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Getting Started with BizTalk Services

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Getting Started with BizTalk Services

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Bridges

In Chapter 2, Messages and Transforms, we covered a fundamental aspect of integration and transformation. But transformation is just one of the capabilities that bridges in BizTalk Services provide. In this chapter, we will take a closer look at bridges and the following features:

  • Pipeline stages

  • Validating, enriching, and formatting messages

  • Lookup data

  • Message routing and filters

  • BizTalk Services Explorer

A bridge is actually a Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) behind the scenes. While you cannot create your own bridge definitions, three templates are provided for you:

Type

Description

XML One-Way

Caller sends XML-based messages to the bridge and expects no response

XML Request-Reply

Caller sends XML-based messages and waits for response message

Pass-Through

Caller sends message in any format (XML or non-XML) in a one-way pattern

These templates provide some standard processing steps that you can use to act on or affect messages as they are processed. These steps form...