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Peter McTaggart - Renewtek - Achieving Hero Status with WebLogic Server
- 1. Peter McTaggart Chief Technology Officer Renewtek Date_ November 2008 Maintaining Hero Status in Tough Times: Beating the Odds with Oracle WebLogic Server
- 2. Agenda Introduction Today’s business reality Agile Processes Agile Application Infrastructure
- 3. Renewtek Project Implementation Specialists 5 years old – ~120 staff Melbourne, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh What we do Oracle Partners SOA Consulting & Implementation Integration / EAI Business Process Management Web and Enterprise Development Legacy Modernisation & Renewal Agile Project Delivery Melbourne Sydney Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
- 4. Agenda Introduction Today’s business reality Agile Processes Agile Application Infrastructure
- 5. Driving Business Efficiency & Expansion The essential foundation for enterprise apps & SOA Efficiency Expansion Capital Markets Costs of Materials and Workforce Budgets IT Costs Predictability Flexibility Market Aggregation Globalization IT is the business (not just a support function) Scale Variability Quality of Service ©2008 Oracle Corporation
- 6. Today’s Business Reality Current economic climate Energy price volatility Higher cost of goods and services Slower job growth Fluctuating currency affects import/export Opposing forces: Slow down, Speed up Dilemma: increase efficiency & accommodate growth (with the same or diminished IT budget)
- 7. IT Projects are Complex Technical Issues Complex decentralized architecture Multiple participating development teams Enforcement of interfaces, standards (XML schemas, etc.) Need to have a good governance structure Need good process models in place Business Issues Under pressure to deliver at lower cost and lower risk and quicker
- 8. Traditional Methods aren’t Helping Lock Down Requirements Stopping change means unresponsive and possibly not delivering value. Tighten Control Traditional methods fight market demands for speed and innovation. Fall Back to the Contract Sticking to original plans leads to customer dissatisfaction
- 9. We Need a Different Approach to High-Change Projects Problem : Rapidly changing business priorities Solution: Allow business-driven change Problem: Poor client satisfaction. Sponsors feel powerless, locked out of the decision-making process. Solution: Allow the sponsor to control priorities and direction. Problem: Sponsors who micro-manage. Solution: Team allowed to make technical decisions as long as business objectives are met. Problem: You don’t know you are failing until the end Solution: If you are going to fail, know it and Fail Fast
- 10. Business/IT project needs: Improve visibility Improve customer satisfaction Improve project flexibility /responsiveness to change Improve speed of delivery Improve delivery of value to customer Reduce risk
- 11. Agile Principles: Agile principles focus on the following: Improve visibility Improve customer satisfaction Improve project flexibility /responsiveness to change Improve speed of delivery Improve delivery of value to customer Reduce risk
- 12. Agenda Introduction Today’s business reality Agile Processes Agile Application Infrastructure
- 13. Spot Poll Prize for the 10 th person to answer. How are you using agile techniques and processes? Agile? What’s agile? Evaluating it Piloting / Putting our toes in the water Selected Projects use Agile Most Projects use Agile Corporate-wide adoption of Agile
- 14. And the Winner is………..
- 15. Comparison with Traditional Approach
- 17. Benefits of Agile More Control Focused on most important business value NOW. Increased Transparency & Visibility Control in hands of the business Lower Risk Early Product Feedback Evidence based reporting Better Cost Management Potential for early delivery & returns Cost control Focus + Transparency Accountability, Control & Lower Risk
- 18. Industry Adoption of Agile Larger enterprises continue to be more likely to adopt Agile than smaller enterprises. The financial services industry continues to lead the pack in enterprise adoption of Agile processes; the retail and public sector segments continue to lag. Adoption of Agile processes clearly correlates with adoption of other leading-edge technologies and techniques like SOA, ALM, and SaaS. (Source: 2007 Forrester Research, Inc) Source: Version One / Agile Adoption Survey 2007 Source: 2007 Agile Adoption Survey
- 19. Agile Methods complement Successful SOA Projects Close correlation between adoption rates for Agile and SOA 1 Organizations with enterprise-wide SOA strategy are twice as likely (28%) as others to use agile processes Organizations using SOA selectively are 1.5 times as likely (21%) as others to use agile processes Companies with no SOA plans are half as likely (6%) to use agile processes “ Agile Processes Enable SOA Success.” Forrester Trends . February 7, 2006.
- 20. Agenda Introduction Today’s business reality Agile Processes Agile Application Infrastructure
- 21. Content Management Suite Java EE Apps SOA Suite WebCenter Suite Identity Management Suite Cobol Applications Business Intelligence Suite C/C++ Apps Product Family Overview Enterprise Application Foundation Oracle Coherence Application Grid Oracle WebLogic Operations Control Enterprise Manager JDeveloper/Eclipse Oracle JRockit JVM Real Time Oracle WebLogic Server Java EE Web Services Messaging TopLink Oracle Tuxedo C, C++, Cobol Databases Mainframes Legacy Commodity Virtualized
- 22. Spot Poll! Prize for the 10 th person to answer. What is your main application development technology? Traditional J2EE .NET Open Source Java frameworks (eg. Spring) Dynamic/scripting languages eg Ruby, python COBOL C++
- 23. And the Winner is………..
- 24. Agile Infrastructure Why do we use WebLogic Server? Robustness Support Tooling & Operations Ecosystem Standards Support A few examples & feature highlights….
- 26. WebLogic Diagnostic Framework Unified, extensible framework Collect and analyze runtime data Supports problem isolation, diagnosis Faster time to production deployment Maintain service levels in production Features GUI interface via console extension Low runtime overhead (approx 3%) Harvesting of runtime metrics Watch runtime state and trigger Alerts Test request injection and tracing Persistent Archive to persist and access diagnostic data
- 27. Application Diagnostics 4 Java Diagnose Issues in Production, not in Test Reduce Time to Resolution “ Always-on” monitoring with more informative alerts Earlier warning to minimize outages
- 29. Oracle WebLogic Server 10 g R3 Themes Lightweight Web Services/SOA base Web 2.0 Open Source Support Performance Standards updates, technology integration RASP Infrastructure Java EE/WS Spring Web 2.0 Browser Java WS .NET WebLogic Server Clients
- 30. Oracle JDeveloper Three editions for different target audiences: Studio – Fusion Development, SOA Java EE – Core Java EE and Web Services Java – Java coding only Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) Plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE platform WebLogic Java EE, Spring, Web Services, JPA Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Traditional Open source tool chain Eclipse Maven, Ant, Checkstyle, PMD, JUnit, Selenium Spring, Hibernate Spring Enhancements Spring 2.5 certification Improved admin of Spring Apps Spring Security / WLS Security integration WebLogic Server Development Tools
- 31. FastSwap – Class Redefinition What is it? A class redefinition technology that builds on JDK features What is it good for? Improves developer productivity Changes the “Edit > Save > Compile > Redeploy >Recreate State” cycle to “Edit > Save > Recompile > Refresh Browser” See your changes almost immediately No need to bounce the classloader No loss of state Debug Develop Deploy Accelerate Development Cycle
- 32. Spot Poll! Prize for the 10 th person to answer. Which Rich client technologies are you using? Javascript/AJAX framework eg. Dojo, JQuery Adobe Flex Microsoft Silverlight Custom-built frameworks Others Not using one
- 33. And the Winner is………..
- 34. Web 2.0/RIA (Rich Internet Applications) Enable next generation of Web apps Rich UI for browser-based applications Support collaborative apps and social computing AJAX/Dojo client support Enable rich UI for client applications JavaScript tooling planned for Workshop HTTP pub-sub engine for AJAX Enable data exchange within apps over persistent connections Dojo client and scalable server-side engine Pub-sub server infrastructure COMETd/ Bayeux API Java Browser Browser Browser Clients Enablement for rich user interfaces deep in the app server
- 35. SOA – Web Services and JMS JAX-RPC Evolve standards, enterprise support SAML Token Profile 1.1 (SAML 1.1 and 2.0 support) WS-RM 1.1 Improved MS/Indigo interoperability JAX-WS Update to JAXB 2.1 and JAX-WS 2.1 WS-Security, WS-Policy support Drive to common WS-* support across JAX-WS and JAX-RPC JMS Enterprise-grade features, performance, and reliability .NET Client Automatic JMS Migration for HA WebLogic Server as the foundation for SOA
- 36. In Summary Oracle WebLogic Server Robust, proven application infrastructure Large scale, 24x7 operation & management Agile Project Management Business Focused Transparency & Visibility Learning & Adapting delivery process Accountability, Control & Lower Risk Renewtek Deep experience with both Oracle WebLogic Server and Agile delivery
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