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2012

A Fresh Look at SOA

While cloud computing draws a lot of conversation lately, good old SOA hasn't faded into the background. In fact, many experts and analysts suggest that a solid understanding of SOA can smooth the path to the cloud. This edition of Oracle's Architect Community Newsletter serves up several recent features dealing with service-oriented architecture, including three items specifically focused on Oracle Service Bus—along with the usual selection of content to keep you in the loop with what's happening.

For the absolute latest in articles, product information, and more, don't forget to regularly visit the OTN Architect Portal, your point of entry into OTN's vast storehouse of insight and expertise from across the architect community.

The Oracle Technology Network Team

ARTICLES

Three Recipes for Oracle Service Bus 11g

Whip up a fresh batch of service- and message-oriented solutions with these recipes from Guido Schmutz, Edwin Biemond, Jan van Zoggel, Mischa Kölliker, and Eric Elzinga – the authors or the Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook.

Oracle Enterprise Gateway: Integration with Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Web Services Manager

Oracle Enterprise Gateway and Oracle Web Services Manager are central points of a SOA initiative when security is paramount. This article from William Markito Oliveira and Fabio Mazanatti describes how to integrate these products with Oracle Service Bus, providing a secure environment for your Web Services.

Applications Architecture

Roy Hunter and Brian Rasmussen share brief case histories of the challenges three organizations faced and the strategies they used to modernize their application architectures.

BLOGS

The Maturity of a Service-Oriented Architecture

SOA is big challenge, says Douwe Pieter van den Bos. "Not only for architecture or applications, but for the entire stack of operations and decisions. It's time to grow up."

Application-Driven Virtualization with Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

Ronen Kofman's overview illustrates how Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder "takes the agility of virtualization into the application space."

Architects, Leadership, and Influence

Technical expertise is a given for architects, but even superior technical chops can't overcome a lack of leadership.

PODCASTS

Stir Up Some SOA

"Fusion cuisine" takes on a whole new meaning in this conversation about software development, architecture, and the future with all five authors of the Oracle Service Bus 11g Cookbook.

Tales from the Arch Side

This free-ranging conversation with a quartet of architect community members covers Oracle ADF Mobile, meeting the security, availability, and usability challenges in the mobile enterprise, and the changing nature of software development.

PRODUCT NEWS

ISVs: Explore the Oracle Exastack Program

The Oracle Exastack program enables Oracle ISV partners to leverage a scalable, integrated infrastructure to deliver their applications tuned, tested and optimized for high-performance.

New eCourse on Advanced Oracle Application Development Framework

Add to your skillset with this new ecourse from the Oracle Learning Library covering Oracle ADF, the standards-based, strategic framework for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle Announces Production Release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Oracle Linux

Based on the 3.0.16 mainline kernel, Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 includes improved memory and resource management, and is optimized to be deployed as a virtual guest.

MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released

MySQL Cluster 7.2 delivers up to 70x more performance for complex queries and adds a new NoSQL memcached interface.

WEBCASTS

Data Warehousing Best Practices
2012-04-19 | 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET

Untangle Your Business with Oracle's Unified SOA and Data Integration 2012-04-24 | 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET

Optimize Your Retail Operations with Oracle Engineered Systems
On Demand

OTN Virtual Developer Day: Java
On Demand

Supercharging WebLogic Server Applications with Oracle Coherence
On Demand

The Art of Architecture Transformation
On Demand

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS

Oracle Cloud Conferences
Dates and locations worldwide

Big Data and Extreme Analytics Summit
Dates and locations worldwide

IOUG Real World Performance Tour
Various dates / U.S. locations

Collaborate 12
2012-04-22 | Las Vegas, NV

Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: MySQL
2012-05-02 | New York, NY

Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group 2 Day Seminar
2012-05-14 | Cleveland, OH

ODTUG Kscope12
2012-06-24 |San Antonio, TX

SOA, Cloud, and Service Technology Symposium
2012-09-25 | London, UK

Oracle OpenWorld 2012
2012-09-30 | San Francisco, CA

JavaOne 2012
2012-09-30 | San Francisco, CA

DISCOUNTS FOR MEMBERS

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Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook (Packt)
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Java Applications Architecture (Pearson)
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Java 7 The Complete Reference, Eighth Edition (Oracle Press)
Use promo code JTCR1006 at checkout.

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