On my previous post I've listed some of the reasons because of which I believe Microsoft's Managed Services Engine (MSE) can be really useful in Enterprise SOA applications. The existing documentation of MSE emphasizes in the role this technology can play in design time governance scenarios but there...

Microsoft Live Labs continues producing amazing things around internet-centric technologies. Yesterday they announced Volta . Volta is an experimental developer toolset that enables developers to build multi-tier web applications by applying the familiar techniques and patterns of developing .NET applications...

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 February 2008 Release Resources MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf About the Deliverable The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise...

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session at the New York City Connected Systems User Group . As usual (in that User Group) I got a lot of interesting questions and feedback. Special kudos to Kent Brown who does a phenomenal job running the user group. I will publish the slides and demos early...

Next Monday (17th) I will be speaking at the Microsoft's Connected Systems User Group in New York . This time, I am going to be talking about RESTful services best practices. We are going to cover a broad set of topics ranging from REST fundamental concepts to RESTful services best practices and patterns...

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...

I just came across this today: Framework Design Studio is a set of tools for reusable library designers. The package contains a GUI tool for viewing, reviewing, and comparing versions of managed APIs. It also contains a command line tool for generating API diff reports. This seems to be a great tool...

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...

The tool space for software architecture has been growing. There are new tools and continuous improvement in the existing ones. Framework Design Studio Last month Krzysztof Cwalina from Microsoft released the Framework Design Studio at MSDN Code Gallery . The tool allows comparing two versions of an...

Teched US is here!!!, this year I am presenting two sessions in the SOA track and I have the honor of co-presenting with my good friend Joe Klug who used to be a Product Manager on the BizTalk Server team. On Tuesday 3 rd I will be presenting a session about Real World Business Activity Monitoring (BAM...