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BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

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After reading Understanding Enterprise SOA I have started reading a new book: BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By Mark Beckner, Ben Goeltz, Brandon Gross, Brennan O’Reilly, Stephen Roger,Mark Smith, Alexander West ISBN: 1-59059-711-7 560 pp. Published: Sep 2006 BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is based on the experiences of many of the most prominent experts in the field. It features over 170 problem-solving recipes for BizTalk developers and administrators. BizTalk Server 2006 builds on the heritage and core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004, leading to a powerful tool that encompasses the latest Microsoft technologies and industry standards for automating and managing business processes. BizTalk Server 2006 adds incremental value to BizTalk 2004 by improving administration, deployment, and other key areas of the product.

Understanding Enterprise SOA

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Currently I am reading this book: Understanding Enterprise SOA Eric Pulier and Hugh Taylor with foreword by Paul Gaffner This book gives technologists and business people an invaluable and until now missing integrated picture of the issues and their interdependencies. You will learn how to think in a big way, moving confidently between technology- and business-level concerns. Written in a comfortable, mentoring style by two industry insiders, the book draws conclusions from actual experiences of real companies in diverse industries, from manufacturing to genome research. It cuts through vendor hype and shows you what it really takes to get SOA to work. What's Inside How SOA streamlines portal development and EAI Rapid integration with partners Effective BPM and real time management How to design, develop, run, and secure an SOA Real-world SOA deployment scenarios I already read couple of chapters and I must say I am very enthusiastic. SOA is clearly explained without any hype aroun

Day 4 At Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference

Last day at the conference I will following these sessions: Developing Applications for the Web 2.0 Jon Flanders Applying Maximum Sustainable Throughput to a Management/Operations Strategy Scott Colestock Integrate Your Legacy Applications with the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems and Host Integration Server Paul Larsen, Microsoft Web Services Software Factory Don Smith Microsoft Developing Applications for the Web 2.0 Jon Flanders Here are the notes of this session: Web 2.0 means nothing Web 2.0 is really all about services and service usage models AJAX is not new already there for years (outlook web access), Google use it Google maps and there u go Web application more as a desktop application AJAX moving away from XML, efficiency ATLAS Microsoft’s entry point in AJAX --> Library to build these kinds of applications Mashup, what does it mean: A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. (http://

Day 3 At Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference

Third day at Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference I will attend the following sessions: SOA Lifecycle - Enabling Agility through Grass Roots SOA Kevin Farley & Alexander West High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability with BizTalk Server 2006 Jay Lee EBI Solutions Effective Techniques for Handling Large Messages in Service Oriented Solutions Thomas Abraham Digineer Configuring, Building and Deploying BizTalk Applications in a Distributed Environment Paul Gomez ThinkBox Solutions First SOA LifeCycle : These are SOA and developer tracks, since I have some experience on high availability, fault tolerant scalable BizTalk environment, because I made architecture/implemented for an flex worker company in Holland I very curious on this session. ... SOA lifecycle - Enabling Agility through Grass Roots Business Rules Services Having business rules as service (designed as exception) Provision smart client Configuration Run from console Security, SSL WS-Security Kerberos RAD

Day 2 At Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference

Today I will be following all sessions on SOA track. It will kick off with a customer’s panel: SOA Success Stories, which will be interesting how companies are successful with implementing a SOA in their organization. Next will be a session of avoiding 3 common pitfalls in Service Contract design. In the afternoon there will be two sessions; one is about building an ESB on the Microsoft Platform and the other is implementing change data capture as an event source for SOA. Here are some notes from the customer panel: First cutomer to speak was Ryan Garner from JetBlue ( http://www.jetblue.com/ ) Business Drivers * Drive away from screen scrapping and work together with booking agents * Show availability flights, hotel rooms, ect... - Microsoft Service Model - Web Service interface modeling - Web Service Management Tool - Governance; versioning Low hanging fruit (gets things up and running fast) Next speaker was Justin Myrick from Clearchannel ( http://www.clearchannel.com/ ) Business dr

Day 1 At Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference

Today will be the first day at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference. It will start off with a key-note of David Chappell called: SOA, BPM and Microsoft: A Pragmatic View. This will be very interesting to see what his view on those topics is from a Microsoft perspective. Later there will be a keynote: Real World SOA from John deVadoss. In the afternoon I will be attending a session from John Evdemon who will be discussing: The Architecture of SOA. After that session I will go the next called Choosing the Right Technology for Exposing & Composing Services. I will end the day with another session of David Chappell, who will discuss: Selling BizTalk-Based Engagements. So what did David Chappell tell the audience about SOA. He looks in this talk at SOA in a pragmatic point of view. Making SOA real is about three things: A) Standardize B) Infrastructure C) Business Process Management For standardization one has to agree on protocol like SOAP, WS-* and foundation like WCF for