ESB products emerged around 2002 from message-oriented middleware (MOM). Faced with market domination by IBM, MOM vendors were the first to jumpstart the ESB concept with the aim of developing a unique selling proposition. They added Web service and EAI capabilities on top of existing ...

To state the obvious: with mission-critical applications, your mission will fail around the same time your applications do. This truism is of immediate concern to .NET developers involved with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), the loosely coupled software services that now support ...

As numerous organizations are planning to embark on their first endeavors in service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is important to recognize that the necessary organizational transformation has as much to do with cultural transformation, as it has to do with open, Internet standards-...

Most organizations today have internal applications that span across different systems, networks, and technologies. These applications would provide more value to customers if only the data that they manage were exposed. In the past, this was often difficult due to the inability of sys...

You are an architect on your company's new flagship application. The app encompasses several business and technical domains that are, in your opinion, well suited to domain-specific languages (DSL). In years past, you would have turned to XML as the solution for all your DSL needs. Wit...

Consider the following portion of an all-too-common server scenario. An authenticated user, perhaps a salesperson, requests a Word document from a server. The document is an expense report, and the server is an ASP, ASP.NET, or SharePoint Server. The server code looks up some informati...

You might have been asking yourself for a while now what this Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) thing is and why it should matter to you. If you're a developer you've probably been wondering what you'll need to learn to avoid being left behind. You'd probably also like to know what s...

Mobile devices, such as the Microsoft Windows CE-based PocketPC, have grown significantly in popularity over the last several years. In the car, on a plane, or out in the middle of nowhere, applications on the device can operate without a connection to any other computers, the Internet...

With Whitehorse, Microsoft has placed a significant stake in the ground when it comes to modeling enterprise services. While Whitehorse is part of the not-yet-released Visual Studio 2005 (codenamed 'Whidbey'), Microsoft has publicly discussed and demonstrated significant elements of Wh...

Today's enterprise applications demand high levels of reliability, scalability, availability, and interoperability. These demands have fueled the growth of complex service-oriented architectures (SOA) built on industry standards such as Web services and XML-based messages. The added co...