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  Oracle ACE Dan Atwood shares an excerpt from "Oracle BPM and ADF (Part 1)," part of Avio Consulting's new self-paced online Oracle BPM Developer Workshop training.
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  Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans shares two use cases to illustrate the use of fire-and-forget web services.
• Backup and Recovery of an Exalogic vServer via rsync | Donald
  "On Exalogic a vServer will consist of a number of resources from the underlying machine," says the man known only as Donald. "These resources include compute power, networking and storage. In order to recover a vServer from a failure in the underlying rack all of these components have to be thoughts about. This article only discusses the backup and recovery strategies that apply to the storage system of a vServer."
• Making Architecture Matter | Harald Wesenberg and Einar Landre
  "As Architects, we want our architecture to matter. We want projects to implement our grand designs, one little step at a time, with each piece fitting perfectly into the big puzzle that is software architecture," say authors Harald Wesenberg and Einar Landre. "But reality is a bit trickier."

Thought for the Day

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

— Leslie Lamport

Source: SoftwareQuotes.com