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. [...]
Pragmatic Architecture: Layering
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 27th Oct, 2006
Ted Neward has a brilliant article on MSDN entitled: Pragmatic Architecture: Layering. In it he reexamines the whole concept of splitting an application up into tiers, particularly looking at the why and more importantly when; as is WHEN is it applicable to take the hit of the additional rise in deployment complexity and cost of [...]
Event-Driven Architectures
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 14th Jul, 2005
Gregor Hohpe posts a great article based on the talk he gave at TechEd this year. His talk was about event-driven architectures, with a particular focus on Composability, the ability to build new things from existing pieces. This is a great concept, especially in the view of development and maintenance practices with cost reduction and [...]
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
Some Visio goodness
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 24th Mar, 2005
Found a great Visio-related posting on Darren Norton’s blog …
I’ve been doing a lot of Visio work lately, working on presentations for my employer. Here is a list of useful Visio stencils, downloads, and even a blog:
Blogging on Visio - from the lead Visio Program Manager.
Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio [...]
TechEd 2005 - Connected Systems Infrastructure
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 3rd Mar, 2005
Ohhh … TechEd 2005 has a Connected Systems Infrastructure track. This is defined as:
Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. New applications no longer live in single process or machine silos. [...]
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 [...]
Understanding BPM servers
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 2nd Nov, 2004
Some more bedtime reading from David Chappell ..
I’ve argued elsewhere that the move to SOA is sparking the emergence of a new kind of software platform. Exemplified by products like IBM™s WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, BEA™s WebLogic Process Edition, and Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2004, the primary goal of this platform style is to support [...]
Some EAI Reading
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 2nd Aug, 2004
I was doing some research this evening for an article about EAI I’m writing for the Malta Institute of Management Journal and decided to make a list of some interesting websites and articles on EAI I came across. Lots to read if you have the time:
Business Integration Journal
EAI Knowledge Base at IT Toolbox
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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
