Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog
Microsoft MVP BizTalk Server Oracle ACE
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WCF SharePoint integration MSDN WebCast
Tomorrow my good friend and colleague Joe Klug will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about integrating WCF and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Joe has prepared a cool set of demos that explore how to integrate WCF services and adapters with MOSS technologies such as Business Data Catalog or SharePoint Workflows.
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WCF extensibility webcast recording and demos
Thanks to everyone who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF extensibility and special thanks for the great feedback. The recording is now available on MSDN and you can download the samples here.
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WCF extensibility deep dive
I think this has been promoted enough but, in case you haven’t seen it, this Friday I will be presenting my second WebCast as part of the .NET 3.5 influencer’s series.
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Combining durable messaging and workflow services: Building a custom context channel
On my previous MSDN WebCast I showed a demo of how to use a custom WCF protocol channel to combine Workflow Services and durable messaging transports channels like MSMQ. If you watch the recording of the WebCast you can see the entire demo, but there are some things that I would like to highlight about the structure of the channel.
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WCF-WF integration in depth samples
Thanks to everybody who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF-WF integration in depth. You can watch the recording here and the samples are available for download here.
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Upcoming MSDN WebCast: WCF-WF integration in depth
This Wednesday (25th) I will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about deep WCF-WF integration techniques. The session is rated 400 which means that I don't intend to spend too much time on PowerPoint :). Instead, I am planning to cover in depth (meaning code...) some of the WCF-WF extensibility mechanisms that facilitate the integration of those two technologies in real world scenarios beyond just Workflow Services. In terms of features, I plan to talk about Workflow Services (of course), Durable Services, Security (lots of things here), Dependency Injection, Durable Messaging, Routing, Filtering and more depending on the timing.
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Describing RESTful services using WSDL 2.0
I've spent a few minutes last night reading this "how to" guideline from IBM, I have to admit that for a while I was affraid that somebody was going to come up with this idea but I really thought that we, as a community, were pass this stage of understanding the fundamental concepts of REST. This is REALLY REALLY bad. In my opinion, the first assumption that is wrong is to assume that RESTful services can be described using the same artifacts that we use to describe traditional Services. I agree that WSDL 2.0 is a HUGE improvement over WSDL 1.1 but it is still a RPC (in the broad sense of the term) type language with constructs like interfaces and operations which makes it less than ideal for modeling RESTful services which are based on a completely different domain with artifacts like resources, relationships, URI templates, etc.
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I survived Teched
Well I didn't have any time to blog during Teched (by the end of my last talk I was completely exhausted and I still had to work at the booth with my friend Clemens Vasters) but I survived.
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Speaking at Teched US
Teched US is here!!!, this year I am presenting two sessions in the SOA track and I have the honor of co-presenting with my good friend Joe Klug who used to be a Product Manager on the BizTalk Server team. On Tuesday 3rd I will be presenting a session about Real World Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) scenarios. I am building a cool set of demos that shows some of the non-documented aspects of BAM as well as how to combine BizTalk BAM applications with other technologies such as WCF, MOSS, BI technique on SQL Server Analysis Services, etc. THIS IS NOT ANOTHER BAM SESSION!!!, my goal is to demonstrate some of the internal components of the BAM engine as well as it interaction with other technologies and we have a little surprise for the last demo :)
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Web Services Security Summit
Thanks to all the people who attended my presentation about claims based security patterns and the services scalability panel during the web Services Security Summit. I had a great time during both talks and particularly enjoyed the interesting debates during the panel with Paul Lipton (CA) and Andrew Brown (Amberpoint). The slide deck can be downloaded here.