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SQLAuthority News Interesting Whitepaper We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You
In February 2008, Microsoft announced a record-breaking data load using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS): 1 TB of data in less than 30 minutes. That data load, using SQL Server Integration Services, was 30% faster than the previous best time using a commercial ETL tool. This paper outlines what it took: the software, hardware, [...]...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.Read the article
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dot42 vs Xamarin to develop in C# for Android phones [on hold]
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does anyone have experience with both dot42 and Xamarin to develop C# apps for Android? Could you please say why one should prefer one over the other? I like the free Visual Studio integration that is offered by dot42 (while Xamarin requires a subscription for this, and the business one which is quite expensive). I would also like to know if Visual Studio integration actually means that one could use all libraries available for desktop apps. Thank you.Read the article
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Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for Your Storage Network
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum:</b> "Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is making sure you have the right controller to get the most out of the pricey drives."Read the article
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Delight and Excite
- by Applications User Experience
Mick McGee, CEO & President, EchoUser Editor’s Note: EchoUser is a User Experience design firm in San Francisco and a member of the Oracle Usability Advisory Board. Mick and his staff regularly consult on Oracle Applications UX projects. Being part of a user experience design firm, we have the luxury of working with a lot of great people across many great companies. We get to help people solve their problems. At least we used to. The basic design challenge is still the same; however, the goal is not necessarily to solve “problems” anymore; it is, “I want our products to delight and excite!” The question for us as UX professionals is how to design to those goals, and then how to assess them from a usability perspective. I’m not sure where I first heard “delight and excite” (A book? blog post? Facebook status? Steve Jobs quote?), but now I hear these listed as user experience goals all the time. In particular, somewhat paradoxically, I routinely hear them in enterprise software conversations. And when asking these same enterprise companies what will make the project successful, we very often hear, “Make it like Apple.” In past days, it was “make it like Yahoo (or Amazon or Google“) but now Apple is the common benchmark. Steve Jobs and Apple were not secrets, but with Jobs’ passing and Apple becoming the world’s most valuable company in the last year, the impact of great design and experience is suddenly very widespread. In particular, users’ expectations have gone way up. Being an enterprise company is no shield to the general expectations that users now have, for all products. Designing a “Minimum Viable Product” The user experience challenge has historically been, to echo the words of Eric Ries (author of Lean Startup) , to create a “minimum viable product”: the proverbial, “make it good enough”. But, in our profession, the “minimum viable” part of that phrase has oftentimes, unfortunately, referred to the design and user experience. Technology typically dominated the focus of the biggest, most successful companies. Few have had the laser focus of Apple to also create and sell design and user experience alongside great technology. But now that Apple is the most valuable company in the world, copying their success is a common undertaking. Great design is now a premium offering that everyone wants, from the one-person startup to the largest companies, consumer and enterprise. This emerging business paradigm will have significant impact across the user experience design process and profession. One area that particularly interests me is, how are we going to evaluate these new emerging “delight and excite” experiences, which are further customized to each particular domain? How to Measure “Delight and Excite” Traditional usability measures of task completion rate, assists, time, and errors are still extremely useful in many situations; however, they are too blunt to offer much insight into emerging experiences “Satisfaction” is usually assessed in user testing, in roughly equivalent importance to the above objective metrics. Various surveys and scales have provided ways to measure satisfying UX, with whatever questions they include. However, to meet the demands of new business goals and keep users at the center of design and development processes, we have to explore new methods to better capture custom-experience goals and emotion-driven user responses. We have had success assessing custom experiences, including “delight and excite”, by employing a variety of user testing methods that tend to combine formative and summative techniques (formative being focused more on identifying usability issues and ways to improve design, and summative focused more on metrics). Our most successful tool has been one we’ve been using for a long time, Magnitude Estimation Technique (MET). But it’s not necessarily about MET as a measure, rather how it is created. Caption: For one client, EchoUser did two rounds of testing. Each test was a mix of performing representative tasks and gathering qualitative impressions. Each user participated in an in-person moderated 1-on-1 session for 1 hour, using a testing set-up where they held the phone. The primary goal was to identify usability issues and recommend design improvements. MET is based on a definition of the desired experience, which users will then use to rate items of interest (usually tasks in a usability test). In other words, a custom experience definition needs to be created. This can then be used to measure satisfaction in accomplishing tasks; “delight and excite”; or anything else from strategic goals, user demands, or elsewhere. For reference, our standard MET definition in usability testing is: “User experience is your perception of how easy to use, well designed and productive an interface is to complete tasks.” Articulating the User Experience We’ve helped construct experience definitions for several clients to better match their business goals. One example is a modification of the above that was needed for a company that makes medical-related products: “User experience is your perception of how easy to use, well-designed, productive and safe an interface is for conducting tasks. ‘Safe’ is how free an environment (including devices, software, facilities, people, etc.) is from danger, risk, and injury.” Another example is from a company that is pushing hard to incorporate “delight” into their enterprise business line: “User experience is your perception of a product’s ease of use and learning, satisfaction and delight in design, and ability to accomplish objectives.” I find the last one particularly compelling in that there is little that identifies the experience as being for a highly technical enterprise application. That definition could easily be applied to any number of consumer products. We have gone further than the above, including “sexy” and “cool” where decision-makers insisted they were part of the desired experience. We also applied it to completely different experiences where the “interface” was, for example, riding public transit, the “tasks” were train rides, and we followed the participants through the train-riding journey and rated various aspects accordingly: “A good public transportation experience is a cost-effective way of reliably, conveniently, and safely getting me to my intended destination on time.” To construct these definitions, we’ve employed both bottom-up and top-down approaches, depending on circumstances. For bottom-up, user inputs help dictate the terms that best fit the desired experience (usually by way of cluster and factor analysis). Top-down depends on strategic, visionary goals expressed by upper management that we then attempt to integrate into product development (e.g., “delight and excite”). We like a combination of both approaches to push the innovation envelope, but still be mindful of current user concerns. Hopefully the idea of crafting your own custom experience, and a way to measure it, can provide you with some ideas how you can adapt your user experience needs to whatever company you are in. Whether product-development or service-oriented, nearly every company is ultimately providing a user experience. The Bottom Line Creating great experiences may have been popularized by Steve Jobs and Apple, but I’ll be honest, it’s a good feeling to be moving from “good enough” to “delight and excite,” despite the challenge that entails. In fact, it’s because of that challenge that we will expand what we do as UX professionals to help deliver and assess those experiences. I’m excited to see how we, Oracle, and the rest of the industry will live up to that challenge.Read the article
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WebCenter Customer Spotlight: SICE
- by me
Author: Peter Reiser - Social Business Evangelist, Oracle WebCenter Solution SummarySociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas, S.A. (SICE) is a Spanish company specializes in engineering and technology integration for intelligent transport systems and environmental control systems. They had a large quantity of engineering and environmental planning documents which they wanted to manage, classify and integrate with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. SICE adapted Oracle WebCenter Content to classify and manage more than 30 different types, defined a security plan to ensure the integrity and recovery of various document types and integrated the document management solution with SICE’s third-party enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. SICE accelerated time to market for all projects, minimized time required to identify and recover documents and achieved greater efficiency in all operations. Company Overview Created in 1921, Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas, S.A. (SICE) currently specializes in engineering and technology integration for intelligent transport systems and environmental control systems. It has more than 2,500 employees, with operations in Spain and various locations in Latin America, the United States, Africa, and Australia. Business Challenges They had a large quantity of engineering and environmental planning documents generated in research and projects which they wanted to manage, classify and integrate with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Solution Deployed SICE worked with the Oracle Partner ABAST Solutions to evaluate and choose the best document management system, ultimately selecting Oracle WebCenter Content over other options including Documentum, SharePoint, OpenText, and Alfresco.They adapted Oracle WebCenter Content to classify and manage more than 30 different types, defined a security plan to ensure the integrity and recovery of various document types and integrated the document management solution with SICE’s third-party enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to accelerate incorporation with the documentation system and ensure integrity ERP system data. Business Results SICE accelerated time to market for all projects by releasing reports and information that support and validate engineering projects, stored all documents in a single repository with organizationwide accessibility, minimizing time required to identify and recover documents needed for reports to initiate and execute engineering and building projects. Overall they achieved greater efficiency in all operations, including technical and impact report development and construction documentation management. “The correct and efficient management of information is vital to our environmental management activity. Oracle WebCenter Content serves as a basis for knowledge management practices, with the objective of adding greater value to everything that we do.” Manuel Delgado, IT Project Engineering, Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas, S.A Additional Information SICE Customer Snapshot Oracle WebCenter ContentRead the article
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Focusing on Mobile @ Oracle OpenWorld
- by Carlos Chang
Plenty of exciting trends in the industry today: Cloud, Big Data, Mobile, etc. The first two are amazing of course, but for me, it's mobile, mobile and... MOBILE. Why? Think back to the mozilla browser (Marc Andreessen's mozilla, not today's mozilla.org), Netscape and the nascent beginnings of the World Wide Web. Amazing times. Companies were just starting to set up their home pages, basic HTML, hyperlinks, images, ooooh, aaaah. Yahoo! was *the* search engine back then. :-\ Anywhoo, I would pose that mobile today, we are in a similar junction. Sure, there's millions of apps on Apple's App Store and Google Play, but within the enterprise, it's just getting started. I'm talking about going beyond the simple, tactical apps such as calendaring, contacts or directory service lookup. And while mobile first a common mantra, I'm referring to mobile plus which includes and looks upon the whole enterprise holistically and adds new parameters, such as your GPS location, perhaps even your vital signs. (Apple's health kit?) Everything is going mobile. Everything connected. But with the enterprise - scalability, security, integration, app management, user management, etc. Amazing times ahead. Ok, got that off my mind. Oracle OpenWorld 2014 - Going Mobile! If you're coming to the big dance, I've highlighted some key mobile sessions below. And if you see me around, and there's a bar within reach, high five me for a beer. I mean, if you read this far, and didn't already jump to the list below, I think you deserve one. Cheers! Monday, 9/29/14 at 10:15 AM - General Session: Time for You to Rethink Mobile? Oracle Mobile Strategy and Roadmap Tuesday, 9/30/14 @ 12:00 PM; MW3020 - Develop and Deploy Mobile Applications with Oracle’s Mobile Wednesday, 10/1/2014 @10:15 AM; MW 3022 Introduction to Oracle Mobile Application Framework Wednesday, 10/1/2014 @11:30 AM Accelerate Enterprise Mobility with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Click here to view the complete Focus on Mobile sessions at this years Oracle OpenWorld 2014, and don't forget to follow @OracleMobile on Twitter.Read the article
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Improving Finance Department Productivity at BorgWarner
Nigel Youell, Product Marketing Director, Enterprise Performance Management Applications at Oracle discusses with Mark Smith, Manager, Financial Reporting Systems at BorgWarner how using Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System on top of SAP transactional systems at BorgWarner has made significant improvements in the productivity of it finance function and halved the time it takes for to close its books.Read the article
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Java Cloud Service for developers
- by JuergenKress
The advent of cloud computing has reinvented application development for many companies. “That’s the beauty of the cloud,” says Cameron Purdy, vice president of development, Oracle. “It dramatically improves developer productivity because they can do what they do best without having to manage complex development, testing, staging, and production environments.” The key is to find a platform that doesn’t impose proprietary restrictions or force developers to learn new tools. For example, Oracle Java Cloud Service is an enterprise-grade platform as a service for building and deploying Java EE, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) applications. “It’s designed to be flexible and easy to use,” says Purdy. “And it is also a standards-based solution -it’s not proprietary and there is no cloud lock-in. Developers get instant access to an enterprise-grade environment for a simple, monthly subscription.” Oracle Java Cloud Service instances are created with just a few clicks, so businesses can create a rich application development environment within minutes. Running on Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Exalogic, the underlying infrastructure also leverages Oracle Fusion Middleware’s integration with common services. For example, instances come integrated and preconfigured with optimized Oracle Database and Oracle Identity Management configurations. Based on Oracle Enterprise Manager, the Oracle Java Cloud Service console lets customers easily manage and monitor their Oracle Java Cloud Service instances. The open nature of the Oracle Java Cloud Service lets developers integrate through Web services such as SOAP and REST APIs, as well as use their favorite developer tools, whether they are out-of-the-box tools such as Maven and Ant or the productivity features built into Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, or NetBeans IDE. The service allows for the seamless movement of applications between on-premise Oracle WebLogic Server domains and instances of Oracle Java Cloud Service within Oracle Cloud. This approach allows flexibility to mix and match the use of on-premise environments with cloud instances for development, test, and production environments. Visit to learn more and watch videos about Oracle Java Cloud Service. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. BlogTwitterLinkedInMixForumWiki Technorati Tags: java,cloud,oracle cloud,java cloud,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen KressRead the article
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Filing the XBRL version of Oracle's 2011 10K with the SEC using Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management
Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management is designed to "demystify" the creation of XBRL documents. Featuring deep integration with existing Oracle financial reporting tools, it is the easiest and most straightforward approach to XBRL reporting for Oracle's enterprise performance management and enterprise resource planning customers. In this podcast hear how Oracle itself has improved its SEC XBRL submission process through the implementation of Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management.Read the article
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API Management Video
- by Michael Stephenson
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2014/08/03/157900.aspxJust wanted to put the word out that the API Management video from the recent user group meeting is available. The page on the below link has resources from that meeting:http://ukcsug.co.uk/past-events/2014-07-07/ Also we have out next two meetings available for registration at the following links:Hybrid Connectionshttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/azure-biztalk-services-hybrid-connections-tickets-12216617231?aff=eorg Hybrid Integration with Dynamics CRMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-integration-with-microsoft-dynamics-crm-tickets-12398067955?aff=eorgRead the article
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SSIS Training Comes to NYC 30 Jul-3 Aug!
- by andyleonard
Linchpin People is excited to announce the scheduling of From Zero To SSIS in New York City 30 Jul – 03 Aug 2012! Training Description From Zero to SSIS was developed by Andy Leonard to train technology professionals in the fine art of using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to build data integration and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) solutions. The training is focused around labs and emphasizes a hands-on approach. Most technologists learn by doing; this training is designed to maximize the time...(read more)Read the article
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SSIS Training Comes to NYC 30 Jul-3 Aug!
- by andyleonard
Linchpin People is excited to announce the scheduling of From Zero To SSIS in New York City 30 Jul – 03 Aug 2012! Training Description From Zero to SSIS was developed by Andy Leonard to train technology professionals in the fine art of using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to build data integration and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) solutions. The training is focused around labs and emphasizes a hands-on approach. Most technologists learn by doing; this training is designed to maximize the time...(read more)Read the article
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Windows Azure Cloud Supports SUSE Linux
The enterprise level Linux distribution can now run in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. If you're interested in using Microsoft's cloud computing platform and run the open source operating system, Azure now supports OpenSUSE 12.1, CentOS 6.2, Ubunto 12.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2. Windows Azure now provides what Microsoft characterizes as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities, not only for the Linux distributions named above, but for Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. If you're a fan of automation, you'll appreciate the ability to use...Read the article
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Microsoft Launches Pre-release Updates of AppFabric, BizTalk
Microsoft Application Infrastructure Virtual Conference highlights integration between new cloud-savvy, .NET middleware and Microsoft's integration server....Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.Read the article
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links for 2010-04-23
- by Bob Rhubart
Lip Service: Meeting enterprise architecture communication challenges is critical. The greatest obstacle to successful enterprise architecture is the one that enjoys a good night’s sleep, loves a nice hot shower, and sometimes cheats on its diet. (tags: oracle otn oraclemagazine enterprisearchitecture communication)Read the article
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New stuff on Windows Live … Hotmail and Messenger to start
- by Enrique Lima
Where to start? First, I would recommend you visit the Preview at http://windowslivepreview.com/hotmail/launch/?lang=en Then Start Exploring, here you will find the information on Hotmail and Messenger. Why would this be exciting? The Hotmail offering is having the following pieces integrated: ActiveSync Office Web Apps integration SkyDrive integration Head on over, check it out.Read the article
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ClickOnce Deployment
This article is taken from the book Continuous Integration in .NET. The authors discuss ClickOnce, a simple way to make a Windows application available over the net without using installation files. They show how to use ClickOnce within the Continuous Integration process.Read the article
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How to Integrate Facebook and Twitter with Java Applications
Exposure on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn has a tremendous impact on business, effecting marketing, networking, analytics and more. Social media is a natural resource for collecting user feedback, comments, suggestions, etc., making the integration of social media with applications increasingly important. This article will discuss the integration of Facebook and Twitter with a Java application.Read the article
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Oracle Database 12c ?????(??10?29?)
- by user763299
?????/??: ????????? Oracle Database 12c ?????,??????????????????????????????????,?????????? Oracle ????,???? Oracle ???????????????,???? Database 12c ??????????,??????????????????????????? ????????,???????????? Database 12c ???????????????: ? Oracle SQL Developer ?????????? ? Oracle SQL Developer ??????? ?? Oracle Enterprise Manager ?????????? ??? 2013?10?29? ??? ???????: ?? 13391606778 010-64418595-6056 Email:[email protected] ???? 09:00-09:15 ?? 09:15-10:15 ????:Oracle Database 12c ?? ???? Oracle Database 12c ???????????,???????????????????????????? 10:15-11:15 Oracle????????? 11:15-11:30 ?? 11:30-12:15 ????????? Oracle Database 12c ?? Oracle ?????????????????????????????? 12:15-12:30 ?? 12:30-13:30 ?? 13:30-14:15 ????:? Oracle SQL Developer ????????? ????????????????? - ?????????????? - ??????????? - ???????? 14:15-15:15 ????:? Oracle SQL Developer ???Data Redaction Data Redaction?????????????????: - ??Redaction?? - ??Redaction?? - ????Redaction?? - ??Redaction??????? - ??Redaction?? - ??Redaction?? 15:15-16:00 ????:?? Oracle Enterprise Manager Express ?????????? ??????: - ?? Oracle Enterprise Manager Express - ?? Oracle Enterprise Manager Express ??????? 16:00 ?? ??????????????,??????????????????????? ???? © 2013,??????/????????????? ???? | ????????? | ????Read the article
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?????????????Oracle Exadata????
- by mamoru.kobayashi
??????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Exadata???????????????? ???????????????????????????????·???????????????Oracle Exadata??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????CTC??Oracle Exadata???????Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition???Oracle Enterprise Manager???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Exadata??????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Exadata???????????? ?????????????????Read the article
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?? ???????·??·?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!?????????????????????·????????????????!???????????!????????????????????????????? ????????????????????GUI??? Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control??????????????·???????GUI????JRockit Flight Recorder??????????????2??????????WebLogic Server ? Oracle Database ???????????????????????????????????????????????????¦Database?Application Server??????¦????????????????????¦???????????????????????¦?????????·????????¦Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control????????????¦JRockit Flight Recorder????????????????????????????????????????????2???????????????????????http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/jp/ondemand/application-grid/id-000954-404639-ja.pdf<wmv> http://otndnld.oracle.co.jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/movie/id_000948.wmv<mp4> http://otndnld.oracle.co.jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/movie/mp4/id_000948.mp4Read the article
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What is the IPv6 equivalent to IPv4 RFC1918 addresses?
- by Kumba
Having a hard time wrapping my head around IPv6 here. A lot of the lingo seems targeted at enterprise-level IPv6 deployments, discussing link-local, site-local, global unicast, scopes, etc. Not a lot of solid information on really small networks, like home networks. I want to check my thinking and make sure I am getting the correct translations from IPv4-speak to IPv6-speak. The first question is, what's the equivalent of RFC1918 for IPv6? Initial searches suggested there was no equivalent. Then I stumbled upon Unique Local Addresses (RFC4193), and that states that all ULA's should be assigned the prefix fc00, followed by a 40-bit random number in the routing prefix. This random number is to "prevent collisions when two IPv6 networks are interconnected" -- again, another reference to an enterprise-level function. If I have a small local LAN at home, numbered using 192.168.4.0/24, what's my equivalent in IPv6's ULA scope? Assuming I will never, ever, tie that IPv6 address into the real internet (a router will NAT & firewall it), can I ignore the RFC to an extent and go with fc00::4:0/120? It also seems that any address in fc00::/7 are to be globally routable. Does this mean I'll need extra protections so my router would not automatically start advertising these private IPv6 addresses to the world? Second question, what's this link-local thing? Reading suggests a default-assigned address in the fe80::/10 range that has the last 64bits of the address comprised of the interface's MAC address. Seems to be required, too, but I'm annoyed by the constant discussion of it in relation to enterprise networks. Third question, what is scope id for? Seems to be yet another term tossed around in relation to enterprise networks, especially when interconnecting them, but almost no explanation on the smaller home network level. Can I see a scope ID AND CIDR notation used together? I.e., fc00::4:0/120%6, or are scope IDs only supposed to be applied to a single /128 IPv6 address?Read the article
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Windows Azure Service Bus Splitter and Aggregator
- by Alan Smith
This article will cover basic implementations of the Splitter and Aggregator patterns using the Windows Azure Service Bus. The content will be included in the next release of the “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide”, along with some other patterns I am working on. I’ve taken the pattern descriptions from the book “Enterprise Integration Patterns” by Gregor Hohpe. I bought a copy of the book in 2004, and recently dusted it off when I started to look at implementing the patterns on the Windows Azure Service Bus. Gregor has also presented an session in 2011 “Enterprise Integration Patterns: Past, Present and Future” which is well worth a look. I’ll be covering more patterns in the coming weeks, I’m currently working on Wire-Tap and Scatter-Gather. There will no doubt be a section on implementing these patterns in my “SOA, Connectivity and Integration using the Windows Azure Service Bus” course. There are a number of scenarios where a message needs to be divided into a number of sub messages, and also where a number of sub messages need to be combined to form one message. The splitter and aggregator patterns provide a definition of how this can be achieved. This section will focus on the implementation of basic splitter and aggregator patens using the Windows Azure Service Bus direct programming model. In BizTalk Server receive pipelines are typically used to implement the splitter patterns, with sequential convoy orchestrations often used to aggregate messages. In the current release of the Service Bus, there is no functionality in the direct programming model that implements these patterns, so it is up to the developer to implement them in the applications that send and receive messages. Splitter A message splitter takes a message and spits the message into a number of sub messages. As there are different scenarios for how a message can be split into sub messages, message splitters are implemented using different algorithms. The Enterprise Integration Patterns book describes the splatter pattern as follows: How can we process a message if it contains multiple elements, each of which may have to be processed in a different way? Use a Splitter to break out the composite message into a series of individual messages, each containing data related to one item. The Enterprise Integration Patterns website provides a description of the Splitter pattern here. In some scenarios a batch message could be split into the sub messages that are contained in the batch. The splitting of a message could be based on the message type of sub-message, or the trading partner that the sub message is to be sent to. Aggregator An aggregator takes a stream or related messages and combines them together to form one message. The Enterprise Integration Patterns book describes the aggregator pattern as follows: How do we combine the results of individual, but related messages so that they can be processed as a whole? Use a stateful filter, an Aggregator, to collect and store individual messages until a complete set of related messages has been received. Then, the Aggregator publishes a single message distilled from the individual messages. The Enterprise Integration Patterns website provides a description of the Aggregator pattern here. A common example of the need for an aggregator is in scenarios where a stream of messages needs to be combined into a daily batch to be sent to a legacy line-of-business application. The BizTalk Server EDI functionality provides support for batching messages in this way using a sequential convoy orchestration. Scenario The scenario for this implementation of the splitter and aggregator patterns is the sending and receiving of large messages using a Service Bus queue. In the current release, the Windows Azure Service Bus currently supports a maximum message size of 256 KB, with a maximum header size of 64 KB. This leaves a safe maximum body size of 192 KB. The BrokeredMessage class will support messages larger than 256 KB; in fact the Size property is of type long, implying that very large messages may be supported at some point in the future. The 256 KB size restriction is set in the service bus components that are deployed in the Windows Azure data centers. One of the ways of working around this size restriction is to split large messages into a sequence of smaller sub messages in the sending application, send them via a queue, and then reassemble them in the receiving application. This scenario will be used to demonstrate the pattern implementations. Implementation The splitter and aggregator will be used to provide functionality to send and receive large messages over the Windows Azure Service Bus. In order to make the implementations generic and reusable they will be implemented as a class library. The splitter will be implemented in the LargeMessageSender class and the aggregator in the LargeMessageReceiver class. A class diagram showing the two classes is shown below. Implementing the Splitter The splitter will take a large brokered message, and split the messages into a sequence of smaller sub-messages that can be transmitted over the service bus messaging entities. The LargeMessageSender class provides a Send method that takes a large brokered message as a parameter. The implementation of the class is shown below; console output has been added to provide details of the splitting operation. public class LargeMessageSender { private static int SubMessageBodySize = 192 * 1024; private QueueClient m_QueueClient; public LargeMessageSender(QueueClient queueClient) { m_QueueClient = queueClient; } public void Send(BrokeredMessage message) { // Calculate the number of sub messages required. long messageBodySize = message.Size; int nrSubMessages = (int)(messageBodySize / SubMessageBodySize); if (messageBodySize % SubMessageBodySize != 0) { nrSubMessages++; } // Create a unique session Id. string sessionId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(); Console.WriteLine("Message session Id: " + sessionId); Console.Write("Sending {0} sub-messages", nrSubMessages); Stream bodyStream = message.GetBody<Stream>(); for (int streamOffest = 0; streamOffest < messageBodySize; streamOffest += SubMessageBodySize) { // Get the stream chunk from the large message long arraySize = (messageBodySize - streamOffest) > SubMessageBodySize ? SubMessageBodySize : messageBodySize - streamOffest; byte[] subMessageBytes = new byte[arraySize]; int result = bodyStream.Read(subMessageBytes, 0, (int)arraySize); MemoryStream subMessageStream = new MemoryStream(subMessageBytes); // Create a new message BrokeredMessage subMessage = new BrokeredMessage(subMessageStream, true); subMessage.SessionId = sessionId; // Send the message m_QueueClient.Send(subMessage); Console.Write("."); } Console.WriteLine("Done!"); }} The LargeMessageSender class is initialized with a QueueClient that is created by the sending application. When the large message is sent, the number of sub messages is calculated based on the size of the body of the large message. A unique session Id is created to allow the sub messages to be sent as a message session, this session Id will be used for correlation in the aggregator. A for loop in then used to create the sequence of sub messages by creating chunks of data from the stream of the large message. The sub messages are then sent to the queue using the QueueClient. As sessions are used to correlate the messages, the queue used for message exchange must be created with the RequiresSession property set to true. Implementing the Aggregator The aggregator will receive the sub messages in the message session that was created by the splitter, and combine them to form a single, large message. The aggregator is implemented in the LargeMessageReceiver class, with a Receive method that returns a BrokeredMessage. The implementation of the class is shown below; console output has been added to provide details of the splitting operation. public class LargeMessageReceiver { private QueueClient m_QueueClient; public LargeMessageReceiver(QueueClient queueClient) { m_QueueClient = queueClient; } public BrokeredMessage Receive() { // Create a memory stream to store the large message body. MemoryStream largeMessageStream = new MemoryStream(); // Accept a message session from the queue. MessageSession session = m_QueueClient.AcceptMessageSession(); Console.WriteLine("Message session Id: " + session.SessionId); Console.Write("Receiving sub messages"); while (true) { // Receive a sub message BrokeredMessage subMessage = session.Receive(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)); if (subMessage != null) { // Copy the sub message body to the large message stream. Stream subMessageStream = subMessage.GetBody<Stream>(); subMessageStream.CopyTo(largeMessageStream); // Mark the message as complete. subMessage.Complete(); Console.Write("."); } else { // The last message in the sequence is our completeness criteria. Console.WriteLine("Done!"); break; } } // Create an aggregated message from the large message stream. BrokeredMessage largeMessage = new BrokeredMessage(largeMessageStream, true); return largeMessage; } } The LargeMessageReceiver initialized using a QueueClient that is created by the receiving application. The receive method creates a memory stream that will be used to aggregate the large message body. The AcceptMessageSession method on the QueueClient is then called, which will wait for the first message in a message session to become available on the queue. As the AcceptMessageSession can throw a timeout exception if no message is available on the queue after 60 seconds, a real-world implementation should handle this accordingly. Once the message session as accepted, the sub messages in the session are received, and their message body streams copied to the memory stream. Once all the messages have been received, the memory stream is used to create a large message, that is then returned to the receiving application. Testing the Implementation The splitter and aggregator are tested by creating a message sender and message receiver application. The payload for the large message will be one of the webcast video files from http://www.cloudcasts.net/, the file size is 9,697 KB, well over the 256 KB threshold imposed by the Service Bus. As the splitter and aggregator are implemented in a separate class library, the code used in the sender and receiver console is fairly basic. The implementation of the main method of the sending application is shown below. static void Main(string[] args) { // Create a token provider with the relevant credentials. TokenProvider credentials = TokenProvider.CreateSharedSecretTokenProvider (AccountDetails.Name, AccountDetails.Key); // Create a URI for the serivce bus. Uri serviceBusUri = ServiceBusEnvironment.CreateServiceUri ("sb", AccountDetails.Namespace, string.Empty); // Create the MessagingFactory MessagingFactory factory = MessagingFactory.Create(serviceBusUri, credentials); // Use the MessagingFactory to create a queue client QueueClient queueClient = factory.CreateQueueClient(AccountDetails.QueueName); // Open the input file. FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(AccountDetails.TestFile, FileMode.Open); // Create a BrokeredMessage for the file. BrokeredMessage largeMessage = new BrokeredMessage(fileStream, true); Console.WriteLine("Sending: " + AccountDetails.TestFile); Console.WriteLine("Message body size: " + largeMessage.Size); Console.WriteLine(); // Send the message with a LargeMessageSender LargeMessageSender sender = new LargeMessageSender(queueClient); sender.Send(largeMessage); // Close the messaging facory. factory.Close(); } The implementation of the main method of the receiving application is shown below. static void Main(string[] args) { // Create a token provider with the relevant credentials. TokenProvider credentials = TokenProvider.CreateSharedSecretTokenProvider (AccountDetails.Name, AccountDetails.Key); // Create a URI for the serivce bus. Uri serviceBusUri = ServiceBusEnvironment.CreateServiceUri ("sb", AccountDetails.Namespace, string.Empty); // Create the MessagingFactory MessagingFactory factory = MessagingFactory.Create(serviceBusUri, credentials); // Use the MessagingFactory to create a queue client QueueClient queueClient = factory.CreateQueueClient(AccountDetails.QueueName); // Create a LargeMessageReceiver and receive the message. LargeMessageReceiver receiver = new LargeMessageReceiver(queueClient); BrokeredMessage largeMessage = receiver.Receive(); Console.WriteLine("Received message"); Console.WriteLine("Message body size: " + largeMessage.Size); string testFile = AccountDetails.TestFile.Replace(@"\In\", @"\Out\"); Console.WriteLine("Saving file: " + testFile); // Save the message body as a file. Stream largeMessageStream = largeMessage.GetBody<Stream>(); largeMessageStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); FileStream fileOut = new FileStream(testFile, FileMode.Create); largeMessageStream.CopyTo(fileOut); fileOut.Close(); Console.WriteLine("Done!"); } In order to test the application, the sending application is executed, which will use the LargeMessageSender class to split the message and place it on the queue. The output of the sender console is shown below. The console shows that the body size of the large message was 9,929,365 bytes, and the message was sent as a sequence of 51 sub messages. When the receiving application is executed the results are shown below. The console application shows that the aggregator has received the 51 messages from the message sequence that was creating in the sending application. The messages have been aggregated to form a massage with a body of 9,929,365 bytes, which is the same as the original large message. The message body is then saved as a file. Improvements to the Implementation The splitter and aggregator patterns in this implementation were created in order to show the usage of the patterns in a demo, which they do quite well. When implementing these patterns in a real-world scenario there are a number of improvements that could be made to the design. Copying Message Header Properties When sending a large message using these classes, it would be great if the message header properties in the message that was received were copied from the message that was sent. The sending application may well add information to the message context that will be required in the receiving application. When the sub messages are created in the splitter, the header properties in the first message could be set to the values in the original large message. The aggregator could then used the values from this first sub message to set the properties in the message header of the large message during the aggregation process. Using Asynchronous Methods The current implementation uses the synchronous send and receive methods of the QueueClient class. It would be much more performant to use the asynchronous methods, however doing so may well affect the sequence in which the sub messages are enqueued, which would require the implementation of a resequencer in the aggregator to restore the correct message sequence. Handling Exceptions In order to keep the code readable no exception handling was added to the implementations. In a real-world scenario exceptions should be handled accordingly.Read the article
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UCM 11g is 4 days old!
- by kyle.hatlestad
Ok...so I missed posting a blog entry when UCM 11g and the entire ECM suite released on Tuesday. Hopefully you've already seen the announcements on any number of the Oracle ECM blogs out there such as ECM Alerts, Fusion ECM, bex huff, or C4. So I won't bore you with the same talking points like 179 million check-ins per day or 124 web site page hits per second. Instead, I thought I'd show some screenshots of the new features in UCM and URM 11g. WebLogic Server and Enterprise Manager So probably the biggest change in 11g is UCM and URM now run on top of the WebLogic Server application server. This is a huge step as ECM is now on a standard platform with the rest of Oracle Fusion Middleware which makes installation, configuration, and integration consistent among all the products. From a feature perspective, it's also beneficial because it's now integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager. Enterprise Manager provides a lot of provisioning control over servers as well as performance monitoring and access to logs and debugging information. Desktop Integration Suite Desktop Integration Suite got a complete overhaul for 11g. It exposes a lot more features within Windows Explorer such as saved searches, workflow queue, and checked-out items. It also now support metadata pop-up screens to let users fill in additional metadata when they drag-n-drop files in! And the integration within Office applications has changed significantly by introducing a dedicated UCM menu to do open, save, compare, etc. Site Studio for External Applications In UCM Site Studio 10gR4, a major architectural shift was introduced which brought several new objects such as elements, region definitions, region templates, and placeholder definitions. This truly separated the content from the display and from the definition. It also allowed separation of the content from needing to be rendered on a complete Site Studio page. Well, the new Site Studio for External Applications takes advantage of that architecture and introduces pre-built tags and plug-ins to JDeveloper to allow to go from simply adding a content area to your web application page to building an entire web site, just like you would have done in Site Studio Designer. In addition to these changes, enhancements to the core Site Studio have been added as well. One of the big ones is called Designer Mode which allows power-users to bypass the standard rules defined by the placeholder definition or template and perform any number of additional actions. This reduces the need to go back to Site Studio Designer or JDeveloper to make more advanced changes to the site. Dashboards As part of the updated records management functionality in both UCM and URM, users can now set a dashboard view on their home page to surface common functions in a single view. It has pre-built "portlets" users can choose from to display and organize they way they want. Behind the scenes, these dashboards are stored as Content Folios. So the dashboards themselves are content items that can be revisioned and shared between users. And new dashboard portlets can be easily added (like the User Profile one in the screenshots) by getting a copy of an existing one, modifying the display, and then checking it in as a new one to select from. URM Interface Enhancements URM includes several new UI and usability enhancements in 11g. There is a new view for physical records, a place to configure "favorite" items to quickly get to, and new placement of the records management menu. BI Publisher Reports Records management in UCM and URM now offer reports generated through embedded BI Publisher. Templates are controlled by rich text files checked directly into the repository, so they can be easily modified. Other Features A new Inbound Refinery conversion option is available that does native Microsoft Office HTML conversion. If your IBR is on Windows and you have the native applications loaded, the IBR can use them to produce HTML. A new GUI template editor for Dynamic Converter is available. It's written in Java so is available through all the supported browsers and platforms. The original ActiveX based editor is also still available. The Component Manager interface has changed to help provide an easier and more descriptive way to enable core components that are installed along with UCM. All of the supported components are immediately available to turn on and do not have to be installed separately as in previous versions. My Downloads is located in the My Content Server menu and provides for easy download of client installs including Desktop Integration Suite and Site Studio Designer. Well, hopefully that gives you a taste for some of the new things in 11g. We're all pretty excited here at Oracle about all the new changes and enhancements. Over the next few months I hope to highlight some of these features more in-depth, so keep your eye out for those posts.Read the article
