Confessions of a Software Developer

This posting is a follow-up on a previous posting in which I explained what artifacts might be appropriate in case of creating an analysis ...

This posting is a follow-up on a previous posting in which I explained business process models can be drilled down to user-goal level use c...

This posting is a follow-up on a previous posting in which I explained how business process models and use cases can be used to capture req...

It is my observation that since the introduction of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) many developers are kind of lost when it comes to ca...

With the risk of giving you the impression that I go to the cinema every week, I want to tell you about the movie I saw this Saturday. Still...

Yesterday I went to the movies as a kind of birthday present with a nephew of mine who recently came of age (being 18 in his case). Offered ...

A pattern you often see is that some generic message type containing a number of 1..n name-value pair attributes needs to be transformed to ...

Edited on August 2, 2011 with the correct link and partner types. As a follow-up on my previous post about the Oralce Unified Methodology (O...

When I encounter a situation where people could greatly benefit from a methodology to structure their development process, and suggest to ha...

As sometimes silly things can take a disproportional amount of time, I thought I share with you what I found on documenting a BPEL process d...

It's official now, the Oracle Unified Method, or OUM for short, is available outside Oracle! Currently only for Certified Partners , but...

Finally found the time to finish this posting which I started to write like three months ago! It's about time, as it might not take too ...

The other day I was part of an interesting discussion that started with the statement that there is a problem with OUM (Oracle Unified Metho...

Most things in life you can more easily get rid of than an unwanted revision in Subversion. As Simon and Garfunkel sang, there are even 50 w...

There will be some enhancements in the Oracle SOA Suite 11g regarding versioning of rules for Oracle Business Rules. Until then we will have...

Last week I attended a session in which the new-to-come SOA Suite 11g was being presented by Clemens Utschig-Utschig to Oracle Partners as...

For quite a while I could not use Rule Author anymore on my stand-alone OC4J, the reason being that I was not able to connect because of the...

... of our customers needing to wait for the Oracle Unified Method (OUM for short)! Last week version OUM Release 4.4.0 has been made availa...

Finally, the white paper Business Rules in ADF Business Components has been revamped! As usual it took much more work than anticipated, esp...