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Getting Started with BizTalk Services

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Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Mar, 2014 | 180 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Hello BizTalk Services
Hello BizTalk Services
Background
Business drivers
Technical drivers
Core scenarios
Concepts
Life cycle and architecture
Personas and tools
Deployment considerations
Provisioning BizTalk Services
Creating your first BizTalk Services solution
Verifying the solution
Summary
2
Messages and Transforms
Messages and Transforms
The problem
The mapper
The map designer
Schema
An example
Mapping operations
Testing
Configuring a bridge
Putting it all together
More on mapping
Dealing with failure
Summary
3
Bridges
Bridges
Pipeline processing
Message processing
Messaging
Enrichment
Lookups
Routing
Trying it out
Brokered messaging
Summary
4
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise application integration scenarios
EAI in BizTalk Services
Hybrid connectivity
Custom code in EAI
Tracking
Scenario walk-through
Summary
5
Business-to-business Integration
Business-to-business Integration
Basic concepts of B2B
Common interaction models
Industry standards and protocols
Concepts in BizTalk Services B2B
Scenario walk-through
Summary
6
API
API
REST
Calling the API
Back up and restore
Using PowerShell
Summary
7
Tracking and Troubleshooting
Tracking and Troubleshooting
Messages and errors
Data for troubleshooting
Troubleshooting sources and destinations
Troubleshooting schemas and transforms
Troubleshooting bridges
Troubleshooting agreements
Troubleshooting hybrid connectivity
Summary
8
Moving to BizTalk Services
Moving to BizTalk Services
Moving from BizTalk Server
When not to move
The future
Summary
Index
Index

Concepts in BizTalk Services B2B

B2B in BizTalk Services is all about processing EDI and non-EDI messages between trading partners. It is meant to make B2B integration simple, powerful, and flexible using Azure. B2B, by its nature of protocols, formats, and transport, tends to be complex in configuration; with Azure, service configuration of an agreement between partners is simple. It's easy to extend the service and connect with other technologies such as SharePoint and mobile services to build a rich and powerful solution.

The top-level concepts in B2B/EDI include the following:

  • EDI message structure

  • Partners and agreements

  • Property promotion in EDI

  • Batching

  • Tracking and archiving

  • Extensibility and object model API

EDI message structure

EDI messages (either X12 or EDIFACT) have a nested structure, compartmentalizing transactions for ease of understanding by the receiver. Every structure has a header and trailer to identify the start and end of the nested structure. The following outlines the nesting...

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