I’ve just finished watching this webcast from QCon 2008 with Martin Fowler and Jim Webber. It’s basically their view on how integration middleware is used today and how we plan and implement our SOA and ESB project.
Their main point is that we use much to bloated middleware (BizTalk is mentioned as an example here) […]
Speaking at KNUG - Karlstad .NET User Group
09 May
Posted by Richard as .NET, Architecture, BizTalk 2006, Presentation, R2
Yesterday I presented the MasterData Management using BizTalk 2006 R2 talk (I’ll soon have a post out with the presentation in English) I recently held at Developer Summit at the local .NET user group in Karlstad (KNUG).
KNUG is a new .NET user group that I actually helped start a couple of months ago. This […]
A loosely coupled Scatter-and-Gather implementation In BizTalk 2006
15 Jan
Posted by Richard as Architecture, BizTalk 2006
Why loose coupling?
There was a question in Microsoft BizTalk forums the other day about how one could implement a Scatter and Gather pattern in a more loosely coupled fashion.
Most examples on the implementation of this pattern in BizTalk use the Call Shape functionality available in BizTalk orchestrations. This however creates a hard coupling between […]
Whoho! I’ll be speaking at Developer Summit 2008. Developer Summit is a conference hosted by Cornerstone, it’s being held in Stockholm between the 9th and 11th of April 2008.
I’ll be doing a talk on Master Data Management (MDM) for the Enterprise using BizTalk 2006. Basically I’ll present some basic theory behind the MDM concept […]
I’ve often been told that one of the biggest mistakes people make when implementing a service oriented architecture is that they don’t re-architect their current architecture to become service oriented. I’ve never really understood what they meant by that until I read this article. SOA is not about adding a service based call to expose your current procedure calls as a service […]
I’ve just finished reading a paper written by David Pallmann (PDF) from Neudesic. Belive it or not (or even better check it out), it’s a short and understandable description of what an ESB is!
Neudesic sells a product called Cyclone which is something they call a ESB architecture and framework software and even if describing this product is the main purpose […]
I’ll start trying to post a weekly sum up of BizTalk, .NET topics I’ve come across during the week. We’ll see how goes as I’m not the most constant blogger …
However I worked with mainly three things this week.
Error handling and General Exception
I’ve tested some ideas relating to an error handling pattern we like […]
I’m a loyal ARcast listener and I think I’ve listened to most of the shows that ever been produced (at least those that are available in the archive). I also listen to a couple of other podcasts that are focusing on .NET and Microsoft techniques (for example .NET Rocks!) and in my opinion ARcast is by […]
