Biztalk Server 2002 Design And Implementation

Chen's book provides everything developers need to know to build an end-to-end BizTalk solution, with focus on BizTalk Server 2002.

This book provides insight into how industry experts have successfully architected, developed, and maintained Microsoft BizTalk Server in mission-critical environments. Authored by highly-regarded consultants with a wealth of knowledge on designing, building, and operating enterprise applications using BizTalk, this comprehensive guide gives you the techniques and best practices you’ll need to develop effective projects. Darren Jefford is a Principal Consultant with the Microsoft UK Application Development Consulting (ADC) team who has extensive real-world experience with BizTalk Server and the broader Microsoft platform. Kevin B. Smith formerly worked as a Technical Lead Software Design Engineer for the BizTalk Server Product Team and helped ship three versions of BizTalk Server. Ewan Fairweather works as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, providing onsite support to enterprise customers, including maintaining and optimizing their BizTalk Server solutions. Achitects, developers, testers, and administrators will achieve instant success when they apply the deep technical information covered in this book. They will better appreciate the internal workings of BizTalk Server and will understand detailed solutions for challenges often experienced with BizTalk-based systems.

Master all the features of BizTalk Server 2000--one of the core servers in Microsoft's .NET enterprise Server collection. This complete reference explains in full detail how use BizTalk Server 2000 to manage business processes, integrate applications and exchange documents regardless of format, platform or device being used. The bonus CD-ROM contains trial versions of BizTalk Server 2000, SQL Server 2000, and Visio 2000.

Written by the BizTalk product manager and one of the pioneers of XML technology, this book documents the power of BizTalk like no other. Woodgate and Mohr offer full case studies of corporations using BizTalk for B2B and B2C applications as they provide complete coverage of system architecture, application integration, messaging, and more.

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Annotation BizTalk is an integral part of the Microsoft .NET. The administrator and developer both will find this book a comprehensive source to help them understand, and problem solve wherever they are exploring BizTalk. Two high profile BizTalk spokespersons--John Matranga and Microsoft's BizTalk trainer Susie Adams. Explanations of what every portion of BizTalk is, what it does and how it fits together. Includes multiple examples then moves to debugging and troubleshooting. The authors spend significant time on tackling the "gotchas" (the things that can inevitably go wrong with any complex new, cutting-edge technology). Real-world scenarios, code examples and simulations for every major topic area. BizTalk Unleashed explains systems, terms and interactions, give code examples and business scenarios and regular de-bugging tips and troubleshooting schema for each chapter and section. Part One: Structure of the book--a pyramid book organization beginning at the base. Part Two: Purposes, goals and major components of BizTalk--the fundamental BizTalk markup technologies are covered: XML, Soap and the BizTalk Framework. Part Three: BizTalk Administration--installation, hardware requirements, scalability, security, team management issues, Backup. Part Four: Modeling Business Documents--Using the BizTalk Editor and the BizTalk Mapper. Part Five: BizTalk Messaging--the engine and understanding how BizTalk Messaging routes messages; using the BizTalk Messaging Manager; document tracking and activity monitoring; performance analysis. Part Six: BizTalk Process Orchestration--Using the BizTalk Designer; XLANG orchestration engine; interaction of BizTalk messaging and orchestration. Part Seven: Extending BizTalk Server 2000--application interaction components; types and when to use them; custom serializers, parsers and functoids; the administration object model. Part Eight: Integrating the BizTalk Server and Commerce Server. Part Nine: Appendices. John Matranga Chief Technology Officer, Omicron, has been with Omicron for 11 years. Omicron is a vendor for Microsoft and has been very involved in the creation of the BizTalk Orchestration as XML experts. He is a frequent conference speaker on XML, Web Services and Microsoft .NET. Susie Adams, Senior Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation, has been with Microsoft and the BizTalk product for two years (since the BizTalk alpha). She has taught on the BizTalk product at Microsoft Tech Ed 2000, Dev Days, Microsoft technology briefings and leads ongoing internal BizTalk trainings for other MS consultants.

BizTalk Server 2000 is an integral piece in the .NET enterprise server framwork and forms the foundation for Microsoft's e-commerce platform. Aimed at the developer, this work offers in-depth information on building and deploying real-world BizTalk applications.