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...
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...
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...
Came across a great article that explains quite succinctly what a Service-Oriented Architecture is all about. Read...
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...
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...
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...