Oracle Magazine May-June 2005 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Modern Design By Alan Joch A chief benefit of a service-oriented architecture lies in its ability to provide new computing resources in a resource-constrained world, by allowing developers to think of applications in a modular way. Constructing applications in this way requires a new way of thinking about application engineering and development. Here's advice from Oracle technologists who've made the leap to this modern design. Tuning in to RFID By David A. Kelly If you think RFID and sensor-based services are just a replacement for bar codes, think again. RFID has the capability to more closely link the physical and information worlds by enabling the collection of large amounts of data about inventories, goods, and other items. But what happens once that information has been collected? That's where data management comes in.

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From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Developer Recap By Jeff Spicer A lot has happened in the world of Oracle and development in the past year. AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. OTN Community Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News Oracle launches Oracle Fusion, a new service-oriented architecture for delivering more adaptive, cost-effective applications. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Peer-to-Peer Vladimir Zelinski, Sam Khopkar, and Kenny Smith Partner News BearingPoint, EMC Centera, Kofax, Popkin, Inter Access, AeroScout, Capgemini, CSC, Deloitte, EnvironMax, InfoLogix, Intel, Intermec, R4 Global Solutions, Symbol Technologies, Y3 Technologies, Zebra Technologies International

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STANDARD Picturing Program Design By Kelli Wiseth UML offers standard notation for modeling complex systems. TALKING TUNING Segments Shrink By Kimberly Floss Shrink segments online and in real time. SQL Filter Data Before You Get It By Jonathan Gennick Oracle Expression Filter lets you describe the data that will be important. PL/SQL Picking Your Packages By Steven Feuerstein Know when—and when not—to package your PL/SQL. DBA Creating Team Speed By Sanjay Mishra Use parallel execution to field a team for big processes. XML EXCHANGE Getting to XML By Sean Dillon Oracle XML DB Repository provides new ways into XML. ASK TOM On Favorites and CONNECT BY By Tom Kyte Our technologist picks, expands, loads, and dates. INSIDE OCP New Ways to Flash Back By Aradhana Puri More Oracle Flashback concepts and sample questions

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Working with Data By Steve Muench Using Oracle ADF to query, update, and publish data MAPVIEWER Fact-Finding with MapViewer By Liujian Qian and Jayant Sharma Map answers with Oracle Application Server 10g.

COMMENT INFORMATION MATTERS Zen and the Art of Information By George Demarest Part II: Mastery in an imperfect world