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...