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View ArticleA new decade for Enterprise Java Applications
We are coming up on the 10th anniversary of the EJB 1.1 final release. When you take a look at the J2EE specification and the Enterprise Java Application programming models and frameworks that are out...
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Sanity check your ORM
Have you ever had your application completely crash under load and wondered why something that just worked fine yesterday can drive you mental today?Most of the time an Object-Relational Mapping...
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Your hosted application is a virus vector
We are all used to seeing SaaS as an acronym for Software as a Service. It also doubles as another acronym for the non-functional features of a SaaS architecture. When you're providing a hosted service...
View ArticleNew address http://www.soastation.org/
SOA Station has it's own domain now: soastation.org. The blog is still hosted via Google's Blogger service and will be still accessible at soastation.blogspot.com.
View ArticleHosted Security Breakfast Seminar: Dublin
Staying on the topic of hosted applications and security I thought I'd bring this to your attention. MessageLabs, a Symantec Company, is organising a breakfast seminar on Hosted Security in Dublin, in...
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What's the bedrock to your Social CRM Strategy?
Perhaps it is taken for granted, but Esteban Kolsky's recent article on The SCRM Roadmap, is missing the requirement for a Social Media Participation Policy for employees. No matter where you are on...
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Fear of maths is a problem worth solving
According to researchers at the University of Granada, 6 out of every 10 university students present "mathematical anxiety". This study was carried out in a sample consisting of 885 first-year students...
View ArticleIreland's new Baywatch mashup
Due to a new initiative from the EPA you can keep up to-date on the water quality of Ireland's major bays (hence the article title), beaches and rivers. Made possible by some hard work from the clever...
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Strange cloud heads for Iceland
Google appears to be always thinking about new tools or approaches to make or save money. Lots of these ideas sneak out onto the internet and lots of discussions, articles and opinions get generated....
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Oracle VPN
Virtual Private Networks have made remote working and access to critical corporate resources so much easier over the past few years. In fact, there is so much about the way we work today that is...
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Your ScrumMaster is a project manager in disguise
In 6 attributes of a good ScrumMaster Mike Cohn repeats the common line that the ScrumMaster role does not always require a full-time, eight-hour-a-day commitment. Often the 'orchestra conductor' role...
View ArticleUnit Testing with SQL Developer
December's release of SQL Developer 2.1 has a number of new bells and whistles. Two of the main new features are:Data Model Viewer. This is a free, read only, viewer based on Oracle SQL Developer Data...
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It's not you, it's me - Check the bugs log before going crazy
How many times have you been working on implementing, unsuccessfully, a feature in your application which relies on a framework, container, or some other indirection layer? You've studied the...
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Interface Oriented Design
This book has been sitting on my desk for a long time and I've been dipping in and out of it for at least a year. I'm a big fan of The Pragmatic Programmers and the topic of interface is very close to...
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More than Iron Man - Oracle and Marvel
At the beginning of April 2010, Oracle, using the buzz around the release of Iron Man 2, kicked off a worldwide advertising campaign focused on introducing the powerful combination of Oracle and Sun....
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Should we ban anonymity on the Internet?
In an Information Security article a few months back, Bruce Schneier (author of Schneier on Security) and Marcus Ranum put some points forward for and against internet anonymity. I have to admit that I...
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The Art of Agile Development
Keep this book to handThe Art of Agile Development was recommended to me by Jeff McKenna when he provided some Scrum coaching to those of us in the Dublin office working on Oracle Social CRM. Back then...
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Loosely typed interfaces - The Normalizer Pattern and Oracle SOA Suite
When getting two or more systems working together, the making a connection part is generally the easiest, identity propagation is a bit trickier, but many times, the syntax and semantics of one system...
View ArticleADF logging level to see SQL statements
Very handy for debugging runtime issues when developing, the Oracle ADF Business Components layer can output the SQL that it is executing. To do this though, the logging threshold must be set to a...
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