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An easy way to evaluate Oracle SOA / BPM offering

Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java, Oracle on 06/12/2010

One of the big pain when willing to evaluate the SOA or BPM offering from Oracle is the installation process. These are not simple toys to play with, they require some hundreds of Mb to download and some patience to carefully install all components and their dependencies.

Unless you have a good tutorial or book at hands, the result is likely to fail, believe me. I’ve been there, I’ve done that.

The good news, is that we are helping you out by providing Virtual Machines images, ready to run and pre-installed with all the software you will need : the database, the application server, the SOA suite with BPM and BAM.

Patience is only required during the 6Gb download now.

Be sure to have the latest version of Virtual Box installed on your machine and a few Gbs (2-3 at least) available for the virtual machine.

Enjoy !

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Oracle + Kenai : clarifying the message …

Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 06/02/2010

Last week, when publishing a serie of webcasts explaining the Oracle + Sun product strategy, Oracle clearly announced the end of Sun’s sponsored source forge Kenai.com.

Today, Oracle sent a very different message to the community and recognized they poorly communicated about this. To summarize it : current plans are to reuse Kenai.com infrastructure to power another Sun’s sponsored source forge : java.net (hosting projects such as GlassFish, OpenSSO and OpenESB amongst others).

Communities and projects currently hosted on Kenai.com will be migrated to Java.net

Is it really a poorly executed communication ? Or does Oracle step back due to community feedback ?

Should the later be correct, this is a good sign that Oracle is (very) quickly learning how to deal with the many communities it inherits when acquiring Sun Microsystems.

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Oracle + Sun : Java Developer Tools and Communities FAQ

Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 01/02/2010

Earlier today, Oracle posted a FAQ answering the most common questions regarding development tools and developer comunities. It addresses questions about java.net, Kenai, GlassFish, NetBeans, JavaONE etc …

This complements the previous Java Development tools FAQ posted last week.

For more details about Oracle+Sun product strategy, you might have a look at the many webcasts available.

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Oracle + Sun IDM Strategy

Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 29/01/2010

Since Oracle’s Sun acquisition completed on January 27th, Oracle started a massive communication campaign to detail product’s roadmap and integration.

Regarding Identity Management (IDM) products and technologies strategy and integration, you can view the full web cast (18 minutes) or just read through my summary below.

Directory (LDAP)

Sun Directory Server is strategic and will consume some of the features of Oracle Internet Directory.
OpenDS stays an open source project.

Authorization and Access Management

Oracle Access Manager is the strategic product for Web SSO
Sun OpenSSO continues as an open source project
Oracle Identity Federation is strategic and will include OpenSSO’s fedlet
Oracle Access Manager will be enhanced with OpenSSO Secure Token Service (for web service security)
Oracle plans to create migration tools from OpenSSO to OAM and OIF
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise will be renamed Oracle OpenSSO

As with other products, Oracle will extend OpenSSO support until 2014 (for premium support) and 2017 (for extended support).

Provisioning

Oracle Identity Manager is strategic
Oracle Identity Manager will be enhances with functionality of Sun Identity Manager (mainly SPML provisioning)
Oracle plans to create migration tools from Sun Identity Manager to Oracle Identity Manager
Sun Identity Manager will be renamed Oracle WaveSet

Compliance

Sun Role Manager is strategic and will be called Oracle Identity Analytics

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Oracle + Sun SOA Strategy

Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 29/01/2010

Since Oracle’s Sun acquisition completed on January 27th, Oracle started a massive communication campaign to detail product’s roadmap and integration.

Regarding SOA products and technology strategy and integration, you can view the full web cast (17 minutes) or just read through my summary below.

Oracle will obviously continue to focus on it’s Fusion Middleware offering, and more specifically, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus (formerly known as Aqualogic Service Bus from Bea). This is the strategic SOA platform for the future.

Java CAPS will be maintained and improved for existing customers
GlassFish ESB will continue as an open source project
Oracle plans to support collaboration between Java CAPS and Oracle SOA Suite through bridges technology, allowing to bring new features to Java CAPS such as SOA Governance, Workflow etc …
Oracle expects to integrate key features of Java CAPS into Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle also extends the End of Support dead line for SRE 5.0.5, eGate 4.5.3, GlassFish ESB 2.1 and Java CAPS 6.2 to January 2014 (premium support) or Jan 2017 (extended support)

As always, Oracle also proposes a lifetime sustaining support.

By the way, for those of you wanted to start with Oracle’s SOA Suite, my colleague Patrice just published an excellent three-parts tutorial in addition to the material published by Oracle.

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