Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

 It’s undeniable that a lot of innovation is happening around Software as a Service (SaaS). I’ve seen a lot of creative ideas coming up form players on the SaaS space. This week in DreamForce SalesForce.com announced Apex which intends to be the programming language to create application on AppExchange. The syntax behind Apex is a combination of a Java-based procedural language and a SOQL-based query language. Conceptually similar to DLINQ but much more constrained feature-wise.

Thanks to all folks who attended to my session yesterday on the BPM&SOA conference. I’ll publish the presentation and some comments about the Architecture principles in the next few days.

Yesterday was the first day of the BPI&SOA conference. John Evdemon from the Architecture & Strategy team delivered a great session about the principles of Service Orientation, workflow and Business Process Management. The Architecture & Strategy team is always working in a lot of emerging architecture solutions challenges. Yesterday I spent a good part of my day chatting with day about the new areas that they are focusing on. It’s good to see some of those experiences already exposed in a session.

Next week I’ll be presenting with Javier Mariscal a session about Software as a Service (SaaS) and Business Process at the Microsoft BPI&SOA conference.

If you are trying to do real time monitoring in WCF check out Live Trace Viewer. Craig Mcmurtry and Vittorio Bertocci from the Technology Evangelism team put together this cool tool to help to diagnose interactions between WCF service while is happening. This is an additional tool to the existing trace features in WCF.

Joe Duffy announced the future availability of PLINQ (Parallel LINQ). Conceptually makes all sense in the world to combine the data/xml processing capabilities of LINQ with parallel processing.

Last month Microsoft, IBM, HP and Intel released WS-ResourceTransfer. This specification takes advantage of the recently redesigned WS-Transfer in order to define a more fined-grained message protocol for fragment-level interactions with resources. The specification also includes elements present in other specifications like WS-ResourceLifetime, WS-ResourceProperties, and WS-Management to standardize how to use Web services for resource creation, access, manipulation, destruction and as well as managing its lifecycle.

DSL tools documentation is available at MSDN. The actual tools plan to ship as part of the Visual Studio SDK this September.