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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

Using the BRE outside of BizTalk


Out of the box, BizTalk Server offers the BRE and it can be installed with or without the BizTalk Server runtime. It can be used separately, but you will still need a BizTalk license (similar to the scenario using the AppFabric Connect feature explained in Chapter 6, BizTalk AppFabric Connect). The BRE is essentially an independent product which can be accessed by its own APIs and tools. Through the .NET application, you can use the engine with no need for orchestrations or other BizTalk objects.

In this recipe, you will create:

  • A schema that will provide information on an employee, an instance of a schema will serve as input for the application

  • A policy that will determine employee benefits

  • A .NET application calling the policy

Although the business rules engine comes as part of the BizTalk Server, this recipe will show that .NET assemblies outside the BizTalk environment can call into it. The created external application is allowed to use the same rule framework...