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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

Exposing BizTalk applications in the cloud using AppFabric Connect for Services


The ability of BizTalk to connect to the cloud through the AppFabric Connect for Services feature opens the door for hybrid solutions. The BizTalk application can be exposed as WCF Services on the cloud, by adding Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus endpoints. These endpoints can be consumed by clients residing outside the enterprise's organizational firewall enabling them, for instance, to easily invoke a process. Clients can connect through the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus to on-premise applications or services through a relay service. This service can listen to external clients on behalf of the on-premise web service at a given public address and relay messages between both parties. In this recipe, you see how to use the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard to expose orchestration to the cloud.

Getting ready

Before you can try and use this recipe, you must have a registered service namespace with the...