The purpose of the site is to help developer understand how BizTalk can affect SOAESB architecture. So I hope you enjoy the discussion around BizTalk and how to develop solutions within it.
Jan 242010
Nov 212009
Why BizTalk?
BizTalk 2009 is a message broker SOA tool. It is used to connect disparate systems and provided an entry point for connecting to your customers. BizTalk does come at a cost; however with the “built-in” functionality it can cut development costs.
Some Features:
- Retry Capabilities
- Transaction Traceability
- BAM (Business Activity Monitoring
- Reliable (durable) messages
- LOB (Line of Business) Adapters to fit most integration points (Siebel, Oracle, HiPPA)
What’s New in BizTalk 2009 (Captured from http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/whats-new.aspx)
BizTalk Server 2009 introduces enhancements and new features in four main areas:
- Support for the latest platforms from Microsoft including server, database and development environment.
- Enhanced developer productivity and new application life cycle management experience for development teams.
- New capabilities for implementing agile SOA integration solutions across heterogeneous technologies and Line of Business systems.
- Enhanced B2B and RFID capabilities to allow the implementation of flexible end-to-end supply chain management and asset tracking solutions.
Top New Features
BizTalk Server 2009 introduces enhancements and new features in four main areas:
Updated Platform Support
- Support for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
- Support for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
- Support for Windows Server 2008
- Virtualization support with Hyper-V
- Support for SQL Server 2008
Developer & Team Productivity
- New Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) experience – with Support for TFS – integrated source control, bug tracking, unit testing, MSBuild automation
- Enhanced Developer Productivity with Visual Studio project system updates & Map Debugging
SOA and Web Services
- ESB Toolkit 2.0
- New UDDI v3 Web Services Registry
- New and enhanced LOB adapters (Oracle eBusiness Suite, SQL Server)
- Enhanced host systems integration (WebSphere MQ, CICS, IMS)
- Enhanced BAM support
Business to Business Integration
- New Mobile RFID Platform
- New RFID device management and industry standards support
- Enhanced Support for EDI and AS2 Protocols and Drummond certification
- Updated SWIFT Support and SWIFTReady Financial EAI Gold certification
Enough on the sales pitch, my next post will dive into the factoids and creating your first BizTalk application.
I ran into a small issue using an XML document type in SQL 2005 from BizTalk 2006 R2 and it turn our to be a namespace pass in from the sp_xml_preparedocument statement in my stored procedure.
You need to set it up as follows:
EXECUTE sp_xml_preparedocument @idoc OUTPUT, @xmlMessage, ‘<root xmlns:ns1=”http://namespacename” />’
The ‘<root xmlns:ns1=”http://namespacename” />’ being the most important part as this defines the namespace from the first part of your message.
Then your OPENXML call can be set up using the namespace – i.e /ns1:<node> etc.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Working with Schemas lab is available at the following link:
* Requires Registration
Oct 172007
Microsoft has released BizTalk 2006 for SAP labs, these labs are available for downloading at:
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