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Archives / 2008 / August
  • My latest article: Web Services federated identity patterns on the Architecture Journal

     As my buddy Vittorio already announced, the latest issue of the Microsoft Architecture Journal is now available. This edition includes an article about Web Services Identity Federation Patterns that I had the pleasure to coauthor with my friend Joe Klug. We've really tried to summarize some of the most common techniques and patterns for addressing the challenges of identity federation in Service Oriented environments.

  • WCF XAML injection

    During the last years there have been a lot of talks about the influence of dynamic and functional languages on techniques like dependency injection, aspect oriented programming etc.  Both paradigms are having a deep impact in the way we architect applications nowadays. Specifically, the world of Service Orientation has been a champion and early adopter of those techniques. On this post I would like to explore how to complement those techniques on WCF services with declarative mechanisms of expressing logic such as XAML.

  • Oracle WebLogic Server

      Oracle has taken the first step to consolidate the vision behind the BEA acquisition. The new version of Oracle WebLogic Server (10.3) is now available for download. I gotta admit that the name sounds a little weird ;)