There’s a point in every consultant’s professional life where he or she has to make a decision, take a stand. And while it’s not food security, prison reform, or world peace, starting with Oracle ADF is at least one place
Canned Schema Models
A question came up recently about using canned schema models like NIEM, OAGIS, HRXML, cXML, etc. I posted the following thoughts in response: I sat on the OAGIS 10 working group for a short while so I have some insight
Database Overreach — Bad SOA
Here’s another filing under the heading, “Why aren’t my SOA initiatives working?” I call it “Database Overreach” and it’s when an enterprise level ETL or SOA tool uses adapters to “reach over” and scoop information out — and worse, poke data