Archives
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Atlas WF Designer
Early this month in Redmon Jon showed me the (at the time) current version of the Atlas Windows Workflow Designer. I was really impressed with all the functionalities built into this tool. Now the bits are available to the community!! I’m having a lot of fun playing with it. Great job Jon!!
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Service Broker adapter scenario
There are many typical scenarios in which Service Broker is the ideal solution for interactions between BizTalk and SQL Server. Last week one of our solution architects point to a scenario that he was facing with a customer. The challenge was to avoid simultaneous polling of the SQL Server adapter in a topology with two BizTalk Servers (no master MessageBox) hitting the same SQL Server database. Richard Seroter described this scenario really well a year ago. At the end we implemented the classic solution using SERIALIZABLE transactions to avoid concurrent reads. It worked perfectly but is well known that in other scenarios this technique can introduce unnecessary locks.
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SonicMQ adapter for BizTalk Server 2006
I’m happy to announce our new member of the AdapterWorx family: SonicMQ adapter for BizTalk Server 2006. This adapter will complement MQSeries and TIBCO Rendezvous as the JMS-based technologies adapters.
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BEA news
BEA Systems has acquired Flashline,the plans are to include their Metadata Repository as part of the Aqualogic family.
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SaaS Developer Center
The folks of the Architecture & Strategy team (specially Fred Chong and Gianpaolo Carraro) has been doing an amazong job around the Software as a Service concepts. Part of this work is the new SaaS MSDN Developer Center. Great job guys!!
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Extending WCF clients
One of my readers asked me the other day about client(proxy) extensibility points on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Conceptually there a number of scenarios in which makes sense to extend proxy functionalities.
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Tracing Business Rules execution
Moustafa Khalil Ahmed did a great post about tracing Business rules execution outside Windows Workflow Foundation context.
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Web Services Policy 1.5
The Web Services Policy Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web Services Policy 1.5. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply.
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Service Modeling Language (SML)
Microsoft and vendors have released first draft of Service Modeling Language (SML) today. I’m happy to see Microsoft join in a specification that includes Schematron