A short while ago (august 26 and 27) I attended the Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum V in Utrecht (the Netherlands). With over 200 participants from all over Europe this was a great opportunity to see what Oracle has to offer and where fusion middleware is going in the near future. This Partner Community Forum came with a lot of keynotes and technical presentations, and unfortunately some commercial sales presentations, which I always try to skip. Nevertheless it was a great event with some very interesting subjects. All the presentations are accessible online if you are an Oracle partner and have an OTN account. One of my favorite presentations was a keynote on SOA grid by Dave Chappell. This presentation explained how to use Oracle Coherence as an in Memory grid solution for SOA environments. The SOA grid provides high-speed in-memory access to continually available service state data without the need for disk persistence. This is the concept in a nutshell. (more…)