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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

Using the BizTalk Mapper in Workflow Services


As a BizTalk developer, you may not easily switch to the .NET development to create a Workflow Service. An orchestration can be built for many integration scenarios within an enterprise. Yet, an orchestration might not always be the right fit. For a low-latency scenario, for instance, where you do not need out of the box BizTalk capabilities such as reliability, the Workflow Service can be the option especially, if you expect a high load and you anticipate that I/O contention is going to impact performance.

However, with the AppFabric Connect feature, you can leverage some of the BizTalk capabilities such as the BizTalk Mapper inside your workflow and besides the Mapper, a developer can even make use of the LOB capabilities using the BizTalk Adapter Pack without installing BizTalk Server Runtime. This enables you to improve latency over a pure BizTalk Server solution, while still utilizing the BizTalk Server's functionality. In this recipe, a...