WCF and SSL

Posted by Chris Berg on August 21st, 2008

Laurent Grateau brought this tutorial to my attention.  Its a handy reference for implementing SSL with your WCF services.  This can be used for enforcing encryption with the RES.NET management and persistence services (click here for the tutorial).

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Words, Words, Words

Posted by Chris Berg on August 19th, 2008

I have spent an inordinate amount of time lately talking about the benefits of language—something you might appreciate since your are currently reading this blog AND understanding it. Language is a sort of human-level contract we have with each other…

Pressure Points

Posted by Chris Berg on August 14th, 2008

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In the post (I Want To Believe Redux) my goal was to describe the fictitious story about a bright architect that matured a in-house rules technology. Along the way, the architect experienced pressure points and addressed the requirements in motion.…

I Want To Believe Redux

Posted by Chris Berg on August 1st, 2008

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There is the world as we see it and the world that could be. Imagining how is critical. If you can’t agree on a premise, then it’s hard to move forward in any direction. One is stuck in the question…

IDEs and Code Branches: A Cry for Help!

Posted by Daniel Selman on August 1st, 2008

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The image above illustrates a typical JRules bug report in our Jira bug tracking repository. As you can see, the bug in question impacts four code branches and has currently been targeted to be fixed in one branch. For this bug…

InfoWorld Review of ILOG Rules for .NET 3.0

Posted by Daniel Selman on August 1st, 2008

Steven Núñez has written a review of the latest release of ILOG Rules for .NET. Download a 6-month free trial of Rules for .NET here. You can watch a recorded demo here.

Congratulations to all the Rules for .NET team for…

WCF Performance Comparison

Posted by Chris Berg on July 25th, 2008

Microsoft has made some WCF performance data available on MSDN for a while now. The data shows the performance advantages of WCF over ASMX and other SOA frameworks on the platform. In general, WCF is the stronger performer–good news to all…

When Does Complex Event Processing (CEP) Complement a BRMS?

Posted by Daniel Selman on July 22nd, 2008

It’s my pleasure to introduce Pierre-Henri Clouin, an ILOG colleague, for this post on Complex Event Processing (CEP). CEP has emerged as one of the “hot topics” in the rules space over the past 12 months. Pierre-Henri is based in…

ILOG Rule Execution Server for .NET (RES.NET) Practices and WCF

Posted by Chris Berg on July 18th, 2008

Since the release of ILOG Rules for .NET 3.0 in February of this year I have seen a good number of questions now regarding best practices with RES.NET integration and deployment. In many cases, the question is around what provider…

Business Object Models

Posted by Daniel Selman on July 10th, 2008

Understanding the Business Object Model (or BOM as it is affectionately known) is one of the keys to using JRules effectively. In this entry I hope to lay some groundwork for subsequent more in-depth entries on the Vocabulary, Executable Object Models and…