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Geneva-based WS-Federation metadata document generation wizard (or: "Oops, I did it again!")
Starting with Beta 2 of the Geneva Framework there is nice support of metadata-driven behavior and code generation. We (Mr. Security himself and me) came across some situations where one wants to generate manually the WS-Federation metadata document and Read More
posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:24 PM with 1 Comments

TechDays Switzerland 2009: WCF Tips and Tricks
Just download the slides and the code for this session (actually, it is the download for TechDays Sweden, has more contents as I had 75 instead of 60 minutes :)). Read More
posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:59 PM with 1 Comments

Krise? Nein! „Service-Orientierung heute und morgen“: 5 Tage volle Power und praktisches Wissen
Sind Sie auch müde, ständig von „Krise“ und „Einschränkungen“ zu lesen und zu hören? Sind Sie nicht jemand, der sich immer weiter entwickeln möchte und fit für die heutigen Problemstellungen aber auch vorbereitet für zukünftige Herausforderungen sein Read More
posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:08 PM with 0 Comments

DevWeek 2009: WCF Tips & Tricks
I promised to upload the slides and the code for my DevWeek WCF session when I realized it would be the easiest if attendees just download the whole package from this very presentation I gave at TechDays Sweden....Here we go with the download.Thanks! Read More
posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:49 PM with 3 Comments

TechDays Sweden 2009: Presentation slides and demos for 'WCF Tips & Tricks" session
Building on the presentation from last week in Antwerp I give this session here in Stockholn at the Swedish TechDays.In this lecture I address some problems that may occur with WCF and present possible solutions to them. In addition, there are also some Read More
posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:43 AM with 2 Comments

TechDays Belgium 2009: Presentation slides and demos for 'WCF Tips & Tricks" session
Thanks a lot to everybody attending my WCF tips and tricks session at TechDays 2009 in Antwerp, Belgium. I was overwhelmed and had a lot of fun during the lecture.As mentioned at the beginning of the session this is just a selection of tips, we have more Read More
posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 8:47 PM with 1 Comments

OK, he is British...: Richard Blewett joins thinktecture
Agreed: there has never been a really good relationship - let's not even start talking about friendship - between Germans and Brits.Let's forget about this for a while... working together with an industry luminary like Richard Blewett is more than I could Read More
posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 6:33 PM with 0 Comments

WSCF.classic: WSCF 0.7 now open source on CodePlex
I know that so many people waited for this - now it is for real:get our famous, most-wanted and original WSCF 0.7 (we call it WSCF.classic nowadays when compared to WSCF.blue, the WSCF tooling for WCF) in source code form CodePlex and improve it.'Nuff Read More
posted Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:19 AM with 0 Comments

WSCF.blue: The WSCF tool for WCF now on CodePlex
We decided to open up the development and the code of our very successful WSCF tool - but not the original one for ASMX-based Web Services, but rather the new incarnation for WCF.Unfortunately, neither of us has enough time these days to spend on a free Read More
posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:29 AM with 1 Comments

thinktecture & DevelopMentor: Guerilla Enterprise .NET Kurs in München
Geballtes Know-How - für Sie!thinktecture und DevelopMentor kündigen im Rahmen einer Partnerschaft das erste in Deutschland stattfindende "Enterprise .NET"-Event an. Es wird in der Woche vom 26. Mai 2008 in München stattfinden und im berühmt-berüchtigten Read More
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:27 PM with 0 Comments

Running WSCF 0.7 in Visual Studio 2008
Now with VS2008 being released obviously a lot of people also want to run WSCF in it.I have an updated WSCF.addin file which you need to replace the original one with (the location of the .addin file depends on your install option).Please note that this Read More
posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:08 AM with 10 Comments

The future of WSCF (and the forums)
Some heads up wrt to WSCF - this is what I just posted over at the thinktecture forums (which have been quiet from our side for a loooong time, sorry).Hello everybody, first of all I really need to apologize the long silence in these forums here - sorry! Read More
posted Monday, December 03, 2007 9:16 AM with 0 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - JSON support
Alright, next round in this mini-series.WCF in .NET 3.5 contains a new serializer for handling with JSON-based data. With the so called DataContractJsonSerializer we can serialize and deserialize JSON packets based on DataContract descriptions. The new Read More
posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:15 AM with 5 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Expanded WS-* specs support
OK, here is the next one in the list of new features in WCF "v2".There are two new out-of-the-box bindings covering updated/new  WS-* specs: WS2007HttpBinding WS2007FederationHttpBinding and the respective binding elements: WS2007HttpBindingElement Read More
posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:33 PM with 2 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Custom username over transport security
Now, this is an easy blog post for me!My friend and thinktecture's security consultant Dominick Baier has asked me whether he can blog about this important security-related WCF topic: yep, of course :)Go and read his entry as he was one of the first to Read More
posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:32 AM with 8 Comments

Microsoft starts embracing Good Old Europe - first stop: Oslo
The big shop based in Redmond announced a new and upcoming platform for SO(A) at its SOA and Business Process Conference. And its codename is Oslo.The project code-named Oslo will deliver updated messaging and workflow technologies in the next version Read More
posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:34 PM with 4 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Accessing the remote hosts address
OK, this is first short blog entry on some new features (and fixes) for WCF in .NET 3.5 and/or 3.0 SP1.I know that a number of people have been complaining bitterly about not being able to get the information of the calling remote host in WCF v1, i.e. Read More
posted Monday, October 29, 2007 6:16 PM with 9 Comments

Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 (and .NET 3.0 SP1)
With .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 being quite close to RTM these days, I thought it would be time to write a bit about what is new for WCF in .NET 3.5 and .NET 3.0 SP1. This entry just lays the ground for a couple of follow-ups which will go a bit Read More
posted Monday, October 29, 2007 3:47 PM with 35 Comments

Why wsDualHttpBinding is not for interoperability
There you have it - very insightful article by Arun. Read More
posted Friday, August 03, 2007 8:09 AM with 1 Comments

Improving WCF Interoperability: Flattening your WSDL
WCF is surely a big step forward for having a unified communication runtime, API and hosting model. And with all these super-exciting specifications and standards supported WCF must be a killer when it comes to interoperability with other Read More
posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:44 PM with 33 Comments

Web Service Software Factory v2 (for ASMX and WCF)
It is here.The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance that helps our customers quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere Read More
posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:40 AM with 5 Comments

From DynWsLib to... ProxyFactory
OK, there is one library I wrote a long time ago which has a lot of fans: DynWsLib.This library is for invoking your Web Services dynamically without having to generate a client-side proxy class at design/compile time with WSCF, Read More
posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:21 PM with 1 Comments

[Release] WSCF 0.7 - with support for XSD-based code generation
WSCF 0.7 was just released. Enjoy!New Features in v0.7Generate data transfer object/data contract code from schema descriptions in XSD or WSDL files - via the VS 2005 add-in and the command line tool.This build also includes several important fixes, e.g.:SOAP Read More
posted Friday, November 17, 2006 9:27 PM with 1 Comments

Microsoft's Open Specification Promise - what we all wanted to see
Not much buzz around it, but this is what at least I wanted to see.Microsoft is making a personal promise to every individual and organization in the world that they can use any patented technology Microsoft has that is necessary to implement the Web Read More
posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:48 AM with 5 Comments

Commenting problems
Sorry, we have strange problems when people want to comment on our posts. If you have submitted a comment in the last few weeks and it did not show up here, feel free to contact me.Sorry again. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 4:32 PM with 1 Comments

Explaining WCF - in a slightly different way (in German)
Seems like Clemens likes the dotnetpro.tv video episode that Ralf and myself shooted the other day about Windows Communication Foundation. Only available in German, though... Read More
posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:51 PM with 0 Comments

jWSCF im deutschen Eclipse Magazin
In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Eclipse Magazins gibt es einen Artikel über jWSCF. jWSCF bedient sich über einen COM Interop Layer des WSDL Wizards von WSCF. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:42 PM with 0 Comments

Service Factory, aka Web Service Software Factory, nee Service BAT
Some days ago I already hinted at it - now it is more or less official. Also Beat, Edward, Matias, Jason and others already blogged about it. I am part of the 'Service Factory' advisory board and we think that this may evolve into something really useful Read More
posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:16 AM with 9 Comments

[RELEASE] WSCF 0.6 for Visual Studio 2005 & .NET Framework 2.0
We are finally announcing the release of WSCF 0.6. This version is only available to work with .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Of course WSCF is still free and nobody has to pay anything.   WSCF 0.6: http://www.thinktecture.com/Resources/Software/WSContractFirst/default.html Read More
posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:31 PM with 4 Comments

Why does the world need WS-ReliableMessaging?
In the last few months I have given a number of presentaions on WCF and had countless customer meetings. One of the most frequently asked question was why in the world we would need WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM). I think I had a good explanation, but now Read More
posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:13 PM with 3 Comments

The WSDL Quest - where are they?
Jeff Schneider is looking for your help. He has launched the “The Great Microsoft WSDL Hunt”. It is an honest effort to try to actually find out which products have WSDL’s (and where they are) and to identify which ones don’t. Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 7:02 PM with 1 Comments

Really interesting stuff about Web Services semantics
For frequent readers, I posted about this in June 2005. Now IBM has released a new build of Semantic Tools for Web Services - damn, this is so interesting. Can anybody talk to our customers re. schedules? ;) What are Semantic Tools for Web Services? Read More
posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:58 PM with 0 Comments

WS-* support on the .NET platform
UPDATE: I added ASMX 1.x to the table. As I am currently investigating into some interoperability scenarios between the .NET and Java worlds I thought you may be interested in a list of supported WS-* specifications for .NET today and tomorrow. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:21 AM with 12 Comments

Web Services semantics, part II
In addition to this, there is now something official going on at W3C … we’ll see… Read More
posted Friday, June 17, 2005 9:42 AM with 1 Comments

It's all about semantics, frankly
IBM Research came up with something very interesting approach to finally incorporate semantics better into the whole Web Services story: Semantic Tools for Web Services. Definitely worth a look. Semantic Tools for Web Services Semantic Tools for Web Read More
posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:43 PM with 7 Comments

WS-RM and WS-R
I knew when I got up that this will be a good day: Members Agree to Advance Reliable Messaging Specification Within OASIS Read More
posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:41 PM with 1 Comments

You still think XML is angle brackets? Indigo tells you otherwise...
Steve rocks us with first-class information on Indigo message encoding and serialization. XML (and SOAP, for that matter) as the InfoSet and then you decide how ‘to write it down’. Just be sure to write it as angle brackets for interop’ing. Read More
posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 4:12 AM with 1 Comments

New hope for WS-* and interop: Axis 2
This is good news - maybe a more important announcement for all the interop-afarians out there than the advent of Indigo. Axis 2.0 - Tech Preview / Milestone Axis2 is an effort to re-design and totally re-implement both Axis/Java and (eventually) Axis/C++ Read More
posted Friday, February 25, 2005 4:14 AM with 4 Comments

Viva WS-MEXicana!
WS-MetadataExchange implementation for ASMX. Yes. Thanks. Will play with it end of the week and post some insights. Read More
posted Monday, January 10, 2005 6:55 AM with 0 Comments

Securing Java-based Web Services
UPDATE: removed the wrong dates and added links. There are some new articles up on OTN (Oracle Technology Network). They talk about how to implement message-based security with the Oracle JDeveloper tools. Securing Web Services - Move from Read More
posted Friday, January 07, 2005 1:05 AM with 2 Comments

WS-I Advocates Program - joined
We from thinktecture are proud to be an Advocate of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). WS-I is an open industry consortium chartered to facilitate Web services interoperability and to accelerate Web services adoption in the Read More
posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:06 PM with 0 Comments

Proof-of-concept implementation of WS-MetadataExchange for ASMX
Nice work by Jef Newsom. Although I cannot see any complete sample or even a download for it... Read More
posted Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:30 AM with 0 Comments

Do you believe in Web services in 2005?
Simon and I do. They finally will have their breakthrough - cross fingers. Read More
posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:33 AM with 0 Comments

IBM developerWorks article on how to achieve better Web services interoperability
...and I must say that they just think doing it this way is good... Web services programming tips and tricks: Improve interoperability between J2EE technology and .NET, Part 1: WSDL, RPC/encoded style, and WS-I conformance Weaving together Web services Read More
posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:51 AM with 0 Comments

IBM updates ETTK: now version 2.2
IBM updates its Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) bits which include a lot of interesting Web services stuff. The new version 2.2 also includes updated implementations of WS-MetadataExchange (9/04 spec version) and WS-Addressing (8/04 spec version). Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:33 PM with 0 Comments

Know your policy
IBM has a nice write-up of WS-Policy processing: Understand WS-Policy processing - Explore Intersection, Merge, and Normalization in WS-Policy WS-Policy is becoming a crucial component of the Web services framework. It is likely that most Web services Read More
posted Sunday, December 12, 2004 8:01 AM with 0 Comments

WS-RM4WSE2
Nice, Andres. WS-ReliableMessaging glue for WSE 2.0. Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 12:17 AM with 3 Comments

*Must have* resource on Web services interop
MSDN, finally an official place for Web services interop on MSDN. Do not miss the overall great Web Services Interoperability Guidance (WSIG)! Current installments: IBM WebSphere Application Developer 5.1.2 Simon Guest shares recommendations for Web Read More
posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:47 PM with 1 Comments

They did it again: SOAPScope 4.0
A great product can even get greater. SOAPScope 4.0 has been released ... Mindreef SOAPscope 4.0 is a toolkit-independent Web services diagnostic system for examining, debugging, testing, tuning, and supporting Web services. New features include: SOAPscope Read More
posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:13 AM with 0 Comments

No, not HTTP, UDP! Soap over UDP spec
Now it gets real: standards-based SOAP-not-only-over-HTTP with SOAP-over-UDP: Many application protocol patterns match the semantics of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) [RFC 768]. Some do not require the delivery guarantees of TCP while others make use Read More
posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:07 AM with 1 Comments

WSRP - yes they do it
Microsoft's SharePoint now speaks WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets). Very important step based on a spec not too many people know or even care about. WSRP version 1 defines a web service standard (interface and semantics) that allows for the "plug-n-play" Read More
posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:47 AM with 0 Comments

Delivering a message to an address - somehow ...
David Orchard's comparison of WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery. Read More
posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:05 AM with 0 Comments

ETTK update - WS-RM and WS-MetadataExchange
IBM did it again: Version 2.1 of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit is out: Version 2.1 contains Cloudscape 10.0 beta, Active Dependency Integration, updated Autonomic Manager Toolset (AMTS), WS-ResourceFramework 1.1 (WS-ResourceProperties, WS-ResourceLifetime, Read More
posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:01 AM with 0 Comments

Again: angle brackets is not enough?
They don't get tired: XML Binary Characterization Use Cases Read More
posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:27 PM with 0 Comments

Apache Axis close to take the next step
The Java folks are working hard to evolve their favorite Web services stack (well, at least the community's favorite stack). Apacha Axis 1.2 went to Beta 2 last night. For Axis 1.2, we are focusing on our document/literal support to better address the Read More
posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:31 PM with 0 Comments

Protocol or Format? SOAP reconsidered
Nice essay from Mark Nottingham on SOAP. Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:08 AM with 0 Comments

application/soap+xml
For those of you who care about the details: The IESG has approved the document 'The 'application/soap+xml' media type' as an Informational RFC. It talks about the definition of the "application/soap+xml" media type which can be used to describe Read More
posted Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:15 AM with 0 Comments

New JWSDP version supports WSS and WS-I
Seems like WSE 2.0 finally got a friend to be tested against: Sun announced that the new Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) version 1.4 supports the latest Web services security standards and Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Read More
posted Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:16 PM with 0 Comments

For the contract junkies: WSDL 2.0 explained
A new article "What's new in WSDL 2.0" on XML.com. The W3C's Web Services Description Working Group, part of the Web Services Activity, has defined a language for describing web services and the possible ways to interact with them. The WG published its Read More
posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:17 PM with 0 Comments

WS-I.org publishes first Basic Security Profile Draft
One more step into the right direction - interop at all layers ... Today, at the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services Summit being held in Los Angeles, WS-I announced the availability of the WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group Draft Read More
posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:08 AM with 1 Comments

First public WS-MetadataExchange implementation
IBM's new version 2.0.1 of the ETTK has the first official implementation of the current WS-MetadataExchange spec I know of. As usual, plus some other very interesting candies. Version 2.0.1 contains WS-MetadataExchange, Web Services Distributed Management Read More
posted Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:51 AM with 0 Comments

Want to understand where and how your SOAP messages are traveling?
Aaron did it again: Moving from WS-Routing to WS-Addressing Using WSE 2.0. See the issues surrounding Web services routing and the need for transport-neutral addressing, specifically focusing on the move away from WS-Routing towards the new WS-Addressing Read More
posted Sunday, April 25, 2004 8:36 AM with 0 Comments

Applying WS-Security with IBM WebSphere
Article on IBM's developerWorks server about using WS-Security with WebSphere Application Server. This article describes how to leverage the Web Services Security specification to secure an existing Web service. It demonstrates how to use message-level Read More
posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:07 AM with 0 Comments

The Java world advances to the next step of Web services functionality
Systinet announces the availability of WASP Server for Java 5.0 Beta. It supports WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Adressing from the WSA stack. WASP Server for Java is the most advanced Web services platform for Java and J2EE environments, and this 5.0 release Read More
posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:19 AM with 0 Comments

It is more than just endpoint referencing
Another evident article that WS-Addressing is *the* cornerstone in the Web services world: The hidden impact of WS-Addressing on SOAP on IBM's developerWorks. The WS-Addressing protocol might not seem like much at first glance. But it establishes message Read More
posted Friday, April 09, 2004 7:07 AM with 3 Comments

"What a beautiful day ..." - WSS finalized
Big, big step in WS-* land. OK, next steps ... Read More
posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:35 PM with 1 Comments

WS-Performance hits the road
Definitely the most important spec this year, published April 1. Web Services Performance (WS-Performance) provides policy assertions that can be used to describe Web service performance characteristics and in particular provides set of metrics for already Read More
posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:02 PM with 2 Comments

No! Why? Please tell me why ...?
No, no, no - sorry. XML is XML is XML. Please do not destroy a monument. The XML Binary Characterization Working Group is tasked with gathering information about uses cases where the overhead of generating, parsing, transmitting, storing, or accessing Read More
posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:22 PM with 2 Comments

WS-Addressing gets a slight update
One of the most important WS-* specs matures. Good. Read More
posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:19 PM with 1 Comments

Will it arrive? It will ...
WS-ReliableMessaging gets a new paint - and îf you are not one of those spec and plumber wonks, go and read a very good "humanified" version of what WS-RM is and how it works. Read More
posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:01 AM with 0 Comments

Sometimes praying really helps: metadata, metadata, meta - meta - metadata ... exchanged
Eat it. The missing piece is here: WS-MetdataExchange. Now policy based services can rock the world - I can instantly imagine a ton of unbelievable stuff that gets enabled by the WS-Policy family and WS-MetadataExchange. There is currently no link or Read More
posted Friday, March 05, 2004 4:57 AM with 1 Comments

WS-I publishes Security Scenarios
Fresh from the news at the RSA conference: Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced the availability of the first Security Scenarios Working Group Draft for public review.  Developed by the   WS-I Basic Security Profile Read More
posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:53 AM with 2 Comments

Feature Component - eh, what?
Frankly, I was a bit astonished that there wasn't more feedback on my soliloquy the other day ... are people already happy with what is present in the Web services stack? Especially the interesting corner of metadata. How do you see the whole game? Anyway, Read More
posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:54 AM with 0 Comments

People, Programmers - Web services?
A more or less philosophical discussion about Web services with business relevant implications. Interesting read. Related to this - as mentioned in the artcile - you owe yourself a look at this - at least the concepts make a story to base on, IMHO. Read More
posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:29 PM with 4 Comments

Discovery channel: I know where you are, do I?
Microsoft and friends (but without IBM) released the WS-Discovery specification as part of the metadata pillar of the Web services Architecture. WS-Discovery enables advertisement and dynamic discovery of services on both ad-hoc and managed networks. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:29 PM with 1 Comments

From SOAP 1.1 to SOAP 1.2 in 9 points
Just stumbled across this one at the W3C site. You are probably familiar with SOAP/1.1. You have heard of SOAP Version 1.2 but don't know exactly what's the relationship between the two. This document outlines the changes and benefits brought by SOAP Read More
posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:14 PM with 5 Comments

W3C releases set of new and updated XML specifications
OK, party time at W3C, seems so. To be clear they name it recommendations ... Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/ XML Information Set (Second Edition)http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/ Namespaces Read More
posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:11 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

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

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

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

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

Open Source Java implementation of WS-Security
Open Source Java implementation of parts of WS-Security based on Apache Axis. Read More
posted Monday, December 22, 2003 11:45 AM with 2 Comments

WS-I demos interoperability "not only on paper"
The WS-I.org published a demo application showing Web services interoperability between different vendors. Read More
posted Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:51 AM with 0 Comments

Sometimes WS security is not WS-Security
In terms of base security features the final version of the WSE 2.0 will completely switch to the new and revised OASIS WSS release. Read More
posted Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:15 AM with 1 Comments

Why I never believe in analysts' messages - unbelievable!
Analysts are reported as advising firms to ignore the Web Services Security standards - are they insane? Read More
posted Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:15 PM with 4 Comments

Making Web services interop real
Commitees cannot make - real plumbers are required - test it. Read More
posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 8:13 PM with 1 Comments

Drawing your Web services orchestration
Collaxa announced their BPELZ version .2 graphical BPEL4WS designer. Read More
posted Thursday, November 06, 2003 11:28 AM with 2 Comments

The problem of encryption using UsernameToken explained
Why is encrypting with UserNameToken not supported by WSE? Read More
posted Monday, November 03, 2003 10:30 AM with 0 Comments

WS-Addressing et. al. in the real world (aka WS-Luggage)
Very good and true analogy. Read More
posted Monday, November 03, 2003 10:27 AM with 0 Comments

Apache Web services specs list
It does not say anything about when they will support which spec, sadly:http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?AxisProjectPages Read More
posted Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:50 PM with 4 Comments

IBM showcases Web Services Atomic Transaction for WebSphere Application Server
WS-AT for WAS is a technology preview that provides transactional support for Web service application requests that are compliant with JSR 109 and made using SOAP/HTTP. Read More
posted Saturday, October 25, 2003 3:55 PM with 0 Comments

Demoing "contract first" approach with WSDL Designer
Showing the "contract first" design approach when implementing XML Web services. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:52 PM with 4 Comments

For the unmanaged and non-MS Web services programmers: Axis
If everything goes well we will see a pure C++ version of Apache Axis in November 2003. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:12 PM with 2 Comments

Deja vue: trying to make Web services description easier
Rich Salz has a new article on XML.com: Really Simple Web Service Descriptions. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:08 AM with 1 Comments

John Lennon would cry - SOAP == Peace?
Pat Helland singing 'Give SOAP a change' with David Campbell on guitar (lyrics by Don Box). Read More
posted Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:04 AM with 0 Comments

Finding your way through the Web services jungle
Jorgen Thelin has refreshed the MSDN Web services Developer center to provide better navigation to certain areas in Web services specifications. Read More
posted Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:58 AM with 0 Comments

A bunch of stuff on Web services, WSA, SOA and the like
A collection of some nice and interesting postings all around the Web services architecture and SOA: Rebecca Dias: Service Oriented Architectures, broadband, and outsourcingDo not only think and talk about core technology. Never forget the business or Read More
posted Friday, October 10, 2003 11:24 AM with 2 Comments

A comparison of Web services transaction protocols
Article on IBM's developerWorks site on a comparative analysis of WS-C/WS-Tx and OASIS BTP. Read More
posted Friday, October 10, 2003 10:54 AM with 1 Comments

Ever wondered about the cornucopia of Web services standards?
What means what and what is the difference between A and B in the Web services standards world? Read More
posted Friday, October 10, 2003 10:52 AM with 0 Comments

Messaging, XML, SOAP and asynchronous processing
Another two masterpieces by Ingo Rammer: Messaging, XML, SOAP and asynchronous processing ... finally someone spoke up! Read More
posted Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:28 PM with 0 Comments

Mono starts playing the WSA/WSE blues
The Mono team starts to implement the WSE (Web services Enhancements) from Microsoft - well doubted. Read More
posted Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:29 PM with 2 Comments

Web services transactions made more explicit
The protagonists of WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction have updated their specs to make the distinction between atomic (ACID) transactions and long running business activities more explicit: WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction, and WS-BusinessActivity. Read More
posted Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:31 PM with 0 Comments

Article on applied Web services securtiy with WSE 2.0
Don Smith's article about WS-Security Drilldown in Web Services Enhancements 2.0 just showed up on MSDN's Web services Developer Center. How to use Web Services Enhancements 2.0 to implement security, trust, and secure conversations in Read More
posted Saturday, September 06, 2003 11:10 AM with 0 Comments

Look Ma what I want - WS-Policy
WS-Policy et. al. This is one of the most appreciated features in the WS-* cornucopia released over the last months ... it is all about defining policies for your Web services. The current implementation in WSE 2.0 (TP) heavily focuses on WS-SecurityPolicy Read More
posted Monday, August 25, 2003 8:21 PM with 0 Comments

Two new tools for building WS-I BP 1.0 compliant Web services
Microsoft released on GotDotNet two new tools which help to get along with the requirements of WS-I for building interoperable Web services applications: With the release of WS-I Basic Profile, use these two new tools to build and consume Read More
posted Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:37 PM with 0 Comments

Definition and architectural implications of synchronous and asynchronous Web services
Doug Kaye has a very interesting reading on asynchronous Web services. Doug is the author of the distinguished book Loosely Coupled. Get more information on Loosely Coupled. Read More
posted Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:14 PM with 0 Comments

Developing Web services with IBM's ETTK
Doug Davis, ETTK Technical Lead, has an articles series on developerWorks that talks about how to develop XML Web services with the IBM ETTK: Part 1: Web service basics Part 2: Creating RPC and Message services Part 3: Grid services and Read More
posted Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:25 PM with 1 Comments

Web Service Validation Tools for Eclipse
Version 1.0 of the Web Service Validation Tools for Eclipse has been released. Read More
posted Friday, August 08, 2003 4:56 PM with 0 Comments

Speaking in Dublin: GXA, WSE and Interoperability with the Java World
I will be presenting at the Dublin .NET User Group. The subject will be the current development of Web Services standards, specs and implementations in the Microsoft and the Java world: GXA, WSE and Interoperability with the Java World. Read More
posted Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:17 AM with 2 Comments

To prefix or not to prefix - this is *not* the question
UPDATE: Scott now has the 'bits' up on his blog. I hope a lot, if not all, readers of my blog understand the sense and concept of the XML InfoSet. And additionally what XML Namespaces are, what they are for - and what not!? Scott, Clemens and Read More
posted Monday, July 28, 2003 9:55 AM with 1 Comments

Two Web Services heros in a good mood
I am sure you already have seen Doug's MSDN TV Show about designing loosely coupled Web Services.But now hold on! Yasser is here and fights back Doug (the topic is about using the WS-I Test Tools) ... really a must-see-one! :-) Cool, guys. Read More
posted Friday, July 25, 2003 9:06 AM with 2 Comments

Now official: WSE 2.0 TP
UPDATE: Matt Powell has a new technical article on WSE 2.0 (MSDN): Programming with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 Keith is back and has a very good reason for having been absent from blogging:Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 Technology Preview Read More
posted Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:53 AM with 5 Comments

They did it again: Federation of Identities in a Web Services World
IBM and Microsoft released a new set of Web Services security specifications: WS-Federation & Co. Read More
posted Tuesday, July 08, 2003 5:08 PM with 1 Comments

SOAP 1.2 goes Candidate
OK, they finally did it. The XML Cover Pages report: The World Wide Web Consortium has released SOAP Version 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation. Final 'Recommendation' is "the equivalent of a Web standard, indicating that this W3C-developed Read More
posted Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:03 PM with 0 Comments

Yasser is back and clarifies about ASMX, WSE and the rest of the world
Be sure to read Yasser's little essay on the relationships between ASMX, WSE and the .NET Framework. Highly recommned! I especially totally agree with this argumentation on why to 'play' with evolving and not yet mature specs: So why are we Read More
posted Monday, June 23, 2003 8:51 AM with 0 Comments

About Apache Axis 1.1
Apache Axis 1.1 - a Web Services toolkit for Java - has been released. Read More
posted Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:56 PM with 0 Comments

About some news on Web Services orchestration
Some news on Web Services orchestration: Powerpoint presentations on BPEL and Tomas playing with Collaxa. Read More
posted Friday, May 30, 2003 10:41 AM with 1 Comments

About John's first article in print
John Bristowe's first article is in print. It is all about XML Web Services: WS-Security & WSE. Read More
posted Monday, May 26, 2003 8:48 AM with 0 Comments

About an article on SAML
O'Reilly has released the third article of a small series on XML Web Services Security, now all about SAML and Single-Sign-On. Read More
posted Friday, May 23, 2003 12:38 PM with 2 Comments

About new features in Amazon's Web Service package
Amazon has just released a new new version 3.0 of its Amazon Web Services Package. Read More
posted Monday, May 19, 2003 7:24 PM with 0 Comments

About the parley between the Web Services choreography camps
About the parley between the Web Services choreography camps at W3C and OASIS. Read More
posted Monday, May 19, 2003 7:17 PM with 0 Comments

About a required conference for everyone interested in XML & Web Services
Chris Sells has chosen the sessions for the Applied XML Conference. Read More
posted Sunday, May 18, 2003 11:09 AM with 0 Comments

About the second installment of an article series on Web Services security between Java and .NET
Second article from MSDN on XML Web Services security interoperability between Java and .NET. Read More
posted Friday, May 16, 2003 10:29 AM with 0 Comments

About a nice WSDL plug-in moving to SourceForge
The Eclipse WSDL2Java plugin moved into a SourceForge project. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 07, 2003 3:56 PM with 0 Comments

About an important spec evolving into paper maturity
W3C publishes SOAP Version 1.2 as a Proposed Recommendation Read More
posted Wednesday, May 07, 2003 3:52 PM with 0 Comments

About IBM posting a new version of its BPEL tech preview
IBM releases new version of its BPEL4WS engine and Eclipse editor plug-in on alphaWorks. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:41 PM with 0 Comments

About Web Services support in the Java universe
XML Web Services support in the Java world is too diverse. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:20 PM with 0 Comments

About ten points surounding Web Services orchestration with BPEL
A top ten list of Questions and Answers for the Web Services developer interested in BPEL4WS. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:02 PM with 0 Comments

About some tools to detect WS-I Basic Profile conformance
WS-I.org released tools to detect WS-I Basic Profile conformance for your XML Web Services Read More
posted Saturday, April 12, 2003 1:11 PM with 1 Comments

About Yasser thinking out loud on the sense of message formats
Yasser is thinking out loud on the sense of message formats in his MSDN article 'RPC/Literal and Freedom of Choice' Read More
posted Saturday, April 12, 2003 1:08 PM with 0 Comments

About XML Web Services orchestration with BizTalk Server - today!
Article on XML Web Services orchestration with BizTalk Server today. Read More
posted Saturday, April 12, 2003 1:02 PM with 2 Comments

About analysts, the real world, and the truth
Analysts' charts on Web Services evolvement. Read More
posted Friday, April 04, 2003 9:47 AM with 3 Comments

About an open storm in the choreography world
ChoreoServer BPEL engine now owned by new company OpenStorm. Version 1.0 downloadable as a trial. Read More
posted Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:51 AM with 1 Comments

About a great overview of the possible future of Web Services: GXA
An extraordinary article on what GXA is and what which specification is aimed to do Read More
posted Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:10 AM with 1 Comments

About learning the basics of end-to-end Web Services security
Two articles on XML Web Services security in end-to-end scenarios. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:23 AM with 1 Comments

About the one & only WS spec you will ever need :-)
WS-Goodness is the only WS spec you will ever need - published on April 1st. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:15 AM with 0 Comments

About the ongoing Web Services interop efforts - now playing: Security
Announcing the WS-I Charters Basic Security Profile Working Group (BSPWG) Read More
posted Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:36 PM with 0 Comments

About my agreement with a Web Services friend
Clemens and Christian agree on several things in the Web Services area: Messaging, UDDI, and the word 'Web'. Read More
posted Saturday, March 29, 2003 11:19 AM with 5 Comments

About another BPEL engine and one of its dads
Evaluating several BPEL(4WS) engines/servers and other tools to get a feeling about how the future of XML Web Services might smell. Read More
posted Friday, March 28, 2003 11:54 AM with 6 Comments

About orchestrating Web Services with BPEL in action leveraging .NET
Orchestrating Web Services with BPEL4WS in action: Collaxa shows how to incorporate .NET XML Web Services. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:32 AM with 3 Comments

About the common misinterpretation of 'all things Web Services'
A lot of people still think of Web Services, SOAP et. al. as YARPC (yet another RPC) standard. Learn about SAO. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:18 AM with 1 Comments

About a Proposed Infoset Addendum to SOAP Messages with Attachments
Proposed Infoset Addendum to SOAP Messages with Attachments has been published in version 0.6. Read More
posted Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:03 PM with 3 Comments

About Don Box's proposal on stopping the WS-* specs flooding
Don Box says in a conference keynote to stop the WS-* specs flooding and concentrate on what is important. Read More
posted Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:03 PM with 3 Comments

About Clemens Vasters seeking the death of a famous citizen
Clemens Vasters is seeking the death of WSDL, in favour for a new and better approach. Read More
posted Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:30 PM with 2 Comments

About BEA adding and adding and adding to the WS-* jumble
BEA has released/updated three specifications for the advanced Web Services stack: WS-Callback, WS-MessageData, and WS-Acknowledgement. Read More
posted Monday, March 03, 2003 4:33 PM with 5 Comments

About the necessity for advanced Web Services support on mobile devices
We need WS-* support for mobile devices. WSE for .NET Compact Framework is a must for a lot of customers. Read More
posted Friday, February 28, 2003 11:08 AM with 1 Comments

About three smart brains musing about XML Web Services and the future
Clemens Vasters writes about his meeting with Don Box and Steve Swartz. Read More
posted Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:24 PM with 0 Comments

About a nice small and free WSDL editor
CapeClear releases new version of their free WSDL Editor application. Read More
posted Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:00 PM with 1 Comments

About a Web Services spec that reminds me of a great song: BPEL
Site about BPEL4WS. Contains quick start, downloads, code samples and many, many more Read More
posted Monday, February 24, 2003 10:51 AM with 0 Comments

About Microsoft's WSE and the indispensable interoperability with other platforms
As John Bristowe points out very clearly and correctly, Microsoft's WSE is currently way ahead of the other Web Services proponents like IBM et. al.. To get an idea of what I mean just read John's comment and visit the MSDN XML Web Services Developer Read More
posted Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:40 PM with 2 Comments

About Keith Ballinger, Web Services and his new book
Congratulations, Keith! I am really looking forward to having your new book in my hands. Just by reading the very elaborate TOC an amazon.com I am very keen on this bunch of paper ...Just by reading this piece of abstract I am sure a lot of people can Read More
posted Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:51 PM with 0 Comments


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