Portal and WebCenter: How to choose?

Over the past few months, this question seems to keep coming up.  So I figured that I’d spend a little time time discussing targets for the two products.  Then in the future, I can lay out directions.  The important point for everyone to understand is that both Portal and WebCenter have a large set of [...]

Oracle WebCenter Suite Available for Download

Oracle WebCenter Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, combines the standards-based, declarative development of JavaServer Faces, the flexibility and power of portlets and runtime customization, and a set of integrated Web 2.0 services for developing context-centric, composite applications. Oracle WebCenter Suite offers the following key features: Enhanced support for standards-based portlet creation Expanded portlet [...]

Blog: Deploy SOA Suite 11g Composite Applications with Ant Scripts

Oracle ACE Edmund Biemond illustrates how to deploy composite applications in Oracle SOA Suite 11g using Ant scripts. Link to the original site

The future (2006 version), has arrived

Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation: SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike, the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to [...]

Cost Effective Management of Composite SOA Applications

Hear Glen Hawkins, Principal Product Manager – Oracle SOA Management (formerly from ClearApp) talk to Jyothi Swaroop, Product Marketing Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware, about how Oracle’s recent acquisition ClearApp adds tremendous value to Oracle’s SOA Governance and Management portfolio. Learn how Oracle CAMM facilitates automated modeling, monitoring and management across composite SOA applications thereby increasing [...]

Oracle Middleware Strategy Update: Oracle WebCenter Suite

Learn about Oracle’s new approach to Enterprise 2.0 and how it promotes information worker productivity based on highly interactive tools like wikis, blogs and mashups. Vice President of Product Management Vince Casarez describes Oracles’ new product Oracle WebCenter Suite that both supports the rapid development of out-of-the-box, community based portals and the creation of highly [...]

Techtarget Survey: SOA Still on the Rise

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 [...]

New JD Edwards Best Practice Center

Come here to start creating SOA with your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications. “Best Practices” are offered for how to service-enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Business Services, and then build integrations, business processes and composite applications using Fusion Middleware technology. Link to the original site

Oracle Unveils Oracle® SOA Suite 11g

Oracle Press Release Oracle Unveils Oracle® SOA Suite 11g Complete, Integrated and Hot-Pluggable Service-Oriented Architecture Platform for Building Flexible, Cost-Effective IT Infrastructures Washington, D.C. – July 1, 2009 News Facts As part of today’s Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle® Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite 11g, which helps customers and [...]

Oracle Unveils Oracle® WebCenter Suite 11g

Oracle Press Release Oracle Unveils Oracle® WebCenter Suite 11g Modern Enterprise Portal Platform Delivers Expanded Enterprise 2.0 and Social Computing Solutions for Business Users and IT Washington, D.C. – July 1, 2009 News Facts As part of today’s Oracle® Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, a modern [...]