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One of my current tasks for a client has been to facilitate the integration between a Java client and a WCF service. The mechanism for doing this is JSON and I have been quite grateful that WCF makes it relatively easy to implement this type of communication. However, there is one area that has been causing some grief for me (and my Java ...

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 can be used to address the scalability, reliability and even identity issues that ...

A comment made by Udi Dehan on my most recent article (the Benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture) got me thinking.  In the comment and on his blog he has been contemplating the differences between OO and SOA and, more importantly, how programmers can adjust. First of all, I believe that the idea that the debate is an either/or proposition ...

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 ...

Last year, American corporations spent over $4 billion integrating heterogeneous applications (otherwise known as Enterprise Application Integration or EAI). Why? Because one of the best ways to squeeze more profits out of a company is to reduce the costs of doing business. Among the many other possibilities of boosting the bottom line(some of ...

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 ...