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 Monday, March 20, 2006
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Updated 04/09/06
See the previous few entries with code for my interoperability tutorial, and web services tutorial. Collectively they include the code for this session. Thanks!
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UPDATED: 3/27/06
At last, here are the links to our interop code from the tutorial at SD West. For those that didn't attend, we covered the following:
- OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) between .NET 2.0/WSE 3.0 and BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 with SP5
- Reliable Messaging between WCF and BEA WebLogic 9.0
- Anant (BEA) and I pulled this one together, once again Kirill providing some great human interoperablity with feedback from some of the earlier interop plugfests
- MTOM between WCF and Axis2
Please enjoy!
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Friday, November 18, 2005
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Well folks, it's that time again...MSDN is pulling together a “best of” series for the webcasts presented this year. I'm presenting two of those web casts. The links below will take you to the master list of webcasts coming up...and remember they are free! From there you can find my two events and register.
MSDN Webcast: Building Secure and Interoperable Web Services with WSE (Level 300)
Monday, November 28, 2005
10:00 am - 11:00 am, Pacific Time
In this webcast I'll be showing WS-Security between WSE 3.0 and the WebLogic Workshop stack. Great way to get a feeling for the state of interop today on WS-Security.
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MSDN Webcast: Going Global Gets Easier with the New Localization Features in ASP.NET 2.0 (Level 300)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
10:00 am - 11:00 am, Pacific Time
In this webcast I'll be showing off the new globalization features. I was taped doing this presentation at Tech Ed this year, but the VS Beta was bombing on me, a few times, so we didn't have a good run at it...this time will be on the RTM and I can tell you it works just beautifully from my presentations last week at Dev Connections :)
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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Yesterday I whipped over to Arizona to deliver an INETA (www.ineta.org) presentation for the Arizona .NET User Group run by Scott Cates (who I didn't realize, even thought we have met several times, is the owner of www.kbalerts.com!). My fellow RD Michael J. Palermo dropped in as well, you know, the one that wrote the hilarious Valentine's Day blog:
I was shocked to arrive and find that people (like Scott) are still somehow finding my 1996 glam shot photo, the one with all the big hair, and posting it in places (like their user group site) that I'm not aware of. THis is crazy, when will that photo go away! It only demonstrates that I still had 80's hair in the 90's...how embarrassing!!! Ok, well it's not that big of a deal...but I always laugh when I see that thing...what people must be thinking!
On to more serious matters, the PDF for my presentation, and my reference materials for the group after my talk. Here are the links you are looking for.
My PDF with slides for this event: wsesecurity_arizonaineta.zip (162.16 KB)
My resource site for WSE materials is here: http://www.dotnetdashboard.net/resources/wse.aspx. You'll find links to my WSE article for CoDe Magazine and the latest code sample link which demonstrates everything I did in the talk last night and more.
WSE 2.0 is now on SP3, so you'll want to download that: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1BA1F631-C3E7-420A-BC1E-EF18BAB66122&displaylang=en. Not all of my code samples are yet up to date with SP3, but the larger sample for my article is up to SP2 right now, stay tuned for changes on this site as I post more samples. Easier to go forward than go back to all my past work :)
For my interop demonstration, see www.interopwarriors.com.
For information about IDesign go to: www.idesign.net. You'll be able to find a list of all my articles on the site, plus IDesign utility downloads (not specifically for WSE, but lots of other interesting things).
I had a great time, thanks for having me present! You're fantastic hosts and a great, interactive crowd.
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Monday, March 21, 2005
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This is just a note to thank everyone for attending our interoperability presentation at SD West. Presenters included Michele Leroux Bustamante, Chris Haddad, Anant Kadiyala and Malek Kemmou. We started out by hooking our laptops together on a router/hub and creating a simple HelloWorld round-robin between .NET, WebSphere and WebLogic. The purpose of this to introduce newcomers to Web services, client proxies and the tooling around it. Next we focused on DIME/SwA and demonstrated .NET to Axis interop using DIME. Finally we presented on WS-Security interoperability discussing Axis test results from past events, and demonstrating .NET with WSE 2.0 and BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1.
Our BEA security tests are posted already to the InteropWarriors site here: http://www.interopwarriors.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8b01c523-59d6-47be-9843-139f710c5a84
We're also pulling together some spreadsheets with test results for WS-Security across platforms. Stay tuned!
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Sunday, March 20, 2005
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Christian Gross and I had such a good time with our discussions related to this session, that we are preparing some other blogs to share with you some of our discussions both during and after the tutorial. In the meantime, here are links to the standards we covered, for your reference.
NOTE: This list is just a reference to the standards we actually discussed, in addition to a few other related standards…but there are actually many more standards that we aren’t listing here!!!
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Saturday, September 11, 2004
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How about that. Just one less thing to think about, when you need to map Win32 APIs to .NET [DllImport] statements, check out the PInvoke.NET wiki.
http://pinvoke.net/
What the .NET Framework class libraries don't provide, surely the Win32 API does. Everything from message constants to callback functions (delegates) and function declarations are provided. Of course, in community spirit what you can't find, please contribute after you figure it out.
For example, remember custom Windows messages with WM_USER? Well, search for WM_ and a list of defined message constants appears. No need to search through your dust-covered back-up CDs with those trusty C++ message definition headers. private const UInt32 WM_USER = 0x0400;
Search for EnumWindows, and you get all related definitions, including the callback EnumWindowsProc (in delegate form):
delegate int EnumWindowsProc(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr lParam);
Several related functions including EnumChildWindows, EnumWindowStations, and EnumWindows (shown here):
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc lpEnumFunc, IntPtr lParam);
You can even look up COM interfaces for exposing a specific interface (GUIDs and all) from a .NET assembly. The wiki also links you to the MSDN documentation on the requested element.
I, for one, think this was a great idea. And, it is much better organized than your average wiki, thus you can actually be productive with your searches.
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Saturday, June 12, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
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After a long week trouble-shooting last minute issues between .NET, WSE 2.0, BEA Workshop 8.1, Apache Axis and SourceID...we pulled off our Web services event without a hitch! What does that mean? Well...for one, all the demos worked. This is significant because although we each had our own test plans hitting remote and local endpoints...the first we were able to get together and test on the actual machines for the demo was Friday when each speaker arrived to San Diego. Here's how Friday played out:
- Heinrich arrives at San Diego airport at 1pm, we head to my technology palace to hook our machines up to the NAT router and have his BEA code hit the token issuer on my machine (which would be Ben's machine later that night), and the Axis web service on Chris' remote server.
- Anant meets Heinrich and myself at UCSD to test the configuration at the event venue, and we switch to Anant running the Axis service. This didn't quite work (configuration was fragile, too many settings to modify each time we moved service endpoints) so I left them (and my machine) to figure it out while I was off to pick Ben up at the airport
- Ben's plane is late, I call Anant and Heinrich, they come to the airport so we can trouble-shoot the configuration issues while we wait. We can't afford to lose time...it's already 7pm
- Ben arrives and immediately spots us. We were sitting at the airport, connected machines via router, people staring (what the?)...as they walked by. It's 8:30pm
- We head back to my place, call for pizza on the way, Adam Cogan waiting on us (he wanted to see our demo...give us feedback). We work on configuration with Ben's machine, then proceed to run through the demos and discussions. By 2am we were ready...a few hours of sleep later and we were setting up at UCSD!
Ted Neward gave an incredible keynote, not only educating us on interesting historical facts while explaining that we are destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again if we don't approach SOA, Web services and enterprise component architectures incorporating lessons learned from the failure of past architectures such as CORBA and DCOM. He is a phenomenal speaker, and great philosopher, and what I really like about Ted is that he backs up every statement he makes with cold hard facts and reasoning.
We ended up spending some time describing Web services, and what the purpose of WS-Security and WS-Policy were, before we got to demos...however the audience truly seemed to appreciate the overview, as much as they enjoyed the demonstrations to follow. I'll get some links up soon that make reference to resources. In the meantime, some detailed discussions of the event went are already up on John and Benjamin's respective blogs. Benjamin writes about the panel discussion that followed the code demonstrations. He also summarized Ted's keynote.
I plan to summarize some of the interesting things I noticed while trouble-shooting the code as our human interoperability tester...stay tuned...
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Sunday, May 16, 2004
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Well, I couldn't be more thrilled today...after rebuilding my machine on Friday (sun shining outside, 80 degrees) and following Chris Haddad's flawless instructions to set up my machine with the latest JDK, Ant, Tomcat, and Axis yesterday (sun shining outside, 80 degrees)...we were ready to start testing Ben's .NET SAML implementation. Setup was time consuming, yet surprisingly painless... a far cry from the hell I went through several years ago when Axis was in its infancy ...back then it took me 3 days to get HelloDuke() to run properly...mind you that could have been related to my J2EE container, ATG Dynamo.
Yesterday Anant and I both set up our machines to run Axis demos and between phone calls and IM Chris and I tested his remote Axis endpoint with Ben's SAML token issuer. We discovered a few things related to how Axis handles SOAP messages, for example you have to manually indicate understanding for *mustUnderstand* headers like wsse:Security (a good one to understand wouldn't you say?).
Today we continue (sun shining...80 degrees...sigh)...
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As I mentioned earlier a bunch of us are pulling together some *wicked* demos (that's Canadian for *awesome*) for first ever Web Services Interoperability Education Day.
We crafted a plan for the tiered demonstration in late February and everyone broke off into their respective coding frenzy. Benjamin Mitchell took on extending .NET WSE 2.0 to create a SAML token issuer. Heinrich Gantenbein is extending the existing interop example he already created between .NET WSE and BEA Workshop 8.1/WebLogic Server. And Chris Haddad stepped up big time to build us an Apache Axis/Source ID Web service to receive SAML token signed messages and verify with the token issuer. (We switched to open source since we discovered it was VERY difficult to get our hands on a trial version of Tivoli to support our IBM WebSphere example...and the clock was ticking...).
Throughout all of this, John Bristowe and myself have been waving pom poms (John's term) and supporting the group either by testing code, discussing issues, and general coordination. In addition, Anant Kadiyala (run's the local BEA user group in San Diego, and teaches Web Services at UCSD Extension with me) stepped up to support the open source side, working with me configuring machines for the demos, and we'll be trouble-shooting the entire system here in San Diego before our esteemed speakers arrive.
Now, I have to admit that it was really very difficult for me NOT to *own* a specific part of the code for this event...given that I work with WSE 2.0, have a past with Axis and also know enough BEA to be dangerous :)... and I'm sure John and Anant may have similar feelings despite bandwidth issues we all have...however, this couldn't be a better display of teamwork in action. As issues come up, there is a support team to research issues, test code and find solutions...fast. We're running into x.509 certificate serialization issues, Web service specification implementation issues, and other configuration bottlenecks. Not to mention that coordinating all of this with the actual presentation is just a ton of work since we will be networked through a NAT router and hitting each others machines...good things...so, in short, this is a really great experience.
It is a honor to work with all of these guys...really.
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Saturday, May 08, 2004
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We're putting on an event right before Tech Ed San Diego, hosted by UCSD Extension. This Web Services Interoperability Education Day, on May 22nd, is geared at showing the community some of the .NET and Java tools that help developers implement solutions with WS-Security (now OASIS standard) and WS-Policy support. This event is an extension of the IDesign whitepaper and webinar comparing .NET/WSE and BEA Workshop 8.1 support for emerging Web services standards, and showing their interoperability.
I am really fortunate to have so many great people contributing their time to make this a success (see the site for a list of presenters, although a few are not listed yet, I guess those php sites take time to update ). The diverse backgrounds, and various perspectives of each presenter and panelist will definitely make for some very interesting post-demo discussions, and certainly should help to keep you awake during our Q&A period during the BOF.
Of course, we have prizes too...XBOX anyone? How about an iPod? T-shirt? Cap? Mug? The list is endless...
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