Let's revisit the EAI scenario with the following changes.
Northwind is an online retailer who manages an e-commerce website for customer purchases. Instead of processing orders, let's say they now receive invoices from their suppliers for the goods sold. For readability and regulatory reasons, they need to store this in PDF format in an on-premises system.
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It is assumed that the BizTalk Services SDK has been installed and Visual Studio shows the following projects:
BizTalk Service project: Create/Deploy bridges, schemas, and maps
BizTalk Service artifacts project: Create/Deploy schemas, and maps
Northwind creates a new BizTalk Services deployment. See Chapter 1, Hello BizTalk Services on creating a BizTalk Services deployment and registering the BizTalk portal. We are going to use the PDFTemplate utility from pdftemplate.codeplex.com to generate PDF-formatted invoice messages. The utility is available under the GPLv2 license.