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January 2004 - Posts

Sometimes the best things are those you don't see
True, how true this is. E.g., I like that my car has an airbag and ABS. Clemens has to fight the very same problems I and other colleagues are experiencing when trying not only to sell a vision, but to make clear to people and customers why they need Read More
posted Friday, January 30, 2004 4:26 AM with 2 Comments

Samples for the 'Web services Best Practices' talk at the .NET Day in Vienna
This week I had two talks at the .NET Day in Vienna (with Bill Gates giving the closing keynote). One was about J2EE and .NET interoperability and the second one was on some solutions to common problems with ASMX-based Web services. Download the samples Read More
posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:03 PM with 2 Comments

Keep the distance: Services vs. Objects
Nice analogy from Simon. Read More
posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:01 PM with 0 Comments

W3C releases Web Services Architecture document
The W3C posted an updated version of the Web Services Architecture document. In official W3C terms, it is an editors' copy that has no official standing. This document defines the Web Services Architecture. It identifies the functional components Read More
posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:20 PM with 2 Comments

WS-Eventing in da house - some efforts going on
Casey Chesnut and John Bristowe - two Web services and WSE  brothers in mind - have started some effort around implementing WS-Eventing for various .NET areas: WS-Eventing with SQL Notification Services by Casey Gotdotnet Workspace: WS-Eventing Read More
posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:14 PM with 0 Comments

Latest build of Shadowfax now available
From the Shadowfax team over at gotdotnet.com: The latest build of Shadowfax is now available !  BUILD: 1-23-2004 It now includes not only the main the Service-oriented reference architecture piece, but also the new reference implementation Read More
posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:49 PM with 3 Comments

Message and service contract
Jeff Schneider asked in one of the comments on my last post about "Oracle's new Web services Designer - good idea, but ..." what I mean by message contract. Sorry for not being clear enough on this. Let me give a try here.Normally everybody only Read More
posted Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:21 AM with 6 Comments

Express yourself - XML Schema versioning, first blood
The wonderful Douglas Purdy just published a snippet of his schema versioning solution. But this is just a sneak preview - nothing real for now. Expect more to come ... Rather that a long entry, I think I am going to tease everyone before I show the Read More
posted Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:07 PM with 0 Comments

Oracle's new Web services Designer - good idea, but ...
Has anybody already seen the Web services Designer in Oracle's latest edition of JDeveloper? They call it 10g ... Well, there is an online demo of its features which looks quite pretty and interesting - at the first sight. But then they still take exclusively Read More
posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:25 PM with 5 Comments

Mr. XML blogs: Aaron Skonnard
Aaron Skonnard of MSDN Magazine XML Files column fame blogs [RSS]. Welcome. Read More
posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:04 AM with 0 Comments

Notification or Eventing? IBM or Microsoft?
IBM et. al. released WS-Notification (as part of the Web Services Notification and Web Services Resource Framework) - and it smells like 'another' WS-Eventing ... but to be honest I did not yet take a look at the specs ... but when my fears Read More
posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:25 AM with 3 Comments

Update on ASMX's BP conformance and testing with SOAPscope
For those of you who read my report on ASMX's BP conformance I have a slight update. Not that now by accident ASMX is compatible, but there are some problems with SOAPscope 3.0, IIS, and the way external schemas and WSDL are referenced in the base WSDL Read More
posted Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:05 PM with 0 Comments

Patterns, practices for enterprise applications: this time from the other side
IBM's Redbook series has been there for a long time - much longer than Microsoft's excellent PAG materials.So today I will introduce you to the two latest (beta) additions in the Redbook library: WebSphere and .NET Coexistence Patterns: Service Oriented Read More
posted Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:12 PM with 1 Comments

Yasser goes Indigo - on MSDN
My friend Yasser has published a new article about developing Indigo applications with the PDC build in Visual Studio .NET Whidbey. Actually it is part of the new 'Indigo Lingo' series. Check it out on MSDN: In the first installment of the Indigo Lingo Read More
posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:45 AM with 0 Comments

ASMX's conformance to the WS-I BP 1.0 - do not blindly trust public information
At first sight I thought that the latest article on MSDN about attributing your ASMX code to control the WSDL (Inside WSDL with .NET Attribution) will help people to better understand what WSDL is and how it works. When playing with the article's sample code I happened to start up the SOAPscope 3.0 Analyze Service feature. Kawoom! Read More
posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:28 AM with 3 Comments

We all like attributes - don't we?
Well, I really like attributes in .NET. And this idea is just so plain cool and powerful that Microsoft has a patent on it. Extending program languages with source-program attribute tags Abstract Attribute tags embedded in the statements of a source Read More
posted Monday, January 12, 2004 9:20 PM with 4 Comments

Do not forget about testing: your Web services will thank you
Testing. Unit testing. JUnit, NUnit ... yes we all know these buzzwords, these technologies and tools. They make our life as a software developer much easier - and try to make sure that our code behaves they way it is supposed to. But hey - what about Read More
posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:07 AM with 1 Comments

Service Agents as a best practice pattern to call Web services
'Nough said: Try to always think asynchronously when speaking and thinking about Web services. Kudos David. In this article I’ll describe how you can implement a simpler asynchronous call pattern which allows you to consume web services Read More
posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:44 AM with 2 Comments

Test from NewsGator with .Text plugin
Does it work? Hm, seems so ... Read More
posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:38 AM with 0 Comments

Apache Axis C++ v1.0 Final released
Apache releases first final version of its C++ SOAP engine. Read More
posted Friday, January 09, 2004 5:11 PM with 0 Comments

WS-I review drafts of Basic Profile Attachements work now available
The never ending story of how to handle large and binary data in a Web services-dominated world seems to finally come (slowly) to an end. Read More
posted Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:07 AM with 0 Comments

First piece in the WSA stack without Big Blue: WS-Eventing
Microsoft, BEA, and TIBCO announced the Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing) specification which describes a protocol that allows Web services to subscribe to or accept subscriptions for event notification messages. Read More
posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:52 PM with 163 Comments


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