- Leveraging Governance to Sustain Enterprise Architecture Efforts | Eric Stephens
SOA, Cloud computing, Big Data, Mobile computing, BOYD and other factors are already rearranging the enterprise IT landscape in much the same way Godzilla rearranges Tokyo. The potential for these technologies is incredible. But with each new technological innovation, "it is critical to reevaluate relevant EA governance," says Eric Stephens. "Otherwise, the architectural fragmentation that exists with legacy technology will manifest itself by an order of magnitude with newer generations of technology." More insight from Eric in this white paper. - Getting Oracle artifacts into a Maven environment | Mark Nelson
"Maven provides the ability to load any artifact into a Maven repository and to give it a set of coordinates," says Fusion Middleware A-Team blogger Mark Nelson. "This means that you can easily add the Oracle provided artifacts to your own Maven repository, or to a shared repository in your environment (e.g. a Maven Repository Manager)." - AIA Tips & Tricks Series (2): Preventing from Exceptions with Very Large Audit Trails in AIA/SOA 11g | Stefan Koser
Like blog posts that are short, technical, and to the point? You're going love this one from Stefan Koser.
Thought for the Day
"At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice. Disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it."
— G. L. Glegg
Source: SoftwareQuotes.com