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What are BizTalk Services?
BizTalk Services SDK
What are BizTalk Services?
·
Windows Azure Cloud-based
integration service
o
B2B integration (Partners,
agreements, ..)
o
rich message endpoints
·
BizTalk Adapter service
pack
o
on-premise adapters
designed to rapidly connect systems
o
It has management service (REST
APIs)
BizTalk Services SDK
§ VS2012 - Developer Surface
o Project Type
o
Bridges: It's like a
port (in BizTalk land) where it can connect to source and destination and in
between a staged pipeline that can decode, enrich, transform, call external
assemblies, .. Just like a normal BizTalk Pipline.
o
Connector: an arrow
that connects a bridge to source or destination, it can be configured for
message inspectors
o
Schemas: You cannot
distinguish or promote properties as in BizTalk Server, since there’s no
property schemas
o Maps
§
New map designer
§
they added a new GetBizTalkContextProperty
functoid,
§
map-level settings on how
to handle mapping errors
·
Fail map
·
output null
o
all artefacts are compiled
into a Workflow activity
o
No support for orchestrations
yet. Maybe the next release there will be support for Workflow (Windows
Workflows)
§
You don’t have to have
BizTalk Server installed on the machine, they’re totally independent.
§
It’s still V1, so don’t
expect unit testing frameworks are there to support your development.
§ BizTalk Services Adapter Service + IIS Plugin
§
Developer + Runtime
components are supplied
The conclusion I reached after attending the session is that
the product is not yet mature enough to market it to clients, but it’s good as
a start for moving BizTalk components to the cloud.
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