Contents tagged with SO-Aware
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Extending the SO-Aware repository with custom metadata
One of the main features that SO-Aware provides is the central repository for storing service artifacts (WSLD, schemas, bindings) and configuration that any organization generates. This central repository is completely exposed as an OData service that third party applications and tools can easily consume using Http.
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Service Testing made easy with SO-Aware Test Workbench
I happy to announce today a new addition to our SO-Aware service repository toolset, SO-Aware Test Workbench, a WPF desktop application for doing functional and load testing against existing WCF Services.
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SO-Aware Service Explorer – Configure and Export your services from VS 2010 into the repository
We have introduced a new Visual Studio tool called “Service Explorer” as part of the new SO-Aware SDK version 1.3 to help developers to configure and export any regular WCF service into the SO-Aware service repository.
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Monitoring your services with SO-Aware
One of the features that you get out of the box with SO-Aware is the ability of monitoring your services. You can either monitoring the traffic for your REST or SOAP services, and see the details of all the incoming or outgoing messages, or any fault that got generated during the execution. In addition, that data is used to compute some metrics and provide several reports about the service usage.
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Generating WCF configuration from the SO-Aware Repository
As part of the simplification in service configuration that we want to provide in SO-Aware, we have added two new commands in the PowerShell provider for generating the service configuration at design time in case you don’t want to rely on SO-Aware for resolving all that at runtime.
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SO-Aware integration with Visual Studio 2008
I am happy to announce today the support in Visual Studio 2008 for adding new service references from the SO-Aware service repository. We have created a simple plugin that you can register in Visual Studio to support this new functionality.
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SWUtil - A new tool for generating service proxies from the SO-Aware repository.
As we announced last week, we are shipping a new Visual Studio plugin for generating service proxies as part of the SO-Aware SDK. The functionality is equivalent to what you find today in the “Add Service Reference” command, but the results are much better as you get a proxy that does not require any WCF configuration, and also knows how to resolve bindings and behaviors from the repository.
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Managing the SO-Aware Repository with PowerShell
As Jesus mentioned in this post, SO-Aware provides three interfaces for managing the service repository. An OData API in case you want to integrate third applications with the repository. OData is a pure http API that can be easily consumed in any platform using a simple http client library. The management portal, which is an ASP.NET MVC user interface layered on top of the OData API and probably the one most people will use. And finally, a PowerShell provider that also mounts on top of the OData API to allow administrators to automate management tasks over the repository with scripting.
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Our WCF Service Repository (SO-Aware) on Channel 9
My colleagues Jesus Rodriguez and Dwight Goins were talking about many of challenges you might find for managing WCF services in the enterprise, and how SO-Aware can help you out in all those aspects. Check it out here.
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Visualizing Service Dependencies in SO-Aware
A common requirement that we received from some customers while we were in the early design stages of SO-Aware was the ability of tracking static dependencies between services. For instance, Service A calls Service B and Service B calls Service X. This feature is not only useful for documentation but also for helping administrators to determine which services are going to affected with a change in one of the existing service. (In that example, a change in the service X would affect Service A and B).