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BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is based on the experiences of many of the most prominent experts in the field. It features over 170 problem-solving recipes for BizTalk developers and administrators.
BizTalk Server 2006 builds on the heritage and core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004, leading to a powerful tool that encompasses the latest Microsoft technologies and industry standards for automating and managing business processes. BizTalk Server 2006 adds incremental value to BizTalk 2004 by improving administration, deployment, and other key areas of the product.
About the Author
unwashed, and resembling a nineteenth century politician, Mark Beckner
found himself holding a degree in Computer Science and Information Systems
from a small college in southwestern Colorado.
Tearfully leaving behind the innocence of his past, he immersed himself in
the exotic and adventurous world of enterprise application integration
(EAI), .NET development, and Visio diagrams.
In a pattern of banality and madness, he frequents airports, hotel rooms,
and fast-food joints, sacrificing his free time, health, and youth for the
immense satisfaction that comes with increasing the bottom dollar in
corporate America.
Benjamin Goeltz (benjamin.goeltz@charteris.com) is a consultant
specializing in the enterprise application integration (EAI) space, with
over six years of experience. Benjamin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Washington.
He has designed and implemented solutions for each version of BizTalk
Server, deploying solutions integrating both internal (EAI) and external
(Business to Business, or B2B) systems to support mission-critical business
processes.
He has also authored content for white papers, help files, and books
related to system integration. He is from Seattle, and currently works for
Charteris (charteris.com), a business and IT consulting firm with
headquarters in London.
Brandon Gross is a Managing Consultant with EMC's Microsoft Practice, and
is a BizTalk MVP. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business
Information Systems and Accounting from the University of Washington.
Brandon has worked on Business to Business (B2B) and Application to
Application (A2A) solutions for medium-to-large enterprise clients in a
wide range of industries, including government, resources, high-tech
manufacturing, manufacturing, and software.
He has experience in a breadth of Microsoft technologies, including .NET
and all versions of BizTalk. Brandon recently architected an A2A solution
that received the 2006 Global Business Process and Integration Technology
Innovation Solution of the Year award from Microsoft.blogspot.com/) to discuss concepts from this
book.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Drama from the University of Washington, Brennan O'Reilly
never dreamed he would be a Managing Consultant with EMC's Microsoft
Practice employing those degrees.
He has lived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; San Jose; and Vancouver, Washington,
but prefers to call Seattle his home. Brennan has delivered BizTalk and
integration-related projects across a wide array of clients and industries,
including media/imaging, high-tech manufacturing, seafood processing, and
government.
Brennan's favorite projects include those with defined requirements,
realistic time frames, and easygoing personalities.
Stephen Roger is a Branch Director with EMC's Microsoft Practice in
Seattle, Washington, where he runs the service and operations for EMC's
office.
He has more than 16 years of experience in developing business applications
for customers across numerous industries. Stephen has been involved in
integration projects using BizTalk Server since the initial release of the
product in December 2000. In addition to delivering solutions on the
BizTalk platform, he has coauthored white papers and product help content.
Mark Smith is the National Integration Practice lead of EMC's Microsoft
Practice and member of the Microsoft's global Partner Advisory Council
(PAC).
His role is to work primarily with enterprise customers within the
Application to Application/Business to Business (A2A/B2B) space spanning
manufacturing, health care, resources, utilities, and government
industries, focusing on lead architect, design, and project management
roles.
Within the integration practice, his role is to grow a team of integration
architects around technology and consulting practices, and to provide
primary support to sales, marketing, and delivery functions for Microsoft's
integration technologies.
He has a Bachelor of Business degree in Information Systems and graduated
from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He
has been a consultant for eight years, working with BizTalk and related
Microsoft integration and development technologies (COM and .NET).
Alexander West is an Architect with EMC's Microsoft Practice, where he has
been delivering integration solutions based on .NET and the BizTalk
integration tool set since 2000.
Alexander holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computational Mathematics
and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Information Systems from the
University of Washington.
He delivers integration solutions supporting business process challenges
both within and beyond organizational boundaries, to clients in industries
such as software, financial services, hightech manufacturing, law safety
and justice, and energy.
He is involved in all stages of the project's life cycle, from envisioning
and design activities through development, testing, and deployment.
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The book format: It is a recipe book so is written in a "Problem, Solution, How it works" style format with each chapter being given an introductory page or two preface. This book will be a great one to have around as a reference book, but I have to say that I also enjoyed reading it cover to cover (well almost... honestly I skimmed chapter 10, this chapter probably could have been done away with and the contents moved to other chapters).
The book is fairly comprehensive in covering BizTalk soup to nuts; there is a chapter on Schemas, one on Business Rules engine (more on this one later in the post), one on BAM and one talking about HAT. The writing styles of the various authors were not too apparent, but rather fairly subtle; sometimes in code samples they were apparent however; one chapter has code that uses both hungarian notation on variables, but also on function parameters. That should be done away with in this persnickety developers opinion. I have to say that from still fairly green knowledge of BizTalk, it appears that at least some of the authors have implemented a fair amount of BT solutions in their careers; to me this was evidenced by the "NOTE" sections that were lusciously littered throughout the text that included well thought out pitfulls and other tips to assist in your BizTalk solutions. In my opinion the one chapter that stuck out (and obviously I could be wrong) as one that wasn't written from experience but rather written from a "I just learned this" kind of perspective was the business rules engine chapter 5 (which ironically is available for free download from Apress).
Overall, I would give this book 3 tivo thumbs up, 4.5 stars out of 5 rating. Get this book if you need assistance with BizTalk 2006.
Other side notes, the authors created a blog site just for the book, but thus far only posted one comment and apparently aren't interested in doing much blogging, I'd love to see that change.
One other note I forgot to include; there was a couple spots that made reference to BizTalk 2004; one of the spots was more of a "if you are used to doing it this way, here is what you will have to do now" kind of reference; I found that appropriate; the other one was "here is how to do it in 2004 and here is how to do it in 2006". That one the book could do without. I don't recall where in the book they were; but for the authors knowledge it was the first 2004 reference in the book that could go and the 2nd one could stay :) I gave them the full 5 stars since they are first to market; I think 4.5 stars would be an appropriate rating on this book. Great job to the authors!
Having worked in Product Support Services (PSS) for BizTalk, and currently working on multiple internal BizTalk 2006 projects in the Microsoft IT group, I can testify that this is a much needed and long awaited book for the BizTalk world. The book is very readable for all levels of BizTalk designers and admins, and is extremely easy to follow and apply the recipes to common solution scenarios.
Each recipe has a standard template of Problem, Solution, and How It Works and does a good job of covering the new pieces of BizTalk such as MSI deployments and new integrated adapters as well as in-depth solutions to mapping, orchestrations, and schema editoring. This is also the first book I have read that gives good examples of how to use BAM and the Rules Engine, 2 topics that BizTalk users desperately search for in the printed world.
This book is a must have for any serious BizTalk user!
However, if you assume this a 1-2-3 type "recipes", you may find challenges in following the instructions. To name a few, just try out Recipe 5-2 from the Sample Chapter of this book, I wonder how many people can get it working. You will also need good enough of background to jump right into some topics such as BRE and BAM, or you will be left with a lot of "Why" and "How" while reading some talk-through descriptions (Yes, you are reading right, not step 1-2-3 at all). "Related Activities" in Recipe 9-1 is one of many examples.
You may be questioning yourself and try to look for sample codes/project download from the publisher Apress official site. You will be very disappointed how many key subjects out there. This may be the nature of the BizTalk implementation, unlike other subjects such as C# coding sample which author can just zip and ship the sample codes out for download.
Overall, this book is fine. To me, it seems this book came out rush. More proof-reading can make this book better.
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