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The SOA Elephant
SOA is like that old fable from India about the blind men and the elephant - everyone describes it a...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/23/2004
If Building Architects had to work like Software Architects
Jorgen Thyme, a .NET architect out of Denmark, recently forwarded a painfully humorous email: Dear...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/23/2004
Powerful new search tool
A beta of the new MSN Search tool is now available. The current index is over 5 billion pages....
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/11/2004
Curiouser and curiouser! (Queueing Services from a platform provider posing as a bookseller)
Amazon just announced their Simple Queue Service (hereafter referred to as SQS). SQS is a simple,...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/05/2004
New Webcast: Patterns for SOA
I did a webcast this morning with Ron Jacobs (PAG), Alex Weinert (Indigo) and Ted Neward (Author,...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 11/04/2004
WS-Workshop experiences are now available
Notes from past WS-Workshops (both from interop sessions and spec feedback) are now available. More...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 10/12/2004
A Bad Movie, ebXML and The Emperor's New Clothes
Aside from the fact that this story uses the title of one of the single worst films I have ever...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/29/2004
SDWest 2005
I just got accepted to speak at SD West 2005. I plan to leverage some of the architectural theme...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/13/2004
Intel's SOE (Services Oriented Enterprise)
SOE is the latest ingredient in the acronym soup sometimes known as SOA. The interesting twist here...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 09/08/2004
Towards Prescriptive SOA Guidance for the Education Industry
e-Week just published a short article about the activities of the Redwood Group. The Redwood Group...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/30/2004
What's changed in WS-I Basic Profile 1.1?
Sherman Mohler of Cisco's Learning Institute completed a comparison of WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 with...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/25/2004
WS-Addressing submitted to the W3C
WS-Addressing has been submitted to the W3C! Its important to note that, despite some FUD to the...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/10/2004
Comparing WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery
Dave Orchard has posted a nice comparison of WS-Addressing and WS-MessageDelivery. I've been looking...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/04/2004
Webcast
We recently gave a webcast to publicize the Integration & Interop Architectural Theme. Its...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/02/2004
Grady Booch on verticalized tools and Domain Specific Languages
“...with IBM aligning more and more of its field to specific verticals, is that there is such...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/02/2004
An early implementation of WS-ReliableMessaging (with code)
The Microsoft Enterprise Solutions Framework (ESF) debuted at ALT-I-Lab 2004. The ESF is an...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/02/2004
SOA Paper and Presentation from ALT-I-Lab 2004
I've uploaded a paper and presentation that I co-wrote with Scott Thorne (OKI) and Stuart Sim (Sun)...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 08/02/2004
Is that flushing sound Liquid Computing?
...now that Adam Bosworth is leaving BEA for Google? One of his last blog entries was about gMail....
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 07/23/2004
"BPEL is syntactic arsenic"
Interesting quote from a sidebar in this week's issue of InfoWorld. BPEL isn't pretty and it's not...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 07/08/2004
Ugly, ugly ugly
At the F2F last week, BPEL4WS' dependency on WS-Addressing was resolved in a rather ugly fashion:...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/28/2004
New SOA Page is now live
The new MSDN Architecture Center SOA page went live on Saturday. The URL is...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/28/2004
"Compliance works like Death" says AMR Research
Now that I have your attention...John Hagerty, vice president of AMR Research is quoted in a recent...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/21/2004
BPEL Use Cases Wanted
The BPEL Technical Committee needs your Use Cases. You can submit your Use Cases here.
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/15/2004
Fun XSLT stylesheet (3 of a series...)
This one generates all the XPath statements for a given XML document. Caveat: unsupported - I...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/14/2004
Fun XSLT stylesheet (2 of a series...)
Here is a simple little stylesheet to generate HTML-based documentation from a given XML schema....
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/14/2004
Fun XSLT stylesheet (1 of a series...)
Here is a stylesheet to create an SVG representation of the structure of an XML document. Don't have...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/14/2004
"I’m coming back no matter what"
Here I am at the very beginnings of a new blog and I'm already posting off-topic. Although I...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/11/2004
On the impact of BPEL
EdwinK makes a powerful statement about BPEL: "BPEL has the power to make every existing EAI, BPM...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/09/2004
BPEL4WS Presentation from SD West Conference
Here is my presentation I gave at SD West (format - PPT/Zipped). Also available is the sample BPEL...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/09/2004
Will the real WSDL 1.1 please stand up?
There are different versions of WSDL 1.1 out...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/09/2004
First post!
Welcome to my Microsoft blog. My name is John Evdemon - I am a member of the Industry Solutions...
Author: John_Evdemon Date: 06/09/2004