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Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1

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Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1

Overview of this book

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an architectural pattern and a key enabler in implementing the infrastructure for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The BizTalk ESB Toolkit is a collection of tools and libraries that extend the BizTalk Server capabilities of supporting a loosely coupled and dynamic messaging architecture. It functions as middleware that provides tools for rapid mediation between services and their consumers. Enabling maximum flexibility at runtime, the BizTalk ESB Toolkit simplifies loosely coupled composition of service endpoints and management of service interactions. The thing about the technology that gets most readers excited is how easy it is to quickly implement flexible and well-architected ESB solutions. "Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 ESB Toolkit 2.1" provides you with an easy-to-follow view of the tools and services that make up the toolkit. The content is packed with practical examples on how to utilize the technology, which will be appealing to the readers. This book provides you with all the information you need in one publication. The content is based on practical examples on how to use the technology to make it easier for readers to follow. This book starts off with a quick, high level introduction to ESB architectural principles, how these principles map into the ESB toolkit features, and an introduction to the different components that provide those features. The book then reveals the ins and outs of Itineraries. Next, you'll get engaged in the different ways errors can be handled and monitored by means of the ESB Toolkit features. There will be a hands-on sample on building a custom Repair and Resubmit solution to reprocess failed messages. Get to know the different web services that expose the ESB Toolkit features to external applications and how to use them with quick samples. The book ends with a preview to the new version of the toolkit.

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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1
Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
ESB Toolkit, Architecture, and Features
ESB Toolkit, Architecture, and Features
Understanding the basics
The ESB Toolkit
ESB Management Portal
Other components and utilities
Summary
2
Itinerary Services
Itinerary Services
Decoupling, composing, and evolving
Itineraries in the BizTalk ESB Toolkit
Itinerary services tracking
Deploying our itineraries
Creating custom itinerary services
Executing itineraries
Summary
3
ESB Exception Handling
ESB Exception Handling
Error handling in BizTalk and the ESB Toolkit
The Exception Handling API
The ESB Management Portal
Exceptions web service
Summary
4
Understanding the ESB Web Services
Understanding the ESB Web Services
The itinerary on-ramp services
The Resolver web service
The Transformation web service
The Exception Handling web service
The BizTalk Operations web service
Summary
5
The ESB Management Portal
The ESB Management Portal
Registering services in UDDI
Understanding the Audit Log
Fault Settings
Summary
6
ESB Toolkit Version 2.2 for BizTalk 2013
ESB Toolkit Version 2.2 for BizTalk 2013
What's new
Installing and configuring the Management Portal Sample Solution
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

René Brauwers started his IT career as a web developer/designer and was primarily engaged with building websites using classic ASP. Soon, his focus got more drawn towards developing client/server applications using the 3GL language Centura/Gupta Team Developer. Around the end of 2002, he got in touch with the EAI/B2B/B2C/BPM world, starting off with WebMethods and did this for the next three years with an occasional side step to .NET development. This occasional side step got him in touch with BizTalk Server in 2005.

Currently, he is employed as a senior Microsoft Integration consultant for Motion10 (http://www.motion10.com) in the Netherlands focusing on BizTalk Server and Windows Azure. René can be contacted via e-mail (), Twitter (@ReneBrauwers), LinkedIn (http://nl.linkedin.com/in/brauwers), or through his blog 'Me, Azure, .NET and BizTalk' (http://blog.brauwers.nl).

Special thanks go out to everyone actively participating in the Microsoft Integration space, my colleagues at Motion10, family, and of course my soon to be wife Miranda; words simply can't express my love for you.

Abdul Rafay has been working on integration with BizTalk and other Microsoft technologies for more than six years. He works as an Integrator in a Bank in Qatar where he is involved in architecture, design, development, and testing of integration solutions built on Microsoft platforms, which mainly includes BizTalk, WCF, and Windows Server AppFabric. You can visit his blog: http://abdulrafaysbiztalk.wordpress.com.

Abdul has a vast experience of integration projects in the banking domain, and has been involved in projects integrating banking applications with core banking systems and B2B partners. He has previously worked with the largest implementations of BizTalk in regions like United Bank Ltd. Pakistan, and SADAD in KSA.

Abdul is a three times Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in BizTalk and likes to share his knowledge and technical expertise on his blog, MSDN, and other forums.

Other than Integration projects and BizTalk, Abdul has previously worked as a web developer on technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, SharePoint, and open source web applications.

I would like to thank my fantastic wife, Hira, for making this project and my life successful. Thanks for your understanding, patience, and support which lead me to success. I would like to thank the Almighty God for giving me all what I have. I would like to thank all my friends who were there when I needed them and specially my in-laws. Thanks to all those who have contributed to my success and were part of my life.

Jean-Paul Smit grew up in a small town in the Netherlands, working in his parent's greenhouse. However, information technology caught him early and after graduation, he started to work in the greenhouse automation business in 1996. A few years later, he was involved in the first real Internet project at the Aalsmeer flower auction. From there Internet was the way to go and he switched jobs to work for the Dutch company Macaw, to work with Microsoft only technology. In 2004 he was introduced to Microsoft BizTalk Server, and from that moment he spent most of his time on application integration using this platform. After a couple of interesting projects he decided it was time for the next step, go freelance. Since 2008, he is working under his company name Didago IT Consultancy to help customers solve application integration challenges, not only using BizTalk server but also other technologies on the Microsoft integration stack such as WCF and SSIS. Among his customers are companies like Asics, KPN, and AkzoNobel.

He is the co-founder of the BizTalk Software Factory community project on Codeplex. This software factory assists with generating consistent BizTalk application structures in Visual Studio and supplying guidance while developing applications. The next step for BizTalk will be the move towards cloud computing and that inspired him to write some articles about BizTalk and Windows Azure.

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