Ok, I’m going to barge in on this discussion that Clemens kicked off.  Hope no one minds.  :-)  First, my general opinion is that if you need distributed transactions, object pooling, or a consolidated process model (for caching, etc.), then sure, EnterpriseServices is an easy way to get these features.  However, I hold that there [...]

If anyone is interested, the Valvoline Runoffs are being televised on the Speed Channel.  The Spec Racer Ford race (that’s mine) will be this Sunday morning, 11/24, at 12pm eastern / 9am pacific.  I was in car #7, white and blue.  Should be fun to watch!

Is WSDL too hard?  Cont’d.A couple of comments from Simon and Clemens:Is WSDL too hard?. In response to Greg Reinacker’s comments I didn’t say WSDL is hard, I said its cumbersome and unproductive. Come on, its just angle brackets how hard can it be ?? [Simon Fell]Simon – I didn’t actually mean to say that you [...]

A while back, Jon Udell and Mark Baker were discussing addressibility and interface uniformity.  Mark said:getSunwStockQuoteRealtime()getIbmStockQuoteDelayed()The problem with these is obviously that they’re not readily reusable.They do one thing and one thing only.  So we typically generalize themby parameterization; permitting a single method to be used for multiplequotes, by moving identifying information away from the [...]

Modeling without WSDL. Mark Ericson has some thoughts on Interface design with WSDL, I agree with him, WSDL is far to cumbersome to work with by hand, the only way to be remotely productive is to use some sort of tool, personally I like Omniopera, YMMV.  [Simon Fell]I’ve heard oh-so-many people talk about how difficult WSDL [...]

I’d like to extend a welcome to my good friend Sean Varley, who has just started a weblog.  Sean’s company does electronics and embedded systems engineering and consulting.It’s interesting to read and talk about work on the fringes of what we do.  I talk to Sean a lot about software development issues, and the problems faced in [...]

Just in case you weren’t aware…Don Box is scheduled to give a webcast this afternoon, discussing the above web service protocols.  Details and free registration are here.

Scott Short has an article on importing external schemas into your WSDL in the latest MSDN magazine. The text isn’t online yet, but you can download the code, which is the important part. The idea is that you can add attributes onto parameters and return values from your method. The attribute identifies a schema to [...]