Shiraz Kanga, a member of the Oracle Application Diagnostics for Java (AD4J) development team, delves into the special requirements involved in diagnosing performance problems in production Java applications.
Faulty assumptions and misunderstanding about SOA governance can create expensive headaches for architects who haven't done their homework. In this OTN TechCast, OTN's Bob Rhubart discusses some of those misperceptions with Oracle governance specialists Cathy Lippert, Sharon Fay, and Mike Stamback.
In this OTN TechCast Returning panelists Cathy Lippert, Sharon Fay, and Mike Stamback join OTN's Bob Rhubart to discuss obstacles to SOA governance adoption and implementation, and what it takes to hit the SOA governance sweet spot.
In this final program in a three-part series on SOA governance, Oracle panelists Sharon Fay, Cathy Lippert, and Mike Stamback debate the role of technology in an effective SOA governance program.
Senior Director Product Management Duncan Mills tells us his favorite new Oracle Developer 11g features and reveals the paths of convergence for JDeveloper, Workshop, and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse.
Oracle Coherence architects Cameron Purdy and Brian Oliver offer their favorite features in the new 3.4 release, and explain the background behind the Application Grid concept.
Sushil Kumar, Senior Director of Product Management, explains Oracle's newly announced support for deployment to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the new Oracle Secure Backup module for seamless backup to AWS, and other news on the cloud computing front.
Oracle Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tom Haunert, and OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, offer a joint preview of developer/DBA community happenings at Oracle OpenWorld 2008.
Hear Steve Harris, Development VP for Application Server, discuss Oracle's vision and strategy for application servers, Java virtual machine technologies, and the emerging application grid architecture.
Duncan Mills, Senior Product Management Director for Developer Tools, and Greg Stachnick, Senior Product Management Director for Workshop products, explain the future of Oracle Fusion Middleware tooling and Oracle's JDeveloper/Eclipse strategy.
Get an update on the integration plans and progress for bringing the Dev2Dev, Arch2Arch, and OTN communities together. With OTN Editor Justin Kestelyn, Dev2Dev Editor Kevin Farnham,and Arch2Arch blogger Bob Rhubart.
Oracle Coherence Development VP Cameron Purdy explains the meaning and purpose of the Data Grid and how requirements for Extreme Transaction Processing are evolving - and takes a trip down JavaOne memory lane.
Duncan Mills, Senior Product Management Director for Oracle Developer Tools, offers a guided tour through the new ADF Faces Rich Client components, a key new technology for modernizing Forms apps or building new Fusion Middleware-based apps.
Duncan Mills, Senior Product Management Director for Oracle Developer Tools, offers a guided tour through the new ADF Faces Rich Client components, a key new technology for modernizing Forms apps or building new Fusion Middleware-based apps.
Miranda Nash,Senior Director of Development,Oracle Fusion Middleware,describes Oracle's Data Integration strategy and why data integration is key to a successful Service-Oriented Architecture.
Chris Jones and Kuassi Mensah--members of a virtual team that expose Oracle Database functionality to developers using scripting languages like PHP, Ruby/RoR, and Python--discuss the re-built OCI8 driver, Database Resident Connection Pooling with Oracle Database 11g, and the roadmap for RoR users.
Oracle Linux Engineering team member Kurt Hackel explains the origins of and motivations behind the release of Oracle VM and tells customers what they need to know about deployment and performance.
Oracle Coherence architect Brian Oliver explains the purpose and architecture of the In-Memory Data Grid, its applications and relevance to Grid-based SOA architecture, and how to get started in step-by-step fashion.
Eddie Awad--eminent Oracle blogger, Oracle ACE Director (Database App Development), and PL/SQL developer--explains how and why he contributes to the Oracle community conversation, discusses the value of community for users, and reveals his agenda for Oracle OpenWorld.
VP Embedded Technologies Mike Olson describes the architecture and functionality of the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, a unique solution for extremely fast and predictable application performance.
VP Embedded Technologies Mike Olson overviews the multitude of embedded technology options now available to customers and partners, as well as appropriate use cases.
Margo Seltzer, one of the co-inventors of Berkeley DB and still an architect on the Oracle BDB team, explains the origins of the world's most popular embedded database and why database application developers should care.
AppsLab, a small team within Oracle evangelizing Web 2.0 technology and concepts, is making an impact inside and outside the firewall. Chief AppsLab-er Paul Pedrazzi explains its origins and future plans.
VP Product Strategy and Oracle legend Ken Jacobs, aka "Dr. DBA," describes his favorite new features and characterizes the release's "place" in database technology history.
What is SCA? And just as important, what isn't it? Oracle's Chief SOA Technologist, David Chappell, takes you on a tour of this important new specification.
Product manager Hermann Baer explains not only why partitioning is a no-brainer for improving data warehouse performance, but also why a more strategic, expansive view can improve manageability across all environments.
Steve Harris, Vice President of Oracle Java and Application Server Development, discusses evolving customer requirements for extreme scalability, reliability and availability in their applications and infrastructure and how these can be addressed with an in-memory data grid such as Oracle Coherence (based on the recently acquired Tangosol technology).
Development VP Vince Casarez explains why many enterprises are looking to add Web 2.0 services on top of their existing applications, and how Oracle WebCenter, a key technology in forthcoming Oracle Fusion applications, provides infrastructure for that goal.
Product manager Manoj Das previews some of the enhancements going into the emerging BPEL 2.0 spec, and the customer requirements that are driving the need for increasingly sophisticated business process orchestration.
Chuck Lever, the team's NFS expert, explains applications of NFS in enterprise environments, as well as some of the storage management trends on the horizon.
Product management leader Jean-Pierre Dijcks explains customers' emerging need for data quality lifecycle management, and how that lifecycle is supported in Oracle Warehouse Builder..
VP of Business Intelligence, Robert Stackowiak, kicks off a new "Focus on Data Warehousing" series by providing an inside view of Oracle's development efforts as well as its value proposition for administrators, architects, and end-users.
In this TechCast series, members of Oracle's Linux Kernel Team reveal the inner workings of the team in particular and kernel development in general. This installment: Chris Mason.
Product manager Prateek Mishra, co-author of the Security Assurance Markup Language (SAML) specification, explains the impact of that spec and other standards on identity management deployments.
What is Application-Centric Identity Management, and why should architects and developers care? Nishant Kaushik, a technical staff member from the Oracle Identity Management team, provides some answers.
Frank Villavicencio, Product Manager for Oracle Identity Management, explains the new requirements that drive the need for fine grained authorization on the middle tier, as well as the standards shaping its future.
Mark Clark, Oracle Director of IT and a key player in Oracle.com's deployment of Oracle SES, shares best practices for installing, configuring, customizing, and optimizing SES.
A chat with Audit VP Marc Staheli about his company's SMB IT environment and requirements, why clustering is a great strategy for SMBs, and his team's experiences when deploying and managing Oracle RAC and Oracle Application Server.