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SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009

By : Richard Seroter
Book Image

SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009

By: Richard Seroter

Overview of this book

SOA is about architecture, not products and SOA enables you to create better business processes faster than ever. While BizTalk Server 2009 is a powerful tool, by itself it cannot deliver long-lasting, agile solutions unless we actively apply tried and tested service-oriented principles. The current BizTalk Server books are all for the 2006 version and none of them specifically looks at how to map service-oriented principles and patterns to the BizTalk product. That's where this book fits in. In this book, we specifically investigate how to design and build service-oriented solutions using BizTalk Server 2009 as the host platform. This book extends your existing BizTalk knowledge to apply service-oriented thinking to classic BizTalk scenarios. We look at how to build the most reusable, flexible, and loosely-coupled solutions possible in the BizTalk environment. Along the way, we dive deeply into BizTalk Server's integration with Windows Communication Foundation, and see how to take advantage of the latest updates to the Microsoft platform. Chock full of dozens of demonstrations, this book walks through design considerations, development options, and strategies for maintaining production solutions.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
Index

What is UDDI?


Universal Description and Discovery Information (UDDI) is a type of registry whose primary purpose is to represent information about web services. It describes the service providers, the services that provider offers, and in some cases, the specific technical specifications for interacting with those services. While UDDI was originally envisioned as a public, platform independent registry that companies could exploit for listing and consuming services, it seems that many have chosen instead to use UDDI as an internal resource for categorizing and describing their available enterprise services.

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