Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Architects cover a lot of territory, from high-level, big-picture issues to the nuts-and-bolts of various products and technologies. This list of the Top 10 most popular OTN articles from 2012 reflects those varied interests. This is what you were reading in 2012: How To Configure Browser-based SSO with Kerberos/SPNEGO and Oracle WebLogic Serverby Abhijit Patil[Published May 2012]Oracle WebLogic Server offers a complete solution for single sign-on with Microsoft clients using...

The annual Oracle Excellence Awards include the Oracle Magazine Technologist of the Year Awards, which recognize "individuals in key roles for their extraordinary efforts and contributions to enterprise technology solutions." We're talking architects here, people! So here's a year-end tip of the ArchBeat hat to the 2012 winners: Technologist of the Year: Virtualization Architect Steve Bartholomew, Enterprise Architect, Verizon Technologist of the Year: Enterprise ArchitectArup...

Because you are desperate to know! Here are the Top 10 most popular @OTNArcBeat Tweets for December 2012.  Retrieve Performance Data from SOA Infrastructure Database | A-Team - SOA Dec 05, 2012 at 08:33 AM Using BPEL Performance Statistics to Diagnose Performance Bottlenecks | A-Team - SOA Dec 05, 2012 at 08:24 AM Configure Oracle SOA JMSAdatper to Work with WLS JMS Topics | A-Team - SOA Dec 05, 2012 at 08:28 AM The OTNArchBeat Daily is out! Top stories today via @orafaq...

Happy New Year! Now that your holiday hangover has had a chance to subside, try to get your eyes to focus on this list of the Top 10 most popular items shared on the OTN ArchBeat Facebook page for the month of December 2012. WebCenter Content Web Search Performance: Do you really need that folder path info? | Nicolas MontoyaOracle Fusion Middleware A-Team member Nicolas Montoya shares a technical tip for putting the pedal to the metal for search operations in the Oracle...

It’s time to revive the conversation about IT governance. By Bob Rhubart January/February 2013 IT governance is a touchy subject. Few architects would argue the importance of at least some form of governance, so why did five minutes of research on Google Trends confirm that interest in IT governance has steadily declined since 2004? After all, enterprise IT certainly hasn’t gotten any less complex in the last eight or nine years, especially given the growing influence of cloud...

Next week things will be relatively quiet here on the ArchBeat blog as I take some time off to spend time to enjoy the holidays with family and friends. But before I begin my holiday break I want to extend my sincere wish that you and yours enjoy a safe and happy holiday season and a healthy and prosperous new year. And with that, here's the final Thought for the Day for 2012: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." — Jimi Hendrix(Novembe...

Focus On the Community: Ben Stopford Oracle Coherence team member Rob Misek posted this brief but well-deserved profile of architect and Coherence expert Ben Stopford. If you're looking for content covering Coherence, Ben's blog is a gold mine. Oracle APEX on AWS | Tom Laszewski Want to move a Powerbuilder/Oracle/on premise application to APEX/Oracle/AWS? Tom Laszewski points you to some detailed information. Rules and Best Practices for JSF Component Binding in ADF | Steven...

SCA Composites: Java or BPEL? | Lonneke Dikmans Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans shares insight gained in moving a composite service from Oracle Service Bus to BPEL. "Moving the Java from OSB to the Spring context was very easy," she says. Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: More on Upstart | Chris JohnsonOracle Fusion Middleware A-Team Architect Chris Johnson published a couple of posts on UIpstart. But his readers wanted more. "More explanation, more clarity, and more...

It takes a special kind of IT pro to risk additional carpal tunnel damage to pound out a technical article after spending the day wrestling with a keyboard in dealing with other duties. That kind of dedication is noteworthy, even more so if people actually take the time to read the resulting article. So if you know any of the authors listed below, skip the handshake and give them a congratulatory slap on the back for all that time spent torturing their tendons. Their hard...