The conference season is starting. I have a few presentations scheduled for the first part of the year including Microsoft Teched and SOAWorld . Next week I am heading towards Redmon for the MVPSummit where I’ll have the pleasure of sharing stage with Sonu Arora (Program Manager BizTalk Server...

The conference season is starting. I have a few presentations scheduled for the first part of the year including Microsoft Teched and SOAWorld . Next week I am heading towards Redmon for the MVPSummit where I’ll have the pleasure of sharing stage with Sonu Arora (Program Manager BizTalk Server...

It is undeniable that the use of BizTalk Services opens up a new set of possibilities for distributed applications. This post is not intended to provide an overview of BizTalk Services. My friend Clemens Vasters and the BizTalk Services team have been doing a fabulous job in that regard. Instead, I’ve...

BizTalk Server R2 is close to be released and one of the most attractive features for traditional BizTalk developer is the new set of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) adapters. As of today, this set of adapters represents the best way of leveraging the WCF capabilities into BizTalk Server applications...

I spent some time this weekend thinking on Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate . As much as I've admired Steve over the last years I cannot agree with him on this one. I bought into the REST philosophy a long time ago and I am a big fan of dynamic languages but...

During this year I’ve had the pleasure of co-presenting with Sonu Arora in different conferences around the country. Next week Sonu and I will be again co-speaking at the Microsoft SOA-BPM conference . The subject: the WCF Line of Business Adapters SDK . Among other things, we are going to deep dive...

Stress testing is one of key aspects that developers should take into consideration in order to maximize the performance of Web Service deployments. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a very extensible framework for monitoring and configuring WCF Services performance profiles. However one...

More exciting news from the Orlando Code Camp . My good friend (drum roll... the one, the only J ) Danny del Rio is going to be presenting a session about Enterprise Integration (EAI) Patterns using BizTalk Server R2. Danny has put together a series of cool samples that explore some of the most important...

The evolution of Representational State Transfer (REST) as an Architecture style is having a strong influence in the way developers think about to accessing and exposing data. This influence is especially notable in Service Oriented (SOA) technologies such as Service Repositories, SOA Governance Servers...

In a previous post I explained the importance for traditional integration servers and ESBs to embrace REST as one of the architecture styles used to interact and expose resources. For the simplicity of this post (and to avoid starting a religious war J) I am going to use the term ESB as the generic name...