IIS 6.0 process model in a nutshell
Sam Gentile has blogged a compact overview on the IIS 6.0 process model. Because pictures say more than a thousand words, I recommend that you get this PPT file from Bill Staples (Group Program Manager for IIS at MS) in addition to reading what Sam has to say.
WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Addressing are public!
WS-ReliableMessaging: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/wsrmspecindex.asp?frame=true
WS-Addressing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/wsaddressingspecindex.asp?frame=true
Here's BEA's, TIBCO's, IBM's and Microsoft's take on how to do reliable messaging on web services. There are more than subtle differences compared to the "WS-Reliability" spec by NEC, Sun, Oracle, etc: WS-ReliableMessaging is extensible, takes WS-Security and WS-Policy into account and it does not have (less is sometime more) any specific transport bindings -- and it's routable (read on).
I will likely write about a couple...
First look at WS-Addressing
WS-Addressing, which gives us a lightweight mechanism to communicate references to endpoints, is, in my view and contrary to what the spec itself explicitly says, yet another nail in the coffin of WSDL. That's because it essentially overrides the <wsdl:service/> element for any scenario, in which the message contract shall be applicable to several different or changing endpoints or intermediaries (in other words: any endpoint that wants to support transport-independent redirection/routing)
WS-Addressing is...
InfoPath Kool-Aid. I rushed home today to sit down and enjoy a big glass of InfoPath Kool-Aid. I can certainly see that there is much goodness, but I'm still trying to get my head around the implications for my daily life. So far the only blog-worthy observation I have is that the .XSN files it produces aren't XML. I was expecting to see angle brackets. I hoped to design a form that manipulated...
AOP Serviced Components status update. I am still working on it. I’ve managed to get around most of the big issues and I am now working on stability issues, most prominently on a pretty huge memory leak that’s caused by some side effect of what I am doing down there, in the dark dungeons between RCWs, CCWs and more CCWs. While I do it, I keep showing it at presentations around Europe and get quite positive feedback.