August 2004 - Posts

• WS-Eventing Update Published

  Microsoft and others published an update to the WS-Eventing specification . The bigger news is that IBM and Sun are co-authors on this update. For those who thought IBM and Msft were breaking ties when IBM was not on the original draft, I can say this Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:34 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Awesome Training on Web Services and other Server Technologies

  The pluralsight folks have put together what looks like an awesome week of training from some of the best in the business: Don Box, Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown and Fritz Onion. Topics include Web services, Indigo, service-oriented design, security, WSE, Read More... Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 1:11 PM by mattpo | 6 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• MTOM at W3C Candiate Recommendation

  The XOP and MTOM specs are well on their way. These are the specs that fix the problem of SOAP with Attachments not working with other WS-* specifications . It looks like changes since Last Call were pretty minor which is a sign that things will probably Read More... Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:28 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Don't mess with the term "SOA"

  Richard Turner warns us about the danger of calling everything SOA . We ran into this same sort of problem with Web Services. People were calling their HTML Web sites a Web Service. That is why Microsoft went the route of referring specifically to XML Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:24 PM by mattpo | 2 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• WSE Trace Tool

  Simon Guest, Mr. Web Service Interoperability, put together a tool to trace WSE messages using the built in tracing capabilities of WSE but providing a nice UI and nice way to view the results. Take it for a test drive at Simon's blog . -Matt Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:42 PM by mattpo | 1 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• Channel9 - The Halls of Indigo

  What could be more interesting than a 36 minute walk through the halls of building 42 where Indigo is gestating? Don Box takes off the rubber gloves to let us in on all the personalities that our working to bring forth this little gipper. See it on channel Read More... Posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:20 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems

• Simon Guest: Top Ten Interop Tips

  Okay...I'm through most of my email from vacation...starting to catch up on blog posts. Mr. Interop, Simon Guest, has a great post giving his top ten tips for Web service interoperability . Check it out. -Matt Read More... Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 3:09 PM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, ASP.NET Web Services, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

• WS-Addressing goes to W3C

  I'm back from vacation and a lot of things have happened during my absence, for instance, SP1 for WSE 2.0 is now available. One of the bigger things that happened is that the WS-Addressing specification was formally submitted to the W3C . Authors on this Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:16 AM by mattpo | 0 Comments Filed under: Specifications, MSDN Web Services Developer Center, Connected Systems, Web Services Enhancements (WSE)