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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

The relationship between BizTalk and WCF


So, are WCF and BizTalk Server competing technologies or complementary ones? Let's review the role of each:

BizTalk Server 2013

  • Enterprise offering for messaging solutions that require consistent life cycle for design, build, and deployment

  • Process orchestration made available through a stateful, durable workflow engine

  • Adapters to numerous protocols, technologies, and line-of-business systems

  • Route data through high-performing, scalable, and persistent publish-subscribe message broker

  • Runtime services with built-in scalability and load balancing

  • Supplementary modules such as Business Activity Monitoring, Single Sign On, and Business Rules Engine

Windows Communication Foundation

  • Unify existing .NET communication technologies under a single umbrella

  • Offer rich cross-platform support for WS* extensions targeting security, transactions, and stateful sessions

  • Variety of flexible service host containers available

  • Significant amount of service configuration...