Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Thanks to all the people who attended to my session Unifying Integration: Building Line of Business Adapters with WCF Deep Dive at the MVP summit. My co-speaker Sonu Arora has uploaded the slides to https://msmvps.team.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/pgsites/default.aspx. Given NDA reasons we can’t share all the content but I’ll be blogging about the demos in the next weeks.

Some of the main J2EE vendors released today the first series of SCA specifications. The series includes bindings for integrating some of the main SOA-J2EE technologies

Large-scale distributed systems often require the use of non-traditional techniques in order to improve performance. Martin Fowler (Chief Scientist ThougthWorks) explains how EBay avoid the use of database transactions.

The first CTP of the WS-BPEL 1.1 activities for Windows Workflow Foundation are now available. A later release plans to support WS-BPEL 2.0

The MVP Summit finalized yesterday. I had a wonderful time and enjoyed the sessions. Was a good time to catch up with some friends and also the opportunity to finally met people like: Charles Young , Dr Nick among others.  At the dinner my friend Harry Pierson and I started bombarding Dr Nick with the necessity to implement durable duplex (a.k,a Service Broker bindings) in WCF.

The conference season is starting. I have a few presentations scheduled for the first part of the year including Microsoft Teched and SOAWorld. Next week I am heading towards Redmon for the MVPSummit where I’ll have the pleasure of sharing stage with Sonu Arora (Program Manager BizTalk Server). Our session is going to dive deep into the .NET 3.0 adapter framework components including some of the tips and tricks for building adapters with the new framework. We’ve prepared some cool content and demos. If you are attending to the summit, swing by our session, we promised to keep it excited :D.

I know it is been a few days since the announcement but I am really happy to see Microsoft embracing WS-BPEL 1.1 and 2.0.

 The new metadata generation is one of the areas that present significant differences between the .NET 3.0 and BizTalk adapter frameworks.  In a previous post I covered some of those differences from a conceptual standpoint. Ultimately, those differences are reflected in the tools available for developers for generating metadata at design time. If not, they are not relevant aren’t they?