All About Interop

Here's a list of IBM-published Redbooks relating to .NET WebSphere and .Net Interoperability Using Web Services . 366 pages. June 2005. DB2 UDB V8.2 on the Windows Environment . 356 pages. October 2004. Integrating DB2 Universal Database for iSeries...

I have a bunch of kids, I lost count after 3. They are all under 10 years of age, as far as I know. They move so fast, that Heisenberg effects occur. You can never really be certain exactly where they are, and exactly how fast or in what direction they...

There's lots of .NET-and-Java interop stuff happening at JavaOne this year. I'll be participating in a panel discussion, as well as a BoF session. A number of other Microsofties will be doing sessions. And, we have a booth on the show floor. Come and...

Many of you may be aware that Microsoft officially participated in Sun's JavaOne conference for 2005 . The focus of the Microsoft presence at the event was Interoperability between Java and .NET, and Wednesday was "Interoperability Day" at JavaOne . Most...

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Office (unofficially "Office 12") will deliver support for a new set of XML file formats. Calling them " the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats ", Microsoft wants to produce a more compact, simpler format...

Quest announced they will buy Vintela , the makers of the Vintela Single Sign-on for Java, which allows Java apps to utilize the native Windows identity on a Windows machine. I am hopeful this means bigger and better things for Vintela and their interop...

SAP has posted a whitepaper on Interop with .NET and WebSphere (PDF). I hadn't seen this til now. It's pretty fluffy but serves as a statement of intent, anyway.

Paul Krill of InfoWorld posted a story summarizing much of the interop action at J1 . The news item was headlined "Interop frustrations aired". It sounds kinda negative, and I can understand that, but the vibe I got from the audience was mostly positive...

Beta1 is now available for download. Checkitout. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx