BizTalk 2004 2006

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BizTalk 2004 / 2006
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What is BizTalk

• Receive Adapter
• Get data and push it into BizTalk
• Pipeline
• Transform a bucket of bytes to XML
• MessageBox
• Publisher / Subscriber mechanism (explained
  later)
• Pipeline
• Transforms an XML document to a bucket of bytes
• Send Adapter
• Pushes the data into the targetsystem

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Receive Adapter
Out of the Box Receive Adapters
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Receive Adapter
Other Receive Adapters
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Receive Pipeline

• This stage is used for components that decode or
  decrypt the message
• This stage is used for components that parse or
  disassemble the message
• This stage is used for components that validate
  the message format
• This stage is a placeholder for the Party
  Resolution Pipeline Component

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The Message Box
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Subscriptions (orchestratrions)

• A particular message can start an orchestration.
• Depending on the contents it will travel a path.
• Message is pushed back into the MessageBox
• Another orchestration could react on the new
  message

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Subscriptions (Send Ports)

• Depending on the Subscription a message will be
  send to a specific Send Port

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Subscriptions (Send Ports)

• Depending on the Subscription a message will be
  send to a specific Send Port

• The adapter will take care of delivering the data
  to the endpoint
• If no orchestration is used, its is called a
  messaging only scenario.

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Messaging only scenario

• BizTalk Picks up a CSV file
• The Receive Pipeline transforms it to XML
• The pipeline pushes the message into the
  messagebox
• The Send Pipeline transforms it to a message
  suited for the SQL adapter
• The SQL adapter inserts the data into the SQL
  database
• In this scenario the words CSV and SQL could
  easily be replaced with any of the following
  SAP,EDI,XML etc.

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Orchestration scenario

• BizTalk Picks up a CSV file
• The Receive Pipeline transforms it to XML
• The pipeline pushes the message into the
  messagebox
• An orchestration will start because it is
  subscribed to the message
• Depending on the contents it will travel a path
  and request data from SAP /SQL etc.
• Data comes back from SAP and is send into the
  messagebox
• BizTalk delivers the message to the waiting
  orchestration an the flow continues
• The message is send back to the Messagbox and is
  picked up by the send port
• The message is delivered to the destination

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BizTalk Tools

• Mapper
• Create XSLT with a visual editor
• Lots of functions available
• If it aint there code it yourself
• Call an assembly
• Use inline XSL etc.
• Schema designer
• Design your XSD with a visual editor
• Create an XSD even for CSV files
• Import given XSD files

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Orchestration Designer

• Model your proces
• Architects love them
• More readable then code
• Powerful options available
• Request response mechanism
• Decisions
• Looping
• Transformations
• Call your own .Net components
• Parallelism
• Transactions
• Exceptions
• Etc, etc.

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Demo
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Benefits of BizTalk.

• Everything is traceable (fully configurable)
• Trace specific orchestrations
• Trace specific ports
• Trace specific messages
• Define your own Tracking on important fields
  (fully configurable)
• If tracking is enabled the fields will show up
  in tracking and tracing
• Build OLAP cubes on KPIs (BAM)
• Fully integrated with the .Net framework
• Ability to connect to dissimilar system
  (Unix/Linux etc.)
• Guaranteed delivery
• Scalable
• Deploy the Orchestrations to multiple BizTalk
  hosts
• Easily add extra hosts to an existing
  configuration
• Scale out the MessageBox

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Things BizTalk cannot do..

• BizTalk Polls the database every 100 Milliseconds
  to see if there is data, so it takes at leas 100
  milliseconds to get a response
• A response is guaranteed but response times are
  not.
• No user interface for the Consumer

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Things not covered

• Correlation
• Convoys
• BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
• HAT (Health and Activity management)
• Orchestration debugger
• Party Resolution
• Generate Web Services from orchestrations
• Adapter Wizards to generate schemas
• Deploying assemblies to a production environment
• Etc.
• Etc.