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Aaron Dolan

Aaron Dolan

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Aaron has more than fourteen years of experience in all phases of design, development, and implementation of software applications.  He has developed and architected SOA/BPM technologies for more than eight of those years from Fuego BPM to BEA AquaLogic BPM to Oracle SOA/BPM 11g.  He has worked for clients within aerospace & defense, banking, construction/engineering, financial services, food manufacturing, high technology/electronics, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, public sector, telecommunications industries and the travel services industry. His areas of expertise include Oracle SOA and Oracle BPM (formerly AquaLogic BPM and FuegoBPM). Aaron is adept at architecting and developing Oracle SOA/BPM solutions, process modeling, facilitating sessions to define user requirements, developing and delivering end-user training, creating and maintaining project schedules and preparing and presenting project briefings to executives. He also has extensive experience managing teams.

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Jan
24
How to Make BPEL Gulp
by Aaron Dolan 1/24/13
I recently had a customer who needed to consolidate data from several legacy databases (Sybase, DB2, and Oracle 10g) and then copy the transformed result set to a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. This was clearly an ETL use case so, being a good consultant, I suggested that they use a tool like Oracle Data Integrator. However, because they had a limited budget for new licenses and already had a license to Oracle SOA Suite 11g that they wanted to test out, they asked me to do this using BPEL. At first, I thought that this would be fairly simple. I figured all I had to do was to just slap in a bunch of database adapters into my composite along with a few transforms into my BPEL project and then I would be off to the races. Ha.
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Jan
04
Oracle SOA Database Adapter 101 - WebLogic Configuration Steps
by Aaron Dolan 1/4/13
Remember the commercial with the “Easy” button? When you press it miraculous things happen and all your wishes come true. This is what Oracle had in mind when it created the SOA Database Adapter. Perhaps I’m overstating this just a little, but the idea is to remove most of the pain from interacting with a database, allowing the user to focus on the important things – like retrieving, saving, updating and deleting information. While it is true that using the basic functions of the database adapter within SOA 11g are indeed fairly easy, there, unfortunately, is a bit of plumbing that needs to be in place before your dreams of being a database querying god can be achieved. Database Adapters at 30,000 Feet
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Feb
17
Highway to the Danger Zone
by Aaron Dolan 2/17/12
Just like Top Gun’s Maverick and Goose shrieking into harm’s way in an F14 Tomcat, our lives as developers are always lived on the razor’s edge of speed and utter perfection.  
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Apr
11
The Illusive Agile Waterfall
by Aaron Dolan 4/11/11
We're going to go Agile!  Hallelujah.  No more Waterfall projects.  ...
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