Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Thanks to community input and collaboration on the Architect Roundtable group on Oracle Mix, the first of an ongoing series of Architect Roundtable podcasts is now available. The first program in the series is part one of my two-part discussion with Oracle ACE Eddie Awad and Oracle Sr. Prinicipal Product Manager and author Jeff Davies. The topic is architects and communication, a discussion that grew out of posts on Eddie and Jeff's respective blogs. Part two of that...

Aide-mémoire: Psychology of why reuse fails - courtesy of GeekAndPoke Kate Carruthers writes, "Within companies there is often little trust between departments and an unwillingness to rely upon things that other people have built." (tags: soa reuse) The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "SOA is all about making the business more adaptable to change. Why is this an issue? Because the processes and systems we have to support us are so rigid, so slow,...

Recent blog posts by David Chappell and Jürgen Kress include links to a number of SOA design patterns authored by members of the greater Oracle community, including a number of ACEs. These patterns are included in SOA guru Thomas Erl's new book, the aptly titled SOA Design Patterns. To save wear and tear on your mouse-clinking appendages, I've included links to those patterns below: Service Grid In Memory Fault Tolerant Collection In Memory Fault Tolerant Stateful Services Load...

Response to the first OTN Architect Day event scheduled for Feb 4th in in Boston has been spectacular. If you have not yet registered for this event, you still have a shot at getting on the waiting list for seats.The updated list of presenters/speakers for the Boston event include Dr. Paul Dorsey, Cliff Booth, Cameron Purdy, Bob Hensle, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Anbu Krishnaswamy, Bennett Hirschhorn, and Stephen Bennet. Topics to be discussed include Agile and SOA,...

Cloud Computing Viewpoint: Cloud Services Need Strong Governance | Cloud Computing Journal James G. Kobielus writes, "SOA governance is maturing as a discipline, while cloud computing—the new galaxy in which services will burst forth—is anything but. Unfortunately, the cloud arena may continue to evolve so fast over the next several years that it will be difficult for consensus service-governance practices to coalesce. Still, emerging cloud services can benefit from the...

Back to SOA business |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld Davind Linthicum says, "SOA is nothing more than an approach to architecture, and most enterprise architectures are still badly broken. We can sit around and talk about how complex and tough this is going to be to fix, perhaps quit, or get to work on even the smallest effort to move the ball forward." (tags: soa architecture davidlinthicum) Mobile Internet To Grow Rapidly By 2010 -- Cell Phones Internet...

In a blogulous debate with Bex Huff about certification, Dan Norris shares the following anecdote: I recently attended a social networking gathering where I met an executive from the "most recognized" certification company in the US (their own claim). Anyway, he informed me that the last 6 months have been among the best they've ever had. He said that when people start getting laid off, they look for a tune-up and some way to make themselves more marketable....

The Changing Face of Open Source (SOA Thinker) "One of the great things about getting older is that you already know a lot and don't have to spend as much time learning new things, " says Jeff Davies. "One of the drawbacks of getting older is that many of the things you thought you knew have changed. Open source technologies are no exception. Much has changed since 2000." (tags: soa java opensource swing)

It's such a strange time that we're passing through I thought you'd tell me when your time was due From Roll Away the Stone, by Leon Russell  Writing on his Thinkovation blog, Gary Barnett has condensed his thoughts on the SOA is Dead flap to a set of insightful bullet points:   Saying “SOA is Dead” is as meaningful as saying “Art is dead” It is either misleading or foolish (or both) to state that SOA is dead Giving up on architecture just because it’s a “chore” is the road to...