Loosely Coupled Thinking

Architect Journal gets a facelift

Have you seen the new Arc Journal website? Simon's taken the old website, revamped it and integrated it with the MSDN Architecture Center. The result is easier searching, cleaner navigation, and greater cross linking with other architecture articles and Read More...

Upcoming BPEL strategic and technical webcasts

These are sponsored by OASIS, not Microsoft: WS-BPEL is central for defining SOA business processes. Members of the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee will present this free webinar that will help business analysts and managers to better understand the Read More...

Microsoft's commitment to BPEL 2.0

If you haven't already heard about it , Microsoft will soon be releasing a BPEL 1.1 activity library for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). The activities will enable you to build workflows that can be losslessly exported to BPEL 1.1. Also included is Read More...

Yet Another SOA Consortium (YASC)

Here's another in what appears to be a growing trend . Interestingly enough - this one seems to be part of the OMG . Update: The SOA Leaders site appears to have vanished (cache of the site courtesy the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine ). Read More...

BizTalk 24/7

Saravana Kumar just launched a nice aggregation of BizTalk resources at BizTalk 24/7 . Worth a look if you are working with or new to BizTalk. Read More...

WS-BPEL 2.0 Committee Specification

As promised, the editable version (DOC) is available here: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22264/wsbpel-v2.0-CS01.doc The XHTML version is here (zipped): http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22320/wsbpel-v2.0-CS01.html.zip Read More...

WS-BPEL 2.0 reaches Committee Specification status

Yesterday the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee approved the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification a Committee Specification. The official Committee Spec is still being prepped for posting - here is the latest cut of the Committee Draft after the second Public Review Read More...