Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog
Microsoft MVP BizTalk Server Oracle ACE
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Mark Little on WS-* vs. REST
This is one of the best reflections I have ever read about the WS-* vs. REST debate. For the ones of you new to MEST, this is an complementary alternative to REST mostly evangelized by my friend and SOA guru Jim Webber
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SQL Server Service Broker 2008 Conversation Priorities
Lately, I've been spending some time working with SQL Server 2008. There are a lot of innovative features included in the latest CTP on both the DB and BI engines that are worth checking. I plan to keep blogging about it during the next weeks. On this post I want to focus on what is arguably the biggest improvement on Service Broker (SSB) 2008: conversation priorities.
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SharePoint Server 2007 SP1
SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 is now available. Among other features it includes integration with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and support for custom HTTP and SOAP headers with Business Data Catalog entity models.
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Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services
Message routing is one of the most used and attractive features of Enterprise Service Buses (ESB). Unfortunately, the traditional view of message routing, most of the times, is reduced exclusively to service orchestration and choreography scenarios. In my opinion, the use of routing is also a fundamental technique for achieving another emerging architecture style of service orientation: service composition. Among the ESBs on the market, Oracle ESB provides a very simple and elegant solution for composing services using routing. The core of this solution is based on one of the fundamental components of Oracle ESB: routing services.
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Announcing Volta
Microsoft Live Labs continues producing amazing things around internet-centric technologies. Yesterday they announced Volta.
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Reg Braithwaite on the optimistic view
I came across Reg Braithwaite’s weblog thru Steve Vinosky’s and I truly recommended it. This is one of the most prolific weblogs I’ve read in a long time. Check out this post about developer’s culture when comes to learn new programming paradigms.
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Dynamic endpoint resolution using the Managed Services Engine
On my previous post I've listed some of the reasons because of which I believe Microsoft's Managed Services Engine (MSE) can be really useful in Enterprise SOA applications. The existing documentation of MSE emphasizes in the role this technology can play in design time governance scenarios but there is very little about its applicability in runtime governance scenarios. However, in this release MSE already includes various features that can serve as the foundation of future runtime governance technologies. It is not a secret that service repositories are at the center of every SOA governance technologies. Normally, these repositories catalog different service components such as contracts, binding, endpoints, etc. The centralized and/or federated (I honestly think that federated repositories are the future of SOA Governance technologies. But that's content for another post J) storage of endpoints is particularly useful to enterprise applications that need to dynamically resolve those components at runtime. The classical example is an application that queries the repository to find the endpoint of a specific service.
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Harry on the importance of idempotence
I had been waiting until my friend Harry Pierson finishes updating his weblog to highlight this fantastic comment about the importance of idempotence.
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VS 2008. .NET Fx 3.5 and SQL Server 2008 CTP are here
Yesterday was a great day for the Microsoft developer community:
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Managed Services Engine