Patterns and practices make or break any middleware or integration solution and are especially important with BizTalk Server 2010. Learning the best patterns to use in the appropriate context greatly increases the chances of success for any solution.
Microsoft Biztalk server 2010 patterns will provide a thorough introduction to BizTalk Server 2010 as a platform and guide the reader through real world lessons and examples building an advanced unified solution that can be used as a reference architecture.This book will guide you beyond the basics of BizTalk Server 2010 development and give you the relevant background, theory, and techniques necessary to create successful solutions. You will learn how the BizTalk Server 2010 platform works internally and how to plan for the necessary infrastructure for an installation. You will learn how to build messaging-based solutions including content-based routing that are easy to manage and change. You will learn how to solve common integration and middleware challenges by leveraging the strengths of BizTalk Server 2010. This book addresses using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and associated tools to create middleware and integration solutions with established patterns and practices that increase the effectiveness and impact of your solutions.
How BizTalk Server 2010 works and appropriate topologies for different scenarios
Structure and unit test BizTalk Server 2010 solutions
Build BizTalk Server 2010 solutions that are easy to modify and expand
Create compelling Business Activity Monitoring
Deploy BizTalk Server 2010 solutions
Consume and expose WCF Services with BizTalk Server 2010
Use the Business Rules Engine to perform complex business processing decisions
Leverage Parties to dynamically route messages without requiring code changes
Implement convoy patterns
The second part is a hands-on real world example presented in a step-by-step manner that takes the reader through a multiphase solution and builds this simple project into a robust and complex middleware integration solution.