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Microsoft opens 'Oslo' skunk works

By David Worthington

April 29, 2008 — (Page 1 of 2)
Without any fanfare, Microsoft lifted the covers on a prototype composite application technology from its stealthy “Oslo” initiative.

Configuration Service 2.0 is a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service for managing composite applications, is expected to be available on Microsoft’s MSDN Web site this week. The service is a companion to Microsoft’s StockTrader 2.0 SOA sample application, but serves a broader role in the context of Oslo by managing the configuration of loosely coupled services.

Oslo is a multiyear effort to develop new technology that helps customers build, deploy, design and manage composite applications. Its primary objective is to take model-drive development into the mainstream of application development.

Oslo is expected to influence the next generation of Microsoft’s application platform, including BizTalk Server release 6, BizTalk Services release 1, .NET Framework version 4, Microsoft System Center release 5 and Visual Studio release 10—all of those names being provisional.

The company does not expect to ship any deliverables until at least 2009, but customers may use the Configuration Service in production systems under the same support policy that covers the patterns and practices provided by Microsoft’s Platform Architecture Guidance group, said Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in the company’s Connected Systems Division .

Kawasaki said that Microsoft would preview more “blocks, pegs and other usable things” from Oslo to gather feedback from developers. Configuration Service 2.0 is an Oslo prototype for aligning metadata repositories and will feed into the aforementioned technologies, said Kawasaki.

“Configuration Service 2.0 shows that MS is thinking hard about this infrastructure and recognizes that WCF is incomplete without it,” remarked Andrew Brust, a regional director volunteer for Microsoft’s Developer Platform evangelism group and chief of new technology at twentysix New York, a Manhattan-based consultancy.

“The Config [sic] Service looks to be quite rich,” he added. Brust speculated that the Configuration Service could have a strong influence on how the releases tied to Oslo would provide dynamic load balancing. This would be through the use of a common configuration database, despite its origins in the StockTrader.NET effort, which he called a “sort-of skunk works project.”

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