As we head in to the New Year, I thought it would be fun to put together some of my predictions for Web Services Interoperability in 2005. In no particular order, here they are: Popularity of "Contract-First" Web Service design will increase Thanks to...

Some Web Services Interoperability tips and examples in this IBM paper: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-tip-j2eenet1/

The following is a list of my presentations: Web Services Interoperability (Japanese) This is a localized version of my Web Services Interoperability Deck (in Japanese) as presented at other events and forums. 12 Apr 2005 ...

As we head in to the New Year, I thought it would be fun to put together some of my predictions for Web Services Interoperability in 2005. In no particular order, here they are: Popularity of "Contract-First" Web Service design will increase Thanks to...

The following is a list of my published books: Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit Discover how to build applications that run on both the Microsoft .NET Framework and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)—and extend your customer reach and system...

I thought it might be fun to put together a "Top Ten Tips for Web Services Interoperability" - especially between .NET and IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and some of the open source toolkits. I'd love to add other people's experiences, findings and comments...

'tis the season for "Off Topic" posts... Yesterday I picked up a new LCD monitor - an NEC MultiSync LCD 1860NX . I have a 19" NEC LCD monitor in my office, so I was keen to get something similar for home. It's a nice looking monitor, has a height adjustable...

Since installing the MSN Toolbar suite last week (see previous posts), I've setup quite a number of shortcuts. Amongst others, this includes one called blog which points to http://weblogs.asp.net/smguest . This is great, but people often Email me and...

I've been putting together a small app that writes settings to the registry. Half way through coding this I thought "Hang on! I know I've written something similar to this before...". I open the MSN Deskbar, enter the name of the function and it shows...

I installed the MSN Toolbar Suite today. I've never used the Google desktop equivalent, so I can't comment on how it compares - but I do like the power of searching everything from Windows Explorer, especially using my keyboard shortcuts. In the past...

New page: http://simonguest.com/blogs/smguest/articles/bio.aspx

The following is a list of my published articles: Host-Based Web Services Integration Using SLI (Screen Logic Integration) This article shows how SLI (Screen Logic Integration) can be used to expose Web services from host (mainframe) -based applications...

This week, Christian Weyer of Thinktecture released a tool called WSCF (WS Contract First), designed to help promote developing Web Services using a WSDL first approach - and hence make services naturally more interoperable. Instead of just posting a...

I have some vacation time to take at the end of this month. Aside from generally relaxing with the family and doing stuff around the house, I'm thinking it could be a good opportunity to "reload" my blog. Some of the posts and categories need a little...

Here's a nice article for those doing XSD/WSDL first development of Web Services. Credit for the link goes to Christian (which reminds me... I need to test his WSCF release!).

WSE 2.0 SP2 released today! Customer fixes included, plus a new security token (KerberosToken2), which supports impersonation, delegation and authentication in Web farm solutions. Download from the MSDN Web Services portal: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

I’ve just completed some work on WS-Security interoperability between Microsoft WSE 2.0 SP2 and Sun JWSDP 1.5 (the new version released a couple of weeks back). Overall, things went really well. The JWSDP implementation has changed quite a bit since 1...