Loosely Coupled Thinking

SOA and Business Process Conference 2007

The 2007 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference will be held from October 29th through November 2nd, 2007 at the Microsoft Conference Center on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. Customers and partners can learn about Microsoft’s current and Read More...

HL7 Advanced Web Services Profiles

HL7 is an ANSI-accredited Standards Organization that develops interface requirements for health care organizations. Last September the following profiles were submitted by Microsoft to HL7: Security Profile as DSTU : based on WS-Security (pdf), WS-SecureConversation Read More...

Thinking about SOA (again)

Eventually we’ll stop talking about SOA and go back to talking about Architecture. When we stop talking about SOA it will finally become a reality (who talks about 3-tier architectures anymore?). Thanks to Harry for this one! SOAs are like snowflakes Read More...

Another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0

Andrés G Vettori just posted another WS-ReliableMessaging implementation on WSE 2.0. He's also made the code available to anyone that wants it. Have a look - just be aware that the spec on which this was built is still subject to change. Read More...

New Webcast: Patterns for SOA

I did a webcast this morning with Ron Jacobs ( PAG ), Alex Weinert ( Indigo ) and Ted Neward (Author, Speaker, All Around Geek). The topic was "Patterns for SOA" and used an informal "talk show" format. Here is the description of the session: "Service Read More...

A Bad Movie, ebXML and The Emperor's New Clothes

Aside from the fact that this story uses the title of one of the single worst films I have ever seen , the story prompted me to reflect on the current state of affairs. When was the last time you saw a headline like "FAST, FURIOUS ebXML SPENDING EXPECTED"? Read More...