I know I have not been posting some real technical stuff on my blog for the last few months...and this is the reason why.

It started off with a Proof-of-Concept I was working on and some thoughts on WS-Security Headers here. Finally, after months of hard work and long review and edit cycles, one of my 'masterpiece' articles has made it to MSDN Web Services Center. From what I understand from MSFT-Singapore, it is the first time a Singapore Flag is flown on MSDN. Gotta like that. Cool...

Do check it out here and let me know what you think.

While this architectural setup may come across as 'complicated' and slightly 'unorthodox' in the real world today, I believe we will see more and more setups of this model as we go along with the wide-acceptance of (standards-based) messaging-based systems in the enterprise mainstream. Key-word here is standards-based. Another thing that I believe will happen with Service-Orientation is that this routing/gateway style approach will become the primary extensibility model.

Indigo will go a long way in making this happen and I am very excited with the impending launch of it this year. Incidentally, the March CTP Bits of Indigo and Avalon is available to MSDN Subscribers and I believe to the general public soon. Keep your eyes out for it.

What's next ? I will be crossing over to do more Indigo stuff and there are work assignments for me that is revolved around Indigo-WSE-SOAP. I will update here as we (me, Indigo-bits, WSE*-bits) go along.

Thanks a million to MattP, MarkF and HerveyW for helping me out with this write-up ... and Sorry, Matt for the constant bombardment of emails and queries.