.Net 3.5, Silverlight, Internet Service Bus and WS-Federation
Wow, the world is really moving faster! In 2 weeks, great news are emerging:
WinFx .Net Framework 3.5
Omri unveils the new features of .Net 3.5, and beta 1 is launched! Between some awesome features, Durable Services is the one which really called my attention!
OASIS is calling for members in the WS-Federation Technical Committee
It was about time!
Biztalk Services Internet Service Bus
Finally, Biztalk Services became public! No more excuses!
Clemens has posted a great overview about new paradigms that could arise from this, and Christian was already playing with it.
Everybody is posting about this, after Ray Ozzie keynote at Mix 07. Microsoft Silverlight is officially to be supported on Mac and Windows.
While this may be simple and predictive news, the fact that part of the CLR is being officially ported to another platform is a tremendous change in the managed world, IMHO. Also, the ability to write richer user interfaces on web, and at the same time run managed code by using my preferred language, can potentially create a complete new user experience generation software.
In the last months I was having particular doubts on implementing a LOB application using Ajax. Don't get me wrong: I think Ajax is great, but I also think the browser wasn't made for that. We seem to be running away of the problem, trying to use an hammer where an axe is needed. Silverlight will help to solve this, by providing a sandbox in the browser, where apps can play safely. Of course this was not new, with .Net or even Java. But the lack of real UX features, like video, streaming and rich animations, together with professional presentation software (Microsoft Expression) did not help. Let's see...
Now, are we emerging a new USOW* 3.0 ?????
(USOW = Just invented "Usable & Service Oriented Web"! :))
UPDATE (02-05-2007 22:59)
Even if I had already tested Silverlight at IE, I just tried Silverlight at Firefox and, wow, it really rocks! Silverlight everywhere...:
