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October 7-8, 2008 Amsterdam Arena
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2. An Early Look at Microsoft "Oslo",
"Dublin" and related technologies
Brian Loesgen
Principal Consultant, Neudesic
Brian.Loesgen@neudesic.com
http://blog.BrianLoesgen.com
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3. Agenda
What is “Oslo”, what are these “related
technologies”?
Theme #1: Commoditize Interoperability
Theme #2: Model-driven Assembly
of Applications
Theme #3: Software + Services Platform
“Dublin”: The Application Server
BizTalk Server Roadmap
Summary
4. What is "Oslo"?
Defining terms
"Oslo" refers to Microsoft’s new modeling platform
It's not the code name for a single new
product, or new release of a product
Whereas Oslo used to refer to all technologies associated
with the new wave, it is now being refined as some of those
pieces naturally migrate into the products that will be their
ship vehicles (ie: .NET 4.0)
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5. What is the current state of "Oslo"
and related technologies?
Microsoft says will tell us more about
"Oslo" at PDC in late Oct 2008
No release dates have yet been announced
CTP will be available in a PDC timeframe
“Dublin” was announced last week
The goal today
Describe some of the main problems these technologies
address
Give you a big-picture view of the technology
There *will* be changes
We are early in the initiative lifecycle
Some things are sure to change, e.g., the UIs
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6. A whole new wave of technologies…
Why is this important?
Oslo and related technologies are an ambitious
attempt to solve the hard problems associated
with designing, creating, maintaining and
monitoring distributed, and services-based
applications
By making everything simpler, this will reduce
the skill requirements and reduce code efforts,
while also facilitating greater agility to meet
changing business requirements
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7. What are the core elements?
Key innovations
Model-driven
It’s ALL about models (application models, deployment
models, metrics models)
The model *IS* the application
Models can be run by a variety of hosts
Repository-based
Models, instances and other artifacts reside in a repository
Various tools go through a translation API to create, retrieve,
modify and store models
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12. Conceptual Overview Of Oslo
Diagrams
SQL Data Access or “Oslo” Language System
SQL Data Access
Visual DSLs “Oslo” Repository
Reposito Models
Reposito
ries
ries Observations
Textual DSLs
3rd Party Runtimes
3rd Party Tools
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13. End-To-End Integrated Models
Tools for modeling the end to end application
Models which span and connect the lifecycle
Integrated with existing tools suites
Ecosystem that provides rich and diverse solutions
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18. Extending The Visual Editor
Customizing your world
What the visual editor displays is determined entirely by the
schemas in the repository
A schema can have a view experience defined for it
Microsoft will ship a set of schemas with pre-defined views
Customers and ISVs are free to add their own
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19. Using Other Tools
Working with the repository
Other tools can also be used to work with
information in the repository
Potential examples: Visio, Visual Studio, System
Center tools, tools created by third parties
Visio
“Oslo” Visual Editor
1) Create
business process
description
2) Store business
3) Use business
process description
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20. Working Together
Different tools for different roles
Business analysts and developers can work
together to build WF/WCF applications
Repository
“Oslo” Visual Editor
Visual Studio
Workflow definition Workflow
as repository definition
instance as XAML
Business Analyst Developer
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23. Conceptual Overview Of Oslo
Diagrams
SQL Data Access or “Oslo” Language System
SQL Data Access
Visual DSLs “Oslo” Repository
Reposito Models
Reposito
ries
ries Observations
Textual DSLs
3rd Party Runtimes
3rd Party Tools
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25. The problem: Where to host?
WF doesn’t mandate a particular host
WF/WCF apps can run in nearly any process
Writing your own host can be complex
MOSS is the only Microsoft-provided WF host
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26. Enter “Dublin”
A standard WF/WCF Host
Runs WF/WCF applications (designed for long-running services)
Provides enterprise-grade host services
The first Oslo-enabled runtime
Additional hosts, including a BizTalk host, will
follow
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29. BizTalk Server
A roadmap
BizTalk Server 2006 R2
Shipping today
BizTalk Server 2009
Scheduled to ship in the first half of 2009
“Synchronizing release” adding support for Windows Server
2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008
Adds UDDI support, improved B2B, ESB Guidance 2.0, etc.
BizTalk Server: The next generation
Becomes a host in the “Dublin” application server
Microsoft is committed to protecting existing assets, and has
announced plans for regular continued future releases of
BizTalk Server
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30. Planned Releases
Breaking the waves
Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3
Next version of WF Repository “Dublin”
(will ship with the Visual editor - BizTalk host
.NET Framework “4” - Additional hosts
and Visual Studio “10”) “Dublin”
- WF/WCF host only
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31. Summary
Make model-driven applications mainstream
Provides more transparent and
flexible applications
Enables cross domain scenarios: sharing models, keeping data in sync,
relationships, querying and policy
Network effect: Platform gets more value the more apps use it!
Simplify distributed applications
Building, deploying, scaling and managing
Enhance existing distributed systems platform (e.g., BizTalk, WF, WCF)
Apply model-driven approach to distributed systems platform
Making more of our application platform model driven over time
32. Call to action!
Go to PDC in Los Angeles
http://microsoft.com/oslo
http://GeeksWithBlogs.net/bloesgen
http://BizTalkBlogs.com
