No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. | ||
| --Halford E. Luccock | ||
So far, we've looked at how to use BizTalk Server to design both, service endpoints and contracts, as well as exploit the powerful BizTalk messaging bus to support asynchronous messaging patterns. Now it's time to investigate how to incorporate service implementation patterns using BizTalk Server's orchestration engine. While an optional component of any BizTalk solution, orchestration enables a rich set of scenarios that messaging-only solutions are incapable of accommodating. As with the previous chapters in this book, this discussion will assume a base knowledge of BizTalk orchestration so that we can jump right into the implementation of occasionally complex concepts.
In this chapter, you will learn:
Why orchestration matters
What it means for an orchestration to utilize "MessageBox direct binding"
How to build message-type-agnostic orchestrations
How to take advantage...