Archives
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Jim Gray missing
This would be a real tragedy. Our thoughts and prays are with Jim and his family.
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Semantic Annotations for WSDL and Xml Schema
The W3C folks are not sleeping. The Semantic Annotations for WSDL and Xml Schema specification is now a W3C candidate recommendation!!
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W3C Publishes Eight New Standards in the XML Family
We have been waiting for this a few years now.
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Architecture Journal #10
The new issue of the Architecture Journal is available in PDF format. The topics: Composite applications. Happy reading!!
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Using the BizTalk Server R2 BAM interceptor for WF
For some time now I have been pushing the use of BizTalk BAM outside of BizTalk Server implementations. BizTalk BAM provides a generic interceptor framework to track relevant data on business processes. BizTalk Server is just one of the many products that can leverage that framework in order to add visibility into Business Processes. Finally, with the release of BizTalk R2, Microsoft provides BAM interceptor implementations for WCF and WF. Using those interceptors we can extend the classic BAM features like aggregation, tracking and alerting into generic foundations like WF and WCF.
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Service Broker Adapter v1.5
After compiling a lot of feedback from Microsoft and customers our team started working in the next version of the Service Broker adapter for BizTalk Server 2006. Yesterday we finally made available the new version in AdapterWorx (Read Joel Post). This is not a major release in terms of new features but includes significant enhancements to existing features like dynamic ports and transactional receiving.
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BizTalk R2 Adapter Framework: Handling Metadata
One of the main differences between .NET 3.0 and BizTalk adapter frameworks is the approach to handle metadata. Metadata is a key component of a message-based adapter framework specially when comes to interact with LOB applications. The use of metadata raises the level of abstraction of untyped send-receive operations with data that has a semantic meaning for the LOB or technology the adapter is abstracting.
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SOA Suite best practices
My friend Clemens Utsching and colleagues has started writing the Oracle SOA Suite best practices. The first three articles of the series are super worth reading.