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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

Introduction


Testing is an important part when you are developing BizTalk solutions. Before deploying your solution into production, you need to be confident that it will perform, and do the job it is intended to do. A developer is responsible for creating robust and solid BizTalk solutions. He/she needs to test the BizTalk solutions with its artifacts before it is deploy to a test environment, where integration and other tests will be performed.

With the BizTalk Server 2009, the unit test feature was introduced, which offered built-in developer support for testing schemas, maps, and pipelines. This was a great enhancement for developers. Before that, developers had to rely on frameworks such as BizUnit. Now, the developer has one IDE for developing and testing the BizTalk solutions. Yet, the frameworks such as BizUnit or BizMock still have their value as they provide a rich API. They also offer great flexibility and control over your tests.

For last couple of years, people in the community...