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BizTalk Services SDK, GlassFish and Metro

Microsoft BizTalk R11 CTP was released last week and now contains a sample that is based on GlassFish, Metro and NetBeans. Even though today is April 1st, this is not intended to be an April Fool's Day joke. Read more about the sample in this blog entry. The relevant bits from the entry are quoted below:

The sample shows how to use the BizTalk Services Identity Security Token Service (STS) to secure the communication between a Java client and a Java service providing federated authentication and claims-based authorization. The sample, which you can find in ./Samples/OtherPlatforms/StandaloneAccessControl/JavaEE5 once you installed the SDK, is a pure Java sample not requiring any of our bits on either the service or client side. The interaction with our services is purely happening on the wire.

The Metro team over at Sun Microsystems has made a very significant contribution to making this all work. Before we started making changes to accommodate Java, there would have been very little hope for anyone to get this seemingly simple scenario to work. We had to make quite a few changes even though our service did follow the specs.

As a result of this collaboration, Metro 1.2 is going to be a better and more interoperable release for the Sun's customers and the greater Java community and BizTalk Services as well as our future identity products will be better and more interoperable, too. Win-Win. Thank you, Sun.

Thank you Microsoft for adding this sample to the BizTalk Services SDK.

Metro team demonstrated a similar demo at JavaOne 2007. The demo shows how an Excel 2007 client can invoke a secure and reliable endpoint deployed on GlassFish. The entire source code for the sample, along with instructions to build, are available here.

This is possible today because of our participation in previous 6 plugfests (Mar 2008, Nov 2007, Jul 2007, Oct 2006, Mar 2006, Nov 2005) hosted by Microsoft.

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Transcript of Sun and Microsoft Interoperability Exchange Forum

A complete transcript of the Sun/Microsoft Expert Exchange Forum is now available. And if you still have questions, feel free to post them to users@metro or Metro Forum.

Try 3 things today:

1. Download GlassFish V2.
2. Develop and Deploy a Reliable Web service using NetBeans IDE following this screencast (complete list).
3. Read more details about Project Tango in this 26-page article.

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Fourth Microsoft Interop Plugfest Report

As reported earlier, Metro team from Sun participated in the fourth (third, second, first) Microsoft Interop Plugfest. Microsoft is working on .NET 3.5 (codename Orcas) and the focus this time was to ensure that there are no regressions with WSIT 1.0. Read Harold's report for more details.

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Sun Expert Exchange FREE Forum - Sun and Microsoft Interoperability

Whether you watched Tango in Sun Net Talk or not, you can still participate in Sun Expert Exchange Forum, a FREE forum, asking questions about Sun and Microsoft interoperability. I'll be there, along with Harold Carr, to field all questions on Project Tango. And then there are experts on other topics from Sun as well.

You can read all about Project Tango in this 26-page article.

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Yet Another Microsoft Interop Plugfest

Microsoft announced a 3-day Web services interoperability plugfest from Jul 10-12, 2007. At Sun Microsystems, we love to Tango with Windows Communication Foundation component of .NET 3.0 framework and so we'll be participating using GlassFish V2. This may be the last plugfest before GlassFish V2 is released later this year.

As in earlier events, attendees implement a set of pre-defined scenarios based on WS-* specs using their Web services stack. They participate with implementation on their laptops and interoperate using their client and Microsoft endpoint and vice versa.

The set of scenarios are based on the following specifications:

• Basic Messaging Scenarios using protocols: SOAP1.1, SOAP1.2, WS-Addressing 2004/08 and 2005/10, MTOM
• Message Security Scenarios using WS-Security 1.0, WS-Security 1.1, WS Secure Conversation 2005/02, WS-Trust 2005/02, Username Token Profile (1.0, 1.1), X509 Token Profile (1.0, 1.1), SAML Token Profile (1.0, 1.1), Kerberos Token Profile 1.1.
• STS - Security Token Service scenarios
• Reliable Messaging using WS-ReliableMessaging v1.0 (2005/02)
• Transactions using WS-AtomicTransaction v1.0 (2004/10) and WS-Coordination v1.0 (2004/10)
• WS-Policy v1.2 (2004/09) and WS-Metadata Exchange (2004/09) are included in several scenarios
• Windows CardSpace scenarios

Microsoft is also looking for interop testing with pre-release version of .NET Framework 3.5 (codename Orcas) with the following versions of specifications:

• Message Security Scenarios using WS Secure Conversation v1.3 (2005/12), WS-Trust v1.3 (2005/12)
• RX - Reliable Messaging using WS-Reliable Messaging v1.1 (2007/02)
• Transactions using WS-Atomic Transaction v1.1 (2006/06) and WS-Coordination v1.1 (2006/06)
• WS-Policy v1.5

We run the interop tests regularly with our builds. The results for Tango M5 milestone build shows details for each technology.

Microsoft still need to work out some kinks before the real work can begin:

• The plugfest schedule still seem to be dated March
• Not all the scenarios and endpoints as mentioned in the announcement are available
• Invite logistics page is giving a 404
• Not all the endpoints are up, atleast RM endpoints are down. Anyway, the endpoints have been down at multiple instances (here, here, here, here and probably other times too!).

But we are still going to participate :) Sun's participation in the previous plugfests can be followed here.

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Resolved Vista Upgrade Error 80070103

Follow up from here.

After getting bounced around between Microsoft Tech Support and MSDN Tech Support (seem to be separate entities) and collecting almost 5 different toll-free numbers for them, I finally resolved the error with help from a very talented and patient MSDN Tech Support professional.

Basically, the machine had two partitions - one using Windows XP and other Linux. And somehow the Linux partition was coming out as the primary active partition. So every time I was trying to install Vista, whether from within XP or boot from DVD, it was trying to look for an empty space on this partition. And of course it was not able to find any space because this file system is not NTFS. Now when I look at the error message again, it makes sense. But can't the installation process find out that there are multiple partitions, one of them using NTFS, and then provide that information ?

With tech support help, I resolved the issue by deleting and formatting both the partitions. Another way to resolve this was to set Windows XP as the active partition following these instructions.

I almost lost faith in Microsoft Tech Support but this one talented individual helped me restore it.

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Vista, GlassFish and WSIT

During this week, first Windows Vista, then GlassFish v2 M4 and finally JAX-WS 2.1 Final were released. WSIT, using JAX-WS extension points, provides a bridge between the Vista and GlassFish releases by enabling interoperability between the Web services hosted on two platforms. This is the result of endless testing we have done between Windows Communication Foundation that got shipped with Vista and the Web services stack in GlassFish.

Read all about Sun's participation in Microsoft-hosted interoperability plug-fests. Download it here and let us know how it works for you.

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Sun understands WS-* very well!!!

Thanks to Robin Wilton for the link.

Read more about how Sun and Microsoft achieved product-level interoperability between GlassFish and Windows Vista. A quote from the article ...

"as these two teams worked together to bring about some calm in the turbulent seas of Web services, they found that engineering knows no prejudice. The result, three years later, is Sun’s Web Services Integration Technology, and Microsoft has called it the best implementation of the WS-* standards outside of its own."

I'm proud to be part of WSIT team since it's inception. This is a great start to the weekend!

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Project Tango @ SDN Channel

View Sun and Microsoft on Project Tango at Sun Developer Network Channel (SDN). SDN caught me and Kirill at the Microsoft pod in the JavaOne 2006 pavilion and talked to us about Project Tango and how developers can have access to this content. If interested in the content, you can view the video cast from 28:35 through 31:09.

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JavaOne 2006 TS-5540 Slides

StarOffice and PDF versions of my J1 session (TS-5540, Making Java™ Technology-Based/.NET Web Services Interoperability Real) are now available. The StarOffice version has speaker notes and animation as well.

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Tango at Microsoft JavaOne party

I attended Microsoft JavaOne party Wednesday night. It was great to meet their developer evangelists (Jas, Nima and Woody to name a few). I specifically spent some time with Mohammed Akif who is a member of Microsoft Architecture Editorial Board. He is an ex-Sun employee and used to be a Senior Java architect and co-authored several Java books before joining Microsoft. I recommend reading his extensive coverage of JavaOne so far.

BTW, check me and Kirill doing Tango at the party here. I'm now relaxed after literally living at work for the past few weeks to pull the keynote demo.

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Articles on Sun/Microsoft interoperability

Here is the official and some related press release on the interoperability efforts happening between Sun and Microsoft for past few months:

1. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060516.5.xml
2. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060516/sftu095.html?.v=56
3. http://www.ftponline.com/special/javaart/interop/

In a related article published here in eweek, a quote from the article says "The companies' cooperation will soon give developers freedom to work with Web services partners using Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (formerly "Indigo" or JAX-WSA (Java API for XML Web Services Addressing)."

Although I fully agree with Peter that this cooperation between the two companies will provide flexibility to work with either of the framework. But here WCF is incorrectly compared to JAX-WSA. The latter provides an API to enable WS-Addressing support in Java platform and is just one of the multiple specifications supported by WSIT. Instead WCF should be correctly compared to WSIT. I've already emailed a correction to the editor and hopefully will hear back soon.

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JavaOne 2006 - Project Tango Keynote Demo

We, at Sun Microsystems, have been working with Microsoft for past several months on achieving interoperability between Java EE and .NET technologies. Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT, a.k.a Project Tango) is Sun's Web services interoperability portal and provides all information on that effort. Earlier yesterday, we gave a demonstration of our work so far in JavaOne 2006 keynote. The main points from the talk is that Project GlassFish community and Windows Communication Foundation make Interoperability a Reality TODAY.

A video clip of the keynote demo is available here. This clip starts with our keynote presentation where Nick Kassem explains the business scenario which shows how Web services technologies enables integration within and across business boundaries. Watch me explaining the development environment to Jeff Jackson from 3:46 to 4:48. All the tools and technologies used in the demo are available today. And then Kirill Gavrylyuk shows an interoperability demo between Infocard and Sun's Secure Token Service. A picture is worth thousand words, here is a graphical representation of the scenario.

On the right, a Retail Quote Service (RQS), running in Sun-managed environment, uses Wholesale Quote Service (WQS) to serve car quotes to Java and WCF consumers shown on the bottom left. RQS also gets competitive bids from a WQS running in a Microsoft managed environment. The clients talk to the RQS secure MTOM, RQS talks to WQS using a Secure and Reliable Connection. Each managed environment has it's own identity provider, also known as Secure Token Service or STS in short. A trust relationship between the two environments is enabled by a trust relationship between a priori trust relationship between STS.

We also plan to share the demo code in the near future and I'll post another blog when it's available.

A specific Call To Action for you is to:

Test Drive Web Services Interoperability

java.sun.com/webservices/interop: Your main Web services interoperability portal.

Download! and Contribute!

wsit.dev.java.net: Your main source for downloading the source code, samples, documentation, etc.

Get the FREE Project GlassFish Open Source App Server

java.sun.com/javaee/glassfish: All WSIT technologies can be installed on this FREE app server

Download Netbeans IDE Module:

websvc.netbeans.org/wsit: All WSIT technologies available today can be configured visuall using this Netbeans module.

Check out some of the pictures I took at JavaOne on Tuesday. This picture shows me, Nick and Kirill.

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Introducing wsit.dev.java.net

• 637 new Java source files
• Approx 111K lines of new code
• How To Documentation and Samples
• Integrated NetBeans 5.5 tooling
• Implementations of WS-Policy, WS-Security Policy, WS-Metadata Exchange, WS-Security 1.0 and 1.1, WS-Secure Conversation, WS-Trust and WS-Reliable Messaging.
• Leverage existing JAX-WS programming model
• User list and interoperability forum

These are some of the statistics of Sun's open-source implementation of next generation Web services technologies that deliver interoperability between Sun's Application Server 9.1 PE (part of GlassFish) and Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, aka Indigo). This implementation is known as Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and is part of Project Tango. Sun delivers on the initial promise of facilitating interoperability with .NET platform by embracing and open sourcing implementations of key WS-* specifications. Read more about the various technologies involved here.

We, engineers in Sun, have been working directly with Microsoft engineers ensuring out-of-the-box interoperability for WSIT artifacts with WCF. Read about Sun's participation in previous plugfests (Nov 2005 and Mar 2006).

NetBeans 5.5 IDE and documentation is released along with the source. This facilitate users to download the WSIT bundle and try the pre-existing samples or create new ones from scratch without remembering the exact syntax of config files or any other option that might be required to configure the sample.

Everything mentioned above can be downloaded at wsit.dev.java.net.

Download it, try it and pretty soon you'll find yourself completely immersed. And we do appreciate your feedback.

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