As BizTalk Services hosted in the cloud exposes default HTTP endpoints to the bridges that you publish, this means that it is possible to submit messages to a bridge by simply posting them to the endpoint and, with the request/reply bridge, receive a response.
Of course, BizTalk Services provides many more message sources and destinations such as FTP, Service Bus queues and topics, and also line of business systems such as SAP that are covered in detail in Chapter 4, Enterprise Application Integration. The full list is provided in the following table:
|
Transport |
Source |
Destination |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
FTP |
Yes |
Yes |
File Transfer Protocol support |
|
SFTP |
Yes |
Yes |
Secure File Transfer Protocol |
|
Service Bus Queue |
Yes |
Yes |
Receive and send messages to/from queues |
|
Service Bus Topic |
Yes |
Yes |
Receive and send messages to/from topics |
|
HTTP(S) |
Yes |
Yes |
Bridges are exposed as HTTPS endpoints by default on the namespace you create the service under. BizTalk Services also supports... |