Meta, Meta Everywhere

I had an interesting design epiphany last week. Ever since twitter.com made the avatar prominent, everyone building a stream has realized that attaching a face (or personal representation) to an artifact makes it easier to scan, consume and recall information. It makes sense. So, last week, someone on Connect had an issue with some analytics [...]

OSB – B2B Integration – EDIFACT

Usecase 1: OSB to use B2B for translating the EDIFACT XML document to native using the translation webservice exposed by B2B .   B2B Configuration   Oracle B2B 11g PS2 release has exposed webservices to translate XML document to Native document. This service needs an outbound agreement in B2B configured with appropriate document  targeted for [...]

GlassFish 3.0.1 – Oracle and Community Distributions Now Available

GlassFish 3.0.1 has been released and includes new support for additional platforms like JRockitm Oracle Enterprise Linux, and HP-UX, and more than 100 bugs fixed. Maven artifacts are available as well as multi-lingual distributions.

GlassFish 3.0.1 – Oracle and Community Distributions Now Available

GlassFish 3.0.1 has been released and includes new support for additional platforms like JRockitm Oracle Enterprise Linux, and HP-UX, and more than 100 bugs fixed. Maven artifacts are available as well as multi-lingual distributions.

How to debug source code of other application (jws)

In Jdeveloper, in the project property u can add the project source from other applications.Once done, you can see the artifacts included from other workspaces in your project, now you can just put debug points and do the rest.

Facebook Should Go Freemium

A lot of ink has been spilled lately about Facebook and its privacy changes. Some key people have deleted their accounts, and not one, but two so-called open projects have started. This is all noise. Even if all the people who rail against Facebook’s privacy changes, do actually quit (they won’t), that will only be [...]

The Minimalist Approach to Content Governance – Retire Phase

Good news – the Retire Phase is actually more fun than the Manage Phase. During the Retire Phase our content management team should not have to track down content creators if the Request Phase of this process was completed successfully. The ownership meta data, success criteria and time stamp that was applied to the original [...]

Generalizing the Cloud vs. SOA Governance debate

There have been some interesting discussions recently about the relationship between Cloud management and SOA management/governance (run-time and design-time). My only regret is that they are a bit too focused on determining winners and loosers rather than defining what victory looks like (a bit like arguing whether the smartphone is the triumph of the phone [...]

Content Platform Migration Strategy – Artifacts vs Perishable Content

Tremendous value and cost savings can be realized by rationalizing multiple, existing content repositories into a single platform. A mature, enterprise-caliber content management platform has the ability to maintain and govern all unstructured information across various systems from a secure, central location – reducing management costs and increasing the value of your existing content. The [...]

What’s the Best Way to Collect Ratings?

Photo by anne.oeldorfhirsch from Flickr used under Creative Commons YouTube published (h/t TechCrunch) an interesting graph of its video ratings earlier in the week. YouTube uses a five-star scale for rating videos, and according to them, rating a video one star means you “loathe” it, while rating a video five stars means you love it. [...]