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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 Business Rule Engine (BRE) is a software system that executes one or more business rules in a runtime production environment. Oracle, for instance, has Oracle Business Rules and IBM has the iLog Business Rule Management System (BRMS). Microsoft has their own rule engine that is shipped with the BizTalk Server and is also called the Business Rule Engine or the BRE for short. But, not only BizTalk has a rule engine, there is also the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) that has rule engine capabilities.

The BRE enables users, often referred to as business analysts, to directly create and modify sets of business rules. These rules are typically authored in the Business Rules Composer. With this tool, users can define a vocabulary for specifying the rules. A vocabulary is a collection of definitions consisting of friendly names for the facts used in rule conditions and actions. These definitions make the rules easier for users to read and understand. The vocabularies are stored...