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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

Consuming WCF Services in a BizTalk messaging only solution


In the previous recipe, Consuming WCF Services in a BizTalk orchestration, you can read how to consume a WCF Service in an orchestration. Of course there are situations, where you do not need the overhead of orchestration that processes a message in a series of steps. If the processing of a message can be done with the core BizTalk messaging components (Receive ports, Send ports, pipelines, maps, and subscriptions), a messaging-only solution is sufficient. Generally, when complexity and latency need to be kept at a minimum, you need to focus on pure messaging and keep orchestration out of the equation. Orchestration induces an overhead with round trips to the MessageBox database as it is stateful and complex with a series of shapes in a flow.

Getting ready

You will need to have the WSDL file or URI (location) of the service you want to consume. The code accompanied with this book contains a service that you can set up and host on...