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Dutch Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference 2008

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Before I start my post about the annual dutch Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference in Groenekan near Utrecht I attended today I would like to announce that I have I have recently joined Getronics PinkRoccade for a role as technical consultant in technologies like BizTalk Server, Integration and Messaging. After working two years for Inter Access I thought it was time for a new step in my career. Participating in a company wide expert group and doing projects for customers seems to me a new challenge to gain experience at customers and spread/share insights, knowledge and vision to colleagues. Could I or did I do this at Inter Access? Yes, but on a small scale and my role in technical management became marginal. Now I do act on a larger scale and work with large companies and share knowledge/expertise with a large population of IT professionals. That said back to the conference. The agenda was as follows: two keynotes one by Jeff Sampler and one by Dan Alling followed by two tracks a busin

Implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns with BizTalk Server 2006 R2

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Who does not know the book Enterprise Integration Patterns written by Greogor Hophe and Bobby Wolf? Or has visited their website . Patterns can help you solve design issues. For instance how can I split messages or how do route based on envelope or body (content) or aggregate information into one single message. So with patterns you can design integration solutions. Microsoft’s server product BizTalk Server can be used to create these kind of solutions. With BizTalk concepts like asynchronous messaging, orchestration, correlation and long-running transactions are possible and these concepts are important for enterprise integration solutions. In general these concepts can also be applied in other vendor- and technology providers. In this post I will share how to implement a pattern in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. I will start with message routing pattern message broker. Question one can ask when to implemented a message broker is this: How can you decouple the destination of a message from

Some more LEAP 2008 Notes and leftovers

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Momentarily I am recovering from a bad flu, which kept me from doing work for more than week, and I came across some interesting notes from myself and some colleagues from Inter Access. These notes were written during LEAP 2008 at Kim Cameron’s session “Digital Identity - Why claims will Change Everything”, Clemens Vasters session “Internet Service Bus Overview” and Norm Judah’s talk about “The last architectural mile”. I was thinking of sharing them with you blog readers, so here they are. Digital Identity - Why claims will Change Everything Kim Cameron, Architect of Identity, Microsoft In this session about Digital Identity Kim showed his vision in the (near) future on identities, authorization and authentication: Claims Based Authentication. After describing problems with current mechanisms for establishing identity, authorizations and authentication he gave an overview on developments in the area of claims based authentication. His session ended with an demo of CardSpace and a Mac