All About Interop

Back in May, IBM had posted an article describing how to connect to its WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) from .NET applications. A surprise to me. Not long ago I was huffing about lack interop on WSRR. I later amended my comments in a...

Not really interop, but here's a discussion of how to talk about SOA to business owners. The view here is that Business value (agility, quicker deployments, less cost for development) is definitely the place to begin. But be prepared to discuss...

There are two kinds of developers who use Visual Studio 2005: The ones who know about and use gotcodesnippets.net , and the ones who will soon know about and use that site. In Word, there are macros. In the emacs text editor, you can define extensions...

SQL As a Federation Database One of the nice things you can do with SQL Server 2005 is utilize it as a central federating data server. In this manner of usage, SQL Server acts as the gateway to connect to data that is distributed in different sources...

Zorro weighs in? http://zorroisb.spaces.live.com/

The August SharePoint SDK is now available and has some good stuff for interop. In particular, the refreshed SDK includes the new Business Data Catalog (BDC) Definition Editor, aka the BDC tool. The BDC is the set of metadata that describes the...

Greg Leake does a review of StockTrader on Channel9. Check it out .

I wrote about Christian's foray into this area a while back . Now comes news that other people are confronting the same issue, but with Websphere or Rational App Developer. Here's the problem: WCF emits WSDL that is modular - the base WSDL file references...

Back in June, IBM Announced the Feature Pack for Web Services for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 , which adds new support for WS-* protocols into Websphere App Server. Find the announcement here . In the announcement IBM stated that the feature...

Just saw this, thought it was interesting in the realm of interop. The popular Nintendo Wii game system has some really cool motion-sensing magic in the controller . We have an xbox at home but my kids really want a Wii, partly for the cool remote which...

The SOA Webcast Series for Architects is now live on microsoft.com .

We saw an article on CNET that included quotes from Steve Mills of IBM directly related to Interop, SOA and Microsoft. Since Interop is one of our passions, we thought it would be worthwhile to respond. Given that we are approaching an election here in...