Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is director of product management for Oracle Application Server 10g. He has core product management responsibilities for the Application Server that is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. His main focus includes middleware vision, strategy, and architecture, with an emphasis on Web services, SOA, and EDA. Mohamad is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a contributing author to business-oriented, technical, and academic journals. He holds a PhD in Parallel Database Systems from Cambridge University, UK.
By Mohamad Afshar; Prasen Palvankar; Robert Schneider
We often say SOA is a discipline in enterprise architecture and if you want to get the most out of it, you have to approach SOA from business, architectural, organizational, and technological perspectives. However, most of the organizations we've worked with are taking a project-driven...
By Mohamad Afshar; Nickolaos Kavantzas; Ramana Turlapati; Roger Goudarzi; Barmak Meftah; Prakash Yamuna
Service-Oriented Architectures offer a number of potential benefits: They can provide new opportunities to connect enterprises with customers, partners, and suppliers; improve efficiency through greater reuse of services across the enterprise; and offer greater flexibility by breaking ...
Leading companies are tackling the complexity of their application and IT environments with service-oriented architecture (SOA), which facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, thereby creating a truly ...
LibGo Travel, one of the largest privately held travel companies in the U.S., provides vacation packages through its retail stores and wholesale distribution channels to consumers, partners, travel agents, and stores. The company wanted to expand its offerings by adding dynamic, brande...
Business processes integrate systems, partners, and people to achieve key strategic and operations objectives. Examples of business processes include getting and filling orders, processing invoices, reconciling shipping notices and received goods and processing insurance claims and loa...
By Mohamad Afshar; Dave Shaffer; Hal Hilderbrad; Nickolaos Kavantzas; Ashwini Surpur
Agile and adaptive business processes and supporting IT infrastructure are the holy grail of enterprise applications. The industry is heading in the right direction to start delivering on this promise.
There's a common misconception that Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) is useful only if all of your systems are Web services. This article describes how Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) enables BPEL to orchestrate nearly any legacy system as if it were...
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Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is director of product management for Oracle Application Server 10g. He has core product management responsibilities for the Application Server that is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. His main focus includes middleware vision, strategy, and architecture, with an emphasis on Web services, SOA, and EDA. Mohamad is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a contributing author to business-oriented, technical, and academic journals. He holds a PhD in Parallel Database Systems from Cambridge University, UK. 
We often say SOA is a discipline in enterprise architecture and if you want to get the most out of it, you have to approach SOA from business, architectural, organizational, and technological perspectives. However, most of the organizations we've worked with are taking a project-driven...
Service-Oriented Architectures offer a number of potential benefits: They can provide new opportunities to connect enterprises with customers, partners, and suppliers; improve efficiency through greater reuse of services across the enterprise; and offer greater flexibility by breaking ...
Leading companies are tackling the complexity of their application and IT environments with service-oriented architecture (SOA), which facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, thereby creating a truly ...
LibGo Travel, one of the largest privately held travel companies in the U.S., provides vacation packages through its retail stores and wholesale distribution channels to consumers, partners, travel agents, and stores. The company wanted to expand its offerings by adding dynamic, brande...
The one thing that unifies the distributed computing style known as SOA, in most of its manifestations, is self-describing data via the Extensible Markup Language (X...
Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime ...
I took the advice of a friend of mine and steered clear of the 'normal' movie theaters and went a little out of the way to go to a DLP movie theater. The experience ...
There are 8,909 books listed on Amazon.com with the word 'Investing' in the title; there are(!) 27,146 books with the word investment in the title. Without having lo...
This book is an update of an earlier version that was written for SQL Server 2000. It employs the Murach approach of dual pages that repeat and enhance the concepts ...