Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

Want to hear how your development skills with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) work seamlessly with the powerful integration platform of BizTalk. Do want to find out how BizTalk aligns with the Microsoft application server in the longer term. Look at this presentation from PDC09. Technorati: BizTalk BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009 PDC09

  At PDC Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools Business, introduced the world to Windows AppFabric. Windows Server AppFabric is a new set of capabilities, bringing together the functionality of Dublin, as well as Velocity (a high-performance, distributed, highly-scalable in-memory cache). In a related move, the Service Bus and Access Control Services that were formerly part of the .NET Services brand have also been rebranded and we now have we now have “Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus” and “Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control services”. Read Brain Loesgen post or Sam Gentile post .So there is something new to play with again. Like last year at PDC08 with Windows Azure. Have fun. Technorati: microsoft azure PDC09

Latest update on PDC09 regarding BizTalk are being posted last wednesday by BizTalk Server Team. I mentioned some sessions a while ago . Team blog post will tell you what session, where and by who will be given coming week at PDC09. I am will virtually attending through channel 9 at home. Technorati: BizTalk BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009 PDC09

Last BTUG question was asked who will be going to PDC 09 this year. No one raised his hand compared to a lot of hands last year even though no BizTalk session was given. It will be the other way around this year; hence almost no one unfortunately is going there are BizTalk sessions planned this year. I am still secretly hoping I can go, but chances are slim. What session about BizTalk are planned this year at PDC09 Queuing and Publish/Subscribe in a Heterogeneous Environment by David Ingham , John O’Hara Queuing and publish/subscribe are common patterns for building loosely-coupled, distributed applications. Learn how to use Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) the new Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 routing service, the Microsoft .NET Service Bus, and Microsoft BizTalk Server to easily connect heterogeneous systems. We’ll then introduce AMQP (the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol), an important new open standard for interoperable message-oriented middleware, which will reduce t...