By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. | ||
| --Benjamin Franklin | ||
Throughout the first six chapters of this book, we've looked at how to build BizTalk applications, WCF services, RESTful services, Service Bus applications, BizTalk Azure Services and BizTalk applications that use WCF services. However, simply knowing the nuts and bolts of working code doesn't mean that we're ready to architect maintainable, reusable, service-oriented applications. We need to become intimately familiar with standard patterns and always keep key principles in mind in order to truly build long-lasting SOA solutions.
In this chapter, you will learn:
The definition of a service
The core principles of a service-oriented architecture
Which types of services can be exposed?
The standard message exchange patterns for services
How the service-orientation principles apply to a BizTalk Server solution