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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 facilitates the exchange of information between business partners in more or less nonproprietary formats based on XML (extensible markup language). Professional BizTalk documents the software and its related technologies for systems administrators and consultants. That's a fairly bleeding-edge thing to be doing, and in some ways this book reflects the authors' necessarily limited experience with real-life BizTalk implementation work. Still, they know the product well (one of them helped develop it), and the material in the book will be useful to anyone who needs to figure out how to make BizTalk work.
The approach in BizTalk is typically Wroxian in the sense that the presentation consists mainly of text, punctuated by lots of code listings and conceptual diagrams. A fictional case study threads throughout; Bob's Bolts serves as a recurring illustrative tool, providing a framework for specific instructions on what to do (in terms of interface manipulation and coding) to meet various requirements. The book emphasizes that BizTalk is a tool for facilitating commerce, and business considerations are thoroughly discussed as engineering decisions are explained. It's the sort of reasoning that real-world BizTalk consultants will have to keep in mind. --David Wall
Topics covered:
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 and its related technologies
- XML
- Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
- Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
- The XLANG scheduling language
- Messaging
- Field mapping
- Functoid creation
- Application integration
- The routing and tracking of messages
Présentation de l'éditeur
The BizTalk Framework is an XML framework for application integration and electronic commerce. Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000 runs on Windows 2000 Server and is Microsoft's implementation of the framework, with functional extensions. BizTalk Server allows you to perform the three tasks critical in enterprise application integration: design the flow of information through a system, use BizTalk and its interfaces as the glue to perform the actual integration, then track the flow of information through the resulting system. BizTalk Server accomplishes these three tasks by providing the integration code in a central server, removing the need for writing integration code into programs. Much of this work can be done by configuring the server, reducing the amount of time you need to spend programming the integration code, and to achieve integration it can work with delimited and positional flat file formats, EDI documents, and XML.
This book teaches you how to use BizTalk Server as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, to integrate applications into co-operating systems. It is especially suited to rapid deployment of B2B and B2C e-commerce applications, where you need to integrate with legacy applications.
Who is this book for?
This book is for programmers, familiar with developing Microsoft web solutions, who
want to integrate existing applications to create enterprise systems.
What does this book cover?
• How to design the flow of data through an enterprise application
• How to use BizTalk Server to integrate applications
• How to translate between document formats
• How to monitor and track messages in the application
• How BizTalk allows you to link heterogeneous platforms together, smoothly and easily
This book teaches you how to use BizTalk Server as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, to integrate applications into co-operating systems. It is especially suited to rapid deployment of B2B and B2C e-commerce applications, where you need to integrate with legacy applications.
Who is this book for?
This book is for programmers, familiar with developing Microsoft web solutions, who
want to integrate existing applications to create enterprise systems.
What does this book cover?
• How to design the flow of data through an enterprise application
• How to use BizTalk Server to integrate applications
• How to translate between document formats
• How to monitor and track messages in the application
• How BizTalk allows you to link heterogeneous platforms together, smoothly and easily
