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As you might have guessed from the name of my blog, I have a long-term love of distributed applications. My infatuation with the technology actually goes back to earlier forms of COM+ and Web services. I believe that a well designed distributed application
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Designing using SOA is more of a mindset than a programming style. The trick to becoming proficient is to be aware of the differences between OO and SOA at the conceptual level
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Even if you don't have your ear to the ground, the far-off rumble is a reminder that services are coming. First, there was the web services wave. Recently, Microsoft created another groundswell with the introduction of Indigo at the last PDC. Although the future may still be a year or more off, there is no denying it: the programming world is about to enter the era of services. Given this direction, identifying some of the reasons for using services in current development efforts is important
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Even with all of the hype surrounding the technology, it seems likely that web services will play a large role in software development for the next few years at least. As the starting point for a series of articles, this article focuses on the definition of the basic elements and protocols that are integral to the creation of a commercial-grade web service and supporting architecture.
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Whether you know it or now, attributes are already part of your development life. Creating a web service using ASP.NET? Attributes are used to define the methods that are exposed. Make a call to a non-COM DLL? Attributes are used to define the entry point for the DLL, as well as the parameters that are passed. In fact, closer examination shows that attributes play a large part in many cool (the programmer’s code word for ‘advanced’) features. For this reason, as well as the possibility of pu
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