Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The Top 10 most-viewed items shared via my social networks for July 2012. The first IT Architecture Certification from Oracle University: Oracle IT Architecture Release 3 Essentials The first Oracle IT Architecture certification, Oracle IT Architecture Release 3 Essentials, is now in general availability from Oracle University. The certification covers the Oracle Reference Architecture material published under the IT Strategies from Oracle library and includes Oracle...

Help Design the New GlassFish T-shirt | The Aquarium If you're like me, you never, ever turn down a free t-shirt. But most of the shirts I get as conference swag end up as pajamas, or rags for polishing guitars. Only the coolest shirts make it out into the daylight on my back. I suspect that may be why Arun Gupta wants to give you a shot at producing the next GlassFish t-shirt. Get the details in this post from The Aquarium blog, and make sure you get your submission in...

White Paper: The Oracle Identity Management Platform: Identity Services at Internet Scale "In the context of a narrow scope, a point [IdM] solution may seem simpler, quicker, and cheaper," says Mike Neuenschwander. "But over time, the reactive approach proves economically and architecturally unsustainable." Book Review: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial What does Christian Berg think of the newly published book, Oracle Business...

The Top 10 items shared via my social networks for the week of July 22-28, 2012. Automation of Weblogic 11g Maven Plugin installation | Dmitry Nefedkin After repeating the process of manually installing the Oracle Weblogic Plugin for Apache Maven once too often, Dmitry Nefedkin had enough and automated the process. Get the how-to info in this blog post. Refreshing ADF Page Template from ADF Fragment Template | Andrejus BaranovskisAnother detailed technical how-to post from...

Thomas Erl on SOA, Cloud, and Service Technology - Part 1 SOA guru Thomas Erl talks about this year's SOA, Cloud, and Service Technology Symposium, which gets underway in London on Sept 25. Erl is joined in this conversation by Tim Hall and Demed L'Her, two Oracle product managers who are presenting at the Symposium. In part one of this four-part series, Erl, Hall, and L'Her talk about what set's this year's event apart. IOUG Virtualization SIG Call for Presentations | Kai Yu"T...

The fifth International SOA, Cloud, and Service Technology Symposium happens on September 24-25 in London. The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a four-part conversation with three people who are involved in that event. Making his third appearance on the ArchBeat podcast, Thomas Erl is the man behind the Symposium. He is a best-selling IT author and the founder of SOASchool.com and CloudSchool.com. Thomas has been the world's top-selling SOA author for over five years and...

Simple Custom JMX MBeans with WebLogic 12c and Spring | Frank Munz "Using the Spring framework bundled with WebLogic 12, the programming of JMX MBeans becomes as easy as writing a simple POJO within a web application," says author and 2011 Oracle Technologist of the Year Frank Munz. His blog post includes three informative videos that illustrate the process. Highly Available Infrastructure for Cloud Computing – A Guest Keynote at Oracle Architect Day by Kai Yu"High...

Quickly expand your private cloud with temporary nodes | Laurens van der Starre Laurens van der Starre shows you "how to temporarily convert those big development laptops into an Oracle VM Server node." Oracle Fusion Applications 11g : Startup and shutdown | Michel Schildmeijer"During the time I was busy building up an Oracle Fusion Applications Environment, I discovered that shutting down the eintire stack could be a time-consuming task," says Michel Schildmeijer. But there's...

Oracle content at SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium (and discount code!) Once you get past Jurgen Kress's jawbreaker of a post title, his post includes useful information on one of many sessions by Oracle community members at the upcoming SOA, Cloud, and Service Technology Symposium in London in September. The post also includes the Oracle discount code so you can save on registration for the event. Running Oracle VM Templates on Oracle Enterprise Linux guide (Part 1...