Beat Schwegler's 2 Cents

Excerpt from the PHP Manual : Warning Do not use Apache 2.0 and PHP in a production environment neither on Unix nor on Windows. No comment…

Last week, I attended a great cooking class as part of my Architect Bootcamp delivery in Denmark . It is really impressive to see how this industry understands the streamlining of the creation of a meal but still is able to ensure the highest level of...

Do you see a problem in the following Web Service implementation? My opinion about this code snippet will follow… namespace Issue2 { public class DeletePersonRequest { public string name; public string firstname; /...

For everybody interested in attending my live MSDN Webcast tomorrow, here is the agenda: CodeDOM Introduction Assembly compilation Source code generation Source code parsing Advanced concepts Template based source code generation...

When my alarm clock rang on Monday the 14 th of February at 6.15 am, I had no clue what I’m going to experience the next 23 hours. To be honest, if I knew it upfront, I would have stayed in bed for an additional couple of hours. But because I didn’t knew...

I’m in the process of preparing a Web Service “hands on” workshop. Therefore I was going to consolidate my favorite WS-tools. Here we go: · SoapScope 3.0 sniffing SOAP messages and analyzing WSDL · OmniOpera 1.5 creating...

Are you interested in Web Services architecture and technology and coincidentally live in Norway ? If yes, the EMEA Web Services Competency Workshop might be exactly what you’re looking for. It takes place on the 1. March in Oslo . This workshop usually...

While I was sitting in a lovely restaurant in Spain I was thinking about the most important thing that makes eating in a restaurant a great experience. Is it really the food? I ate in a restaurant last Monday that hadn’t served great food. But I felt...

In my last post , I discussed some assets that restaurants enable to deliver high quality dishes on budget and on time. I truly believe that in the software industry we have to step up to the next level of predictability, quality and efficiency. Software...

Eliaz just uploaded the latest version of my Web Service Competency Workshop. You can download ~20MB of slides and demos from here . The content consists of two parts: The first one discusses architecture and concepts where the second one is dedicated...

After more than one year of weblog voyeurism, I finally decided to share my thoughts and entered the blogging space today. As an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Austria , I support and consult companies in software architecture related topics and...

The answer to Issue 5 is the following: < wsp:MessagePredicate wsp : Usage ="wsp:Required" xmlns : it ="uri:isssue5/types" xmlns : iw ="uri:isssue5/wsdl"> wsp:GetBody(.)/ iw:reqMsg/it:something > 4 </ wsp:MessagePredicate...

I’ve found the following thoughts quite interesting… Prolog: The WS-Policy framework allows you to make statements about your Web Services such as their preferences, requirements or capabilities. Since policies are part of the messaging...

Although it’s a longtime ago, I want to follow up with the promised explanations for Issue 8 : Prolog: WS BP 1.0 prohibits the usage of rpc-encoded but explicitly allows rpc-literal. But what is rpc-literal anyway? Rpc stands for remote procedure call...

Together with Mario , I’m going to deliver the following content throughout Austria : Writing Secure Code: Essential Security Technologies (part 1) Writing Secure Code: Essential Security Technologies (part 2) Secure Application Architecture...

The TechEd session voting demanded an additional slot for our Web Services Chalk-&-Talk (CHT011)! It’s great that so many people care about the way Web Services should be used in a service oriented fashion. If you’re going to attend...

Given the following WSDL, how does your .NET proxy and stub look like? As always, answer and explanation will follow… Note, it’s rpc-literal … <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8"?> < wsdl:definitions targetNamespace...

The number one problem in dealing with rpc-literal Web Services is the fact that they are unsupported on the .NET platform, yet. However, every rpc-literal message can be “built” using a doc-literal based implementations. By doing so, the .NET stub for...

TechEd Europe was a blast and I’m really proud that I was part of it! As a track owner for the ARC & CTS tracks, planning for TechEd started already in January. It looks like we made the right decisions: Both tracks were extremely well received! In...

I'm really happy about the massive Indigo coverage we're going to have at TechEd Europe . Since this content is brand new, the presenters agreed on doing a lot of extra work! Thanks guys, I owe you all a beer... Introducing "Indigo" - The Unified...

YAWSQ (Yet Another Web Services Quiz) This issue is really interesting. It beautifully demonstrates one of the over-engineered but poorly specified parts of the WSDL 1.1 specification. The following WSDL is very similar to the one I got from one of my...

I’ve seen it over and over; the so called magic presentation services: Systems that can easily support different channels and devices (Internet, WAP, Digital-TV, …) without explicitly designing applications or meta data for them. Don’t...

In addition to the architectural issue , let’s talk about two implementation problems: First, the serializing problem You always have to be aware of the fact that the Web Service’s ultimate type system is the XML type system. Given...

I just came across the following InformationWeek quiz: Web Services: Up to speed? It’s scary to see what they count as success factors when moving towards a Web Services enabled infrastructure. Why? Check out their questions and you know...

This post is part of Issue 5’s answer I’ve highlighted the relevant artifacts in the following excerpt of the WS-PolicyAssertions spec: The contents of the <MessagePredicate> element is an XPath 1.0 expression...