Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog
Microsoft MVP BizTalk Server Oracle ACE
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Claims based security at the Web Services Security Summit
This Wednesday I will be speaking at the Web Services Security Summit in Baltimore, MD. My session is about web Services security patterns and I will be specifically exploring how the principles of claim based security can be applied in trust, federation and other complex security scenarios. Also I plan to cover some of the most common patterns in claims based security. Finally, I will also be participating in a panel about Web Services scalability and manageability moderated by Computer Associates SOA guru Paul Lipton.
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IBM on mutitenant architectures
Check out this interesting article from IBM about the principles of multitenant applications.
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Consuming RESTful services from BizTalk Server using AtomPub
In a previous post I explained the importance for traditional integration servers and ESBs to embrace REST as one of the architecture styles used to interact and expose resources. For the simplicity of this post (and to avoid starting a religious war J) I am going to use the term ESB as the generic name to refer to integration and mediation technologies that can interact with RESTful services. So yes, BizTalk Server is going to be an ESB for the next few paragraphs J
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Apache Abdera overview
Check out this interview on which Stefan Tilkov talks to James Snell from IBM and Dan Diephouse from MuleSource about the details of project Abdera and Atom Publishing Protocol in general.
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REST and ESBs
The evolution of Representational State Transfer (REST) as an Architecture style is having a strong influence in the way developers think about to accessing and exposing data. This influence is especially notable in Service Oriented (SOA) technologies such as Service Repositories, SOA Governance Servers, Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) and Integration Servers. Particularly, Integration servers and ESBs are a natural fit for RESTful services given its applicability of data exchange scenarios. In my opinion Integration servers and ESBs will embrace REST in two fundamental ways:
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MVP award 2008
A few days ago I've received the Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP award for fourth consecutive year. Once again I am grateful to the people involved in the evaluation process. For the last twelve months I've been involved in several projects with the Connected Systems community and product teams as well as a lot of speaking engagements. I am looking forward to continue that collaborating throughout this year.
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REST presentation demos and slides
Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session about RESTful services at the New York Connected Systems User Group and at the Orlando Code Camp. I had a lot of fun in both event and got some interesting feedback. The presentations and demos can be downloaded here.
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BizTalk Server R2 at the Orlando Code Camp
More exciting news from the Orlando Code Camp. My good friend (drum roll... the one, the only J) Danny del Rio is going to be presenting a session about Enterprise Integration (EAI) Patterns using BizTalk Server R2. Danny has put together a series of cool samples that explore some of the most important EAI design patterns that developers can leverage on BizTalk solutions. If you are a developer looking into enterprise integration scenarios with Microsoft technologies you must attend Danny’s session.
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REST at the Orlando Code Camp
Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session at the New York City Connected Systems User Group. As usual (in that User Group) I got a lot of interesting questions and feedback. Special kudos to Kent Brown who does a phenomenal job running the user group. I will publish the slides and demos early next week.
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Speaking at New York CSD User Group
Next Monday (17th) I will be speaking at the Microsoft's Connected Systems User Group in New York. This time, I am going to be talking about RESTful services best practices. We are going to cover a broad set of topics ranging from REST fundamental concepts to RESTful services best practices and patterns. Specifically, we will explore how to implement Enterprise services capabilities such as Authentication, Authorization, Transactions, Versioning into RESTful services as well as how to overcome some of the RESTful services traditional challenges such as Low-REST support, service description, multi-format resources, etc. I've put together a bunch of demonstrations fundamentally based on WCF 3.5 but also touching other technologies such as ADO.NET Data Services and LINQ. Finally, I would like to spend a few minutes talking about how REST is influencing Microsoft's Connected Systems Technology stack and speculate a little bit on what we can expect to see on the near future.