Lightweight Messaging Traditionally, enterprise integration has been accomplished using integration server products like Microsoft BizTalk Server, Oracle Fusion and webMethods. While these software packages come with a lot of integration tools and features, they also come with a number of drawbacks. For starters each of these tools comes with a six-figure purchase price once you [...]
Monday, February 28, 2011
I do a fair bit of work integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX with other enterprise applications for my clients. Most of this work has been done using the AX BizTalk adapter to communicate with the AIF. Recently I have been experimenting with using the WCF services generated by the AIF instead of the BizTalk adapter to [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
I have been working on a project where I needed to take an XML Schema Definition created in BizTalk and create a WCF service that would receive messages using the same schema. In this particular case, the XSD was a composite schema and was too complex for svcutil to automatically generate a data contract. (I [...]
Since I seem to forget this on a regular basis, I wanted to leave a note to myself for future reference. I also want to post a link to the Tech Talk blog where I found most of this information. By default, WCF assigns the namespace “http://tempuri.org/” to all web service operations. (For more information [...]
Sam Gentile has posted parts four and five of his Enterprise Service Bus with Neuron ESB series.
Here is a little something I recently stumbled over. Ted Neward is running a blog series on building WCF services using the F# language. So far there are three entries in this series: Building WCF services with F#, Part 1 Building WCF services with F#, Part 2 Building WCF services with F#, Interlude Since learning [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I am a little late in posting this, but Sam Gentile has posted the second and third part of his series on enterprise service buses. Part two, Neuron as an ESB, covers the feature set of the Neuron ESB product and what it takes to get it up and running. Part three, High Level View [...]
I have been toying with the idea of starting a new pet project. As most of my readers know, I do a lot of work with BizTalk and XML documents. I spend quite a bit of time working with XPath and XSLT and I would love to have a solid XPath editor for Linux. My [...]
Today was the Cleveland Day of .NET conference and I had a wonderful time hanging out with other .NET geeks in Northeast Ohio. The event took place at the Hilton Cleveland East Beachwood Hotel. The conference consisted four tracks, and each track had seven sessions covering topics ranging from ASP.NET MVC to WCF security. While [...]
I posted a link to an article by Scott Bellware last week advocating choosing Rails instead of ASP.NET Web Forms for new web projects. This week he has posted a follow-up article where he responds to many of the comments that were made on the original post. It provides some additional insight into why he [...]
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