Microsoft and Oracle showcase WS Interoperability at Gartner’s AADI summit

As you might have noticed, I haven't been actively blogging during the last month. The reason is that I have been hands on working on a very ambitious project to showcase Web Services interoperability between Microsoft and Oracle platforms. This experiment allowed us to explore the interoperability of WCF 4.0 and WIF RTM with the upcoming release of Oracle WebLogic within the context of a real world application. As a result, we were able to implement various complex WS interoperability scenarios encompassing diverse areas such as security, trust, federation, asynchronous reliable messaging, transactions, etc. We had the opportunity to experience firsthand the interop capabilities of both stacks as well as identify some of the areas that require improvement in order to achieve better levels of interoperability.

Our final demo scenario was highlighted this week by both Microsoft and Oracle at Gartner's Application Architecture Development and Integration Summit in Las Vegas. The details of our sample application should be available in the upcoming weeks.

During the development process, I had the opportunity of working alongside members of the WCF, WIF and WebLogic product teams and I am very thankful for the experience. Big kudos to Kent Brown for sponsoring such an ambitious project and trusting Tellago with the responsibility of delivering under such a very aggressive deadline. On our side, I had a great backup from Nicolas Salazar who implemented the user interfaces used to test the interop scenarios.