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SOA and Microsoft Oslo

Just when you thought new acronyms were a thing of the past in the SOA world, Microsoft just unveiled its latest undertaking code-named 'Oslo'. Its not a product by itself, but rather a holistic approach to all the numerous parts that will eventually compose the Service Orientated Architecture vision from a Microsoft stand-point.

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November 7, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Silverlight : Introducing XAML on the browser and one more piece to the WinFX puzzle.

The frenzy came in Mix 07 -- the biggest event for Microsoft developers -- its name Silverlight : A RIA-new generation-Flash killer-all things video-uber browser technology, but does Silverlight really offer something new under the hood ? From what I have read so far, I believe it does, and it comes in the form of XAML support for the browser and filling in a piece of the WinFX puzzle.

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May 12, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Java and .NET interoperability without web services : JMS, MSMQ, CORBA, JNI and DLL's

While web services continue to gather momentum for achieving interoperability across platforms , they can still be tricky to implement or difficult to get buy-in from the 'bigwigs' at many companies that may consider them the new IT toy.

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April 4, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Windows Power Shell - for the Unix in you.

If your in the software industry, there is no question that you've performed some type of sysadmin task at least once in your career or still do it on a regular basis, those irksome commands to create, delete, move, compress and update everything from regular files to applications. Well, if you come from the Windows world things are about to get better in this area with : Windows Power Shell .

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August 9, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Web Services in EJB 3 and WCF very much alike.

By their very nature, web services are the natural choice for designing a service orientated architecture, even though there are proponents which state you don't need the former to obtain the latter, the platform independence offered by web services lends itself to this design. For this reason, its important to realize just how web services are composed in mainstream platforms, while you might expect varying differences among main contenders, there are many similarities in both .NET and Java in their newest web services offerings, WCF (Windows Communication Framework) and EJB 3 (Enterprise Java Beans), respectively.

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April 4, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

SOA a la Microsoft : Microsoft Biztalk Server and Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo)

The push to enable software as services is well underway, but the providers who want to take you there are still vying for position with buzzwords and catchy product names. However, for one of the biggest industry contenders the picture is taking form, in what seems like a clear roadmap in terms of service orientated development.

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March 12, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Atlas : AJAX for the Microsoft camp.

The release of .NET 2.0 came with a series of enhancements, like themes and skins, master pages and new user controls, among other things. But even though its final release was delayed to line up with its closely linked 2005 product line -- SQLServer, VisualStudio and other tools -- .NET 2.0 missed the mark on bringing in a comprehensive approach to AJAX . Now, the solution has come by the name .NET Atlas

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February 3, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Track Back (0)

Castle Project : A fresh approach to .NET development.

.NET and J2EE application development are often compared due to their similarities, they both have runtimes (a.k.a Virtual Machines) that favor portability, the syntax used in their core languages -- C# and Java -- is extremely similar, but yet, they differ in enforcing software architectural design. The Castle Project offers a fresh approach to this last issue in .NET developments.

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December 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | Track Back (0)

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