Pro BizTalk 2006 (eBook)

George Dunphy is an architect with Microsoft Consulting Technical Quality Assurance. He has 14 years of experience and focuses on technologies such as the Microsoft .NET framework, BizTalk Server, Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET, Active Server Pages, COM, SQL Server, XML, SOAP and WSDL, T-SQL, and web development. In addition to his technical skills, George focuses on managing development teams for large enterprise application development projects. He works with a variety of customers ranging from governments to Fortune 100 companies to start-ups.

Contents at a Glance 5
Contents 6
Foreword 13
About the Authors 16
About the Technical Reviewers 18
Acknowledgments 19
Introduction 20
A Tale of Two Products 20
The Platform Today 20
Readme.1st 22
BizTalk in the Enterprise 23
What Is in the Toolkit 23
New BizTalk Solution Checklist 30
Starting a New BizTalk Project 41
Starting Preliminary Design 43
Creating Your Development Environment 48
Structuring and Integrating with Visual Studio 51
Organizing Artifacts in BizTalk 2006 56
Creating a Build- and- Integration Environment 60
BizTalk Assembly Naming and Versioning 68
BizTalk Naming Conventions 77
BizTalk Revealed 85
Thinking Inside the Box 86
Understanding the Message Bus 87
Using XML Namespaces 95
Tracking and Message Management 110
Handling Failed Messages and Errors 111
The BizTalk Management Database 114
Pipelining and Components 123
Getting Started with Pipeline Development 125
Using BizTalk Framework 2.0 Reliable Messaging 136
Custom Components 139
Writing Your First Pipeline Component 146
Creating More Complex Pipeline Components 146
Pipeline Component Best Practices and Examples 162
Creating New Documents 162
Using BizTalk Streams 164
Pipeline Component Examples 169
Dealing with Extremely Large Messages 169
Dealing with Compressed Files 183
Using PGP 196
The Databased Disassembler 209
BizTalk Design Patterns and Practices 213
Implementing Dynamic Parallel Orchestrations 213
Handling Ordered Delivery 220
Building a Resequencing Aggregator 227
Editing and Resubmitting Suspended Messages 230
Managing Exceptions in Orchestrations 241
What the Maestro Needs to Know: Advanced Orchestration Concepts 267
What an Orchestration Is 267
What the Orchestration Engine Provides 268
Do You Really Need an Orchestration? 270
Know Your Instruments ( Shapes) 272
What Transactions Mean and Cost 277
Threading and Persistence 280
Correlation 286
Pitfalls of Orchestration Development 288
Playing By the Rules? Use the Business Rule Engine. 298
What Is a Business Rule Engine? 298
What Are Business Rules? 300
When to Use the BRE? 301
What Are the Artifacts That Constitute a Business Rule? 302
The Business Rule Composer 313
How Does the BRE Work? 316
Testing Business Rules 320
Going to Production 324
Executing Business Rules 327
You Mean You Aren' t a Developer? 336
BizTalk Server 2006 Operations 337
Configuration and Management 338
Scalability and High Availability 345
Maintaining the BizTalk Group 350
Disaster Recovery 375
Deploying and Managing BizTalk Applications 390
BizTalk Applications 390
Important Deployment Artifacts 393
Deploying a BizTalk Solution 397
Administrative Tools 412
To Tune or Not to Tune? Nobody Should Ask That Question. 434
What You Should Do First 434
Where You Start 437
How to Tune Each Subsystem 451
Bibliography 469
Index 471