Confessions of a Software Developer

Whenever I have questions about use cases myself, I grab my use case bible which is Writing Effective Use Cases from Alistair Cockburn . On...

Strictly speaking, an automated activity does not have a human actor as role involved, and from that perspective the automated one does not ...

One of the core values of using a method is that it provides a common "language". That holds for all kind of methods, including th...

Once you understand the difference between a main success scenario, an alternate scenario and an exception scenario, you may wonder why it t...

Let me begin with the answer, which is: absolutely! After a Thomas Kurian discussed the positioning of Oracle BPM (fka ALBPM) a year ago (...

November 13 there has been an announcement that the Oracle Unified Method version 5.3 has been released. As explained in a previous posting...

Often the solution of a problem is having an eye for detail, like properly reading an error message most of the times is half the solution. ...

(O)BPM and Use Cases Business process modeling and implementation using the Oracle BPM Suite should be an iterative process. Because of that...

The other day I installed the Oracle Enterprise Repository 10.3 on my laptop. In principle the Oracle Enterprise Repository, or OER for sho...

Some time ago I got a question in a comment if the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) is or will contain any software components like we used to ha...

Why using Java for business objects? When creating business objects for Oracle BPM (10.1.3), I have a couple of compelling reasons for basi...

In a previous article I presented a service taxonomy. As I explained over there, deciding upon a proper service taxonomy supports a proper ...

For already more than three years I'm the Java developer of some Oracle-internal sales application. Up to that point the application had...

Finally, the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) is available for all our customers! Until now it was only available for Oracle Certified and Oracle...

Having seen how organizations can struggle with it, convinced me that before you start to capture the requirements of a serious amount of se...

Officially Oracle BPM Enterprise 10gR3 is not supported on Windows XP. When you try to install it using the default path, you probably will ...

Suppose that you are using Oracle Business Rules in a Java application. And suppose you want to be able to change and test your rule set wi...

The following describes how to move your own sandbox kind of WebLogic Server domain. This method is not supported and should not be used to ...

The other day I heard Thomas Kurian talking about the future of the Oracle technology stack . Among other things, he mentioned the Oracle BP...

Last time I talked about the Canonical Data Model (CDM) pattern. What I haven't discussed yet, is how this pattern is implemented in th...