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Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration

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Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration

Overview of this book

Microsoft BizTalk is an integration and connectivity server solution that allows businesses to connect disparate systems easily. In today’s business climate of mergers and acquisitions, more and more enterprises are forced to exchange data across disparate Line of Business systems using integration brokers like BizTalk Server 2010. What is often overlooked when integrating these systems is the pre-requisite knowledge that ERP and CRM systems demand in order to effectively integrate them. No longer is this knowledge locked up in the heads of expensive consultants. Gain an edge within your organization by developing valuable skills in the area of Line of Business integration from this book.This book will show you how to integrate BizTalk with Line of Business systems using practical scenarios. Each chapter will take a Line of Business system, introduce some pre-requisite knowledge and demonstrate how you can integrate BizTalk with that Line of Business system, and then provide guidance based upon real world experience, taking your BizTalk knowledge further.This book will enable you to master how to integrate BizTalk with Line of Business systems effectively. The book starts by highlighting the technical foundation of WCF-LOB adapters and the common steps and important properties pertaining to popular WCF-LOB adapters. You will then move on to an overview of how to integrate with Microsoft SQL Server using the WCF based SQL Server adapter. The book then dives into topics such as integrating BizTalk Server with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, building BizTalk/SAP integrated solutions using IDocs, the differences between IDocs and RFCs/BAPIs, and integrating BizTalk with Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus amongst others.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building BizTalk application


In this section, we will discuss the BizTalk components required in order to build out a solution that will consume a Custom SharePoint list and generate a flat file.

Generating schemas for SharePoint Web Service

In order for BizTalk and SharePoint to effectively communicate with each other, we need a contract between the two systems. We will establish this contract by generating schemas for the SharePoint Web Service by using the Consume Adapter Service Wizard. This will ensure that when BizTalk sends a request to SharePoint, it is able to understand the request and provide a response that BizTalk is expecting. Before generating our SharePoint schemas, we need to do one thing and that is add the schema that allows us to communicate with the database table that we previously created.

  1. 1. Now that we have the Database structure in place, we can use the Consume Adapter Service Wizard to generate our GetListGUIDTypedPolling.xsd. Detailed instructions on how to generate...