Thank you to everyone who attended the webcast this morning on interop. I wanted to share with you some resources I have on interoperability, and some future plans happening at IASA.

First, resources:

• My latest article on The Server Side .NET summarizes my webcast demonstrations and more...plus links to the code: http://www.dasblonde.net/CategoryView.aspx?category=Interoperability#a96e93182-d627-4625-b671-9b024c9381d0
• Architcture podcast on WS*, see podcast 1-4 here: http://www.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pid=share.podcast&abver=FEEB2E89-4412-4C58-A7F8-9B2CA0E0BDAC
• WSE links that have code showing off customization of WSE for interop among other things:
• http://www.dasblonde.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=b2518a69-c715-49e9-b2bc-e71415263032
• http://www.dasblonde.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=e3db75c6-02c5-4b0d-a681-b733035f112f

IASA plans:

• Earlier this year I kicked off 3 interop events for IASA (International Association of Software Architects). They were user group driven events, where java and .NET communities (among others) united to enjoy some human interop as well as get some top notch interop experts to show their stuff. If your user groups want to do this locally, IASA can help. And don't worry, we are non-profit...and the events can be free if there is enough support of the community and sponsorship. All we need is to get the user group leads to buy in and say “we want an interop event too!!!“
• We are building knowledge communities (just now!) related to architecture, including interop...I have not had a chance to post much there yet (blogs links, articles) but we 'd love to get your feedback, and referrals if you run across something poingnant that should be referenced here...let me know and participate in the growth of the community resource!

More stuff...

• I found some very interesting things as I tested WSE 3.0 and Workshop 8.1 SP5 - keep an eye on this blog for more on that!
• WebLogic 9.0 is the go forward stack to use, since it supports more WS* and will have an integrated IDE summer-ish 2006...to replace Workshop today. Use Workshop if you need WS* today and can't take the time to be a plumber...if you can, use the WL 9.0 stack now (already released with better WS-Security among other standards support)
• We have another big interop event coming at SD West 2006, so you can expect some content out of that one in Q1 2006, including some of the original Apache Axis founding members helping us out!