Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

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...