Brian H. Prince

Brian is a great guy I met through the VTS program. The funny thing is, I have been reading his blog for a while, and then didn't put two and two together until several days after I first met him in LA. Since I don't like other people who blog about blogs, I will summarize his article a little. Brian puts forth a pattern that loosely couples related orchestrations together using a state machine driven message subscription process. The state machine is driven from a status field of the state of the message that is promoted so you can route on it. His article is written very well, with a good example.

Here is a list of resources the VTS team tries to keep up to date. Let me know if you have any other needs, and I will dig out what I can find. White Papers · Enterprise Integration Vision for BizTalk Server 2004 Discover how XML and Web services are implemented within BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and Microsoft Office 2003 and how they interact with each other to create a process-centric computing infrastructure. · Choose a Business Process Automation Solution Read this in-depth analysis of how BizTalk Server 2004 delivers a more integrated business process automation (BPA) solution than the WebSphere Business Integration system from IBM. · Developing a BizTalk Server Solution for BizTalk Server 2004 See how BizTalk Server 2004 enables developers and system architects to use the same development methodology and components to create workflow processes, application integration interfaces, and trading partner interactions. · Architecture for BizTalk Server 2004 Learn

The launch has finally come and gone on Nov 8th. A bunch of my coworks, clients, and friends rented a big van-bus-like thing. We had laptops, xbox, dvd players, internet access, and wifi onboard. And WAY too much redbull! We left at three in the morning, and didn't get back until 10:30p. The launch itself was fun. The sessions weren't groundbreaking if you had been working with the betas in any way. I was surprised at the depth of the new features in SQL Server 2005. I just wasn't really excited about the few features I knew about. I was asked to shoot some footage of our geek oddysea. I got about 30 minutes of it. The best of it was interviewing people in a sub shop on the way home. If I can find a place to post it, I will and then link to it here. I have been asked to show a bit of it at the next usergroup session. Best of all, all of the new tools are finally available, and we can move forward with the projects we have been using the beta's on. Now if we can get RTM