thanks to Clemens

Congratulations! what a journey at Oracle:

• How many of our key customers did you support?
• How many beta customers did you support? Remember Kabel Deutschland – where we (You, David, Hajo, Robert, Christian…) all meet!
• Attend our fist SOA Partner Community Forum in Copenhagen back in 2007– hey you demoed SOA Suite 11g on my sales laptop (what happened with yours?)
• Published with the masons of SOA 14 articles in the Java Magazine and the SOA Spezial
• Executive Sponsor of the SIG SOA by Hajo and Torsten and speaking at the Jax, QJAX, OOP, DOAG, IPT SOA Forum and many other conferences in Europe
• Writing SOA Design Patterns for Thomas Erl and be part of the SOA Manifest
• Hosting our fist global Partner Advisory Council with product management in 2008
• Train more partners in SOA Suite 11g beta than Oracle employees
• Touring with Opitz on an Enterprise Architecture road-show
• Organize the first and only SOA partner blackbelt training
• Sorry the bpm11g success was mine… hmmm ok you trained them in Lisbon

What we will remember

• Your personal EMEA travel agency
• Take care of your luggage including your laptop
• Celebrate your birthday with Kartoffelsalat at your LH home
• RC33 Lago de Garda

What we expect from you in the future

• Party at the SOA Symposium 2010 in Berlin
• Continue your blog and passion for the SOA community
• Publish the next generation soa book

Did Clemens support you in a project? Did you attend a Clemens training?

Now it is time to pay back – write your comment here!

You become a fried and the reason why our SOA Partner Community was successful!

Thanks Clemens and whish you also super success in your new role outside Oracle!

Jürgen Kress

SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer’s Guide by Antony & Matt published

Matt Wright & Antony Reynolds just published the 11g version of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer’s Guide  It provides guidance on how to use SOA Suite to build a robust SOA solution.  More than 40% of the book is new content, including patterns for the new EDN functionality, new sections on 11g rules, new security policies etc.

Quote from Antony Reynolds blog:

When we started writing together our original target was the 11g product, but along came the BEA acquisition and 11g was delayed so we re-focused the book on 10g.  Of course a few months after the 10g book was published 11g came out and so we dusted off the earliest chapters, updated them and started again.  So in some ways this book was what we meant to write when we started.

While writing the last book Matt emigrated to Australia.  So to keep up with him while writing this book I moved to Colorado.  Matt, not to be outdone, responded by leaving Oracle and starting his own company.  Our families are now very worried what we might do if we start writing another book together.

The editorial team at Packt were very good at chasing us to finish the book, without them we would probably only be half-way through.  We had some great reviewers who provided very insightful comments and often pointed us in the right direction when we had lost our way.  You may well be familiar with some of the reviewers from their blogs or participation at industry events;

• John Deeb
• Hans Forbrich
• Bill Hicks
• Marc Kelderman
• Manoj Neelapu
• ShuXuan Nie
• Hajo Normann

In addition to the reviewers we had a lot of support from product management at Oracle, I found Clemens Utschig particularly helpful. I hope you enjoy the book, we have tried to make it into a guide for practitioners of SOA, and endeavored to explain how and why to use different parts of the SOA Suite.  Let us know what you think.

For additional books on SOA please visit our wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/SOA+Publications+Wiki

Please feel free to add books you can recommend!

Introducing Oracle Service Bus 11g—Extending Oracle SOA Suite Leadership – Live Webcast

Event Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Time: 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET

Oracle Releases Dramatic Performance and Scalability Innovations within Oracle Service Bus 11g
With Oracle Service Bus you can do more than ever with new and existing SOA infrastructures. You can transform complex and brittle architectures into flexible integration networks. Now you can connect, mediate, and manage interactions between services and applications across the extended enterprise.
Join Demed L’Her, Director of Product Management at Oracle and Bruce Tierney, Principal Product Director at Oracle in this live webcast as they discuss the innovations in Oracle Service Bus 11g that deliver extreme performance, scalability, agility, and cloud service integration. Discover how you can leverage this complete, open, and integrated SOA solution to:

• Shorten response time by up to 80% for commonly requested data
• Reduce demand on back-end applications by 60% or more
• Reduce risk as your infrastructure expands to include more cloud services
• Introduce service virtualization to migrate your services into a shared services infrastructure
• Implement an “embrace and extend” strategy by leveraging your existing services and legacy enterprise service bus with Oracle Service Bus

Register for this live Webcast, another edition in a series introducing the next wave of products in
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.