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WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD

• Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2!! This version is a huge step forward and incorporates WCF in the Adapters 
• A great post from my good friend Tomas, The Future of BizTalk/WCF/WF
• Something I just dealt with yesterday, Nick shows how to configure TCP Activation from the command line 
• Design History of Communication Objects
• Recent WF Content Summary
• Another great post from my friend Jesus Rodriguez Defining service contracts programmatically on .NET Framework 3.5

SOA

• Nick Mallik says, "As I've discussed many times, SOA is not a product.  It is an architectural style.  That said, products can help leverage and encourage SOA." Amen to that. That is what I have been saying in my SOA talks for 2 years now and I will stongly say this Saturday again. In fact, I would go further and say it's not only an architectural style but a business focus activity. Technology is secondary and only applicable to the delivery of the services that were identified during the business process phases.
• Nick also makes the point that Reusable Service design is quite different than Independent service design. That's the A in SOA, that dreaded Architecture term that certain communities abhor
• Bobby Woolfe, co-author of the bible on Integration Patterns talks about a new ebook that he and IBM produced: Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice is an e-book (a PDF). You can download a sample chapter (PDF) that contains the full table of contents and the first several pages of the e-book. I bought the book yesterday and it's fantastic!!
• [Podcast] Domain Models, SOA, and The Single Version of the Truth

Enterprise Architecture/Financial and Banking Vertical

• Great news from Mike Walker; the launch of Capital Markets Architecture Center

Software

• New version of Borland's CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 [via Mike]

Other Link Blogs

• The Daily Grind 1227
• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2007