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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 BRE with a database


Business rules are stored in a rule store, which is basically a SQL Server database. When you configure the BRE with the BizTalk Server Configuration tool, you deploy a database called BizTalkRuleEngineDb. With the Business Rule Composer, you can create policies containing rules and vocabularies. These are stored in the rule store. The interactions with the rule store are depicted in the following diagram. Rules can be applied on a message provided through an orchestration or .NET application, as shown in the previous recipe. The BRE separates rules from your orchestration or .NET program:

Besides the rule store you can use another database that could contain data for rules. Data that can be used to evaluate with facts, which are delivered to a policy through a Rule shape in an orchestration. Business users can change this data instead of the rule itself and prevent updating the rules. With an update of rules, you have to go through steps in the Business Rule...