Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services in the real world: Activating WCF Services from a central repository

2009-06-25T15:12:00Z

Declarative Services is one of the new features included in the .NET framework 4.0. In a nutshell, declarative services are WCF services modeled and implemented entirely in XAML. This feature is fundamentally enabled by extending Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 with the capability of modeling WCF contracts using XAML. You can read more details about declarative services on the MSDN documentation . Even if you are not entirely familiar with WF as a technology, I am sure you can see the advantages...(read more)

SOAWorld 2009 session

2009-06-25T13:35:00Z

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session about WOA at SOAWorld 2009. I got a lot of interesting questions from an always sharp New York audience :). You can get the slide deck here…...(read more)

Speaking at SOAWorld 2009

2009-06-22T12:48:00Z

This afternoon I will be presenting a session about Web Oriented Architectures (WOA) at SOAWorld . The session explores the concepts behind real world architectures based on the principles of REST and how they represent an interesting alternative to traditional SOA. The SOAWorld team always manages to put together a great speaker lineup including some of the top SOA practicioners in the world. Among many other things, I would recommend attending to the "Business Value" panel that Anne Thomas Manes...(read more)

We are still hiring...

2009-06-12T13:24:00Z

As you might be aware, Tellago (my new venture ) has been steadily growing during last year. We are still looking for talented architects that would like to join our team. Specifically, we are have a few openings for BizTalk Architects and developers. If you are skilful with BizTalk technologies and you are crazy enough to join our team please drop me a line at jesus dot rodriguez at tellago dot com or at jobs at tellago dot com....(read more)

Speaking about WCF and WF 4.0 at VSLive

2009-06-05T16:59:00Z

Next Monday I will be presenting two sessions at VSLive Las Vegas . The first session is about the WCF 4.0 extensibility model and it covers almost all the major extensibility points of the different WCF subsystems such as messaging, security, instancing, etc. The second session is about building services using WCF and WF 4.0. Here we will cover some of the major changes in the WF 4.0 programming model that improve the service development and management experience I am trying to keep both sessions...(read more)

Using WCF Services with Axum: A load generation sample

2009-05-22T13:53:00Z

Following my previous post, I’ve decided to start blogging some examples of the use of Axum on distributed programming scenarios. The purpose of these samples is not to detail the specific features of the Axum language but rather to highlight some practical scenarios that can be improved by the combination of Axum and other technologies. As any other CLR-based language, Axum will require to interoperate seamlessly with other Microsoft technologies in order to gain adoption in the real world. Distributed...(read more)

Pablo does security

2009-05-19T13:59:00Z

My good friend and colleague Pablo Cibraro will be presenting a MSDN WebCast tomorrow about the capabilities, relationships and differences of emerging security standards such as OpenID, OAuth and LiveID. The WebCast is targeting Microsoft’s Latinoamerica developer community and will be conducted in Spanish :( If you follow Pablo’s weblog , you might have read some of his recent posts about RESTful services security and its relationship with WCF. If you are interested on the options available for...(read more)

Why is Axum relevant to distributed systems?

2009-05-19T13:40:00Z

Last week Microsoft announced the first version of Axum. In a nutshell, Axum is a domain specific language (DSL) for modeling coordination and concurrency scenarios in .NET applications. Although Axum is still an incubation project and there is no final word on whether it will be productized, we should all agree that this represents a remarkable effort to enhance the .NET language ecosystem to embrace the next generation of applications based on multi-core architectures. At first, Axum might seem...(read more)

Dwight Goins joins Tellago

2009-05-12T13:58:00Z

I am happy to announce another top architect that has recently joined out team. Dwight Goins joined Tellago as a Sr. Solutions Architect and is currently working in one of the biggest BTS Server deployments in the world. Dwight is a frequent speaker at Microsoft events including the Microsoft SOA&BPM Conference and local and international BizTalk User Groups, and other events. In a previous life, he traveled the world as a premier BizTalk Consultant/Advisor/Trainer to MS Russia, MS Beijing, HP...(read more)

Pablo Cibraro joins Tellago

2009-05-11T20:33:00Z

Continuing the list of recent additions to our team, we are thrilled to announce that Pablo Cibraro has joined Tellago as a Sr. Solutions Architect. Pablo is a phenomenal programmer and one of the authorities in Microsoft Connected Systems technologies. He is a Microsoft Connected Systems MVP and a member of the prestigious Connected Systems Advisors group. He regularly blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax about WCF, Geneva, Web Services Security and many other topics. We are happy to have him...(read more)

DonXml joins Tellago

2009-05-06T16:38:00Z

For the last few months I have been planning to start blogging about the new addition to our Architecture team at Tellago . One of our goals when we started Tellago , around a year ago, was to hire the best and the brightest and provide them with an environment on which they can take their talent to the next level. I know it sounds like a cliché but we have been steadily working towards that goal and we have hired a group of very talented architects that are going to be leading various of our top...(read more)

The future of SOA governance looks RESTful

2009-04-23T18:33:00Z

During the last few years, UDDI has been at the center of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance platforms. Specifically, UDDI has been the main mechanism used to implement service registry and repositories which we all know are the fundamental component of SOA governance frameworks such as HP-Systinet, SOASoftware or SoftwareAG-Infravio. At this point, I believe the majority of the SOA community has already added UDDI to the list of "irrelevant" Web Services specifications. Although we can...(read more)

Speaking at Microsoft's Connections Spring Symposium

2009-04-13T20:22:00Z

Tomorrow and Thursday I will be speaking at the Microsoft's Connections Spring events hosted in Fort Lauderdale and Tampa respectively. The session focuses on real world ESB patterns and the Microsoft's ESB value proposition. We are going to cover technologies such as the ESB Guidance 2.0, BizTalk Server 2009, WCF 4.0 and even Windows Azure. This time, I have the honor to share the stage with Toya Lofton who is a Microsoft's SOA Technology specialists with tons of experience in real world projects...(read more)

MVP 2009!

2009-04-02T16:13:00Z

Yesterday I received the notification that Microsoft has awarded me as a BizTalk Server MVP for fifth year in a row. Thanks a lot to my MVP lead Mark Clagett and all the other folks involved in the process. I am really looking forward to continue collaborating with the .NET communities during 2009....(read more)

Extending Dublin’s tracking service by implementing a custom tracking participant

2009-03-27T15:19:00Z

In a previous post we've explored how to extend Dublin's forwarding service by implementing a custom message filter. This post continues the series by illustrating the extensibility model of Dublin's tracking service. WCF message tracking and monitoring are some of the areas that are considerably enhanced by the Windows Application Server (Dublin). As part of its runtime service architecture, Dublin introduces a tracking subsystem that enables the monitoring of WCF service instances. This subsystem...(read more)