Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

At 5:00 a.m. on any given morning, I'm in bed, curled into the fetal position, snoring slightly, and maybe drooling a little, with two hours to go before I rain down the first of a series of blows on my clock radio's snooze button. Not so with ORCLVille's Floyd Teter. Five a.m.  yesterday found Floyd on a train platform, with brain fully engaged, drawing an intellectual dotted line to connect the Oracle" Excellence Awards, globalization, Thomas Friedman, and the future of enterprise software... [M]aybe one of the big value propositions for enterprise apps should be the ability to support the decomposition and distribution of work at increasingly lower levels of granularity. This could be a very appealing business proposition to global enterprises (and, when it comes down to it, aren't we all global enterprises?). I see the potential for this type of thing with Fusion Middleware, especially BPEL and composite apps. Don't see it so much in the packaged apps world, although Fusion Apps may eventually represent an incremental move in that direction. You can follow Floyd's train of thought in his post: ORCLville: Globalization at 5 a.m. Maybe I should start getting up earlier...   Technorati Tags: OTN,Oracle,globalization,fusion middleware,Oracle Excellence Awards

In SOA Without the S, Part I: Reusable Applications, Avrom Roy-Faderman suggests removing services from the SOA equation: ADF 11g allows you to package up an application, containing business components, page fragments, and a bounded task flow, into a JAR file that can then be used by other applications. This is really, seriously, a big deal for people who like the idea of SOA but aren’t quite sure it’s worth it for their business case. Get the rest of the story: Avrom’s Java EE...

Jan Kettenis (Confessions of a Software Developer) has published the third post in his series About Business Processes, Use Cases & SOA: This posting is a follow-up on a previous posting in which I explained business process models can be drilled down to user-goal level use cases and how to do service discovery based upon process models.In this third posting, I will show how the requirements that have been captured so far, can be transformed into an analysis model that will...

Architect ACE Alex Gorbachev  announced on Friday on his Pythian Group blog that he'll be presenting Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. According to the OOW site, Alex's session is scheduled for 1:00pm - 2:30pm on Sunday 9/21/08 in Room 2002 in Moscone West. Read Alex's post: Alex Gorbachev at Oracle Open World 2008: Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware   Technorati Tags: OTN,Oracle,clusterware,OpenWorld,Oracle ACE,architect community

 Yesterday's post dealt with the relationship between architects and developers, and how that relationship can have an impact on the success of development projects.  Today I found a not-so-recent post on Bex Huff's blog that hits on a highly relevant factor. Bex says: A few weeks ago I gave a talk about Communication For Geeks at the Minneapolis MinneBar conference. I strongly believe that the majority of software failures are communication failures, and if geeks want to be...

I ran across UK-based site called Coding the Architecture that includes Mind the gap, an article that explores the relationship between developers and architects, and the perceived role of the architect:   Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software architect role, with many organisations dismissing it because of their negative experiences of architects that dictate from "ivory towers" and aren't engaged with the actual task of building working software. This...

Given the migration of a sizable herd of BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch bloggers, I thought I'd reuse (that is, steal) an idea from Jake over at AppsLab and set up a game of blog tag as way to introduce those bloggers to the OTN community. Here's how Jake explained his version back in January: [T]he construct is simple, I will throw out eight things you might not know about me, then tag eight other bloggers. They will blog eight not-so-obvious things about themselves, then each tag...

A few days ago I referenced Mary Beijleveld's post on the Approach Alliance blog, in which she offers a high-level explanation of IT architecture by comparing it to building architecture. Rajesh Raheja's recent post on The Official AIA Blog takes the shopworn Lego(tm) metaphor for SOA to task, and in the process provides an excellent drill-down that perfectly complements Mary's post: Let’s put this in the perspective of SOA technologies. The general contractor is a BPEL Proces...

There's architecture, and then there's architecture. A July 23rd post on the AMIS Technology blog offers some spot-on  observations on the role user experience plays in IT architecture that gets beyond commodity to real competitive differentiation and value: Experience economy products put high demands on these non-functional requirements. Many vendors are able to produce MP3 players. These players all do the same; you can play music on them. The functionality of products can...