Ian Glazer recently blogged about federated provisioning, saying "Federated provisioning should not exist; there is only provisioning.". Well, I think he’s both right and wrong about this. Let me explain.
Suppose two companies, Acme and Omega enter into a federation agreement, whereby employees of Acme will be able to access a service at Omega using their [...]
One of the big buzzwords this past month or so has been "Identity Assurance". Liberty Alliance made a big push for the Identity Assurance Framework (IAF)at DIDW last month, conducting a number of sessions/workshops introducing it to the masses. Our old friend Frank Villavicencio, who is a co-chair of the IAEG, was a star [...]
“Oracle Business Rules makes processes and applications more flexible by enabling business analysts and non-developers to
easily define and modify business logic without programming.” That is a nice blurb on what it does straight from the web site. When working with Siebel you use Oracle Business Rules (OBR) for your integration work. While you [...]
Today sees not only the official launch of SOA Suite 11g but also the availability of the software. You can download it all now from OTN. Downloads are available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX. You will need the following to develop and run 11g SOA Suite applications.
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g R1 (with or without [...]
Things can get strange over time. While waiting for the release of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the OTN Forums never stopped asking for ways to learn Oracle SOA Suite. Although the product documentation is huge and could occupy many MBs of your hard disk drive, it still is a difficult read and it never [...]
We recently delivered a talk at Parc (no longer Xerox Parc), where we talked about the implications of the web 2.0 trends in the enterprise. We also recently invited two of Parc’s prominent researchers, Stu Card and Pete Pirolli for a brown bag at Oracle, so here is the double reason for the post.The most [...]
ADF Business Components have a method isAttributeChanged available in Entity Objects that returns true if the the attribute has been changed since it was obtained from the Database. This method can cause a problem when used in business rules that are triggered at Commit time, or in business rules that only apply when the attribute [...]
Oracle ADF Business Components 11g has many new features for declarative
business rules, allowing a “Java By Exception” approach. When can and should you use these declarative features,
and when and how should you use Java to implement business rules in ADF
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Oracle ADF Business Components 11g has many new features for declarative
business rules, allowing a “Java By Exception” approach. When can and should you use these declarative features,
and when and how should you use Java to implement business rules in ADF
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After threatening for years to start a blog Martin Widlake has finally put fingers to keyboard. Some of you may recall that I am a fan of his UKOUG presentations. His writing is entertaining and insightful too. Despite his blog being called Yet Another OracleBlog he has not written much on Oracle, [...]