Wow – what a blast, the so called “Pope of ESB” (according to one of our customers) joined Oracle last week – see here. Being back from 4 weeks in Europe to give training, help customers, as well as speak at several conferences – I met Dave yesterday first time as oracle employee at java [...]
Evening Networking Event event in just 2 days! Hi Folks, This Thursday night, 23-Jul-2009 5:30 PM EDT – 9:00 PM EDT, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on the subject of the viability of selling SOA to the business. Other esteemed panelists include Anne Thomas Manes, Dana Gardner, Brenda Michaelson, Sandy Rogers, and of [...]
Today is the day we officially launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Fusion Middleware 11gR1 is the result of a herculean effort that is 3+ years in the making. The major areas of investment have been – – The completion of the integration between Oracle and BEA products into unified suites. This matches to the month [...]
Hey all! Mark your calendar and plan to attend the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch event in Washington, D.C.,on July 1. Join Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian to see Oracle’s Fusion Middleware in action. Click here to register. If you’re outside of the US, and you can’t make it [...]
Oracle is announcing the call for submissions for the 2009 Oracle Excellence Awards for application grid solutions. This award is designed to recognize organizations using Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies to create an application grid foundation. Does your company use Oracle Fusion Middleware application grid products such as Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Coherence, and/or [...]
Come check out my talk at JavaOne this week on Wed at 11:05. Its entitled – “XTP: Patterns for Scaling SOA, WOA, and REST Predictably with a Java(TM) Technology-Based Data Grid (TS-5154)” Here is an excerpt from the session abstract – This session highlights specific patterns that take advantage of distributed Java™ platform agent-based caching [...]
An article that I co-authored, which highlites the use of large XML documents in a SOA using Application Grid,has just been published online in SOA Journal. The article includes a downloadable example that shows how to use JAXB and a streaming STAX parser to break up large XML documents and store them in an application [...]
I recently did an interview along with co-author’s Thomas Erl and Clemens Utschig-Utschig regarding the SOA Design Patterns book that we recently published. The interview is located here as a podcast. If you can get past the first couple of of minutes of us patting each other on the back we talk about the patterns [...]
SOA growth and change: TechTarget survey shows SaaS, BPM emerging According to a writeup on a recent survey from SearchSOA/Techtarget, SOA is growing strong at the enterprise level, as evidenced by this excerpt – Despite some bad press of SOA at the start of the year, SOA is in fact motoring forward. Among the survey [...]
Every time I go to visit a customer to talk about SOA I inevitably get asked for my opinion on how they are faring with regard to other companies adopting SOA. Getting peer validation is common human nature and seems even more common in IT. In 2009 a lot has changed – the economy is [...]