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A Weekend With Indigo. Part 2: Fun with Messaging and Explicit Addressing

[You should read <span lang=EN-US>Part 1</span> of this little series before you proceed reading this one.]

In this 2nd part I am extending the simple messaging example of Part 1 by adding some explicit WS-Addressing trickery. Addressing is so fundamental that its properties are baked right into the Headers collection of the Indigo Message. Even though there are (and I will eventually show) much easier ways to do request/reply management...

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Convoluted Logic?

CNet reports about Bill Gates’ announcement that Windows Anti-Spyware is going to be free includes the following truly puzzling quote from the Check Point Software CTO:

"I am glad to see Gates is focusing on securing the desktop," said Gregor Freund, chief technology officer of Check Point Software, which develops...

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ACID’s “D”

<span lang=EN-US>Jim Johnson</span>, who works on transaction technology at Microsoft’s Distributed Systems Group (aka „Indigo team“), shares an important insight on ACID’s “D” and that “Durable” doesn’t always mean “to disk”, but is rather relative to the resource lifetime. A transaction outcome can be “durably” stored in memory, if that’s what the characteristic of the resource underlying the resource manager (=transaction participant)...

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