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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”.

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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

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

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

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 02 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

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

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

ESB-CON II is now available for replay

October 23 2006

The ESB-CON II virtual conference that I wrote about here is now available for replay. To recap, ESB-CON II features descriptions and case studies of SOA projects that are based on experience with actual ESB deployments in Fortune 1000 companies.... read more

SOA: It's the Business that Matters

October 23 2006

I recently published an article in Enterprise Systems Journal on the subject of SOA and meeting the needs of business. It's called "SOA: Its the Business that Matters">/a> and can be found at http://www.esj.com/enterprise/article.aspx?EditorialsID=2216 Dave ... read more

Article on Web Services Management

October 13 2006

There's a great article in Baseline Magazine on the current state of adoption of Web Services Management platforms. It includes several case studies and references of organizations that are using them to govern their SOA deployments. One such case study... read more
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