Services in an SOA are indeed sharable, but that sharing constitutes reuse. The whole point of sharing services is to reuse the functionality individual services provide in order to eliminate the need to recreate that functionality from scratch... - Justin Kestelyn

SOA governance is a big deal, truly important stuff. It covers lots of territory and involves lots of people taking lots of aspirin. Get it right, and your SOA initiative has a far greater chance of success. Get it wrong... - Justin Kestelyn

Chris Jones reports that the latest branch of PHP's OCI8 extension has gone Production on PECL. - Justin Kestelyn

Check out this new demo, shiny and new right out of the demo factory. - Justin Kestelyn

Missed the July 1 Webcast about the new roles of BEA products in Oracle Fusion Middleware? This page contains a link to the replay as well as product-by-product info. - Justin Kestelyn

Data management infrastructure was once seen as completely separate from SOA. But as SOA becomes more prevalent, there's growing need to control, manage, and negotiate data integration components as part of the SOA infrastructure. - Justin Kestelyn

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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. - Justin Kestelyn

with the injection of some fundamental Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks, businesses can finally tap into the knowledge of all their employees, partners, and customers. - Justin Kestelyn

Today's consumers expect Web 2.0 capabilities—from blogs to podcasts to community—in the Web sites that they frequent. Now many organizations are bringing those same Web 2.0 capabilities into their enterprise applications. - Justin Kestelyn

Raimonds Simanovskis has just released a new version on his ruby-plsql gem with support for JRuby and Oracle JDBC. - Justin Kestelyn

With the recent release of Oracle Coherence 3.3, Cameron Purdy, Oracle vice president of development and former CEO of Tangosol, sat down with Oracle Magazine's Jeff Erickson to talk about this leading in-memory data grid solution. - Justin Kestelyn

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and extreme transaction processing (XTP) make up Oracle Corp.'s vision of the SOA Grid, explains David Chappell, vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle - Justin Kestelyn

This article examines how end user-centric authoring environments, influenced by the Web 2.0 movement, fit into an enterprise, and how to govern their usage, educate users, and use these tools to generate business value. - Justin Kestelyn

This article presents a broader view of how organizations may approach connectivity through the definition of four dimensions: internal, external, industry, and hosted connectivity. - Justin Kestelyn