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BizTalk Server 2006 builds on the heritage and core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004, leading to a powerful...

BizTalk Server 2002 Design and Implementation shows developers how to write BizTalk Server 2002 applications by example. Readers will learn BizTalk Server 2002 step-by-step as they read through the chapters and build an actual BizTalk Server application. Readers will also be exposed to the many invaluable lessons that Xin...

In your day-to-day job as a BizTalk developer, administrator, or consultant, you will face challenges when it comes to deploying a BizTalk Server environment, advising clients on integration with BizTalk, developing BizTalk solutions, working with its components such as Business Rules, or a feature such as AppFabric Connect. As an...

Business Activity Monitoring, or BAM, provides real-time business intelligence by capturing data as it flows through a business system. By using BAM, you can monitor a business process in real time and generate alerts when the process needs human intervention. Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009 focuses on Microsoft's BAM...

It all started about a year ago and BizTalk Services was soon to go for preview in a few months. We were all excited to break new ground in the era of cloud middleware. We must tell you one of the benefits of being in the product group (or being an MVP) is that you get early access to bits long before they hit the market. Working on those...

In the beginning, when BizTalk was still in its infancy, there were two teams within Microsoft: the Commerce Server Team and the COM+ team. The Commerce Server Team was implementing technology it called Commerce Server Messaging Pipelines, which was essentially software that allowed applications to move messages from one system to another...

By the time you’re reading this in a bookstore, BizTalk will have celebrated its tenth birthday. Over the past decade, there have been seven releases of Microsoft’s enterprise integration server, and it has become the most broadly deployed integration middleware technology in the industry, with over 10,000 customers worldwide....

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...

Pro BizTalk 2006 is a high-end resource that is based on real feedback from BizTalk developers. Authors George Dunphy and Ahmed Metwally are well known within the BizTalk community, and here they cover topics not discussed in other books, like performance tuning, scalability, and administration. This book also features examples of...