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16451 of 19358 | Microsoft at JavaOne - As you may have read from TheServerSide`s post or through other articles, Microsoft will be attending JavaOne this year in San Francisco.  We`ve been working with Sun over the past few months to put together an Interoperability track on the Tuesday of the conference.    The track includes the following sessions: *  TS-3552:  Interoperability Track Keynote - come to hear Mark Hapner (Distinguished Engineer) from Sun and Andrew Laymen (Director of Distributed Systems) from Microsoft kick off the interoperability track!  Mark and Andrew will be covering WS-* Web Services Architecture. *  TS-9886:  Advanced Web Services Interoperability - this is a session I`ll be co-presenting with Raghavan S......

16452 of 19358 | Microsoft at JavaOne - As you may have read from TheServerSide`s post or through other articles, Microsoft will be attending JavaOne this year in San Francisco.  We`ve been working with Sun over the past few months to put together an Interoperability track on the Tuesday of the conference.    The track includes the following sessions: *  TS-3552:  Interoperability Track Keynote - come to hear Mark Hapner (Distinguished Engineer) from Sun and Andrew Laymen (Director of Distributed Systems) from Microsoft kick off the interoperability track!  Mark and Andrew will be covering WS-* Web Services Architecture. *  TS-9886:  Advanced Web Services Interoperability - this is a session I`ll be co-presenting with Raghavan S......

16453 of 19358 | more on Indigo - Got the new drop installed, although the final step, which I think is the docs, died with an AV. The good news is that the SSL problems that were plaguing me are gone, but I ran into one new problem, the generated config file just doesn`t seem to work, calls to new SoapProxy("Soap") return an error Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find Channel element for configuration name Soap and contractType Soap, client, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null. at System.ServiceModel.Design.ConfigLoader.LoadChannelDescription(ChannelDescription channelDescription, ContractDescription contract, String configurationName, EndpointAddress address) at System......

16454 of 19358 | New Avalon, Indigo, WinFX, and Speech API Beta 1 RC - I thought my announcement of the new Indigo and Avalog libraries was early and that there must be more. Well, there is a whole lot more including the SDK I was looking for then. See Mike Swanson`s post for all of it....

16455 of 19358 | New drop of Indigo - Currently installing the latest drop of Indigo, see what`s improved from the last one. I`m confused by the Beta1 RC label though, is it, (a) a Release Candidate of Beta 1, or (b) the beta 1 of the Release Candidate ...

16456 of 19358 | PDC2005 Getting Kicked Off - PDC05 will be taking place Los Angeles again on Sept 13-16.  Over the past month or so we`ve been firming up our tracks and sessions.  The PDC site will be getting some new content over the next few weeks - we just posted the track titles and we`ll be posting the top-10 list of sessions for each track pretty soon.  Indigo is in the Communication track, which FordM and I are organizing.  Other technologies in our track include WinWS (the new Windows Workflow Engine), IIS7, P2P, Infocard, Active Directory Federation Server (ADFS), Real-Time Communication (RTC) Services, and more.  One of the things we`re shooting for this year is having a bunch of great......

16457 of 19358 | SDForum on Web Services - Sforce PM Benji Jasik will speaking at SDForum tomorrow on Web Services, looks like an interesting lineup including Jeremy Zawodny from Yahoo, Tim Bray from Sun and Jeff Barr from Amazon....

16458 of 19358 | Slashdot.org: AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript - avascript may have been with us since the beginning of the browser, but it`s going through a renaissance as companies like Google create Javascript-enabled tools like Google Maps . There`s even a nice, newly coined acronym , AJAX for "Asynchronous Javascript and XML". A nice survey article from Infoworld interviews Javascript creator, Brendan Eich, who says that this is what he and Marc Andreessen...

16459 of 19358 | Steve Loughran on JAX-RPC and SOAP - Steve Loughran and Edmund Smith have written an extremely interesting piece on the state of XML Messaging and SOAP on the Java platform. In it, they propose Alpine, a new Java framework for SOAP. From the looks of this paper, Alpine seems close to what you get in Indigo when your service contracts use System.ServiceModel.Message directly. System.ServiceModel.Message gives you "POX"-like access to SOAP messages without imposing any additional interpretation beyond XmlReader.My favorite quote (that channels a certain New Hampshire native who shows up in the acknowledgements):We believe that only two categories of web service developer exist: those who are comfortable with XML andwant to work ......

16460 of 19358 | Symbolic Debugging for Orchestrations... - As has been noted before in the lore of BizTalk, it sure would be useful to use a real debugger with orchestrations - at least occasionally. There are times when an expression shape winds up getting a bit sticky (not that I would know...) and a debugger would be just the ticket.  Other times, the exception you are getting from the orchestration engine isn`t at all clear. Still other times, seeing the actual contents of messages or context as you step through would be interesting. Jon has posted on debugging orchestrations (in IL) with an ILDASM/ILASM loop, and had also discussed building your orchestratio......

16461 of 19358 | Symbolic Debugging for Orchestrations... - As has been noted before in the lore of BizTalk, it sure would be useful to use a real debugger with orchestrations - at least occasionally. There are times when an expression shape winds up getting a bit sticky (not that I would know...) and a debugger would be just the ticket.  Other times, the exception you are getting from the orchestration engine isn't at all clear. Still other times, seeing the actual contents of messages or context as you step through would be interesting. Jon has posted on debugging orchestrations (in IL) with an ILDASM/ILASM loop, and had also discussed building your orchestration assemblies manually (using xsharpp.exe). ......

16462 of 19358 | WAP Beta 1 RC Now Available - I notice that the Indigo and Avalon Beta 1 RC is available on MSDN. Run, don`t walk, and download it!...

16463 of 19358 | "Three Minutes to a Web Service" - Frank Sommers has written a tutorial on using JAX-RPC 2.0 for Artima, entitled "Three Minutes to a Web Service," which discusses how JAX-RPC uses J2SE5`s annotations to generate a web service from Java source.Post comment (0)...

16464 of 19358 | A Cry for Help (AKA, Implementing a XML Schema Provider) - I`ve been having a lot of fun playing around with all the new goop in the .NET Framework 2.0 recently. Although my focus has been mostly on what`s new in the ASMX stack, I`ve also been looking at XML serialization. As part of my demo code for TechEd 2005, I`ll be showing how to implement the interface, System.Xml.Serialization.IXmlSerializable for a type. This interface allows you to control the XML serialization/deserialization process in a streaming context. Also, I`ll be showing how to implement an XML schema provider. An XML schema provider is basically a method you delegate that controls how your schema will look when it`s generated by tools like wsdl.exe. ......

16465 of 19358 | A Cry for Help (AKA, Implementing a XML Schema Provider) - I`ve been having a lot of fun playing around with all the new goop in the .NET Framework 2.0 recently. Although my focus has been mostly on what`s new in the ASMX stack, I`ve also been looking at XML serialization. As part of my demo code for TechEd 2005, I`ll be showing how to implement the interface, System.Xml.Serialization.IXmlSerializable for a type. This interface allows you to control the XML serialization/deserialization process in a streaming context. Also, I`ll be showing how to implement an XML schema provider. An XML schema provider is basically a method you delegate that controls how your schema will look when it`s generated by tools like wsdl.exe. ......

16466 of 19358 | Avalon and Indigo...get `em while they`re hot - The release candidate for Avalon + Indigo Beta 1 went live on MSDN today: Download the runtime Download the SDK These bits will work with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2! The SDK has really grown in this release. There are tons of great samples to learn from - some of them are small demonstrations of a particular part of Indigo, others are much larger scenario-based samples that demonstrate a wide range of features working together to solve an overall problem. Take a look at them and let us know if there`s anything missing! BTW, make sure to check out the UDP Transport sample if you`re interested in seeing how to imple......

16467 of 19358 | BizTalk 2004 Certification Exam - The BizTalk Server 2004 exam from MS Learning is now available.  This exam was beta-tested back in January of 2005 and has been tweaked into this format.  For my customers in the Pacific Northwest, let me know when you pass this test - special prizes for you!  The content of this exam covers all aspects of BizTalk Server fromthe installation of BizTalk Server to designing, implementing and deploying a BizTalk Server solution.  Some of the questions will be knowledge based and will come from BizTalk Server training content, while the majority of the questions on the exam are task-based questions, which specifically test your hands on experience with BizTalk Server. Preparation Guide for Exam......

16468 of 19358 | BizTalk 2004 Certification Exam - The BizTalk Server 2004 exam from MS Learning is now available.  This exam was beta-tested back in January of 2005 and has been tweaked into this format.  For my customers in the Pacific Northwest, let me know when you pass this test - special prizes for you!  The content of this exam covers all aspects of BizTalk Server fromthe installation of BizTalk Server to designing, implementing and deploying a BizTalk Server solution.  Some of the questions will be knowledge based and will come from BizTalk Server training content, while the majority of the questions on the exam are task-based questions, which specifically test your hands on experience with BizTalk Server. Preparation Guide for Exam......

16469 of 19358 | Building a Site Map with Visual Studio 2005 - Site maps are a visual way to show the layout of a Web site. Similar to an organization chart of an organization, it provides similar types of services for a Web application. It helps to break down the Web site content into increasingly specific subject areas that helps a visitor to understand the structure of a Web site. Site maps are used to help improve search rankings and as a launching point into any point of a Web site. Traditionally, these were maintained as separate HTML documents. If a site changes regularly this external file often required additional maintenance and formatting. For example, as an external document any time a page was added, deleted, or changed, the external HTM......

16470 of 19358 | Coding 4 fun - A few people here at Microsoft created a website for those who write code for fun.  Check it out, it has articles on various topics ranging from cool utilities to web development to game development. And they have a nice column on xml. Coding for fun: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/XML for fun: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/xmlforfun/ Stan Kitsis...

16471 of 19358 | Grasshopper hops code from Visual Studio .Net to Linuxfor free - Mainsoft launched a free Visual Studio .Net plug-in called Grasshopper and a developer community forum for creating Web applications and Web services that run on Linux, Windows and Java platforms. Formally titled Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition, Grasshopper benefits from two years of collaboration by Mainsoft and the Mono team on Mono`s ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, [...]...

16472 of 19358 | Keep `em coming DataDirect... - While I won`t promise I will post every little piece you send out to the world for consumption I can suggest that if this is how you plan to promote XQuery and your support for XQuery via tools and processors you may just find yourself a friend again in XSLTBlog... For anybody who plans to promote their software technolgies via a newsletter or online e`zine let this example act as a VERY GOOD implementation of how to promote your product the correct way without have to explain yourself or lose face in the community becuase of what seems to be shady business practice.Keep `em coming DD!...

16473 of 19358 | Market Pulse: Goldman upgrades software sector - Web Services Upgrade - now by Goldman Sachs - another SOA-phases stuff - the third in two weeks ;-) ! (via Jeff Schneider).......

16474 of 19358 | Members Approve OpenDocument as OASIS Standard - BOSTON, MA, USA; 23 MAY 2005 -- OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. OpenDocument provides a royalty-free, XML-based file format that covers features required by text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents....

16475 of 19358 | Mr WS-* meets Mr .NET Remoting - Ingo Rammer, the internationally well-known .NET Remoting guru (although I assure you he is a lot more than that ...) was in town for a premier DotNet Conference (Software Development Architecture Asia DotNet Conference 2005) that we are both presenting in. You can read about what he is presenting here and what I am doing here. I played host to him for about 3/4 of the day. So what do you get when you put Mr WS-* meets up with Mr. .NET Remoting >>> What do you expect Lots of great connectivity and great conversation. On the contrary, technology dominated only about 20 % of the conversation. We chatted about politics, cultures, religions, governme......

16476 of 19358 | New Indigo and Avalon Bits - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxFamilyId=B789BC8D-4F25-4823-B6AA-C5EDF432D0C1&displaylang=enParty on, Garth....

16477 of 19358 | News: TuneStage for iPod connects to stereo via Bluetooth - Belkin Corp.`s new TuneStage for iPod connects an Apple iPod to your stereo or home entertainment system wirelessly through Bluetooth. Coming in late July, 2005, the US$179.99 TuneStage consists of a Bluetooth transmitter that attaches to any iPod with a dock connector. It works without batteries, drawing its power from the iPod. The receiver then connects to the home stereo using a 3.5mm audio cable or RCA stereo connectors. The Belkin Web site was not updated with info about the new TuneStage as this story was published....

16478 of 19358 | Ode to the System.Xml.Serialization.Advanced.SchemaImporterExtension Class - Back in May 2004, Daniel Cazzulino - XML wonk of the .NET blogosphere - published an article on MSDN entitled, "Code Generation in the .NET Framework Using XML Schema". In his article, he described how one could extend xsd.exe to support dynamic code generation when processing XML Schema. The purpose was to support the scenario where a developer could customize the code generated for schema type structures. In my opinion, this solution provided two benefits: (1) it provided control over the code generation process and, in turn, (2) resolved the "loose" type map inferred by the .NET Framework. Personally speaking, I can recall numerous occasions when the .NET F......

16479 of 19358 | The reality of Web services - Andrew McAfee, an associate professor in the technology and operations management unit at Harvard Business School, has been studying who uses Web services and why. More interesting, perhaps, are his insights into why using Web services remains hard. In a recent article in HBS Working Knowledge, Sara Grant interviewed McAfee. McAfee says [...]...

16480 of 19358 | DataContract Projection, Part II - [If you are just joining us, read DataContract Projection, Part II first.] We have four questions on the table: Why is Age not xs:int Why is Name not xs:string Why does Age appears before Name in the outer sequence Why is there is some wacky nested sequence at the end of the outer sequence In this post, we`ll handle #1 & #2. The answer is simple: we need to add attributes to the "most common" simple types. Below is the type def for xs:int:                                   Suppose that we used this type def in the the following schema: http://foo"      xmlns="http://fo......

16481 of 19358 | ESB versus Fabric?Stop It! - Running in the SOA crowd, I notice a new debate brewing. As we work to create SOAs, there seems to be disagreement on the approaches and enabling technology one should use. In other words, should we leverage an ESB product or a Fabric product, or perhaps something else...

16482 of 19358 | ESB versus Fabric?Stop It! - Running in the SOA crowd, I notice a new debate brewing. As we work to create SOAs, there seems to be disagreement on the approaches and enabling technology one should use. In other words, should we leverage an ESB product or a Fabric product, or perhaps something else...

16483 of 19358 | ESB versus Fabric?Stop It! - Running in the SOA crowd, I notice a new debate brewing. As we work to create SOAs, there seems to be disagreement on the approaches and enabling technology one should use. In other words, should we leverage an ESB product or a Fabric product, or perhaps something else...

16484 of 19358 | More on simple tracing in Indigo - A fellow Indigette, Dan Roth, pointed out to me via e-mail and a comment on my earlier blog entry, that I`d neglected to explain *why* the service level message logs contain SOAP headers that were not actually transmitted by the client. This entry attempts to make up for my earlier omission.   The binding I`ve used in my samples so far does not actually use WS-Addressing on the wire. This means that the messages sent by the client don`t actually contain wsa:To or wsa:Action headers. However, it is possible to infer the values of those headers from the HTTP Request-URI and the SOAPAction HTTP header respectively. When a message arrives at the service the server-side plumbing for the binding ......

16485 of 19358 | Netscape 8 Breaks XSLT in Internet Explorer - Some users report that after installing Netscape 8 Internet Explorer and other IE-based browsers usch as Avant browser stop applying XSLT stylesheets, even the default stylesheet used to render XML documents. That probably has something to do with "Firefox or IE6 rendering" feature in Netscape. Beware. ...

16486 of 19358 | SOAP / Application Versioning: One wsdl:port with the same value for the location attribute of the soap:address element. - In some of my presentations of experience from the field, I had frequently preached one of the ways I do SOAP Application Versioning is to have multiple wsdl:ports with the same location. Apparently, this has caused some exceptions thrown by _WS-BP10_  Conformance Toolkits such as this and people are questioning me why. Fellow Web Services Expert and Enthusiast, Christian Weyer questions this as well here in his post. Let me clarify by saying that there are more than one ways to skin a cat. What I practiced is a guideline I have gathered from field experience. Let us take a look at the specific appropriate section of the Basic Profile 1.0: 5.6......

16487 of 19358 | SOAP / Application Versioning: One wsdl:port with the same value for the location attribute of the soap:address element. - In some of my presentations, I had frequently preached one of the ways I do SOAP Application Versioning is to have multiple wsdl:ports with the same location. Apparently, this has caused some exceptions thrown by _WS-BP10_  Conformance Toolkits such as this and people are questioning me why. Fellow Web Services Expert and Enthusiast, Christian Weyer questions this as well here in his post. Let me clarify by saying that there are more than one ways to skin a cat. What I practiced is a guideline I have gathered from field experience. Let us take a look at the specific appropriate section of the Basic Profile 1.0......

16488 of 19358 | SOAP 1.5.4 Has Been Released - NaHi has released version 1.5.4 of SOAP4R. SOAP4R is an implementation of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 (W3C Note). RAA: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtmlname=soap4r Release Notes: http://dev.ctor.org/doc/soap4r/RELEASE_en.html Most significant feature of 1.5.4 is WSDL support. Document/literal service support for .NET interoperability. Improved XML Schema support such as extension, restriction, simpleType, complexType + simpleContent, ref, length, import, include. And many bugs were fixed. This RSS item should not contain any advertisements, paid links to commercial products, stupid JavaScript/CSS pop-up crap, or other forms of annoying content. If you ......

16489 of 19358 | Steve Maine is a First Class Warsie - I had spent an entire day playing host to Ingo Rammer and what a great day it was. I will blog about that later. Deep into the night  (it was 0315 my time), I chatted with Steve Maine over IM on some trivial ramblings of The role of the Toolset in the Programming Paradigm in the Web Services World. I would not even go near the word "Service-Oriented Architectures". It would take more than a tool kit to do that. Discipline and Best Practices would be closer to that topic. What would we like to see in the transition of the mindset of the Object-Oriented developer to a Service-Oriented one, especially in the face of the coming of Indi......

16490 of 19358 | Steve Maine is a First Class Warsie and gets my vote to play the Bablefish - I had spent an entire day playing host to Ingo Rammer and what a great day it was. I will blog about that later. Deep into the night  (it was 0315 my time), I chatted with Steve Maine over IM on some trivial ramblings of The role of the Toolset in the Programming Paradigm in the Web Services World. I would not even go near the word "Service-Oriented Architectures". It would take more than a tool kit to do that. Discipline and Best Practices would be closer to that topic. What would we like to see in the transition of the mindset of the Object-Oriented developer to a Service-Oriented one, especially in the face of the coming of Indi......

16491 of 19358 | The Importance of Persistence within a SOA - When I wrote about the 12 steps to creating a SOA a few months ago, I talked about the importance of data and abstract data, or the notion of data management within the SOA....

16492 of 19358 | The Importance of Persistence within a SOA - When I wrote about the 12 steps to creating a SOA a few months ago, I talked about the importance of data and abstract data, or the notion of data management within the SOA....

16493 of 19358 | The Importance of Persistence within a SOA - When I wrote about the 12 steps to creating a SOA a few months ago, I talked about the importance of data and abstract data, or the notion of data management within the SOA....

16494 of 19358 | Travelling through hyperspace - “Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy…without precise calculations you could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that would end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it”   – Han Solo, Captain, Millenium Falcon I was folding my laundry the other day, and had the audio commentary for Episode IV on in the background (I get bored with radio, and don’t have cable at the moment). I like audio commentaries because every so often you learn something you didn’t know before. True Star Wars geeks will know recognize the Millenium Falcon as “the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.” I never really understo......

16495 of 19358 | Ajax & Accessibilty - Ajax is a Dutch soccerclub, kitchen cleaning stuff, but nowadays, when webdevelopers use the term AJAX they mean Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. I wrote about this earlier. About 10 percent of all internet users have some form of functional impairment. This ranges from color blindness (1 out of every 7 men) to people who can’t [...]...

16496 of 19358 | BEA, IBM, Microsoft and TIBCO submit Web Services ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) Specification to OASIS for Standardization - I hope this turns out better than this....

16497 of 19358 | Fresh Indigo (and Avalon) bits coming soon - Looks like the Beta1 RC for Avalon and Indigo is available for download. It’s still making its way through the MSDN server farms, but this link looks like it goes directly to the executable. These bits will work on top of VS Beta 2, so have fun… ...

16498 of 19358 | Indigo and Avalon Beta 1 RC Released - Quietly it seems overnight that Microsoft released the Indigo and Avalon Betas. Thanks to Drew`s post for the info and  here`s a direct link to the executable. Does it work with VS2005 Beta 2 Who knows, but I would guess yes, and I`m trying it to be sure....

16499 of 19358 | Microsoft Pre-Release Software Code Named "Avalon" and "Indigo" Beta1 RC - I know it is supposed to be here. However, I think it is taking some time to propagate to the server farms. So, just stay tuned....

16500 of 19358 | via Elliotte Rusty Harold | Um, I think you missed a spot... - Cafe con Leche XML News and ResourcesNetscape has released version 8.0.1 of its namesake web browser for Windows. This release is based on Firefox 1.0.4 instead of 1.0.3, Apparently someone at AOL finally got enough a clue pounded into their head to realize that shipping a browser with a known security hole just to meet a deadline and a code freeze wasn`t so smart. Any users should upgrade, but most people should probably just use Firefox and forget about Netscape.Hmmmm.... I`m guessing that maybe Elliotte chose to stick with his Firefox 1.0.4 install and as such missed this little dialog during the setup process:In case the text is inelligible let me put this into plain text:...