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SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2013 and Microsoft Azure

By : Richard Seroter, Mark T Brimble, Coen J Dijkgraaf, Mahindra Morar, Mark Brimble, Colin Dijkgraaf, Johann Cooper
Book Image

SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2013 and Microsoft Azure

By: Richard Seroter, Mark T Brimble, Coen J Dijkgraaf, Mahindra Morar, Mark Brimble, Colin Dijkgraaf, Johann Cooper

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2013 and Microsoft Azure Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What is MessageBox direct binding?


The easiest way to link orchestration with messaging endpoints is to create logical ports in orchestrations and bind them to physical ports at runtime. A developer using this technique will know for sure that an orchestration will exchange messages with the appropriate ports. However, this mechanism of orchestration communication is more point-to-point oriented than event driven. What if relevant messages for an orchestration could arrive via multiple receive ports? Or how about trying to anticipate all the possible parties interested in a message that your orchestration is sending out?

The tight coupling produced by binding orchestration ports to physical ports is not the most service-oriented way to design orchestration communication. Instead, MessageBox direct binding is the cleanest way to sever the one-to-one relationship between the messaging and orchestration architectural layers. The way it works is that the "activating" receive shape that instantiates...