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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing the splitter pattern


A splitter pattern is used when a batch of messages is received and you need to process them individually. With this pattern you can process such a message by splitting it into small messages. Imagine you have a large message containing multiple orders by different stores and you want to separate each order from each store into a single message, then this pattern can be a fit-for-purpose.

There are different ways to implement this pattern in BizTalk, such as using a pipeline or an orchestration using maps, XSLT, and XPath. As there are multiple ways to implement this pattern, it is good to know what the pros and cons are of each implementation. Envelope debatching or Receive port pipeline debatching is fast, very fast, and suitable for the message only scenarios. The drawback of using this implementation is that when something fails in the pipeline then the entire message fails, so it has less flexibility. This can be resolved enabling the recoverable interchange...