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Dave Shaffer

Dave Shaffer has been helping customers use the Oracle BPEL Process Manager since 2001, managing implementation projects, providing technical training, and ensuring successful implementations. Prior to joining Oracle, Shaffer was a principal consultant at Collaxa, a managing director at Eleven Acceleration, and manager of a professional services group at Apple Computer.

SOA World Magazine "BPEL's Growing Up"

By Dave Shaffer; Manoj Das

IT architectures have evolved to include process orchestration as a fundamental layer due in no small part to the emergence and widespread adoption of the WS-BPEL standard. WS-BPEL, also known as Business Process Execution Language or just BPEL, is a standard owne...

Mar. 12, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 16,616 Replies: 2

Best Practices for Building SOA Applications

By Dave Shaffer

This article is the second part of a two-part series covering best practices for building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. The following are the seven key steps for effective SOA adoption:

Oct. 25, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 13,719

Best Practices for Building SOA Applications

By Dave Shaffer

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitates the development of applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated, secured, and administered. Benefits of an SOA approach include more-rapid development, decreased maintenance and change ma...

Sep. 21, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 21,750 Replies: 2

Web Services Platforms Emerge

By Dave Shaffer

J2EE application servers enabled mainstream developers to build sophisticated multitiered Web applications that use mature standards and any of several commercial and open source application server platforms. A similar pattern has now emerged with the maturation o...

Aug. 2, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 19,985

Process-Centric Realization of SOA

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.

Nov. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 46,177

WSIF & JSR-208

By Mohamad Afshar; John Deeb; Dave Shaffer

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 leg...

Oct. 1, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 28,499