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What is BPEL4WS? - Build Better Business Processes with Web Services in BizTalk Server 2004

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:00:00 GMT

In this article the author focuses on one critically important Web services specification that has been largely overlooked: the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or BPEL). He describes why BPEL is important and what it offers you if you are implementing Web services today or planning to in the future. Concrete examples using BizTalk Server 2004 are presented in the article.

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Instrumentation - Powerful Instrumentation Options in .NET Let You Build Manageable Apps with Confidence

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:00:00 GMT

As systems grow and become more heterogeneous, so their complexity increases. The more code you write, the more that can go wrong. The more that can go wrong, the more you need a good instrumentation policy. In this article, the author looks at the various technologies available in the .NET Framework, such as tracing, logging, WMI, EIF, which are designed to help you. He will also look at the pitfalls you should avoid and provide you with the fundamentals from both a technical and managerial perspective so that you can instrument your code effectively.

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