Archive for 2005/11


Application Integration and Agility (1): Understanding Agility

Agile Software Development is one of the most profound information technology innovations of the last decade. Agile methods have been implemented successfully on countless application development projects but the software integrators seem somewhat skeptical. Comments I frequently heard include ‘But integration is different …’, ‘SOA is more architectural..’, or ‘We need […]

BizTalk and Store-and-Forward

Last month I was raving about BizTalks Message Boxes. Last week I got somewhat disappointed: BizTalk does not support the basic store-end-forward message exchange pattern.

What am I trying to do?
I am trying to publish a message (store-and-forward message) to Message Box and have another orchestration - which may not […]