Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

As a former BEA Arch2Arch blogger, I am selectively migrating posts from my old blog to this shiny new one. I'm using Live Writer to do this, which allows me to assign the original publication dates when republishing old posts. This is an effort to organize these old posts and provide some context.  Where necessary, these republished posts have been revised to update product names and other information that may have been affected by Oracle's acquisition of BEA.  Any such...

SearchSOA.com editor-in-chief Michael  Meehan blogs on recent Burton Group research on SOA adoption: According to Burton Group vice president and research director Anne Thomas Manes, some users had executed nearly perfectly in terms of doing SOA on the IT side, but the initiative had yielded no increased agility, quicker time to market or project savings because the business remained completely oblivious to the initiative. Yet the study also found that users who do break...

In the last couple of days I have responded to several emails from Oracle-acquired BEA people who noticed that this blog is now live, and want to set up their own OTN blogs. In the hope that I can head off any more such messages, here's what you have to do: Go to blogs.oracle.com Click Sign In Click Activate my account (in the New to blogs.oracle section) Complete and submit the form. You will be notified by email when your account is activated. Then... Repeat Steps 1 and 2. Click R...

After a very long wait I've finally been able to set up my OTN blog. Still tweaking the layout and widgets, but I'm in business, baby.

If you're a D2D/A2A blogger and you've been using Windows Live Writer to compose and manage your posts, migrating old posts to a new blog can be a heck of a lot easier than, say, removing your own tonsils. This is especially useful if other means of migration are unavailable. For the uninitiated, Live Writer can be configured to work with multiple blogs on multiple platforms. This allows you to very easily cross-post, that is, publish a single post to multiple blogs. That...

Part of the SOA Governance @ Work Series To describe security as an important part of SOA Governance is bit like describing water as an important part of the lives of fish, which is to say, it's an obvious point. Like everything else in SOA governance, security is a multifaceted issue. But SOA security boils down to knowing the answer to one simple question: Who is using your stuff?  Each service deployed within your SOA represents a significant investment, and significant...

In an article in the March 10, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal, (How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential) authors Amit Basu and Chip Jarnagin describe how "top executives at most companies fail to recognize the value of IT."  Among the various risks the authors address, one stands out: CEOs who use obsolete metrics such as head count or benchmarking the competition to decide on the role and evaluate the performance of IT in their companies run the risk of being blindsided by...

In SOA Spending Up, So Where is the Value?, Dave Linthicum makes an interesting point about the value of reuse in the overall SOA picture:  The core issue is that reuse, as a notion, is not core to the value of SOA…never has, never will. Not that you won't achieve reuse, and that there is benefit, but that the value of agility, or creating an architecture that's changeable around the needs of the business is far more valuable than any services you can share. Dave's post drew...

In yesterday's post I mentioned experiencing some confusion about a point David Linthicum made in his post Too Much Focus on SOA Governance…Not Enough on Architecture. In a post today, David offers this clarification: SOA governance is indeed a part of SOA, just as governance is a part of enterprise architecture. In my way of thinking I'm really morphing all of those things together, in essence defining SOA as architecture, and architecture as holistic to the enterprise. SOA...