Jeff Davies

Welcome to my personal web site. I am a Sr. Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, CA.  I am also the primary author of The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle Service Bus (second edition, Apress, Sept 2008) and The Definitive Guide to SOA: BEA AquaLogic Service Bus  (Apress, May 2007)

If you have visited my site before you can see that I'm changing things a bit. Pardon the ness while I get everything reconfigured for the new web site. 

The New Book!

Available on bookshelves and online booksellers now: The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle Service Bus (second edition) (Apress).  I'm very excited about this book. It bears the new branding from Oracle: Oracle Service Bus and contains updated information for developers and architects alike. This version of OSB uses WorkSpace Studio (based on Eclipse 3.2) as the development environment. The web console is still in place to support operations personnel.

We have a new author for the Security Chapter, David Rieber. David was a security expert for the service bus at BEA, before he joined Google. I have also contributed to the security chapter by providing a detail exercise that shows how to secure a web service.

Samrat Ray has also joined the author team. Samrat has written a very important chapter on performance tuning for the service bus that is a must-read for everyone that either develops or operates service bus.

David Schorow has updated his chapter on the Transport SDK. This chapter is a great resource for anyone interested in really extending the "reach" of OSB to integrate with any legacy or proprietary system.

Oracle Acquires BEA

Oracle Corporation has acquired BEA Systems and all former BEA employees in the US became Oracle employees in June. One of the many changes in store for BEA products is that the AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) has been rebranded  to become Oracle Service Bus (OSB).

I'm very excited about this acquisition because Oracle brings a tremendous amount of technical fire-power to the table. The future of OSB is bright!

Visit the Forum

I  have created a Yahoo group to help support the readers of the book. You can find the forum by  clicking here.

You can also send email to the group using the email address OracleServiceBus@yahoogroups.com

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"An ESB is in the core of most enterprise SOA implementations and AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) is one of the leading ESB. This book covers all the features expected from a moderen ESB using realistic use cases and samples that run on ALSB. Once you downloaded the samples you will have a library of solutions that may be applied to your own projects or may be used to explore ALSB features. In addition the book covers the service design, specially the design of composite and orchestrated services deployed on the bus. Although the book is written particularly for ALSB, the topics covered in it will give you very good idea on any modern ESB. I found this book very useful for my projects; applied many of the solutions included in this book. I recommend it for new beginners as well as experienced service developers, SOA architects, and managers overseeing SOA projects."

- Sazi Temel 

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"What I like the most about this book is that the book explains more about HOW to use ALSB to create and manage web services than just how to use ALSB which you can learn by reading the documentation.

I had played around with ALSB a few weeks before getting this book but had difficulty understanding some of the concepts and best practices. This book does a great job of explaining both the high-level concepts such as how to map your web services to your internal services/applications and low-level concepts like when to use a pipeline pair instead of a route. It also explains best practices for some issues which I have not been able to find anywhere else."

- Magnus Lassi