Reckless : Workshops

Vinoski is Right (Contract First)

rdias — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:32:00 GMT

Vinoski and Tim are right about Contract first. I would expect no less from one of the Fathers of distributed computing. I learned this lesson first hand over eight years ago working with Charles White and Eva Guo on a project at HP. Yes, we built service-oriented systems back then too!

Don Box is giving a talk on Metadata Soup: Contracts, Models, and Types on the Connected Systems Infrastructure Track at Tech Ed this year. There is no doubt in my mind that he will turn this topic upside down

Aaron has been blogging a lot about contract first and proposed a birds of a feather session. Vote for it and attend.

(Clearly I'm at that point where my to do list is too long so I am procrastinating and catching up on the blog roll.)

Tech Ed: Connected Systems Infrastructure Track

rdias — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:13:00 GMT

The Connected Systems Infrastructure track is almost finalized (minor tweaks may occur btwn now and then) for Tech Ed 2005. We have an exceptional line-up of speakers. This year's event promises to give you the tools to build powerful connected systems on the Microsoft platform that can integrate with third party systems.

Track Abstract:

Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. New applications no longer live in single process or machine silos. Applications need to be designed to be a part of a connected network of services to build systems that span multiple machines and reach beyond corporate firewalls. Also, in order to increase an organization's agility when responding to market and changing strategic requirements, the information flow between services that carry out these business operations must be streamlined.

The Connected Systems Infrastructure track is designed to help you understand how to design, implement, secure, deploy, and manage connected systems on the Microsoft platform for automating your companies information flow to achieve streamlined operations and greater levels of business agility. Architects, Developers, and IT Operators will learn about our existing and next generation distributed systems technologies for building Connected Systems covering the Windows Server System, Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework (ASP.NET, MSMQ, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, WSE), business process management with BizTalk Server, integration of IBM mainframe and midrange systems with Host Integration Server, integration of retail systems with Commerce Server, and our unified messaging infrastructure for Longhorn, Indigo.

Track Lineup:

The Distributed Systems Lineup using core .NET Framework technologies

Connected Systems technologies and the .NET Framework, When to use What? by Steve Swartz

Making sense of Web Services and Microsoft’s Roadmap by Rebecca Dias

Top ten hands-on tips and tricks for implementing ASP.NET Web Services by Tim Ewald

Introducing System.Transactions and new Features by Juval Lowy

Retry, Abort, Cancel? Appropriate Handling of Tx Failures in Connected Systems Application Code by Clemens Vasters

What's New for Web Services Developers in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 by John Bristowe

Not Really Complicated Asynchronous Messaging Techniques and Technologies by Clemens Vasters

Beyond the Wizards – A Practical Approach to Web Services Security with WSE by Michele Leroux Bustamante

What's new in Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0? by Mark Fussell

Optimizing Scalability, Performance and Availability with Systems Built on the .NET Framework by Ingo Rammer

Metadata Soup: Contracts, Models, and Types by Don Box

My Home is my Castle: Hosting Apps - Why you care about Threads, AppDomains, and Processes by Christian Weyer

Web Services Interoperability by Simon Guest

Versioning services and contracts on the .NET Framework by Don Smith

Advanced Serialization by Doug Purdy

Troubleshooting Connected Systems on the .NET Framework by Shy Cohen and Richard Turner

Designing Connected Applications with the .NET Framework and an eye on the future by Doug Purdy

Building Secure, Reliable, Transacted Communication on .NET today with an eye on the future by Steve Swartz

Programming with System.Net v2.0: API’s You Need to Quickly Build Robust Network Applications by Chad Mumford

Introduction to Web Services by Yasser Shohoud

And the Business Process Integration Lineup

Microsoft's Integration Technologies, When to use What? by Scott Woodgate

Expanding your .Net development portfolio with BizTalk Server by Aaron Skonnard

Advance Orchestration Designs Using BizTalk Server by Erik Leaseburg

Advanced Service Orientation in BizTalk Server by Yumay Chang

Integrating SharePoint Portal Server with BizTalk Server by Steve Resnick

Implementation of Common Integration Patterns with BizTalk Server by Mike Woods

What's New in BizTalk Server 2006 Runtime by Jeff Wierer

BizTalk Server 2006 Business Activity Monitoring by John Ballard and Zach Jason

Deploying, Managing and Monitoring BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions by Goutham Sukumar and Eddie Fusaro

Monitoring and Trouble Shooting BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions by Kris Shankar

BizTalk Server Security Revealed by Wayne Clark

Building and Maintaining a Performant and Healthy BizTalk Solution by Lee Graber

BizTalk Server Capacity Planning by Wayne Clark

Implementing A Rules Engine Solution using BizTalk Server by Jurgen Willis

Integration Points of Microsoft Business Solutions with BizTalk Server by Matt Milner

Strategies and Tactics for Interoperability Using BizTalk Server by Alex Cobb

Commerce Server 2006 & Beyond: In-Depth Look by Ryan Donovan

Connected Commerce: ERP & Trading Partner Integration with CS2006 & BTS2006 by Caesar Samsi

Securely & Reliably Deploying Connected Commerce Infrastructure by Max Akbar

Delivering Services Oriented Architectures for Distributed Host Systems by Paul Larsen

Identity Integration using Host Integration Server and BizTalk Server by Anil Balakrishna

Architecting Enterprise Integration Solutions using Host Integration Server 2006 by Paul Larsen

Jorgen and I in an interview with Web Services.org

rdias — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:14:00 GMT

Here is a slice of some of Jorgen's and my thoughts on MS and Web services.

What is the Dev Con?

rdias — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:11:00 GMT

XML and Web Services Technology to fill your head and possibly make it burst
1 track
1 room
1 chief ~~anta~~ protagonist - Chris Sells
16 speakers from across the industry
130 devs and architects working on XML or Web Services based solutions (If you are lucky and smart, that would include you, the attendee)

See you in Oregon!

P.S. Don't forget the 3 people helping to put this event together in their spare time --

THANK YOU Sarah Jamieson of Microsoft and Bill Williams of PluralSight! ;)-

Tech ED: Connected Systems Finalized

rdias — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:12:00 GMT

TechEd 2004

San Diego, CA

May 24- 28, 2004

http://www.microsoft.com/usa/teched/home.asp

Sunday Pre-Conference with Aaron Skonnard

Essential Web Services: Programming with .NET and WSE 2.0

The Microsoft .NET framework makes it easy to build powerful Web services based on open industry standards including XML Schema, SOAP, and WSDL. This workshop will help you quickly ramp up on programming Web services using ASP.NET's WebMethods (.asmx), then we'll show you how to extend this framework using the new Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0. Along the way, we'll cover several WS-* specifications supported by WSE 2.0 and show you how to take advantage of them in your code with a special focus on security.

Breakouts and Lounge Sessions During the Conference

CTS200 Connected Systems: Service Orientation and the Windows/.NET Developer

Monday, May 24 10:45 AM- 12:00 PM, Room 20D

Speaker(s): Don Box, Doug Purdy

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Microsoft is investing in service-oriented software as the basis for building connected software. Service-orientation benefits from the lessons learned trying to stretch the object metaphor to distributed programming and ties together concepts such as messaging, design-by-contract, and XML to form a simple model for hooking software together. This session looks at the concepts and idioms used in service-orientation as well as specific technologies that promise to make developers more productive at building and composing services.

CTS300 Connected Systems: Prescriptive Guidance-Juggling Web Services, WSE, .NET Remoting, System.EnterpriseServices, and MSMQ

Monday, May 24 1:30 PM- 2:45 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Richard Turner

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Microsoft offers many programming models you can use to build distributed applications: System.NET, System.Messaging, EnterpriseServices, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and WSE (to name a few). Learn how to choose the right programming model for your scenarios. This session presents clear and simple guidelines you can use to make these choices, and explains the tradeoffs the guidelines embody: ease-of-use, manageability, architectural features, performance, etc.

CTS308 Connected Systems: Applied Web Services in Hewlett Packard's Core eCommerce Solutions

Monday, May 24 3:15 PM- 4:30 PM, Room 32AB

Speaker(s): Greg Andrews

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Join Greg Andrews, Project Manager at Hewlett Packard, for an in-depth discussion on how to implement enterprise-ready, service-oriented solutions. Learn how HP built a secure, globally accessible Web service that consolidates e-commerce processing for multiple Web storefronts and other corporate systems across three continents around the world, and how the software development project has reduced transaction costs and improved fraud detection for one of the world's largest online retail networks.

CTS404 Connected Systems: Best Practices for Dealing With State at Multiple Layers Within Your .NET Applications

Monday, May 24 5:00 PM- 6:15 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Clemens Vasters

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

We tend to talk casually and single-mindedly about stateful and stateless technologies, but when you think of it, if an operation didn't have some impact on state, you'd never call it. In practical terms, considerations of state crop up on every level of the stack: stateful vs. stateless instances, stateful communication channels, state management services, state in databases. You can build your application to send work to data, or you can build your application to bring data to work. You can think of read-only and read-write data as different in kind, or as two ends of a continuum along which all data lies. Using real applications as examples, learn a Service Oriented perspective on all these issues. After this session, you'll be able to answer questions such as: how issues of state impact design, what special deployment issues arise from stateful, and how to manage connections to data.

DEVC27 Service Orientation Overview

Tuesday, May 25 1:30 PM- 2:45 PM, Cabana 06

Speaker(s): Steve Swartz

Track(s): Developer Tools and Technologies

You've no doubt heard the term "Service Orientation" during TechEd and at other venues, but what does it really mean? Come along to hear and discuss Microsoft's position on Service Orientation, what the Four Tenets are and why Service Orientation is going to be as important a paradigm shift as Object Orientation was back in the late 80's.

CTS301 Connected Systems: Managed Programming for Win32 Developers

Tuesday, May 25 3:15 PM- 4:30 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): David Platt

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

If you're interested in what you're hearing about connected systems but having a hard time connecting this new information with the native code you're using today, this session is for you. Learn how the concepts and products you're familiar with in native code map onto corresponding managed technologies. See app-to-app comparisons of Winsock and System.NET, .NET Remoting, COM+ and Enterprise Services, ASP and ASP.NET Web Methods, MSMQ and System.Messaging, and MS-SOAP and WSE. Walk away with a better understanding of how managed connected systems hang together, and with the beginnings of what you'll need to know if you decide to evolve a native connected system into .NET.

CTS302 Connected Systems: Using Web Services Enhancements v2.0 (WSE) to Secure Web Services

Wednesday, May 26 2:00 PM- 3:15 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Benjamin Mitchell

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies, Security

Web Services are being used to cross application boundaries, especially between enterprises. Such interactions need to be secure. See how to use WSE v2.0 and the security protocols that it implements to secure Web service interactions within and beyond the Trust domain.

CTS400 Connected Systems: Using Web Services Enhancements v2.0 for Messaging Over Multiple Machines and Networks

Wednesday, May 26 10:15 AM- 11:30 AM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Keith Ballinger

Track(s): Architecture, Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Applications that run on multiple machines present special challenges during development and deployment: bandwidth and latency taxes, firewalls and domain boundaries, network management, coordination of configuration and management. Often, the best way to deal with these challenges is by making location and mechanism less transparent and more explicit. Message, network address, intermediary, and queue need to become first-class citizens of your application. Learn how you can build robust messaging applications in .NET. See how to set up queues, routers, and security intermediaries. See examples of real-world apps interoperating in heterogeneous environments.

CTS303 Connected Systems: Applied Web Services at the Ohio State University Medical Center

Wednesday, May 26 5:30 PM- 6:45 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Furrukh Khan

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Join Furrukh Khan, Director of Technology for Ohio State University (OSU) Medical Center, for his talk on experience gained from building a mission-critical Web services-based health science system for their operating rooms and intensive care units. This system connects a variety of real-time monitoring equipment which measure clinical entities like cardiac parameters, respiratory parameters, non-invasive pressure, invasive pressure, pulse oxymetry, temperature and cardiac output for the day to day activities. It securely (WS-Security, WS-Policy) and efficiently (WS-SecureConversation) exposes this vital sign information from within the dispersed complexes of the medical center and beyond via a federation of Web services. The system allows surgeons, anesthesiologists, physicians, interns, nurses, and medical students to securely monitor, mark with events, and replay later, this clinical data. It also provides data mining for the education of medical students/interns and medical research in a location independent manner.

CTS403 Connected Systems: Handling Errors with Transactions

Thursday, May 27 8:30 AM- 9:45 AM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Amrit Bains

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Transactions are often thought of as a database-only thing. Transactions are really about coordinating error handling in distributed applications. Learn about a variety of ways you can use transactional ideas to improve the correctness of service oriented applications. Learn how to implement services as "resource managers" that use transactional semantics to coordinate errors with other services they know nothing about. Discover the performance and maintenance considerations that might lead you to use local and/or distributed transactions. Learn how to implement and deploy compensation and sagas, two transactional strategies that are particularly appropriate in Service Oriented Architectures.

DEVC35 Web Services Interoperability

Thursday, May 27 8:30 AM- 9:45 AM, Cabana 06

Speaker(s): Simon Guest

Track(s): Developer Tools and Technologies

Are you looking to Web services to provide interoperability between .NET and other systems? Maybe you are involved in a project to prove Web services connectivity with .NET and IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic? Come chat about your experience and share questions in this open roundtable discussion. Learn valuable recommendations for implementing interoperable Web services today and see how we are taking this forward with WSE (Web Services Enhancements) 2.0.

CTS406 Connected Systems: Versioning of Connected .NET Applications

Thursday, May 27 1:30 PM- 2:45 PM, Room 32AB

Speaker(s): Doug Purdy

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Do you wonder how to add functionality to your connected applications without breaking existing clients? Do you want to understand how to run your connected .Net applications in a side-by-side fashion? Do you think about versioning WSDL and XSD contracts? Do you want to achieve true loose coupling within your services? If so, this talk is for you. We will cover a broad range of versioning best practices that will enable you to build resiliency into your applications today, ensuring that you are protected for the future.

DEVC16 Connected Systems: Distributed Applications Performance Panel

Thursday, May 27 1:30 PM- 2:45 PM, Cabana 05

Speaker(s): Yasser Shohoud

Track(s): Developer Tools and Technologies

What are the differences between performance and scalability? How do you measure each? How do you tune your distributed application to maximize scalability? This panel focuses on these common performance questions to help you understand performance testing and tuning techniques. With experts from the .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web services, Enterprise Services and MSMQ teams, this panel is the best forum for getting your tough performance questions answered.

CTS304 Connected Systems: Availability and Reliability - Failure Is Not An Option

Thursday, May 27 5:00 PM- 6:15 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Krish Srinivasan

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Writing reliable software is hard. Writing reliable and highly available connected systems is harder. Learn how service orientation helps in factoring service interface contracts that improve availability and reliability. You'll learn how to use Microsoft's distributed programming models to build and deploy reliable and highly available applications. Learn about the features of the programming models that contribute most directly to reliability and availability. See how to pursue availability and reliability as you deploy, manage and upgrade systems using our distributed programming models.

CTS405 Connected Systems: Choosing a Hosting Model - Dealing with Threads, AppDomains, and Processes

Friday, May 28 10:45 AM- 12:00 PM, Room 10

Speaker(s): Lance Olson

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Hosting is more than just how your process starts. Your choice of hosting environment also constrains the threading and app-domain behavior of your application, the higher levels of your security infrastructure, and the management and monitoring tools you'll be able to use. In Windows, you can choose to host your application as a console or GUI app, as a Windows Service, in DCOM, in IIS/ASP.NET, or in SQL. In this talk, you'll learn the strengths and weaknesses of each hosting environment. You'll learn that you have a lot more options than you think, and you'll get guidance on how to select the most appropriate environment based on the needs of your application.

CTS306 Connected Systems: Deployment and Management

Friday, May 28 1:00 PM- 2:15 PM, Room 7AB

Speaker(s): Dhananjay Mahajan

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Deployment and management have been mentioned in almost every one of the Practical Service abstracts, for two reasons. First, you can't talk about much of anything in the world of real applications without considering how you'll eventually deploy and run your apps. You must keep those issues in mind from the moment you start designing. Second, and more importantly, Service Oriented applications are easier to deploy and manage than other applications, because their decoupled nature turns one big management problem into several smaller ones with very clear relations between the parts. In this session, learn how SOA helps with deployment and management of applications built with more than one of our programming models.

CTS307 Connected Systems: Using Service Orientation to Drive Business Processes

Friday, May 28 2:45 PM- 4:00 PM, Room 7AB

Speaker(s): Eric Schmidt

Track(s): Connected Systems, Developer Tools and Technologies

Learn how to obtain the true benefits of Web services and SOA - being able to create dynamic, flexible business processes across heterogeneous systems. Get an in-depth look at the concepts of service and process orchestration. We will review the necessary aspects of service oriented architecture and orchestration technology that can enable you to create more dynamic business processes. Dive into service decomposition, fine vs. coarse grained messaging, latency, flow logic, transactions and state management. Walk through a custom orchestration engine and dive heavily into BizTalk Server 2004 orchestration.

DEVC40 Connected Systems: Versioning Panel

Friday, May 28 9:00 AM- 10:15 AM, Cabana 06

Speaker(s): Doug Purdy

Track(s): Developer Tools and Technologies

Do you wonder how to add functionality applications without breaking existing clients? Do you think about versioning WSDL and XSD contracts? Do you want to achieve true loosing coupling within your service? If so, this panel is for you. Join the technical leaders on the XML Web Services team (ASMX, Remoting, Enterprise Services/COM+, System.Messaging/MSMQ) to discuss the broad ranging and important topic.

Hands On Labs to Look For

Creating and Using Web Services with VB or C#

This lab shows you how to create your first Web service and then extend it to use complex data types using Visual Studio .Net and perform initial testing of the Web Service. You will also learn how to create simple and asynchronous client applications using Visual Studio .Net.

Web Services Enhancements v2.0 Messaging Lab:

Learn how to incorporate WS-Addressing and the use of intermediaries in your Web services applications using WSE’s lightweight messaging infrastructure. Learn how to do basic one-way and request/response messaging with the messaging APIs over multiple transports. For extra credit, learn how to build your own peer to peer instant messaging program.

Web Services Enhancements v2.0 Security and Policy Lab:

Learn how to secure Web services without writing code, how to author security policies, and how to leverage the WSE programming model to secure you Web services. This lab will teach you how to write your own authorization models and how to sign and encrypt message parts using WS-Security. For extra credit, learn how to negotiate down to a Security Context Token for lighter conversations between two established parties.

Are you ready for your own conference?

rdias — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:41:00 GMT

Anyone going to Tech Ed who wants to do a brainstorming session on how to pull off the best applied XML and Web services trade show, let Chris or I know. We rocked last year and are still discussing the possibilities of this year. It was truly a no overhead conference with lots of brain draining discussion and of course, networking. I think this is actually going to be my favorite show of the year, cause the focus of the show is on real folks doing real work and the technology they used to make them successful.

OASIS WSS TC has finalized WS-Security!

rdias — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 04:13:00 GMT

The OASIS WSS technical committee has pushed toward standardization: “Several of our documents have just become OASIS standards.” Check out the discussions that lead to the final decision.

WSE v2.0 rtm will implement the final standard! 9 implementations demonstrated interop based on the spec back in March. Exciting stuff.

This is a major milestone in the WS-* space. It shows that the process Microsoft and Industry Partners have taken relative to obtaining and incorporating in industry feedback early on is the best vehicle for getting well defined specifications before submitting them to a standards setting body. It is great to see the OASIS refinements of the specification and to see a great specification get this type of seal of approval. There are already numerous companies in production using the original WS-Security and Addendum specifications. It will be exciting to help these customers migrate to this new specification to achieve maximum interoperability going forward.

Reliable Messaging Workshop was a Success!

rdias — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 05:18:00 GMT

I am desperately behind on all the wonderful things I want to blog about. I feel a major sense of relief now that the PDC is over with and Indigo is disclosed. My dialogs will be far more fluent moving forward as a result of this. As a Microsoft employee the strongest anticipation is felt right before the PDC, more so than the anticipation of a product release, think of it like the world cup or the Olympics. It was awesome to see that the blogging developer community was also duly excited. Thanks for your support! We really appreciated it.

Before I start summarize my experience at the PDC, I wanted to give you a heads up on some of the great work the Industry players participating in the Web services workshops are doing.

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft and 6 other vendors participated in a face-to-face interoperability workshop for Reliable Messaging. The feedback was that it was a resounding success. There is a discussion group for folks to continue dialog on the specs and the scenarios that were tested. A series of companies, including MS, IBM , and Systinet, have endpoints posted and there are more on the way.

At the Gates/Mills event in NY last September, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft intends to submit completed specifications to a standards-setting organization, and that Microsoft is committed to license this necessary technology on a royalty-free basis. To ensure that this promise can be delivered, all workshop participants need to make a similar commitment for their contributions.

The excitement around the WS-* specifications is growing. Customers want to see implementations of these specifications become a reality. I have already been in dialog with large enterprise customers who have actually implemented early versions of the WS-ReliableMessaging specification. They see the value in this technology and are willing to put $$s into implementing their own frameworks early.

The workshop process and feedback process is proving invaluable to polish these specifications before being submitted to a standards body.

I can’t wait to see the progress made in a year’s time. Interoperability is critical for companies to build SOAs that will bring their IT departments into the next series of decades of computing.

Things to Know

rdias — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:31:00 GMT

Victory declared on WS-*

I have been hearing a lot of feedback from customers asking for more transparency on which specs are complete and which ones we expect to see more churn on. We started a web-site to help disseminate more information on the workshops that Microsoft and our collective Industry partners have been holding to present the work in the WS-* protocols specifications, gather feedback, and collaborate on interoperability. The next workshop will be an interop workshop for Reliable Messaging. The workshops timeline can help folks track the progress of the specifications.

Updates on the specs

WS-Security is already deployed in numerous production systems. OASIS is close to recommendation on the WS-Security spec. I feel that WS-Security is a great example of how specifications should be designed. Even before the OASIS ratification will occur, WS-Security has already been widely adopted by customers and numerous vertical standards bodies are investigating it as a foundation for Web services security. I have been excited to see case studies coming across my desk that demonstrate ROI implementing WS-Security in ways I never even thought about. Simply removing the administration headache of dealing with point to point ssl connections has lowered complexity for many of our customers. Customers love the simplicity of the WSE programming model and are continuing to choose .NET as the development platform of choice for Web services development. This is reflected by the recent update to the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Last week, there was a revision made to the WS-Transaction specification framework (WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction). Also, Policy was updated as a result of obtaining feedback from the spec workshops and from implementation experience. It is pretty exciting to see how much traction WS-* has and how quickly the industry is coming together to make interoperability a reality.

There is a new whitepaper on the Secure, Reliable, and Transacted Web services protocols.

The specs are done

Bill Gates and an IBM executive got on stage this week in New York . The coverage on the event was amazing. They declared victory on the WS-* protocols for providing secure, reliable, transacted Web services communication. Press Coverage included WSJ, NY Times, Forrester Research, Associated Press, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, CRN, (about 20 more pieces not listed)

Both Microsoft and IBM also recommitted to making the protocols available to customers royalty free. When asked if he really meant it, Gates laughed, and confirmed he won't back off the promise. "I can't believe I said that"

What was demoed? Read the whitepaper for the full scenario. A real world supply chain scenario where a user logs into a partner company to place an order and the order is processed via secure, reliable, transacted Web services communication to the backend systems. They showed off how the WS-* protocols can be composed to provide messages that are secure, reliable, transacted, and/or any combination of these three. They even unplugged a network cable to show the reliable messaging in action. There was a tablet, smart clients, web browsers, trust issuing services, transaction servers, reliable messaging infrastructure, multiple backend databases, multiple simulated companies, and each endpoint was running either a .NET or WebSphere backbone.

Kudos to Keith Ballinger , Hervey Wilson , and the entire Web Services Enhancements team for building not only an awesome product, but an infrastructure that can support the type of extremely complex business scenario that was demonstrated at this event.

Other Tidbits

Rich Salz wrote an article on the Applied XML Dev Con we hosted earlier this year.

Scott Short posted his code for his security talk that he gave at the MS Technical Briefing at XML Web services one.

Anybody checked out the following WS-Federation demo?

Johnny Cash Fans should read this article