Udi Dahan - The Software Simplist

WCF Everywhere? Not on my watch.

The other day I was at Juval’s presentation where the main message was WCF is a better .NET. In other words, if you use WCF on every one of your classes, you’ll benefit. I don’t know about you, but I’m quite wary of silver bullets - they tend to inflict quite a bit of pain when used indiscriminately. This post is my response to all the people who came up to me at the end of the presentation and wanted to know if I agreed with these far-reaching architectural statements. First of all let me say that...

More SOA stuff for the DotNet Rocks crowd

Now that the show I did with Carl and Richard is online , I just wanted to let the new visitors to my blog know about all the other podcasts that I’ve done on SOA. Here are some of the more popular ones: Ask Udi Podcast #001 - Does an SOA Require an ESB? Ask Udi Podcast #005 - Business and Autonomous Components in SOA Ask Udi Podcast #011 - Datasets & Web Services And there’s always the archives with a total of 25 shows up. If you are a new visitor and are looking for more information on NServiceBus...

Using spaces with web services

Willam Brogden has an article up on SearchWebServices.com on How Web Services can use JavaSpaces . I don’t want all the Microsoft folks tuning out now that they’ve heard the “J” word, so let me just say that there are technologies out there for .NET too. A “JavaSpace” is really just a space , which is, at the end of the day, a queryable distributed in-memory hashtable. Something many of us are already doing for caching. The reason you shouldn’t be doing this yourself is simple. While keeping a single...

Udi Dahan - The Software Simplist

Hello, my name is Udi. Some of you already know me, and my blog ( http://udidahan.weblogs.us , and it's alias http://www.UdiDahan.com ). Yosi has been after me for some time now to start posting here, so here I am. To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure what I'm going to talk about. Besides my main blog, I have another blog focusing specifically on SOA and Web Services on the Dr. Dobb's site: http://www.ddj.com/dept/webservices , with the details here . You can also find the "Ask Udi" podcast at...