Real Java / Real SOA

Java without the OS: JRockit Virtual Edition (VE)

2009-10-14T15:01:00.007-05:00

Am I the only one that's never heard of this before? The Oracle JRockit team is looking at eliminating the OS from the stack required to run Java. This product will be called JRockit VE (not out yet)Virtualization is rampant with the customers I work with, and in many cases there's no need for a host OS any more. Since the JVM is just another virtual machine, it makes sense in a lot of ways to

Coolest Thing From OpenWorld 09 So Far: Oracle CEP 11g

2009-10-14T12:27:00.003-05:00

I've been most interested so far this year by Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP). This is a product that came over from the BEA acquisition. I'd seen some of it in the past, but everything I've seen so far this year is very impressive.CEP is a pure-java OSGi container capable of processing a million events per second on commodity hardware. The events can come in from a variety of sources

One Thing From James Gosling's Oracle OpenWorld Keynote

2009-10-12T19:30:00.006-05:00

He showed a graph of log(CPU clock speed). It was essentially a linear line from 1975 until about 2003. Since then it has been about flat, even down a little bit. Then he overlayed a graph of the # of cores * log(CPU clock speed). After a few years of flat the linear increase resumed again. Chip companies are finding it easier to increase cores than to increase CPU speed.He then projected

Oracle SOA Suite 11g upcoming features

2009-10-12T10:38:00.005-05:00

Friday we had a nice update from Demed L'Her from the SOA product management team. The next (and first) patch set should include:Singleton Adapter Service -- allows you to lock down inbound adapters to a single server in a clusterPre/Post processing hooks in the file adapterSAR export -- the idea being here that since you can dynamically change policies and other aspects of a deployed composite,

Oracle BPM 11g Sneak Peek

2009-10-11T16:38:00.010-05:00

Oracle puts together some great labs for Oracle OpenWorld, often of software that's not even GA yet. I got to spend an hour today with a preview release of Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) 11g.It's impressive stuff -- they've built the UI in JDeveloper, but if you were familiar with prior releases of the former BEA product ALBPM you'll find a lot that's familiar in the designer:However,

Oracle OpenWorld Packing List

2009-10-08T12:58:00.005-05:00

My 5 essential things when packing for OOW 2009:1. Good Shoes - No matter where you're staying, OOW is slowly annexing every hotel and meeting room in the city. Expect to walk between venues a lot. Sure there are shuttles, but by the time you wait for a 50 foot bus to crawl through the 40+ thousand extra people on the streets you're usually better off walking.2. Extra Laptop Battery - There

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launch Day

2009-07-01T09:06:00.003-05:00

Today is the much awaited launch of FMW 11g. Summary of today:Charles Phillips did his little Complete, Open, Integrated spiel. I wonder if he does this in his sleep. It's a compelling story. The "integrated" part is far from realized yet. If it was I'd be doing something else besides integrating Oracle applications for a living.The new tagline is "Foundation for Innovation". I can already

More Google Chrome Market Share Data

2009-06-30T19:02:00.002-05:00

8.26% over the past month on javacrawl.com:That's pretty good, even for a technical audience. That's down from it's peak last September.

Google Fusion Tables vs Oracle (duh)

2009-06-12T13:51:00.005-05:00

This is classic(ly stupid): http://www.itworld.com/saas/69183/watch-out-oracle-google-tests-cloud-based-database. Anyone who spends two seconds looking at Fusion Tables would see that it's an interesting Web 2.0 competitor to Microsoft Access. Anyone who knows anything about databases know that comparing Access and Oracle is like comparing my Jetta to a semi truck. They both traverse roads,

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

2009-06-02T20:29:00.003-05:00

For those of us that inhabit the Oracle Ecosystem, the Fusion Middleware 11g release is an enormous shifting tectonic plate. I went back and looked at my notes from Oracle OpenWorld 2007. That's November 2007, more than 18 months ago. Virtually our whole ACE Director middleware session was focused on upcoming features of the 11g release. On July 1st Oracle FMW 11g will be launched.

Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide

2009-03-26T07:24:00.005-06:00

Late last year I was involved as a technical reviewer for a new book from Packt Publishing for Oracle SOA Suite developers. Matt Wright and Antony Reynolds are the authors. Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide has now been published. If you are looking to get into the world of Oracle SOA, this is a great guide to get started. It covers all aspects of Oracle SOA 10.1.3.4: Service Bus, BPEL,

WSSE Headers in Oracle BPEL

2009-03-25T09:10:00.003-06:00

Adding and extracting SOAP headers in BPEL is pretty easy and pretty well documented (a good explanation here). You can use this to extract or add WSSE credential headers fairly easily. However, if all you really want to do is add WSSE headers to outbound calls there is a much easier way:

Blackberry Curve 8900 Review

2009-02-24T22:55:00.001-06:00

I've spent about a week now with my Curve 8900 and thus far I'm very impressed. Coming from my Pearl the screen, browser, UI, camera, music player' and just about everything is much improved. Going to a qwerty keyboard from the SureType keyboard after 2 1/2 years has been an adjustment for my thumbs, but I think I'll get over it. The google apps all work as expected and the addition of GPS

Technology RFPs

2009-01-21T08:20:00.000-06:00

[[blogger.com has been working just fine. Do not adjust your dial. This is my first post since September. I've been spending my free time reviewing an Oracle SOA book (more on that later), remembering how bad I am at Linear Algebra, and working out (ugh)]]At Zirous we do a fair amount of local, state, and federal government work, meaning we respond to a lot of RFPs. If you're not familiar with

OpenWorld08: Elvis Costello

2008-09-25T15:39:00.005-05:00

The customer appreciation event last night was as usual a total blast. We mostly shuffled our way as close to the stage as possible and caught some good shows. Gin Blossoms were good. I'm not a Seal fan but Elvis Costello was maybe the best concert I've ever been to. We were about 10 rows back. I'm back at the airport and yet another OOW is in the books. As usual it was fun, exhausting, and

OpenWorld08: Oracle on Amazon EC2

2008-09-24T14:12:00.002-05:00

This may be the biggest news of the conference this week. Most Oracle products are now certified on Amazon EC2. According to the licensing doc, for products that are Standard Edition or Standard Edition One, 1 CPU = 4 virtual cores. For EE products 1 CPU = 2 virtual cores, which is equivalent to the rules for Intel processors.Additionally there are AMI (Amazon Machine Images) available for

OpenWorld08: BPEL 10.1.3.4 and "Lost Instances"

2008-09-24T11:09:00.000-05:00

Clemens did a great session yesterday afternoon on SOA troubleshooting. He gave a nice overview of the threading and transaction architecture of BPEL and ESB.He addressed the famous "lost instance" issue with BPEL, which can happen when errors occur inside a BPEL process before it's had a chance to persist itself to the database. Of most interest to me is the fact that in 10.1.3.4, the

OpenWorld08: SOA in EBS 12.1

2008-09-23T15:31:00.004-05:00

Sat through an interesting session yesterday about some of the SOA features they are embedding into the next EBS 12 release. Essentially they are wrapping all of the existing interfaces (PL/SQL, Open Interface Tables) with a thin web service layer to provide a SOAP/HTTP interface. They also have a method for adding your own custom APIs into this system.An implication of this is it eliminates

OpenWorld08: Monday Keynote (aka, the Chuck and Chuck show)

2008-09-22T12:30:00.003-05:00

Coming in I wasn't expecting any big announcements today. Anything major will probably come Wednesday at Ellison's keynote.Some OOW stats: 43,000 attendees this year, 310 buses, 20x300 foot wide HD screen, $100M economic impact on Bay AreaMichael Phelps made a cameo it only lasted about a minute. Oracle Beehive was the one major new announcements. This is integrated collaboration tool. Oracle

OpenWorld08: My Oracle Support (Metalink is dead?)

2008-09-22T12:21:00.003-05:00

Chuck and Chuck just annnounced "My Oracle Support". Please Please Please tell me that this means Metalink is dead. Metalink is possibly the worst website I've ever used in my life.

OpenWorld08: Oracle BPM/BPEL Strategy

2008-09-22T11:49:00.006-05:00

One of the interesting tidbits from yesterday's briefing was that Oracle is going to converge the BPM and BPEL runtimes into a single business process engine that can execute both BPEL and BPMN2.0. They've positioned BPEL as the tool for system level integration, while process level integration will be focused on Oracle BPM. To me this means that the human workflow components of BPEL may be

OpenWorld08: JDeveloper 11g GA Announced

2008-09-22T10:45:00.006-05:00

JDeveloper 11g will go GA on October 1st. The drop will be announced during this morning's keynote. We were informed yesterday at the ACE Director briefing but asked not to release it until today.This drop obviously does not contain any of the FMW 11g stuff, there will be a second 11g JDev release that syncs with the FMW 11g release next year. It does however have all of the Java and ADF

OpenWorld08: Day 0

2008-09-21T15:56:00.005-05:00

Presentation went well this morning. Had a good crowd for early Sunday morning (106 according to the website).Here is a link to the slides if you are interested. If you attended and have further questions feel free to conctact me @ jason.jones-at-zirous.comSitting in the ACE Director briefing, more to come.

OpenWorld08: Enroute

2008-09-20T09:20:00.001-05:00

OpenWorld has begun for me. No official business today except travel, good food, and meeting up with everyone from Zirous.

Google Chrome Market Share: Week 3

2008-09-19T13:28:00.011-05:00

It seems that people may be reverting back to Firefox a little bit. Chrome market share on javacrawl.com has slipped back from it's recent high of 12%.This week thus far it's holding at 5.64%.