Dave Shaffer has been helping customers use the Oracle BPEL Process Manager since 2001, managing implementation projects, providing technical training, and ensuring successful implementations. Prior to joining Oracle, Shaffer was a principal consultant at Collaxa, a managing director at Eleven Acceleration, and manager of a professional services group at Apple Computer.
IT architectures have evolved to include process orchestration as a fundamental layer due in no small part to the emergence and widespread adoption of the WS-BPEL standard. WS-BPEL, also known as Business Process Execution Language or just BPEL, is a standard owned by OASIS that provid...Mar. 12, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 18,813 Replies: 2
This article is the second part of a two-part series covering best practices for building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. The following are the seven key steps for effective SOA adoption:
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitates the development of applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated, secured, and administered. Benefits of an SOA approach include more-rapid development, decreased maintenance and change management costs, and impr...
J2EE application servers enabled mainstream developers to build sophisticated multitiered Web applications that use mature standards and any of several commercial and open source application server platforms. A similar pattern has now emerged with the maturation of standard platforms f...
