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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

Introduction


The BizTalk Server 2010 offers a new feature called AppFabric Connect, which allows developers to use the BizTalk Mapper and Adapter Pack capabilities in their solutions, without depending on the BizTalk runtime itself. The developer can use the BizTalk Mapper with the same UI as in BizTalk projects to utilize the XML-based data transformation capabilities and connect to the backend Line of Business (LOB) systems, such as SAP, Oracle database, Oracle E-Business Suite, Seibel, and the SQL Server without writing custom code for the LOB connectivity. Within a project, the developer uses Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) activities to programmatically access the BizTalk Server's LOB connectivity and data transformation capabilities. The project can be deployed, hosted, and managed in Windows Server AppFabric/Internet Information Services (IIS).

In this chapter, you will find a recipe of the application that uses Mapper and LOB connectivity and is hosted on IIS. You can create...