Announcing BizTalk Server R3
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 24th Apr, 2008
For all those out there still working in the Microsoft integration space, keep your eyes open for the next iteration of BizTalk Server 2006. I’ve just picked this up from Andy James’ Solidsoft blog:
Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be available in early 2009. [...]
Five things SOA vendors are missing
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 11th Feb, 2008
Excellent post by David Linthicum on Infoworld today talking about 5 things that SOA vendors need to do to get in order to be more successful. If you’re in the SOA space you’ll be able to relate to these points; especially if you’re on the bleeding end of trying to implement a product suite that [...]
BizTalk 2006 R2 Released
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 14th Sep, 2007
After month of testing, it’s nice to see that Microsoft have finally pushed BizTalk 2006 R2 out to the world. Here’s the blurb:
With the introduction of the fifth full version, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior releases to help organizations extend core process management technologies even [...]
What is a Service Orinted Architecture?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 17th May, 2005
Came across a great article that explains quite succinctly what a Service-Oriented Architecture is all about. Read here
Top-Down vs Bottom-up SOA
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 21st Mar, 2005
Excellent post on David Chappell’s blog
The best approach to creating a service-oriented environment is obvious. Start by understanding the business, probably by grasping the most important business processes and determining which applications underlie those processes. Once you’ve figured out the business services that software implements, you can wrap existing apps and create new ones to [...]
The principles of SOA
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 4th Jan, 2005
I came across an interesting article today, that defines what it calls “The principles of SOA” rather elegantly:
The business drives the services, and the services drive the technology.
Business agility is a fundamental business requirement.
A successful SOA is always in flux.
Read more about it here
I love the first one. I think I might [...]
BizTalk Server Adapter Framework Wizard
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th Jul, 2004
From Scott Woodgate’s blog …
How about a little: File-New-BizTalk Server Adapter Framework Wizard inside VS.NET
This wizard makes it super easy to getting started with the adapter base classes by stepping you through the creation of both receive and send-side adapters in C# including the receive handler/end-point properties and it uses VS outlining to hide the [...]
Building Interoperable Web Services: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 13th Aug, 2003
Ahhh .. some interesting reading! Building Interoperable Web Services: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 is the latest in patterns & practices released by Microsoft. Haven’t had chance to read it yet, but the summary states that it covers WS-I Basic Profile contents together with some discussion around implementation and options.
Grab it here
