As stated in my previous post I am currently reading Richard Seroter's book "SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009". Having just finished Chapter 1, Building BizTalk Server 2009 Applications, I thought I would record some immediate thoughts on what I have read so far. This chapter works as an introduction to BizTalk Server, covering the basic architecture, schemas, maps, messaging and orchestrations. While this is not likely to offer much to an experienced BizTalk developer, it does work as a good ......
I have recently picked up a copy of Richard Seroter's book "SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009", and thought that I would try and make some useful comments on each chapter as I read it. I am currently working in an environment where we have been implementing BizTalk Solutions as a part of an overall SOA strategy for a number of years, and I am hoping that this book will help me to gain a new perspective on the use of BizTalk in this type of architecture, and hopefully expand my understanding of ......
This may have been somthing which was re-introduced in BizTalk 2006 or R2, but having a play with BizTalk 2009 I am glad to see the return of the double clickable functoid! When I first moved from BizTalk 2000 to 2004, I was disappointed to see the loss of the ability to double click on a functoid in a map and be rewarded with the funtoid configuration window. I found that this was a backward step for BizTalk 2004 as far as developer productivity was concerned, as it added unnesessary steps which ......