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David A. Chappell

Biography

David Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including Architecture, code-slinging, sales, support and marketing. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards.

As author of the O’Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.

Chappell is also well noted for authoring Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly). In addition, he has written numerous articles in leading industry publications, such as Business Integration Journal, Enterprise Architect, Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal and Network World.

Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the "Java™ Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine for "Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community" in 2002, and the 2005 CRN Magazine “Top 10 IT leaders” award for “casting larger-than-life shadow over the industry”.

Books

Java Message Service Java Message Service
by Mark Richards , Richard Monson-Haefel , David A. Chappell
Second Edition May 2009
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Enterprise Service Bus Enterprise Service Bus
by David A. Chappell
June 2004
Print: $39.95
Ebook: $31.99

Java Web Services Java Web Services
by David A. Chappell , Tyler Jewell
March 2002
Print: $39.99
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Java Message Service Java Message Service
by Richard Monson-Haefel , David A. Chappell
December 2000
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Articles

Blog

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launched!

July 01 2009

Today is the day we officially launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Fusion Middleware 11gR1 is the result of a herculean effort that is 3+ years in the making. read more

SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business

January 08 2009

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!". read more

Editors Choice Award for "Green IT Architect"; A TechTarget writeup on our talk at OpenWorld

October 24 2008

Back on Earth Day 2008 I blogged about how Verizon Wireless was "Going Green" with SOA and EDA, and measuring the resulting ROI by reduction in tonnage of hardware in the datacenter. Reduction of hardware means less power consumption from... read more

Grady Booch via Second Life!

April 30 2008

I'm presenting a keynote at the next International Association os Software Architects (IASA) IT Architect conferences on May 22 - 23 in New York City. I was looking through the agenda and I came across this - Interesting Real-world Architectures... read more

ROI by the Ton -- Going Green with SOA, EDA, RIA and Web 2.0

April 22 2008

For the past several years, I have been involved in many healthy discussions centered around the benefits of adopting technology and its supporting tools and infrastructure. Never once had I ever thought of measuring the benefits in terms of tonnage... read more

What's Happening with OSGi

February 18 2008

I recently helped Khanderao Kand, one of Oracle's Fusion Middleware lead architects, co-author an article on the current state of OSGi. Here's an excerpt - ....The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Alliance is working to realize the vision of a... read more

Interview on XTP, SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM in TechTarget

February 18 2008

I recently did an interview with Rich Seeley for SearchSOA/TechTarget on the relationship between eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) and SOA, CEP, BPEL and BAM. Here's an excerpt - ... read more

More - more on "Defending SOA"

January 28 2008

There has been a fair amount of chatter lately about defending the value of SOA projects or justifying such projects to the "C-level". Many of these discussions will point at the business value of doing more with less and achieving... read more

Video replay of BeJUG Enterprise SOA Conference Presentation on "Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA"

January 25 2008

Hi all, A video recording of a SOA Grid presentation that I did at the BeJUG Enterprise SOA Conference has just become available at http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Next-Generation+Grid+Enabled+SOA?showComments =true Topics include - - A new grid based service bus infrastructure concept that combines process... read more

Not Your MOM's Bus article published

January 08 2008

I just published part 2 of an article exploring the "Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA". This one is sub-titled "Not Your MOM's Bus". Abstract: In our previous article we discussed how SOA grids can be used to break the... read more

2008 Predictions - SOA, Grid, SCA, Web 2.0, REST, etc.

January 03 2008

- Grid computing will grip the attention of enterprise IT leaders, although given the various concepts of hardware grids, compute grids, and data grids, and different approaches taken by vendors, the definition of grid will be as fuzzy as ESB.... read more

Extreme ROI using SOA Grid

December 19 2007

In recent articles and presentations I have been postulating that a concept called "next generation Grid Enabled SOA", a.k.a. "SOA Grid" and "Not your MOM's Bus", combines conventional SOA infrastructure technologies such as BPEL and ESB with middle tier data... read more

ESB-Con IV to air tomorrow!

October 17 2007

When: Thursday Oct 18, 12 noon ET, 9AM PT, 1900 GMT Tomorrow I'll be joining in with other leading industry vendors to discuss SOA infrastructure in ESB-Con IV. Don't miss it! ESB-Con is a half day virtual conference, which includes... read more

Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA

September 26 2007

Since joining Oracle I have been working across the various product teams in the Fusion Middleware Group, to create a vision for what I'm currently calling "Next Generation Grid Enabled SOA". I recently published an article on the subject in... read more

State Management in "stateless" SOA

September 26 2007

Since publishing my recent article on Next Generation Grid Enable SOA and taking this topic out into the world, I have been getting asked to clarify and frame the discussion around why state management in what is supposed to be... read more

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