Espalier Technologies offers mentoring services to companies that prefer to tackle projects internally but lack the technical expertise in enterprise java or specific middleware technologies. Its architects can help get in-house resources up to speed quickly and unlike formal training, mentoring includes the delivery of architecture and development services by the architect - in addition to the transfer of knowledge to in-house resources. The goal of this mentoring is to allow a less experienced team to produce higher quality reusable framework and application components in a shorter time.

Example mentoring efforts include workshops and reviews in the following areas:

• Technical architecture (in respect to quality, performance, reliability and maintainability)
• Framework design
• Application design
• Java code reviews
• Support introducing advanced development processes and practices

Example references include:

• Migration of major international banks payment application from zOS and DB2 to JavaEE and Oracle RAC
• Mentoring team (proof of concept and prototyping) developing AJAX JSF portal applications for international private bank using Richfaces, JPA and Oracle Webcenter
• Mentoring team developing FX trading application for position keeping using JSF, WebsphereMQ and JPA
• Design of intergration service for international trading company using JBoss, Spring and Hibernate

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For those who want to become familiar with Oracle RAC 11g without a major cash outlay, this guide provides a low-cost alternative to configuring an Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 system using commercial off-the-shelf components and downloadable software at an estimated cost of US$2,200 to US$2,700. The system will consist of a two node cluster, both running Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Release 5 Update 4 for x86_64, Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 for Linux x86_64, and ASMLib 2.0. All shared disk storage for Oracle RAC will be based on iSCSI using Openfiler release 2.3 x86_64 running on a third node (known in this article as the Network Storage Server).

The Art of Scalability teaches technology executives, engineers and architects how to solve technology scalability problems through changes in their architecture, processes and organization structure.

The book provides a set of models and approaches that help back office, web services and other platforms scale. Rather than focusing on the optimization and tuning of existing systems, the book offers models developed by the authors to help companies rethink their technology architecture.

Pentaho Analysis Tool (PAT) is a GWT based analysis tool designed to replace JPivot and work along side the Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite, giving end users better and easier control of their data.

The easiest way to get started with Pentaho Analysis Tool (PAT) is to run the hosted demo which is available for both Linux and Windows. You can download either package from the downloads area.

A more detailed guide on how to run the hosted demo packages can be found here.
If you are a developer check out HOWTO get started as PAT developer.

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