Articles for Architects: SOA, Virtualization, Enterprise 2.0, XTP, Grid

Service-Oriented Architecture

Using Request-Response SOAP over JMS Web Services [Sep-2008]
by Bob Murphy
Using SOAP over JMS transport can be more scalable and efficient than over HTTP; here are some tips to get started.

Transforming BPMN into BPEL: Why and How [Sep-2008]
by Lonneke Dikmans
When transforming a BPMN model into an executable BPEL process, it's important to keep the semantic differences between BPMN and BPEL in mind.

Architecting Event-Driven SOA: A Primer [Sep-2008]
by Clemens Utschig-Utschig
This primer guides you through the basics of architecting an event-driven SOA by introducing the concepts underlying EDA and describing how they can be applied to SOA.

Extending the Business Value of SOA through Business Process Management [Sep-2008]
by John Brunswick
Business Process Management (BPM) is a natural complement to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and a mechanism through which an organization can apply SOA to high-value business challenges.

Web Services Versioning [Aug-2008]
by Gabriel Bechara
Effective Web Services versioning is critical to preserving loose coupling and protecting service consumers.

Mastering SOA: Exposing Services Through Rich User Interfaces [13-Aug-2008]
by Jennifer Briscoe
In this new installment to the "Mastering SOA" series, learn best practices for rich interface development in an SOA, based on the experiences of Collect America.

Connect to Your Legacy Code Using Oracle Service Bus New Features [17-July-2008]
by Francesco Marchioni
Learn how to rehash your legacy code using Oracle Service Bus 3.0's new features and the built-in Eclipse design environment.

Oracle Service Bus Federation with JMS Store-and-Forward and Dynamic Routing in SOA [30-June-2008]
by Irene Rusman
Get an overview of the architecture, design, and configuration of Oracle (formerly BEA AquaLogic) Service Buses that are federated via a messaging Store-and-Forward (SAF) system.

Invoice Processing in a Service-Oriented Environment [18-Apr-2008]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Explore a process integration scenario implemented using Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, step by step.

Blueprint for Successful SOA Integration [12-Mar-2008]
by Dain Hansen
Some architects mistake SOA Integration for the inclusion of an enterprise service bus or BPEL along with some adapters. There's more to it.

Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus with SOA [26-Feb-2008]
by Mark Rittman
A detailed look at the integration possibilities between Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, from Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman.

Declarative Data Filtering [11-Feb-2008]
by Steve Muench
Define multiple query expressions and build search forms with ease.

Services with a Smile [01-Jan-2008]
by Steve Muench
Create data-centric Web services for SOA development in minutes.

Simplifying Web Services Development with the Decorator Pattern [10-Dec-2007]
by Jason Jones
Learn how to layer functionality onto your Web services without having to go through the costly code/test/deploy cycle. From Oracle ACE Director Jason Jones.

Testing BPEL in the Real World [18-Oct-2007]
by Lonneke Dikmans
Use the Oracle BPEL Test Framework to improve the quality of your BPEL processes.

An Introduction to Real-Time Data Integration [25-May-2007]
by Mark Rittman, Oracle ACE
Get an introduction to using Oracle Data Integrator, Java-based middleware that uses the database to perform set-based data integration tasks in an SOA.

Mastering SOA: Orchestrating into End-to-End Processes [20-Feb-2007]
by Joan Lawson
Build agile and standard business processes that orchestrate services into end-to-end business flows.

Mastering SOA: Wiring Through an Enterprise Service Bus [13-Oct-2006]
by Brian Wilkinson and Demed L'Her
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an integral part of any enterprise-scale SOA, for a host of reasons.

Mastering SOA: Building a Portfolio of Services [6-Sept-2006]
by Dan Hynes and Salil Pradhan
In this first installment of the Mastering SOA Series, learn techniques and trade-offs involved in building out a portfolio of modular services.

Standardizing Service Endpoints [16-Feb-2006]
by Thomas Erl
Learn how to design service interface definitions that will help you reap the benefits of standardized SOA.

Virtualization

Virtualize Your Database with Web Services [2-Nov-2005]
by Kuassi Mensah
Explore the Database Web Services capabilities of Oracle Database 10g, as well as their role in service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Storage Made Simpler [Oct-2006]
by Ari Kaplan
Some vendors—and even customers—might think that there's no story in storage. You have hard drives. You store data on them. End of story. Not.

Making Virtual Servers a Reality [Feb-2008]
by Rich Schwerin
As the volume of information in data centers continues to grow exponentially, IT professionals are faced with myriad challenges. Oracle VM addresses those challenges.

Growing Green [Jul-2008]
by Marta Bright
Organizations are managing more information, reducing fuel consumption, and developing clean energy with Oracle technology.

Running on the Grid [Apr-2005]
by David Baum
At its Austin Data Center, Oracle and key partners have brought an enterprise computing grid to life.

Actualizing Grid Management [Aug-2004]
by Alan Joch
Tying resources together in a computing grid poses many challenges, but new software from Oracle helps you manage these resources as one.

Enterprise 2.0

ECM and SOA [Jun-2008]
by Billy Cripe and James Owen, for AIIM E-Doc Magazine
Understanding how to combine ECM, SOA, and next-generation user interaction platforms is vital for organizations seeking to capitalize on the wealth of opportunities and competitive advantage opened up by a shift to Enterprise 2.0.

Interview: Web 2.0 Meets the Enterprise [Feb-2008]
by Caroline Kvitka
Oracle WebCenter provides a platform for integrating Web 2.0 with enterprise applications.

From the Editor: Capturing the Enterprise Imagination [Feb-2008]
by Tom Haunert
Enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration has arrived, and I say 'thank you.'

Analyst's Corner: Innovation Offers Developers Choice [May-2007]
by David Baum
Web 2.0 development brings new tools and greater collaboration to the enterprise.

Enterprise 2.0 [May-2008]
by ZDNet
In this short video (3:38 minutes), Vince Casarez explains how Web 2.0 technologies (wikis, tags, mashups) can be applied within an organization.

Enterprise mashups revealed at Web 2.0 conference [23-Apr-2008]
by Paul Krill
Oracle executive offers perspectives on newfangled, data-linking Web apps, including what they need to provide in order to succeed in enterprises

Extreme Transaction Processing

Integrating Oracle SOA Suite with Oracle WebLogic Event Server Through Spring and OSGi [Aug-2008]
by Clemens Utschig-Utschig
This article outlines the integration of Complex Event Processing (CEP) capabilities with Oracle SOA Suite, and is based on the actual development of the components.

Extreme Transaction Processing [Dec-2007]
by Jeff Erickson
Cameron Purdy, Oracle vice president of development, talks with Oracle Magazine's Jeff Erickson about Oracle Coherence.

Blueprint for Successful SOA Integration [12-Mar-2008]
by Dain Hansen
An optimized business needs to handle both services and events to enable extreme transaction processing (XTP). This results in extreme agility - enabling the enterprise to conduct business at light speed.

Building Event-Driven Architecture with an Enterprise Service Bus [25-Feb-2007]
by Lucas Jellema
Learn how to configure an ESB to "publish" enterprise events using a simple example.

Grid Computing

Distributed processing to boost performance at online book marketplace [18-Aug-2008]
by Rich Seeley, for SOASearch.com
AbeBooks.com, a Canada-based online bookstore, has turned to dynamically partitioned data in-memory across multiple servers to handle the complex transactions such online marketplaces can entail.

How the Other Half Does Online Bookselling [18-Aug-2008]
by Derrick Harris, for On-Demand Enterprise
AbeBooks.com, an online marketplace for new and used books, is utilizing Oracle�s Coherence data grid solution in order to improve the online shopping experience, as well as to ease backend operations.

Oracle Grid-based Virtualization Reference Design [26-Jul-2008]
by Roddy Rodstein
This article introduces Oracle Grid-based Virtualization and walks through the development of a reference design used to deliver Oracle business applications on commodity x86/64 hardware.

Next-Generation Grid-Enabled SOA: Not Your MOM's Bus [7-Jan-2008]
by David Chappell and David Berry, for The SOA Magazine
This article challenges traditional applications of message-oriented middleware (MOM) for achieving high levels of quality of service (QoS) when sharing data between services in an enterprise service bus (ESB).

Running the Grid on Linux [2006]
by David Baum
For years, when you needed more computing capacity, you bought more-expensive computers. Today, with the advent of grid computing, capacity is added on demand, one inexpensive PC server at a time�and off-the-shelf Linux blades are frequently the servers of choice

Getting Down to Business with Enterprise Grid Computing [Nov-2003]
by Philip J. Gill
Grid computing brings order to the chaos in the middle tier. Originally used for large-scale scientific and research computing, the grid computing model increases reliability, scalability, and manageability in the middle tier, all while reducing costs.

Standardizing Grid Computing [Dec-2005]
by Rich Schwerin
The acceleration and adoption of new technologies can progress only so far without commonly accepted standards. The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) is working to develop standards to accelerate deployment of grids in enterprise data centers.

Bringing Computing Power to the Grid [Oct-2003]
by Michael Miley
Advances in clustered computing power, faster networks, and shared storage are placing the benefits of grid computing within reach of even the most cost-conscious businesses today.

Actualizing Grid Management [Aug-2004]
by Alan Joch
By tying together massive amounts of server, application, and storage components into a collective whole, enterprise computing grids can create cost-effective virtual "computers" of unmatched power and speed, where the negative effects of spikes in demand become a thing of the past.