Finally on Wednesday 1st of July Oracle released their highly promoted new version of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
A lot of new stuff and concepts to play with like Composites, Event Driven Architectur (EDA), Complex Event Processing (CEP)…
AND now based on the Oracle Weblogic Server (from the BEA acquisition) which will for sure make all better performing [...]

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Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all [...]

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According to Google Trends SOA is not as “hot” as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very “not”. Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA?
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Tomorrow is the start of a new ‘Pro4Pro season’. Pro4Pro sessions are given by some of the best professionals of Logica.
“Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met Oracle Application Express”
“Standardizing SOA with Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture”
“Practical Approach to SOA Adoption”

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Guru4Pro Thomas Erl - - ‘How to overcome the key challenges within SOA’.
Date: 20 oktober 2008
On Monday the 20th of October Logica has invited Thomas Erl to speak on the Principles of Service Design and Patterns to transform the most important challenges into a successful realization of a Service Oriented Architecture. Business analyst, functional designers [...]

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If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional. [...]

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APEX is famous for it’s useful applications, so when the idea poped into my head that I would like to track my personal contracts, APEX was first in line to develop such an application.
The purpose of this app is to be able to track longrunning contracts with their renewalperiods. One month before you should end [...]

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This blog is about software metrics in a very broad interpretation; software quality metrics. During our last project we wanted to elevate the software quality and the quality of the software development process. The first thing that came to our mind was to focus on metrics to evaluate and guide the quality of the code, [...]

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As of today two of Logica’s weblogs have been merged; BloggingAboutJava & BloggingAboutOracle. Both have been around for quite some time but since the internal movement of management to combine oracle and java into the Software Development Cluster, we decided it was time to merge the blogs.
We now have one blog with about 45 users [...]

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So the day has finally come, after the announcement a few months ago, we now changed our brand name to Logica. Some like it, others still have feelings for the old one.
The reason for the new brand; simplicity, a unified brand replacing the former LogicaCMG, Edinfor, Unilog and WM-data.
On the other hand, it’s just a [...]

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