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• New and Notable 199

  Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM is a perfect example of why REST is so powerful and should be used in many scenarios like that. Some people seem to confuse me with being anti-REST. The only thing I am anti is the REST zealots (not at all Jon). If I have learned anything in the last 25 years in this field, it is that there are no absolutes, no black and whites. There are REST situations, there are SOAP situations but in the end there is still an SOA, or at least an architecture that organizes loosely coupled business resources/processes behind service interfaces Getting Started with HL7 V3 and BizTalk Server 2006 - This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7 v3 solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006, and how to convert message format from HL7 v3 to HL7 Version 2 Messaging (HL7 v2). Low Latency Messaging in BizTalk? I'll believe when I see it but Tim Rayburn says that Oliver Sharp has committed to it being part of BizTalk Oslo. I think it is safe to say that this is our biggest pain point with BizTalk SOA Aligning Business and IT for Greater Corporate Agility (through SOA) - This 65-page PPT (in 22 page 3 slide format) explores Microsoft's Read More... Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 12:05 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF | 0 Comments Filed under: WCF, BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, Sam Gentile, Workflow, BizTalk Services, CSD, Connected System,   Oslo, ESB,  Indigo, ISB

• SOA and BPM Conference Thursday - Web Services Software Factory Modeling Edition (V3)

  As I stated yesterday, this is an exciting session. This is the first time in the Microsoft stack that we have been given what us Service designers have wanted - Contract First (Christian Weyer's tool was a first step) because, as Christian says, "It's All About Agreements!" Its the Contract that matters, period. The modeling capabilities go a long way in V3 and you DON'T have to wait 2-3 years for Oslo for this portion on it. I am sitting here next to my collegue David Pallmann, who of course helped build Indigo in Building 42 so it's kind of sureal :) Live blog: Crazy week as Don as been trying to ship this week plus prepare for the conference Take-away's Modeling services is here and here to stay The Service Factory can be bent to your will Development tools and automation are continuing to gain popularity in the .NET community · Software Factories o Help you build a specific kind of application o Imply a process for the dev team o Incorporate various content types of guidance § Readables § Reusables § Executables § Actionables · Target Audiences o Teams building Web Services § Different team roles may have different tasks § Clear distinction between design and implementation § Encourages a layered service architecture o Teams building development tools § A growing trend in .NET development § Guidance: Captures and reuses the “rockstar” § Code Gen: Isolate unit testing and increase predictability · Goals, Motivations and Scope o For Web Service Read More... Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:55 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF | 0 Comments Filed under: WCF, BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, Sam Gentile, Workflow, BizTalk Services, CSD, Connected System,   Oslo, ESB,  Indigo, ISB

• SOA and BPM Conference Wednesday - SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem

  I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line and it fills it. Its that simple. Here are rough notes on a good session I attended on SOA Governance. SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem Governance Types Corp Governance IT Governance SOX, Codes/Rules of Conduct Enterprise Architecture IT Portfolio Mgmt Project Governance SOA Governance (specialization of existing governance) - Design time - Runtime We want to look at Governance along the entire Service Lifecycle Map lifecycle to MSF Microsoft Philosophy MSBA across Envisioning and planning - id key capabilities - great entry point MOF across Runtime Governance across Run time Governance MSF overall end to end guidance - baked into VS VS 2005 across 4 out of 5 Windows Server (UDDI, etc) SCOM 2007 across last .NET 3 (WCF) across all 5 Partners - SOA Software and AmberPoint Overall Portfolio and Project Management SOA Design Time Governance Applies across Envisioning, Planning and Developing Design time includes capabilities Microsoft Approach SOA Roadmap Management Microsoft Project Portfolio Server = Service Capability Determination - MSBA - Shared Service ID MSBA (formerly Microsoft Motion) Looks at it from capability rather than process value Create Service Model from Read More... Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:48 AM from Sam Gentile : WCF | 0 Comments Filed under: WCF, BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, Sam Gentile, Workflow, BizTalk Services, CSD, Connected System,   Oslo, ESB,  Indigo, ISB

• Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference - Oslo

  Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps". That is all changing today. What we're seeing here changes everything! Oslo in a Nutshell Services - Extending services from the client to the cloud Models - Making models a mainstream part of the development The public press release is here . This multiyear, multiproduct effort utilizes the company’s top engineering talent to build on the model-driven and service-enabled principles of Microsoft Dynamic IT ( http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jun07/06-04TechED07PR.mspx ) and extend the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) beyond the firewall. The “Oslo” technology innovations further Microsoft software-plus-services efforts by providing extensions to the application platform to help developers bridge between on-premise and off-premise projects. As part of a technical road map, Microsoft made available new tools and guidance to help organizations take advantage of “real-world SOA” today, including new SOA resources from Microsoft and a host of industry partners. Oslo Products - izTalk Server "6", BizTalk Services "1", Visual Studio "10", System Center "5", .NET Framework "4" 1. create models 2. store Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:11 PM from Sam Gentile : WCF | 0 Comments Filed under: WCF, BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation, Sam Gentile, Workflow, BizTalk Services, CSD, Connected System,   Oslo, ESB,  Indigo, ISB