Articles by David Regan

BizTalk Server 2004 in an Investment Bank

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

This article describes recent work in a leading investment bank using Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 (BizTalk) as an integral component of a service-oriented architecture. I'll describe how BizTalk is used to implement lightweight workflow that builds new services from existing services and ties in tactical solutions to enable straight-through processing (STP) of service requests.

Secure Service-Oriented Architectures

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

BizTalk Server 2004 promises to be an invaluable tool for delivering on the promise of service-oriented architectures (SOAs): the agile enterprise, able to respond quickly to ever-changing business requirements. BizTalk is an enterprise application integration product whose reliance on XSD and XML means it is a natural integration tool for an SOA built from Web services.

ADO.NET and the Middle Tier

Wed, 28 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Microsoft's development tools are justly famous for their ease of use, and many developers have had the pleasure of impressing their boss with an exciting application that they knocked together in an afternoon. Many developers have also faced the disappointment of finding that the techniques they've read about and used for the single-user prototype don't easily translate to a multitiered, multiuser application.