SOA Total DEMO

This year I presented many times WCF and SOA. My experience was and still is, that many people did not really understand what SOA is.
More details about this you can see in this post called "Don't let Technocrats to occupy SOA". Related to SOA discussion, there is also one very interesting article
posted by DAENET SOA Team at DAENET's homepage.

To explain practically benefits of SOA, we have implemented a demo application which shows how different technologies can be can be integrated in the SOA philosophy. The demo is a Visual Studio Solution which contains following projects:

1. A 2007 Excel Add In based on VSTO technology.
2. The Smartphone .NET 2.0 application
3. An ASP.NET 2.0 web application
4. The WCF web service called Marvin Service, which is responsible
   to receive orders and to drive the LEGO robot. The robot simulates shipment process of one logistic company.
5. The WCF web service (project named Service) which receive orders from different consumers and publish them to the Marvin service.
   

The demo shows how orders published by can be enlisted by different consumers: Excel (simulate Office Business Application strategy = OBA), Smartphone showing how to perform purchasing by mobile technology. Last but not least, the LEGO robot project shows how to deal which external hardware by using of Visual Studio, .NET framework, Wireless and Bluetooth technology.

Enjoy