Loosely Coupled Thinking

Ugly, ugly ugly

At the F2F last week, BPEL4WS' dependency on WS-Addressing was resolved in a rather ugly fashion : <service-ref reference-scheme="http://foo.org"> <foo:barEPR xmlns:foo="http://foo.org"> ... </foo:barEPR> </service-ref> The TC's Read More...

New SOA Page is now live

The new MSDN Architecture Center SOA page went live on Saturday. The URL is http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/soa (bookmark it now) . The new SOA page is headlined on the architecture center homepage at http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/ . Much Read More...

"Compliance works like Death" says AMR Research

Now that I have your attention...John Hagerty, vice president of AMR Research is quoted in a recent article in Compliance Pipeline : "Compliance works like death - the first emotions felt are shock and anger, and then those feelings move on to ones of Read More...

BPEL Use Cases Wanted

The BPEL Technical Committee needs your Use Cases. You can submit your Use Cases here . Read More...

Fun XSLT stylesheet (3 of a series...)

This one generates all the XPath statements for a given XML document. Caveat: unsupported - I haven't tested these in years. Read More...

Fun XSLT stylesheet (2 of a series...)

Here is a simple little stylesheet to generate HTML-based documentation from a given XML schema. Caveat: unsupported - I haven't tested these in years. Read More...

Fun XSLT stylesheet (1 of a series...)

Here is a stylesheet to create an SVG representation of the structure of an XML document. Don't have an SVG engine? Adobe has a nice one (make sure you are logged into the machine as Admin to install it - not the domain). Caveat: unsupported - I haven't Read More...

"I’m coming back no matter what"

Here I am at the very beginnings of a new blog and I'm already posting off-topic. Although I promised to keep this to a minimum I just learned that Harry is a hockey fanatic (sure he's a Caps fan, but its still hockey). Harry's got several interesting Read More...

On the impact of BPEL

EdwinK makes a powerful statement about BPEL : " BPEL has the power to make every existing EAI, BPM and Workflow product obsolete the same way SQL made Culinet and the others obsolete." Time will tell. Read More...

BPEL4WS Presentation from SD West Conference

Here is my presentation I gave at SD West (format - PPT/Zipped). Also available is the sample BPEL and sample WSDL I referenced during the presentation. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. BizTalk 2004 supports BPEL. If you haven't yet Read More...

Will the real WSDL 1.1 please stand up?

There are different versions of WSDL 1.1 out there: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/2003-02-11.xsd -------------------------------------------------- <xs:complexType name="tPart"> <xs:complexContent> <xs:extension base="wsdl:tExtensibleAttributesDocumented"> Read More...

First post!

Welcome to my Microsoft blog. My name is John Evdemon - I am a member of the Industry Solutions Architecture (ISA) Team which is a part of the Developer Platform and Evangelism group (DP&E for short). Prior to joining Microsoft I was a CTO for a successful Read More...