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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

"Dublin"


"Dublin" is the code name for a set of service extensions added to IIS 7.0 and Windows Server 2008. These extensions enable a rich set of management capabilities targeted at WCF and Windows Workflow (WF) applications. Specifically, this includes support for durable services and long-running WF workflows.

What problem does it solve?

Today, WF developers are forced to make all sorts of decisions and trade-offs when choosing a host for their workflow. While strides have been made, there is no clear, easy choice. Dublin offers a consistent WF host that provides automatic support for important WF concepts like persistence and messaging. Dublin also supplies administrators with a coherent way to view and interact with running and suspended workflows.

Speaking of administration, that's really where Dublin solves a problem with current WCF and WF hosting options. Today, there is no straightforward way to iterate all WCF services on a web site or get a consolidated view of service status....