Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Thanks to all the people who attended to my session at Teched. The sample code and presentation can be downloaded from here. The Before folder contains the template code we used to create the adapter. Similarly, the After folder contains the final code of the adapter.

This year I will be sharing stage again with my friend Sonu Arora who is the Program Manager for the WCF Line of Business Adapters SDK (official name until they change it again).  We will be talking about using WCF to build Line of Business Adapters, Architecture principles among other topics. The best part is that we are going to (surprise surprise) build a real adapter as part of one of our demonstrations!! We also are going to show how to consume adapters from .NET apps, BizTalk Server and SharePoint Server Business Data Catalog. I'll be posting the code online soon.

A few weeks ago my good friend Harry Pierson mentioned me that Pat Helland was back at Microsoft working on the Developer Division. For those of you who haven’t heard about him; Pat has been one of the main contributors to transactional programming technologies during the last 20 years. His contributions include technologies such as MTS, COM+ and the recent SQL Server Service Broker. Before returning to Microsoft Pat spent two years working on Amazon.com Web Services. Well, now Pat is not only back at Microsoft but he started blogging again!!!

One of the really cool features included in the Orcas bits is the integration between Microsoft AJAX 1.0 and WCF. My buddy Steve Maine has been doing an amazing job evangelizing this technology. One of the components that make possible the “WCF-Atlas” magic is the DataContractJsonSerializer. This is the component that serializes .NET objects into a JSON representation and deserializes JSON data back into .NET objects. Using the DataContractJsonSerializer is fairly similar to using other .NET serializers. Let’s take the following WCF Data Contract as an example:

The Web Services Transaction v1.1 specifications (WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity) have been approved as OASIS Standards.

I got some interesting comments on my recent post about the differences between the MSMQ and WCF-NetMSMQ BizTalk Server adapters from a developer perspective. As I explained in that post, one of the main reasons for choosing WCF-NetMSMQ adapter over the MSMQ adapter is the possibility of having type information (a.k.a WCF contract) available at design time. Let’s take a look to a practical example.

If you have been following this blog during last year you know I have been doing a lot of work with J2EE .NET Web Services interoperability. Specifically, a lot of my work and papers have been focused on Oracle .NET interoperability. Well, a few weeks ago Oracle awarded me with an Oracle ACE (the equivalent to a Microsoft MVP). The Oracle ACE program has some fundamental differences with the Microsoft MVP program including the fact that Oracle employees can be awarded too. I am truly honored for receiving this award and I am really looking forward to keep working with the Oracle and Microsoft product teams and the developer community in general.