DebugView: An indispensable utility from SysInternals. I use it as a UI for BizTalk, by printing debug information using System.Diagnostics.Debug with its default trace listener, messages end up getting fed into the Win32 OutputDebugString function. DebugView monitors and displays this debug output in realtime. TCPTrace: Tunnels packets between a client and server, and displays the payload. Unreal for tracing HTTP traffic between web services, WCF endpoints, and so on. XPathMania: Extends the VS.NET 2005 XML Editor, by providing a “scratch pad” to enter and execute XPath queries against the active document. ...

In the drive for gathering tips and tricks from industry experts and maintaining a “fresher” awareness of BizTalk developments, I have added the following (active) BizTalk centric blogs to my news aggregator. I am amazed at the number of BizTalk gems I have already picked up… Richard Seroter Patrick Wellink Charles Young Ben Cops Jeff Lynch Jesus Rodriguez Jon Flanders Mick Badran Alan Smith Kevin Lam Demystifying Direct Bound Ports Marco Ensing Martijn Hoogendoorn Matt Meleski Scott Colestock Stephen Thomas

I stumbled upon this nifty online quiz, linked to on Laurence Timms blog. This is what it said. What extension are you?

A few weeks ago we had a WSE 2.0 send port fail—resulting in the suspension of hundreds of service instances. Resumption of these suspended WSE instances resulted in a consistent general BTSException, with little useful detail. Sadly, due to lack of access to the production environment, the root cause of this problem remains a mystery. It was requested that the message part content for each be extracted for further analysis, and manual rectification. While not huge numbers, this would prove to be a tedious and monotonous task for our sysops administrator. ...

As a follow up to previous post [The Servlet API]({% post_url 2007-02-20-servlet-api %}), this post aims to sweeps over some fundamentals of JSP, a technology which thanks to its simple yet extensible design, still to this day, underpins many modern web application frameworks. JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a technology that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types. Released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems. ...

As you start out building Java web applications, you soon find that it sit upon several well designed building blocks. Once the penny drops, and an intuition about these building blocks is gained, creating web apps on Java becomes a delight. Two key, top level concepts are the mighty Servlet API and JavaServer Pages (JSP). These are deployed to a Web container, also commonly referred to a Servlet (or Web) container. ...