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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...

A few people have asked where the update is for WS-Security interop between WSE 2.0 and Sun's JWSDP 1.5, which I mentioned in this post . For those who are looking for this, I've uploaded the code to here . Updated document will be on MSDN shortly...

Interested in interoperability? Want to see some best practices, focused technical guidance and (of course) have a chance to win some cool giveaways? Microsoft announces "Interoperability Month" - a month long Web cast series focusing on interoperability...

Congratulations to Christian and the guys over at Thinktecture on their v0.6 release of WSCF! New features include support for .NET Fx 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, together with partial classes, nullable types, SOAP 1.2, generics and a host of other...

A few people have asked me about using their own X.509 certificates after reading the WSE/JWSDP WS-Security article on the MSDN Interop Home page. It appears that although the supplied sample certificates work just great, things can go bad when you try...

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Ron sat down with John Evdemon (Architecture team) and Paul Andrew (Windows Workflow Foundation) in his Webcast today. Well worth a listen to understand how Windows Workflow Foundation can affect your architectural decisions, although to be honest my...

Felipe, Chris and Don release v2.0 of their Web Service Architecture and Its Specifications Article.

Today saw the kick-off of the first web cast for "Interoperability Month", a month long series of web casts on Interoperability. I started the series with a 300 level talk on Web Services Interoperability. Overall, the session seemed to go well - attendance...

Due to popular demand, I've put up the links to 14 Web Casts on Web Services Interoperability. These are short (approx 20 minutes each), to-the-point videos that show how to write interoperable Web services and clients, using an XSD first approach. Enjoy...

'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...

On Wednesday I attended webMethods Integration World in San Diego, where I spoke on a panel discussing Web Services interoperability. Joining me on the panel: · Mark Hapner, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems · Ian White, Micro Focus · Andy Astor...

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...

Coming to TechEd US this year? Think you are a pretty good architect? Think you are the best architect at the conference? Now you can prove it by entering our "Iron Architect" competition as part of the Architecture Track. You'll get the chance to...

In the first of his "ArcTalk" series, Ron Jacobs interviews Steve Cook about DSLs and Software Factories. You can check it out here !

SPARK UX the two faces of design A FORUM TO EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF ARCHITECTURE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN Too often today, software products and interactive experiences fall short of their potential because the user experience does not...

Cliff Atkinson is my new hero. For those that don't know, Cliff put together an MS Press book called Beyond Bullet Points . In the book, he describes a new way of compiling and putting together presentations using PowerPoint (without bullet points!)....

Damon Cole has updated the SoapMail sample to work with WSE 2.0, and posted it to a GotDotNet workspace. This updated sample shows a SoapMail router that receives incoming mail messages with the soap.mail URI addressing scheme, and forwarding it to an...

Just before the holidays I wanted to see if it was possible to generate Web Services from "green screens" running on an IBM mainframe.. It certainly is, and here is the result .

Have some spare time during the holidays to catch up on new technologies? Mohammad Akif, an Architect Evangelist in Canada, has recorded two new webcasts that are worth checking out... Using Visual Studio for Deployment Modeling The new modeling...

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 ...

The last couple of weeks have been crazy. I've been pre-recording some demo sessions for Interoperability month, which officially kicks off next week. I've been aiming to create recordings that get to the "metal" of how to achieve Web Services interop...

I'm currently in Malaysia, preparing to present at an Architecture Symposium on Web Services Interoperability. I'm planning a very interactive, demo-led session to show exactly what can be done today including basic Web Services Interop, integration of...

Software Architects have a tough job. They need to be experts in mapping business needs to technology, understanding the IT organization, and domain specific areas such as service orientation, workflow, security etc. One of the areas that often gets overlooked...