June 2005 - The Tripping Point

  • The siren song of Biztalk

    Biztalk seems increasingly attractive to me. I believe XML is an incredibly powerful tool for building loosely-coupled dynamic systems (like MSDN2). Biztalk embraces XML messaging directly and so appears to be a very welcoming place, at least for people...
  • Internal vs. external Systems, Part 2

    In response to last night's post , MarkF commented that he thought MarkB 's original point was about architecture, not data. That is, that you should design architectures assuming that they will end up exposed on the Internet. MarkB responded that yes...
  • Internal vs. external systems

    In a recent comment , Mark responded to something I said: "Do you need Internet-style absolutely heterogenous systems inside a company, or is a somewhat more constrained environment possible?" It's certainly possible, but nowadays, isn't the best option...
  • Contracts start with documentation

    I just got back from TechEd and had a chance to catch up on posts, including Dare's recent follow up to my last post about contracts and metadata. He points out that WSDL/XSD is no substitute for good documentation and I totally agree. In fact, this was...
  • Dare responds re: open and closed systems

    Dare commented on yesterday's post (it's nice to see I'm back in the thick of things - thanks Dare :-). Responding to my statement: Dare was quick to blame WSDL and XSD , noting that POX/REST/AJAX systems don't have this problem. Certainly the customers...