XAML has recently come to light as a Microsoft [admittedly] version of XML used to initialize objects. There may be some early indications of an interoperability play for XAML.It is fairly robust technology – and thus not necessarily easy to develop. We are talking XML and objects here. As Ted Neward said earlier this year at The ServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas: “XAML is effectively a way to create an object model.” Read more »

Soyatec has announced the availability of eFace, a library implementing XAML in Java. This is perhaps the first endorsement of XAML outside of the Microsoft world. Read more »

By George Lawton

Samba is open-source software that allows a wide variety of computers to act as if they were a Windows file and print server. It is not exactly the center of the universe for coverage on TheServerSide.NET, but we thought it was worth a look. Samba recently made the newscasts, as its technical stewards were among key litigants involved in Microsoft’s widely heralded European Union anti-trust case.

Samba currently runs on UNIX, Linux, IBM System 390, OpenVMS, and other operating systems. It uses the TCP/IP protocol stack on the host server to provide the network connectivity with Windows clients and servers within an organization. The Samba platform provides an implementation of dozens of services and protocols including NetBIOS, SMB (Server Message Block), CIFS (Common Internet File System), DCE/RPC, a WINS server and the NT Domain Suite of protocols. The platform can be used for sharing files and printers among a number of different platforms and operating systems, including Windows. This Learning Guide introduces developers to SAMBA best practices with a variety of articles, tutorials and tips. Read more »

By Jack Vaughan

Ruby on Rails has become a popular framework for building Web apps at the same time Ruby itself has become a popular dynamic language. Ruby interest straddles both the Java and .NET worlds - but as greater numbers of Java and Ruby developers get into the Ruby development, more and more will miss familiar programming tools and methods.  How widely Ruby will expand may rest on how much Ruby program building can resemble Java or .NET program building methods – or the extent to which/how much Ruby programs, bits, and pieces can interoperate with Java and .NET programs. Read more »

Microsoft this week made available the 2006 R2 version of BizTalk Server, which it is positioning as key to its delivery of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) technology. New wizards are said to ease the task of creating integration adaptors that can talk to Web service end points. Read more »

An plan to forge an Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) was announced by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) at VMWorld this week. Format contributors inlcude HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMware and XenSource. Read more »

Adam Breindel did some digging in his portable device and its Yahoo! Go application folder, where he uncovered javaxnet10.dll 

He looks there. And he ruminates. What is it?

“Eh? … some kind of Java library? or a JVM? or maybe just a Microsoft runtime DLL for using J# with the .Net Compact Framework? Running J2ME apps on .Net CF would be a kind of cool…” he writes.

And he provides an interesting forensic look that, in fact, uncovers, a .NET assembly.

http://skipmeamadeus.blogspot.com/2007/08/reverse-engineering-finding-not-so.html

Can SOAP work with AJAX? The answer is yes, writes Michael Galpin on TheServerSide.com. His story discusses how Web services can be invoked directly from JavaScript clients, to produce an AJAX style Web application using Web services. Galpin works at eBay and much of his discussion centers around using WSO2 as a platform to build open source platforms for Web services and SOA. Read more »

Adobe ColdFusion 8 brings built-in .NET integration tools to developers working with the widely used server. Clearly, this is an example of how ISVs can drive forward the cause of platform interoperability. Adobe used JNBridge tools. Read more »

AtomPub advocates have staged an online interop event. The August2007InteropGrid is posted outlining results of the Atom interoperability test performed earlier this week.

On his blog, Microsoft software developer Joe Cheng describes his experience with the interop event. His objective was to test Windows Live Writer in the context of AtomPub and production-quality blogging services.

Related to the Atom XML Syndication standard, AtomPub is an HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating Web resources.

http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/August2007InteropGrid
http://jcheng.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/atompub-interop-event-notes/