Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

My friend and also TwoConnect solution architect Ben Elliott has chosen the night of the snow storm in Cincinnati to start blogging, lol. If you want to read how simplistic approaches can limit software architectures you definitely should read this reflection, it is simply priceless. I am sure that we will see a lot of cool stuff coming from Ben in the next months. Great job!

Clemens Vasters has a great post about how to implement REST/POX with Indigo.

MindReef announced project Coral!!. Congrats to the MR guys, great job.

Some of the most important J2EE vendors delivered the new version of the Service Data Objects (SDO) spec and the first version of Service Component Architecture (SCA). SDO is a great standard to abstract physical data sources and is the heart of J2EE products like BEA Aqualogic Data Services. About SCA I do like some concepts (like bindings and metadata representation) that are required in order to simplify the J2EE SOA approaches but on the other hand I truly think that other concepts present in the specification are not in sync with some of the basics SOA principles. I will be posting about this shortly.

Finally we have an implementation of the WS-CDL:

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. announces the launch of J-Integra Espresso version 1.1, the latest edition of their middleware solution for Java, CORBA and Microsoft applications. J-Integra Espresso v1.1 features enhanced integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and support for the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

I am really happy to announce that Ned Rynearson one of the co-authors the BizTalk 2002 reference book has officially joined Two Connect as a Senior consultant. Ned has been involved with BizTalk since the early 2000-2002 version. Welcome aboard!!.

W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Efficient XML Interchange Working Group. Robin Berjon (Expway) and Oliver Goldman (Adobe Systems) are Chairs. The group's objective is to define an alternative encoding of the XML Information Set that addresses the requirements identified in the work of the XML Binary Characterization Working Group, while maintaining the existing interoperability between XML specifications. The group is chartered through December 2007.