Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog
Microsoft MVP BizTalk Server Oracle ACE
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IBM on ESB
Check out these two interesting papers regarding IBM’s vision ESB’s role in Service Orientation.
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Microsoft's MDM strategy
Check out this new website that contains some references to Microsoft’s MDM strategy including the Product Roadmap.
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Defining service contracts programmatically on .NET Framework 3.5
As I referred on a previous post, one of the most attractive features in the upcoming .NET Framework 3.5 (Orcas) is the combination of Workflow Services and Durable Services to implement long running services combining Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The main vision behind Workflow Services is to integrate the long running capabilities of WF with the messaging and contract authoring capabilities of WCF. Specifically for contract authoring, Workflow Services provide two main authoring styles:
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Sam gentile joins Neudesic
My friend Sam Gentile has joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant and Connected Systems Practice Lead. Congrats are in order for Sam and Neudesic.
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WCF behaviors vs. pipelines on BizTalk Server R2
BizTalk Server R2 is close to be released and one of the most attractive features for traditional BizTalk developer is the new set of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) adapters. As of today, this set of adapters represents the best way of leveraging the WCF capabilities into BizTalk Server applications. Arguably, the WCF adapters can be seen as a continuation of the previous SOAP and WSE 2.0-3.0 adapters. However, there are major differences between WCF and its technology predecessors. WCF is fundamentally a messaging framework that offers a lot of capabilities beyond the traditional Web Services frameworks. By this time you might already know that WCF is going to be the core of the future BizTalk messaging engine. However, at this point, there is still some overlapping between WCF and the BizTalk messaging engine capabilities. Why I am writing all this? Well, I decided to start writing a series of posts about how to utilize some of the WCF capabilities that present some overlapping and also complement existing BizTalk Server features. Thinking about that, I don't see a better place to start than with WCF behaviors and BizTalk Server pipelines.
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MOSS and WSS SDKs
Congratulations to the SharePoint team on releasing the new MOSS and WSS SDKs http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displayLang=en. My favorite feature is the BDC application builder.
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Speaking at NYC Connected Systems User Group
Next Monday I will be speaking at the New York Connected Systems User Group in the Microsoft NYC offices http://www.nyccsug.org . The session is going to be focused on Web Services Interoperability. Specifically I am going to be speaking and demonstrating best practices and techniques to achieve interoperability between Windows Communication Foundation and some of the lead J2EE Web Services stacks such as Sun WSIT, WSO2, Oracle, etc. If you are on the Manhattan area and you are interested on SOA topics swing by and we will have a nice chat.
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SCA committees
For more than I disagree with the goals of Service Component Architecture (SCA), it is undeniable that this is going to help.
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WCF LOB adapters SDK is available for download
The WCF Line of Business adapters SDK has been released. Congratulations to Sonu Arora and the team.
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WS-Addressing Metadata 1.0
Web Services Addressing Metadata is now a proposed recommendation!! Congratulations to Martin Gudgin, and all the guys who worked on the spec.