Sonu's Tech Log

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

sonua — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

UML Domain in Oslo

sonua — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Looking forward to PDC 2008

sonua — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:13:00 GMT

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"...(read more)

WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP1

sonua — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:40:00 GMT

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

Announcing the BizTalk Adapter Pack

sonua — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

WCF-based BizTalk Adapter Pack is released to manufacturing!

sonua — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Understanding various WCF communication options

sonua — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Bill Gates' last day at work video from CES 2008

sonua — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)

WebSphere Web Services and WCF Protocol Level Interoperability

sonua — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

sonua — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:30:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Power of instructional mini-videos

sonua — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Posters

sonua — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:24:00 GMT

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....(read more)

TechEd Developers Barcelona - Nov 6

sonua — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

TechEd Developers Barcelona - Nov 5

sonua — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Barcelona - Nov 4

sonua — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)