Leap seconds and Fusion Middleware

Since I have talked about the leap second in conjunction with Exadata and Linux OS, as well as Exalytics, I think the My Oracle Support document "Leap Second Vulnerability on Fusion Middleware Products" from article ID 2024181.1 is a great resource even if not on Fusion yet because of all the links it has about the issue!  While Fusion Middleware does not appear to be affect by this, the document DOES admit that there are certain reasons why you would need to address this issue with some of those relating to the precision required and if your application needs it as well.

Weekend reading: Fusion discussion with Steve Miranda

Even though the interview is almost a year old, if you click on the link within the article and read the whole story it is really quite interesting.  While we aren't using Oracle Fusion, I've been hearing rumblings about it for several years and even a few weeks ago Steven Chan had to clear up that Fusion isn't an upgrade path for Oracle EBS so it was really enlightening to hear what Oracle is planning and how they are approaching their marketing.  The best take away for me was that even Oracle considers a product as complete and successful internally after they do a few month end closes!  Why?  Our group has come to the same conclusion and we're already looking at the calendar for staffing needs during our first few post-R12 closes.

Fusion Certifications

Back in April, the new Fusion certification path was announced and there are many different certifications in those paths which you can see on the pages for Fusion Accounts Receivable, Fusion Accounts Payable, and Fusion General Ledger.  These announcements are important for me because they fall into my career and education path over the next 2-5 years since I want to get completely on top of all these modules.

Of course with new certifications, come new certification retirements as well.

SOA, OSB, Fusion Middleware

I found what I think are some quite useful articles detailing the Oracle Service Bus architecture and SOA and Fusion Middleware with some detailed PDFs attached to the end of those articles as well.  Along this same vein, I found a great intro to Fusion Security as well from the same ArchBeat entry!

You may be asking yourself: why this sudden interest in all things Middleware?  Honestly, it's not such a sudden interest.  We have a web of servers and services and the spider in the middle of the web most times is SOA, OSB or some other Middleware layer technology.  This isn't really a bad thing most of the time, yet I feel as if I need to know more about the technology and interworkings so this may not interest most people visiting my blog but those people in the same boat (or about to go sailing on the same journey) may find these articles valuable.