Increasing conversion rates in an ever-more competitive e-commerce environment is critical to ensuring success in a fragmented and global e-commerce landscape.
"Rather than using the deploy step in a Hudson FreeStyle project, we need to add a normal build step at the end of the chain to handle the WebLogic deployment," says Mills. "Now as it happens, this is pretty easy to do."
Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen explores the similarities between real-world enterprise SOA development and doing a live demonstration of enterprise SOA development in front of an audience at UKOUG.
"Are you writing a BPEL process and want to get the ECID for the process instance for some reason? Maybe you're building a homebrew tracking mechanism or something. Maybe you want to write it to the database for later reference."
Security concerns are the number one barrier to cloud services adoption. How do we evaluate a vendor's solution? What is an optimal security architecture? What are consumer versus provider responsibilities? What are industry standard patterns in this regard? This article by Subra Kumaraswamy answers some of these questions.
Testing is an important means to obtain information about implementations. Likewise, code reviews help to keep the code quality high. What is very common for code, gets sometimes neglected for software architecture. But how can a project team test the architecture itself?