Last session of today was around BizTalk Services aka Internet Service Bus as I learned today. Justin Smith did his talk with the following objectives:- Intro BizTalk Services- Service messaging options- Introduce BizTalk APIAnd takeaways from this session are:- Provide generic, secure connection- Lowers bar for next gen development- Incubation technology in this pointCTP is here nowSome of my
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
BizTalk Testing
Posted on 20:36 by Unknown
Next session after service virtualization was about BizTalk testing. This session was done by Darren Jefford one of the author of Professional BizTalk Book, see one of my previous post. Some of the highlights (practices) or blurts from this session:- test, do not forget that- think about test overload scenarios- test early, often- look at performance- identiy bottlenecks- know patterns or
Service virtualization with .NET and BizTalk Server
Posted on 13:33 by Unknown
This afternoon today at Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference I went to a session about service virtualization with .NET and BizTalk Server done by William Oellermann and Raul Camacho. Both work for SOA Solutions Team at Microsoft Corporation. Their objective was to establish significance service virtualization in SOA implementation and demonstrate roles of .NET 3.0, SQL Server and
BizTalk WCF Adapters
Posted on 09:47 by Unknown
Yesterday I enjoyed sunset in Kirkland near Redmond. It was good scenic view of Seattle at dusk. Today the first session is a deep dive into BizTalk Adapters for WCF by Aaron Skonnard. And recently wrote a white paper about WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2. More you will find on his blog site. In this session he went into WCF Runtime and how in fits into BizTalk, port architecture actually.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Microsoft SOA Governance
Posted on 20:21 by Unknown
Last session for me today at Microsoft SOA and BP Conference was on flexible SOA Governance. Frank Martinez from SOA Software was presenting this topic with his software portfolio. So this was a kind of product session. His company is a Microsoft Partner and has products in - SOA Governance- SOA Policy Management- SOA Security- SOA Mediation- SOA ManagementAnd has customers like jetBlue, Verizon,
Microsoft OSLO Project
Posted on 13:02 by Unknown
During Microsoft SOA and Business Conference Oslo project is announced. This project is about updating Microsoft technologies for service-oriented architectures, and for composite applications build on top of it. See Tim Rayburn blog post for more detail or my keynote post.Technorati: Microsoft OSLO project
Increasing Business and IT agility with SOA and Microsoft
Posted on 12:32 by Unknown
Increasing Business and IT agility with SOA and Microsoft by Kris Horrocks, who went into offerings by Microsoft on SOA. Here are some blurts from this session. Focus business and technology model and its friction points. These points are:Focus document exchange in the business and inward technology driven view like EAI (contract and messages by different systems) that deliver solutions that
Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference 2007 Keynote
Posted on 10:29 by Unknown
My fifth day here in Redmond starts with Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference first day. I arrived a little earlier before conference starts, so I could enjoy scenery in Washington State. I went to Mount Rainer, Mount St. Helens, Seattle Needle, Pike Market, and Snoqualmie Falls and so on. This is definitely the ever green state. Rainer and St. Helens are room name in the Microsoft
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
IDesign WCF Samples
Posted on 11:23 by Unknown
Today I came across IDesign a consulting and training company, where I found out one can download a bunch of WCF samples. I mentioned them before in a previous post. They have WCF samples categorized as follows: Essentials Contracts Data Contracts Instance Management Operations Faults Transactions Concurrency Management Queuing Security I have not given one of them a try yet in my VS2008
Monday, 22 October 2007
WCF Contracts
Posted on 06:26 by Unknown
In previous post I talked about my exploration (and/or study) of WCF. I have started with building WCF services and so on (see list below).Defining service contracts and servicesHosting of services in a console app or IISExposing of endpoints for services using various standard bindingsWorking with VS templates and tools (SvcUtil, Service Configuration Editor)Service metadata (browsing)
Sunday, 21 October 2007
Microsoft 2007 SOA and BP Conference coming up
Posted on 12:58 by Unknown
Anybody saw Rugby final yesterday evening, it was a great outcome. South Africa won and deserved to be world champions, since they won every game. Montgomery did his best with penalty kicks and England was just disappointing. But it’s over now and I will have to wait until RWC 2011 in New Zealand. Well in a few days I am somewhere else in world attending something different: the Microsoft 2007
Creating some more WCF Services
Posted on 03:34 by Unknown
I have advanced a bit more now in my study of WCF. After going through some of the basics and using channel factory to manually creating a proxy or svcutil to generate it. Now I am going into exploring tools that generate services, access metadata, create configuration settings and generating proxies. I first started with a lab where one creates a service and then configures service endpoints
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Creating WCF Services Experience
Posted on 03:56 by Unknown
I have started with my study of Windows Communication Foundation. As you can read in my previous post I have decided to learn it myself. There are possibilities of learning it form recommended training and consulting companies like IDesign, Developmentor, Wintellect, newtellingence, thinktecture or Pluralsight. I kicked off with a book called learning WCF written by Michele Leroux Bustamante, who
Friday, 19 October 2007
Learning WCF
Posted on 05:17 by Unknown
As you already probably know Visual Studio 2008 is heading our way. One of things you can do is build WCF services. This year I followed some sessions about WCF during VS Live in San Francisco. After those sessions I bought a book Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed and hoped to read it and start working and learning WCF. But no I did not come around to doing just that. Coming week before
LEAP 2008 Master class 3
Posted on 03:08 by Unknown
Yesterday I attended the third LEAP master class. I was a bit tired, because the evening before I went to a RUSH concert in Rotterdam. It’s very good, but loud performance by these old geezers. Ok back to LEAP stuff; this master class was all about infrastructure. Documentation material and so, you can find in my previous post. It started off with a presentation from Martin Sih, a Technology
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
LEAP 2008 Master class 3 preparation
Posted on 23:50 by Unknown
Yesterday evening witnessed one of the best performances of Dream Theater. If I had to summarize the show in one word it would be amazing. Now back to reality, LEAP master class 3 is coming up next Thursday I there is allot of reading to be done for preparation. The first session was focused on the (de)coupling of information systems something Microsoft calls “Connected Systems”, which is in
Monday, 8 October 2007
SOA legacy friendly
Posted on 01:38 by Unknown
Right now I am listening to the new Alter Bridge album blackbird. While listening I am reviewing a whitepaper created by our architect team (I’m one of them) at Inter Access about SOA. In a previous post I mentioned that we are busy creating a SOA Framework. In this whitepaper we start with what we think SOA is by means of a definition. This definition will be explained in the paper and SOA
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