Archives
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WS-SX
OASIS have announced the Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) Technical Committee that brings together users and vendors to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on three initial contributions, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Trust. Members of the OASIS international standards consortium announced plans to define extensions to the WS-Security OASIS Standard that will enable the trusted exchange of multiple SOAP messages and will define security policies that govern the formats and tokens of those messages. The new OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) Technical Committee brings together users and vendors in an open process to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on three initial contributions, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Trust. Other contributions and changes to these input documents will be accepted for consideration without prejudice or restriction and evaluated based on technical merit.
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Apache Pluto released
The Apache Pluto Community has announced the first general availability release of Apache Pluto - Pluto 1.0.1. Pluto is the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168). Pluto 1.0.1 contains fixes for nearly all reported bugs reported against the various release candidates. It also includes support for the hot deployment of Portlets which are deployed through the Administrative portlets provided with the Portal Driver. Pluto 1.0.1 distributions can be accessed from http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi Documentation can be found at the Apache Pluto web site: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/ If you're doing portlet development, is Pluto your development environment? If not, why not?
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SPS SP2
Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Portal Server. This service pack includes updates contained in prior hot fixes as well as Service Pack 1 for issues such as security, stability and performance. This version also adds support for running on 64-bit servers, IP bound virtual servers, and SQL Server 2005.
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IBM news
IBM announces the news plans around the recent Data Power acquisition.
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Mobile Best Practices
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BPEL-SPE
A technical white paper "WS-BPEL Extension for Sub-Processes: BPEL-SPE" published by IBM and SAP proposes an extension to WS-BPEL that allows for the definition of sub-processes that can be reused within the same or across multiple WS-BPEL processes. A formal language specification defining the precise syntax and semantics of the BPEL-SPE extension is planned for later release. WS-BPEL v2.0 defines a model for web services composition through aggregation.
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WF Business Rules
Charles Young has wrote a super cool article about the differences between the Business Rule Engine in BizTalk and the Business Rules features in Windows Workflow Foundation
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Web Service Transaction Technical Committee
The new OASIS Web Services Transaction (WS-TX) Technical Committee brings together users and vendors in an open process to refine and finalize a set of specifications based on three initial contributions, Web Services Coordination (WS-Coordination), Atomic Transaction (WS-AtomicTransaction), and Business Activity Framework (WS-BusinessActivity). Other contributions and changes to these input documents will be accepted for consideration without prejudice or restriction and evaluated based on technical merit.
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BPI & Workflow Conferece
Last week I assisted to the workflow conference at Redmon. Mike Woods and the MS folks did a great job organizing the event. Great sessions, nice talks.
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Window Workflow Foundation Runtime Services: The Persistence Service
This is the first of a series of brief articles intended to illustrate the functionality and customizability of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Runtime Services. This first article is focused on describing WF’s persistence service and ways to customize it. Upcoming articles will cover other WF services such as tracking, communication, timer, and transactions to name a few. The article assumes that you are familiar with WF fundamentals. For an introduction to the WF basics, you can read this interesting article from David Chappell.
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Web Services Transactions
Manish Verma wrotes a nice article about web Services Transaction technologies using Arjuna XML.