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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a FIFO solution


Real time ordered delivery can be achieved if you can control the sending of messages. A regular orchestration with a single activation will not do the trick as messages in the MessageBox will be picked up by the XLANG engine, which will spin up as many instances of orchestration as there are messages. Messages can be different in size, and different amounts of time will, therefore, likely be required to process them through BizTalk. Therefore, the message order can easily change during the processing of messages. To be able to do it in a First In First Out (FIFO) manner, the first message needs to be completed before the next message is picked up to be processed. You will basically need one instance of an orchestration to complete all processing of messages. Implementing a FIFO pattern requires you to build a sequential convoy using message correlation and ordered delivery flags in BizTalk.

Convoys are a well known concept in the BizTalk world. Convoys are used...