Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Service Broker custom task for SSIS

The last week we started to versioning Service Broker(SSB) Enhancements with the RTM bits of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Today we uploaded the new version of the SSIS custom task for Service Broker to the SSB Enhancements workspace.

Thanks so much to Michel Gonzalez for his help on this.

We are also finishing the tests with the SSB adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2.

Clemens Vasters is joining Microsoft

Well, those are great news for the WCF team. Clemens Vasters is joining Microsoft.

EJB 3

JSR-220, the Enterprise JavaBean 3.0 specification, has reached Proposed Final Draft status. Programmers should expect that implementations should start to solidify now, although minor changes can still occur.

CS 2.0

Rob Howard announced the new Beta version of Community Server 2.0 is now available. Congrats to Rob, Jason, Scott and the rest of the Community Server team!!

WSDM implementation

IBM has released a new Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) development kit which includes the IBM Autonomic Manageability Endpoint Builder and Endpoint Simulator. The builder tool allows developers to build WSDM interfaces for resources such as servers, applications and printers while the simulator tool creates a WSDM-based testing environment.

Miracles of a snow storm

My friend and also TwoConnect solution architect Ben Elliott has chosen the night of the snow storm in Cincinnati to start blogging, lol. If you want to read how simplistic approaches can limit software architectures you definitely should read this reflection, it is simply priceless. I am sure that we will see a lot of cool stuff coming from Ben in the next months. Great job!

REST/POX with Indigo

Clemens Vasters has a great post about how to implement REST/POX with Indigo.

Coral Project

MindReef announced project Coral!!. Congrats to the MR guys, great job.

SDO & SCA

Some of the most important J2EE vendors delivered the new version of the Service Data Objects (SDO) spec and the first version of Service Component Architecture (SCA). SDO is a great standard to abstract physical data sources and is the heart of J2EE products like BEA Aqualogic Data Services. About SCA I do like some concepts (like bindings and metadata representation) that are required in order to simplify the J2EE SOA approaches but on the other hand I truly think that other concepts present in the specification are not in sync with some of the basics SOA principles. I will be posting about this shortly.