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Oct
PDC Debrief
Kirill has a great debrief of our Web Services interoperability session at PDC last month. Also, you may want to checkout the interoperability plugfest that his group is running.
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Sep
Interoperability BOF at PDC – Microsoft with Sun
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Interested in interoperability betwen .NET and Java? Then come to tomorrow's (Monday's) BOF session at PDC and hear speakers from both Microsoft and Sun talk about the subject. Here are the details: Monday 12, 9:30pm, Room 511A – Interoperability: .NET, Java, Windows & Solaris
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Sep
Creating Word documents on IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic
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Running IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic or another J2EE application server? Wish you could generate server-side Microsoft Word documents without any third party add-ins? With Microsoft Office 2003 and an XML reference schema called WordML, you can do this today. Here's the first part in a series that shows you how.
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Sep
PDC Next Week!
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Well, it's been a while since I posted. Instead of making excuses about lavish vacations (of which there are none!), I thought I would instead tell you about PDC next week in LA: If you've been following the current agenda of sessions, I don't have to tell you that PDC looks awesome this year. [...]
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Jul
New Version of WSE Trace Tool
By Simon|Architecture, Interoperability|2 Comments
I caught up with Benjamin Mitchell at TechEd Europe this year and we chatted briefly about WSE Trace – a small tool that I put together to help with viewing of traces generated by WSE. Given that there is still some interest in this I thought it was overdue for a little update. As [...]
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Jul
MTOM Blogcast
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For those that didn't get to attend my session at JavaOne or TechEd Europe this year, here is a 5 minute "blog cast" of my MTOM interop demo – as I described in this earlier post. See how easy it is to use WSE 3.0 CTP and JAX-WS to send a binary attachment between Java and [...]
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Jul
Custom Exception Handling in Indigo
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One question I frequently get asked is "how do I handle exceptions over Web Services?" If you've ever tried passing exceptions using Web Services you'll likely be able to relate to the issues. The main problem is that the majority of toolkits don't have a great way to deserialize generated SOAP Faults to local exceptions [...]
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Jul
IASA Interop City in NYC 7/14
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Interested in Interop and based in the NYC area? If so, then come to the IASA Interop City meeting on the 14th July! This is a day long event where you can hear from luminaries in the industry about interop strategies, recommendations and futures. Here are the details: Date: July 14 2005 Time: 9.00am – [...]
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Jun
How to do MTOM Interop
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In my JavaOne session yesterday I showed (what I believe to be) the first MTOM Interop demo between .NET and Java using publicly available toolkits. For those that don't know MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) is the new specification for optimizing the transmission and/or wire format of SOAP messages. Primarily this means that we have [...]
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Jun
Update from JavaOne
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Wow, here I am at JavaOne! It’s kind of odd… I’ve been doing Java development for a number of years now and I realize that this is my first visit to JavaOne. (What’s more ironic is that I had to wait to join Microsoft before I went So, what have we been up to – and what are [...]
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