Articles for Architects: Top 10 for 2012

Architects cover a lot of territory, from high-level, big-picture issues to the nuts-and-bolts of various products and technologies. This list of the Top 10 most popular OTN articles from 2012 reflects those varied interests. This is what you were reading in 2012:

1. How To Configure Browser-based SSO with Kerberos/SPNEGO and Oracle WebLogic Server
   by Abhijit Patil
   [Published May 2012]
   Oracle WebLogic Server offers a complete solution for single sign-on with Microsoft clients using Kerberos.
2. Security for Everyone
   by Frank Nimphius
   [January 2012]
   Protect your Oracle ADF applications from unauthorized access using the Oracle ADF Security feature.
3. Start Small, Grow Fast
   by Edwin Biemond, Ronald van Luttikhuizen, and Demed L'Her
   [Published January 2012]
   A set of pragmatic best practices for deploying a simple and sound SOA footprint that can grow with business demand.
4. Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI
   by Daniel Amadei
   [Published February 2012]
   Thanks to its support for Mocking and WS-Addressing, soapUI can be used to test asynchronous BPEL processes.
5. Enterprise Architecture, Organizational Structure, and Company Performance
   by Travis Wissink
   [Published February 2012]
   Travis Wissink examines the connections, and what they mean for architects.
6. On the Road with BI
   by Mark Rittman
   [Published March 2012]
   Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile gives your iOS device the business.
7. Software Architecture for High Availability in the Cloud
   by Brian Jimerson
   [Published June 2012]
   A look at the paradigm shifts in designing fault tolerance from machine-based architectures to cloud-based architectures, and how enterprise applications need to be engineered to ensure the highest level of availability in the cloud.
8. Migrating Oracle Discoverer Data to Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
   by Edelweiss Kammermann
   [Published February 2012]
   Plan your migration project, step by step.
9. On History, Basics, and Network Performance
   by Tom Kyte
   [Published January 2012]
   Our technologist recalls a Web seminar, gives the right hint, and dishes on network performance.
10. Scaling Service Oriented Architecture
    by Philip Wik
    [Published August 2012]
    Philip Wik explores what scaling is and what it means to a Service Oriented Architecture, and proposes Oracle-based solutions to SOA scaling and an Oracle-based SOA scaling roadmap.

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