Sonu's Tech Log

XMI as an interchange format - OMG announces model interchange working group

2009-07-24T04:07:00Z

My team has been building a UML XMI Loader and Exporter for a repository that's provisioned with OMG UML 2.1.2 model schema. One of the key questions that we needed to address was – what version and variant of XMI are we going to support. The May CTP bits of LoadUml.exe utility in "Oslo" work with UML semantic models created in Eclipse UML2 Tools. Even though XMI is positioned as an OMG standard for UML model interchange between tools, there have been enough differences an intricacies in XMI variants...(read more)

UML Domain in Oslo

2009-07-13T23:00:00Z

Yes, I have been bitten with the modeling bug. It has been a challenging, yet interesting roller-coaster ride doing program management within different Oslo feature teams, particularly focusing on domains. Bill Gibson eloquently defines what it entails in building a domain over “Oslo” platform. I initially started out by investigating the provider/adapter story for Oslo and its integration with Visual Studio, but quickly moved on to working on creating new ‘concept’ domains using a new modeling language...(read more)

Looking forward to PDC 2008

2008-10-20T21:13:00Z

It has been a while since I posted updates for WCF LOB Adapter SDK ... and it is good to see that Adapters product team has been very active at blogging about WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adpter Pack. I have been working on Microsoft Codename "Oslo" modeling platform since last year. In a nutshell, the "Oslo" modeling platform consists of: "Oslo" Repository "Oslo" Modeling Language (Microsoft Codename "M") "Oslo" Modeling Tool (Microsoft Codename "Quadrant") Douglas Purdy and Don Box are primary...(read more)

WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1

2008-02-16T01:40:00Z

Download WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=106906 ....(read more)

Announcing the BizTalk Adapter Pack

2008-02-12T06:00:00Z

At 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference on Feb 11, 2008, Microsoft announced the availability of the BizTalk Adapter Pack. You can find the links to the data sheet and BizTalk Adapter Pack Office Program at the following website (look for the two hyperlinks at the top). http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/adapter/default.mspx Here is some high level information about availability: The BizTalk Adapter Pack will be generally available on March 1, 2008. The adapter pack is licensed...(read more)

WCF-based BizTalk Adapter Pack is released to manufacturing!

2008-02-05T06:00:00Z

The adapters team is very happy to announce the release of the following products on Jan 31, 2008: BizTalk Adapter Pack WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1 BizTalk Adapter Pack contains the new WCF-based adapters for SAP, Siebel and Oracle Database. These adapters are developed using WCF LOB Adapter SDK and can be used within any .NET application including SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and BizTalk Server 2006 R2. The details of GA and product launch will be...(read more)

Understanding various WCF communication options

2008-01-31T02:56:00Z

David Chappell has written an interesting paper outlining various messaging options available in the .NET Framework 3.5 including WCF channels, RESTful communication and BizTalk Services. There is also a section on WCF LOB Adapter SDK in this document under the heading - "Communication with line-of-business applications using adapters". I recommend reading this paper, if you want to get an high level overview of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK. The paper is called Dealing with Diversity: Understanding WCF...(read more)

Bill Gates' last day at work video from CES 2008

2008-01-08T04:08:00Z

Happy New Year to everyone! Check this funny video out about Bill Gates' supposed last day at work with cameo appearances by many celebrities including Matthew McConaughey, George Clooney, Jay-Z, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Bono, Jon Stewart and Sen. Barack Obama. This video was shown during his final keynote session at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 in Las Vegas. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&tab=soapbox&from=msnvideo&showPlaylist=true&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:be9075bb-df0a-41c9-8d86-7ded46627e26...(read more)

WebSphere Web Services and WCF Protocol Level Interoperability

2007-12-18T04:18:00Z

The following articles from IBM demonstrate achieving interoperability at the protocol level (SOAP, WS-A, WS-RM, WS-SC) between the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services and WCF. The multi-part article is named "Achieving Web Services interoperability between the WebSphere Web Services Feature Pack and Windows Communication Foundation". Part 1 - SOAP & WS-Addressing interoperability for sync & async message exchange patterns Part 2 - Configure and test WS-Security...(read more)

SOA, SAAS, ESB, ISB, REST, WCF, BizTalk Services Channel 9 Video

2007-11-19T06:30:00Z

Check out Steve Swartz, Clemens Vasters and David Chappell talk about above buzzwords in this Channel 9 video. It's a great video that covers a wide variety of topics related to services. See the video also to see what answers were provided when Charles asked the question - Is WCF complex?"....(read more)

Power of instructional mini-videos

2007-11-19T06:00:00Z

Besides technology, I have interest in "reading" and "watching" home improvement articles. And this interest usually gets stronger during major life events like buying/selling/moving. I go to a book store and my eye naturally gravitates towards the Home and Garden magazines or when I turn TV on, I naturally have to switch to HGTV to see what's going on. Vern Yip, Carter Ooserhouse, you rock! :-) I hope to put this learning in practice when I buy my own next home. My sister recently bought a new house...(read more)

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Posters

2007-11-15T04:24:00Z

At BizTalk booth in TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona, we had some large posters displaying the capabilities and architecture of BizTalk. We distributed many paper copies of these posters at the conference. Those posters are available for download. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Database Infrastructure Poster I think these posters do a good job at somewhat "whiteboxing" the mystery of BizTalk Server. :-) You can...(read more)

TechEd Developers Barcelona - Nov 6

2007-11-11T06:00:00Z

Maha and I did an interactive session on "Developing adapters with WCF LOB Adapter SDK". Here is an abstract on the session: "The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) Adapter SDK provides a uniform way to expose your existing LOB applications to a wide variety of integration applications, including products like Microsoft's BizTalk Server and Office SharePoint Server, as well as user-developed .NET applications. The session will begin with by introducing the WCF LOB Adapter...(read more)

TechEd Developers Barcelona - Nov 5

2007-11-06T10:47:00Z

Today was the first day of the conference and along with my conference backpack and speaker shirt , people were also being handed a safety guideline sheet . The keynote was delivered by S. Somasegar , the VP of Developer Division at Microsoft. Then I attended Matt Winkler's session on .NET 3.5, which covered a lot of technology pieces. Other than the vast number of sessions available, these conferences are a great venue to share experiences with people from so many countries. It was my pleasure to...(read more)

Barcelona - Nov 4

2007-11-05T10:05:00Z

I was forced up by my alarm at 8:00 am in the morning to a nice oceanside view. OK it may not be the ocean view that one expects in places like Hawaii or Maldives, still I find having an ocean view appealing than a concrete view. I was still jet lagged and after not being able to sleep for most of the night, I decided the best cure for this jet lag is to just get out of the hotel and get going. After breakfast in the hotel, I managed to drag myself out of the hotel around 10:00 am. The first thing...(read more)