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There’s an interesting technical note available on OTN on invoking OWB processes or mappings as web services. Traditionally, OWB mappings and processes are run using the OWB deployment manager, SQL*Plus (using the Execution Template) or through Oracle Enterprise Manager. However, from OWB 9.0.4 onwards, mappings and process flows can be called by any application that [...]

Oracle’s Sergio Leunissen has started a blog on HTML DB tips, tricks and examples. Sergio is one of the product team behind HTMDB and I met him, and Joel Kallman, at one of the HTMLDB developer days earlier this year in Reading. Sergio kindly answered a few questions that came up after my introduction to [...]

"Many articles have been written about the use of PL/SQL vs. Java." writes Dave Moore in "Java vs. PL/SQL: Where Do I Put the SQL?". "These articles tend to focus on the intricacies of each language and their strengths and weaknesses as the server-side logic. This article won’t focus on this issue but will instead [...]

"As organizations grow to depend on globally distributed service networks, their business intelligence (BI) capability must adapt. Here’s how autonomous agents will "embed" BI in business processes to overcome new challenges." writes Naeem Hashmi for IntelligentEnterprise.com. I wrote a few weeks ago about Oracle’s current business intelligence vision being based around real-time data warehousing built [...]

Omar Irbough wrote to me today about a blogging application he’s written using HTMLDB. It’s currently hosted using Oracle’s HTMLDB hosted environment and Omar will be putting it forward for the HTMLDB Studio site. The application is currently in development and has two test blogs running at the moment. Take a look when you get [...]