We finally got an EJB Web Service today from a Trading Partner the interface looked something like this ... public Asset ReturnAsset(bool ReturnAsset) We surmised that due to cronic shortages of quality developers they have finally begun to teach chimpanzees Java, not bad for a chimp. Also liked this newsgroup thread Simon found yesterday ......
A new online BizTalk mag has come out, a more pleasent read than most whitepapers, especially if you're a motor head or a fan of that Ministry song.
We are developing BizTalk applications with Visual Studio Team Edition and every now and then for some reason the Orchestration Designer is removed from the "Open With" dialog, thus when one double clicks on an orchestration it is opened with the Xml Editor. Although I'm not sure why this happens, I suspected the items in this dialog were configured in the Windows Registry ... and so they were, so to fix: 1) Open RegEdit 2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software... and ......
In the past I have noticed that system testers find it difficult to test middleware applications such as those implemented using BizTalk. System testers generally don't want to read BizTalk xml messages dumped out to disk, they like to be able to query for their test results via some form of GUI. Many are adept at writing SQL to return result sets containing the test data they want to analyze. I came up with the idea of using BAM relationships between different activities within a single view to ......