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Heading to XML 2005?
I'll be there on Tuesday for the XML Masters session on Web Services. Stop by and say hi. BTW - my...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/10/2005
Webcast today
Go here to register. Topic: How Windows Workflow Foundation will affect (improve!) your...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/03/2005
David Chappell nails it (again!)
David Chappell recently published a great article with a horrible title: "The Case Against BPEL". I...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/03/2005
Fred starts blogging
Fred is a security guru (formerly with IBM Research) and has been working on some security patterns...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 10/19/2005
Another reason to love WF: WFPad
Mark Schmidt is one cool guy. First off, he loves hockey. Secondly (and perhaps more important...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 10/07/2005
Your ears will love you for this - ARCast #1
The first ARCast is now available. ARCast is an Architecture Podcast that my team has developed. The...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/27/2005
Thinking about Process and Workflow…
A while ago I blogged some various points about SOA that some people thought was interesting. Lets...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/21/2005
Tenets of Workflow
Tenet 1: Workflows coordinate work performed by people and software. The first tenet illustrates how...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/12/2005
XML 2005 Speaking Opportunities still available
XML 2005 still has opportunities available for late-breaking, town hall, and product presentations....
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/07/2005
Managing Services....
Dave just told me that the work he and others have been doing on Service Management is finally...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/06/2005
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
Jeffrey clarifies the use of logical address usage with WS-Addressing. I ran into this in a spec...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/02/2005
Help Katrina Victims
In case you weren't aware, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina may be worse than the hurricane...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/30/2005
Information = Data + Metadata + Context
Here is a presentation (ppt format, natch) I recently gave on EII at an internal event. This...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/22/2005
Principles of Service Design
Its been a while since I've blogged. Let's fix that. Tonight I had the first two papers of a...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/19/2005
Better Late Than Never...
Slides from my presentation at Tech Ed are available here (ppt format). Contact me if you want the...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/29/2005
IMS Advanced Web Services Profiles
IMS (Instructional Management Systems, Global Learning Consortium - www.imsglobal.org) is an...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/29/2005
Want to succeed with Web Services? Don't plan to build a SOA.
This is a bit of a jaded post but I'm an old guy so I'm allowed to be jaded once in awhile - please...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/23/2005
Microsoft is pleased to contribute WS-ReliableMessaging to OASIS...
And so it begins... Today Microsoft, IBM, BEA and Tibco all contributed their work on...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/23/2005
PDC05 Registration is now open
Tech Ed is going on this week in Orlando - its a big, exciting show with lots going on (see webcasts...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/07/2005
More thoughts on MTOM
Web Services should avoid using SOAP with Attachments (SWA) because it is incompatible with the Web...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 05/07/2005
Indigo Lesson Learned: System.ServiceModel and Trust
Indigo's System.ServiceModel.dll assembly requires that it's callers be fully trusted. Installing...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 05/06/2005
Understanding MTOM
MTOM combines the composability of Base 64 encoding with the transport efficiency of SOAP with...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 05/05/2005
Come Speak at XML 2005
XML 2005 is still accepting abstracts. They are seeking abstracts in the following categories:...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 05/05/2005
Message Versioning
Message Versioning focuses on the data that comprises the messages created and consumed by a...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 05/05/2005
Contract First or Rewrite Later
Reviewing the four tenets for service orientation, note that tenet #2 (Services are Autonomous)...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 04/29/2005
WS-Discovery specification updated
An update to the WS-Discovery spec has been published based upon workshop feedback. Summary of...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 04/22/2005
'Tis But a Flesh Wound...
Could this be the new mascot for Lotus Notes? Forbes seems to think so.
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 04/06/2005
James McGovern on SOA
James is an Enterprise Architect for The Hartford Financial Services Group and wrote a really good...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 04/05/2005
And Now For Something Completely Different...
Don Box and Andrew Layman on improving the performance of XML. Don't miss the wind tunnel test.
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 04/05/2005
Indigo has arrived
You know you want it. Now go get it.
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 03/25/2005
Using WS-Policy for something other than Security
Earlier this week the WS-RM Policy spec was published. WS-RM Policy provides guidelines for defining...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 03/25/2005
Microsoft is acquiring Groove Networks
Read all about it here and here. Try out the new virtual Office here. I doubt people will be very...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 03/10/2005
More Thoughts on SOA and the SO Design Tenets
SOA is an architectural approach to creating systems built from autonomous services. With SOA,...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 03/02/2005
Tasty soundbites
Jason Bloomberg just published an excellent report entitled "Avoiding Bad SOA". There's not a lot...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 03/01/2005
Principles of Interoperability
I gave a rather short webcast on 2/3/2004 on some fundamental principles of interoperability,...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 02/10/2005
HL7 Advanced Web Services Profiles
HL7 is an ANSI-accredited Standards Organization that develops interface requirements for health...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 01/27/2005
Finally! Real Standards for Optimizing and Packaging XML....
Its taken just under seven years, but today the W3C announced that the XML-binary Optimized...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 01/26/2005
Why Architecture?
Sorry no posts in a while. My blog was under attack by Chinese spammers. While Google and others...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 01/24/2005
Thinking about SOA (again)
Eventually we’ll stop talking about SOA and go back to talking about Architecture. When we stop...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/17/2004
An informal survey on BPEL adoption
Web Services Pipeline is conducting an informal poll on BPEL adoption, the results of which are a...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/15/2004
XML Team Blog
The XML Team here at Microsoft just launched their group blog. Subscribe now and avoid the holiday...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/15/2004
Can Web Services Improve the Standardization Process?
Steve Vinoski (chief engineer of Iona) has an article on Web Services Standardization in the...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/14/2004
Quick update: Larry Makes His Move
Its official: Oracle is acquiring PeopleSoft for 10.3 billion. Update: Get your potential collectors...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/13/2004
Can XML Schemas be considered Open Source?
First off, this article is not designed to bash anyone, especially WPC. I was motivated to post this...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/10/2004
Google Scholar - good, not yet great
Péter Jacsó has posted a very detailed review of Google Scholar. I was excited about the prospects...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 12/09/2004
Upcoming webcast: Governance and Compliance in Service-Oriented Solutions
To be presented on Frday (12/3) morning. Sign up here. Here is the abstract: Myriad regulatory...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/29/2004
Another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0
Andrés G Vettori just posted another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0. He's also made...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/29/2004
Podcasting will revolutionize broadcast (and satellite) radio
Podcasting is to radio what Tivo is to television. Even better, the content tends to be far more...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/29/2004
A quick funny before bed...
I just received an email from Yuichiro Russell. an old (self-described) "code monkey" friend. He had...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/24/2004
On product code names...
Whitehorse and Yukon are product code names for the graphical designer in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/23/2004