowd that turned out for the event, the temperature in the Grande Ballroom in the New Yorker Hotel posed a more immediate health threat. For reasons that remain a mystery, hotel staff had reduced the temperature in the vast, ornate ballroom to that of a beer cooler. The sound of my own teeth chattering made it difficult...