Contents tagged with wcf
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Will Vista, Office 2007, and Sharepoint 2007 cure cancer?
Of course, I'm overdoing it -may be a lot-, but you need to drive readers to your blog, don't you? Anyways, it's worth reading this article about a very interesting project that uses Vista, Office 2007, Sharepoint 2007 and .NET 3.0 to help coordinate a cancer research team, you can also see a detailed presentation here. Some people may point out that previous platforms, notably Lotus Notes, proposed this kind of applications, so what's new here? For me, developer productivity: according to Tim Huckaby this project took just a few weeks. Unbelievable.
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In five years, Java EE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century
Richard Monson-Haefel is a noted J2EE author, in this article he says:
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Kerberos, NTLM, PKI, SSL, roles, AzMan, DACL, impersonation, etc. in .NET
You would imagine that topics like authentication (who you are) and authorization (what you are allowed to do), should be by now: a) solved and easily explained; b) standardized. In truth, the latter is a little more truth than the former, but at any rate if you want to understand these subjects you face a real alphabet soup and an entangled concept diversity, with each such concept apparently entitled to a tome by itself. Being 2006, authentication and authorization are still complex and not well understood topics, and, as a consequence, more than a few systems re-invent (poorly and weakly) the wheel.
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.NET Framework 3.0
Today, as Ecuador was beating Poland in the World Cup (way to go Ecuador!), Somasegar was announcing that what was previously known as WinFX (WCF, WPF, WF) plus other technologies like WCS (formerly Infocard) are an integral part of .NET Framework 3.0. Furthermore, *all* these components will be available for Vista, 2003 Server, and XP. I think it's time we download Beta 2.