BizTalk Performance

While grapling with sizing BizTalk solution, I ran into this very informative article on various performance characteristics of BizTalk 2004. Hopefully we will see one for 2006 soon.

A must read for BizTalk sizers!

Approaches to Integrated Justice

Integrated_Justice_Architectural_Approaches_for_Sharing_Information_across_the_Justice_Enterprise.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Approaches to Integrated Justice - Architectural approaches to achieving Information Sharing across Justice Enterprise

Axis meets MOM

Axis meets MOM

Reliable Web services with Apache Axis and MOM

Web services is positioned as the technology for integration. For architects and developers on Java/Java Enterprise Edition platforms, Apache Axis is a key open source means by which SOAP-based Web services can be enabled for service-providing components. Most common Web services implementations, in spite of all their strengths, still suffer from the unreliability of the HTTP protocol and Web environment. While WS-Reliability is emerging to be a strong reliability standard, solutions requiring guaranteed mechanisms need to rely on message-oriented middleware (MOM) technologies. Asynchronous store-forward MOM technologies such as MQSeries, MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing), and SonicMQ are proven ways to achieve reliable and guaranteed information exchange. This article describes a solution that combines MOM and Apache Axis to achieve both guaranteed delivery and standards-based Web services for your integration undertakings. Note: This article is based on Apache Axis 1.2. Axis 2 currently has not reached release 1.0. (3,300 words; February 20, 2006)

By Gautam Shah

Bridging islands of enterprise software

Bridging islands of enterprise software

WSIF offers enterprise Java systems a bridge to any component or service, regardless of implementation or location

In this article, Gautam Shah introduces Apache's Web Services Invocation Framework, a framework for invoking services regardless of their location or implementation. He describes step-by-step how to enable and extend WSIF in your applications. (2,900 words; September 26, 2005)

By Gautam Shah