Interfaces and their role

In a large project with multiple systems, it seems obvious that interfaces are important. Nevertheless, in one particular project, the interface group was not involved during the designs. In this situation, I would expect extra time to let the interface group catch up. But instead, the time to deliver about 150 interfaces was reduced by 45%. It raised a number of concerns. The process designs had implicit assumptions about what information they expect to flow through the interfaces. But these assumptions are difficult to pinpoint and document.

The project used Tibco as its middleware. It starts integration testing and things will get interesting!

WebDAV update

The problem that I faced with WebDAV was probably a bug in the Windows Sharepoint server 2003.

After they reset the server and gave me rights, the problem disappeared.
Curiously, most of the tools on Sharepoint require a "Sharepoint" aware application. so folks with Windows 2000 and Office 2000 are stuck. They are limited to using WebDAV or uploading files.....