For quite some time I have been thinking about trying out that ‘Cloud-thing‘ and see what all the fuzz is about. Because at first I was very skeptic, ‘how is this any different then a normal hosting service’ or ‘how does this any different than a grid’. Because depending on the used definition, or cloud [...]

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A few weeks ago there was a kick-off for the ‘workshop season’ at Logica. The IDT Java department made a very broad roadmap of workshop topics of which Domain Driven Design (DDD) was the first to be held. On May 5th and 7th the DDD workshop was held in Rotterdam. The workshop was centered around [...]

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Most people probably all ready noticed that this blog has been pretty quiet for a while. But that doesn’t mean that there is not much going on in the java/oracle world !
For instance, today Oracle announced to take-over sun ! Last weeks rumors were all around, about IBM trying to buy Sun, but it turns [...]

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Sun’s Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun’s Java SE 1.4.2 page:
J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL).
This doesn’t [...]

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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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This was my last day at JAOO. I was tired, but still looking forward to today’s speakers. It was hard to decide what to attend and what not to attend today. I just had to hope that I’ve chosen correctly.
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I skipped the introduction of today’s program in order to write up my impression of yesterday instead. The long introduction is boring anyway. I already knew which sessions I wished to attend.
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