Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog : Design Patterns

Implementing a SAML sender-vouches scenario with WIF

gsusx — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:19:00 GMT

Sender-vouches is one of the two subject confirmation methods included in the SAML security token profile specification. Essentially, the sender-vouches scenario enables an attesting entity to vouch for the identity of a subject to a relying party. The...(read more)

Microsoft and Oracle showcase WS Interoperability at Gartner’s AADI summit

gsusx — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:12:00 GMT

As you might have noticed, I haven't been actively blogging during the last month. The reason is that I have been hands on working on a very ambitious project to showcase Web Services interoperability between Microsoft and Oracle platforms. This experiment...(read more)

South Florida BizTalk User Group: Improving agility with the ESB 2.0 toolkit

gsusx — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:00 GMT

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect...(read more)

Uri Katsir is blogging!

gsusx — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:50:00 GMT

My friend and colleague Uri Katsir just joined the blogosphere. Uri is a BizTalk wizard who is currently working on one of the biggest BizTalk implementations in the world. We are extremely proud to have him as part of our technical staff at Tellago ...(read more)

The WCF Extensibility Guidance is now on MSDN!

gsusx — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:36:00 GMT

As the WCF team already announced, the first chapter of the WCF Extensibility Guidance is now available on MSDN . This paper is the result of an effort I started a few months ago with my colleague and friend Pablo Cibraro . Our goal was to provide a detailed...(read more)

Implementing a custom RSS/Atom adapter with Microsoft StreamInsight

gsusx — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:53:00 GMT

In a previous post we explained the programming model of Microsoft's StreamInsight adapter framework. The fundamental capability of this framework is to streamline the flow of events in and out of the StreamInsight hosting application. One of the main...(read more)

Exploring StreamInsight's adapter model

gsusx — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:22:00 GMT

Adapters are a fundamental component of Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications. In a nutshell, adapters provide the interfaces that abstracts how events are produced or consumed by the CEP infrastructure. Most CEP frameworks leverage the concept...(read more)

Looking for an ASP.NET/AJAX developer

gsusx — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:06:00 GMT

My company Tellago, Inc is looking to hire an experience ASP.NET/AJAX developer for a six months contract gig in Florida. Candidates should also have knowledge of WCF, ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. You will be working in a highly...(read more)

Processing events from multiple sources using Microsoft StreamInsight

gsusx — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:03:00 GMT

One of the fundamental patterns of Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications is the ability of process events from various input sources and distribute to multiple output sources. These operations require high degrees of coordination what makes it particularly...(read more)

Speaking at ArcSig User Group tomorrrow

gsusx — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:33:00 GMT

I will be speaking tomorrow at the South Florida Architecture User Group (ArcSig) . The session is titled From SOA to WOA: Introducing Web Oriented Architectures and touches upon the fundamental principles and architecture techniques that can help developers...(read more)

My thoughts about RETRO: A RESTful Transactions Model

gsusx — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:51:00 GMT

Transactions has typically been one of the aspects that the WS-* followers continuously point out as one of the weaknesses of the REST model. Even though we all agree that atomic transactions in distributed systems are JUST A BAD IDEA and everybody that...(read more)

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

gsusx — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SOAWorld 2009 session

gsusx — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:35:00 GMT

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

gsusx — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Speaking about WCF and WF 4.0 at VSLive

gsusx — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)