Loosely Coupled Thinking

New ARCast available

My team's latest podcast is now available . The topic is model-driven development and includes a mix of architects from Microsoft, IBM Rational and others. Subscribe here . Read More...

"Office Open XML will meet our new standards for acceptable open formats"

MA reverses itself on adopting Microsoft Office Open XML format. You can get a sneak peek at Office Open XML format here . Update : Sun's Carl Cargill urges MA to rethink its opinion . Cargill raises a rather interesting point ( according to ComputerWorld Read More...

Wow, this seems like really a bad idea

Proprietary DNS servers anyone? Somehow this just seems wrong. Read More...

John Vlissides - gone but not forgotten

I just learned that John Vlissides passed away on Thanksgiving Day. John was one of the infamous " Gang of Four " that wrote the original classic on Design Patterns . I was lucky enough to meet him at a conference years ago - he was both brilliant and Read More...

Are you using or planning to use BPEL?

SOA Bitpipe has revived their BPEL poll. The results are interesting: Apparently 25% of those polled are currently using BPEL. Are these production systems or prototypes? Given the state of the spec I'd be a bit leery about deploying BPEL in a production Read More...

Styles and Scenarios

I believe there are three styles of workflow: Sequential State Machines Rule-based (Data-Driven) These styles are not mutually exclusive and are quite likely to intersect with one another (e.g. a State within a State Machine may contain a sequential workflow Read More...

Pub/Sub using RSS?

SSE defines new XML elements that add replication information to items in an RSS feed and so implement bidirectional RSS. That is two endpoints can mutually publish and subscribe to each other's RSS feed, when changes are made in one endpoint, they are Read More...

WinFX Runtime components now available

WinFX Runtime Components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E5376297-DA10-4FC3-967D-38C96F767FC4&displaylang=en WinFX SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0A118D5F-21E7-4A3E-82D9-F30C6CE3F63D&displaylang=en Read More...

Heading to XML 2005?

I'll be there on Tuesday for the XML Masters session on Web Services . Stop by and say hi. BTW - my slides from the October HR-XML conference are available here . Topics were BPEL and Windows Workflow Foundation . Read More...

Webcast today

Go here to register. Topic: How Windows Workflow Foundation will affect (improve!) your architecture. Format: Informal talk-show style ( P&P Live with Ron Jacobs ). Later today at 10:30 AM PT. See you online! Update: now available on demand . Read More...

David Chappell nails it (again!)

Despite the title of his article, David paints a compelling picture for the adoption of abstract BPEL. I'm in 100% agreement with him on this one. Read More...