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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer’s guide to Microsoft’s most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions development, from planning through deployment and administration.
The authors begin by introducing BizTalk Server’s architecture and key integration concepts. Next, they offer in-depth coverage of BizTalk’s foundational features, including schemas, maps, orchestrations, and pipelines. You’ll learn how to effectively utilize both standard and custom adapters; monitor integration services; leverage cloud computing via Windows Azure; implement operational BI solutions; and make the most of business rules and BizTalk’s Business Rules Engine (BRE).
The authors offer best practices and “in the trenches” tips for everything from managing deployments through implementing state-of-the-art mobile RFID solutions. No other book offers this much useful, pragmatic, and tested knowledge for successful BizTalk development.
Brian Loesgen is a Principal Architect Evangelist on Microsoft’s Azure ISV team. A six-time Microsoft MVP, he has extensive experience in building advanced enterprise, ESB, and SOA solutions. He has coauthored eight books, including SOA with .NET and Windows Azure. Charles Young, a principal consultant at Solidsoft, and Jan Eliasen, an IT architect at Logica, have each been honored repeatedly as BizTalk MVPs, and are highly respected bloggers in the BizTalk community. Scott Colestock, chief architect for Trace Ventures, specializes in using BizTalk to implement integration and service orchestration solutions. He is a member of Microsoft’s Architectural Advisory Board and a BizTalk MVP. Anush Kumar, CTO of S3Edge, served as Microsoft’s RFID business leader and was heavily involved in designing and architecting its BizTalk RFID offerings. Jon Flanders is an independent consultant, instructor for Pluralsight, BizTalk MVP, and author of RESTful .NET.
- Apply BizTalk Server’s sophisticated, scalable message exchange model to support virtually any business requirement
- Get your schemas right the first time, so you can avoid major problems downstream
- Use BizTalk Mapper to create maps for transforming inbound and outbound XML messages and supporting business processes
- Use orchestration to automate even highly-complex processes
- Utilize adapters and WCF to integrate any application, service, or system
- Extend your application’s reach with Windows Azure AppFabric
- Capture key BizTalk infrastructure, services, and business metrics
- Build powerful rules-based solutions with Microsoft’s Business Rules Framework
- Establish an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that uses BizTalk Server as core messaging infrastructure
- Efficiently manage, configure, and troubleshoot BizTalk through the Administration Console
- Create RFID applications ranging from simple label printing to end-to-end business processes
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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer’s guide to Microsoft’s most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions development, from planning through deployment and administration.
The authors begin by introducing BizTalk Server’s architecture and key integration concepts. Next, they offer in-depth coverage of BizTalk’s foundational features, including schemas, maps, orchestrations, and pipelines. You’ll learn how to effectively utilize both standard and custom adapters; monitor integration services; leverage cloud computing via Windows Azure; implement operational BI solutions; and make the most of business rules and BizTalk’s Business Rules Engine (BRE).
The authors offer best practices and “in the trenches” tips for everything from managing deployments through implementing state-of-the-art mobile RFID solutions. No other book offers this much useful, pragmatic, and tested knowledge for successful BizTalk development.
Brian Loesgen is a Principal Architect Evangelist on Microsoft’s Azure ISV team. A six-time Microsoft MVP, he has extensive experience in building advanced enterprise, ESB, and SOA solutions. He has coauthored eight books, including SOA with .NET and Windows Azure. Charles Young, a principal consultant at Solidsoft, and Jan Eliasen, an IT architect at Logica, have each been honored repeatedly as BizTalk MVPs, and are highly respected bloggers in the BizTalk community. Scott Colestock, chief architect for Trace Ventures, specializes in using BizTalk to implement integration and service orchestration solutions. He is a member of Microsoft’s Architectural Advisory Board and a BizTalk MVP. Anush Kumar, CTO of S3Edge, served as Microsoft’s RFID business leader and was heavily involved in designing and architecting its BizTalk RFID offerings. Jon Flanders is an independent consultant, instructor for Pluralsight, BizTalk MVP, and author of RESTful .NET.
- Apply BizTalk Server’s sophisticated, scalable message exchange model to support virtually any business requirement
- Get your schemas right the first time, so you can avoid major problems downstream
- Use BizTalk Mapper to create maps for transforming inbound and outbound XML messages and supporting business processes
- Use orchestration to automate even highly-complex processes
- Utilize adapters and WCF to integrate any application, service, or system
- Extend your application’s reach with Windows Azure AppFabric
- Capture key BizTalk infrastructure, services, and business metrics
- Build powerful rules-based solutions with Microsoft’s Business Rules Framework
- Establish an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that uses BizTalk Server as core messaging infrastructure
- Efficiently manage, configure, and troubleshoot BizTalk through the Administration Console
- Create RFID applications ranging from simple label printing to end-to-end business processes
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This is not a beginners BizTalk book. You won't find a chapter on installation and configuration, although there is a chapter on the administration console and one on deployment concepts. It digs right into the meat. It is perfect for anyone who knows a little about BizTalk and wants to get a complete picture of the BizTalk features available in BizTalk 2010.
After a nice introduction and overview the authors have chapters on Schemas, Maps, Orchestrations, Pipelines, Adapters, BizTalk 2010 and WCF: Extensibility, BizTalk and Windows Azure, Business Activity Monitoring with BizTalk BAM, The Business Rules Framework, Rule-Based Programming, ESB with BizTalk Server, Administration Console Concepts, Deployment Concepts, BizTalk RFID, and BizTalk RFID Mobile.
Over the years I have worked with BizTalk at different levels. I have also worked just with BAM on some projects. My current company will probably skip going to BizTalk 2010 since they just recently upgraded to 2009. Personally I don't want to skip getting familiar with a version of BizTalk. My goal with this book was to get a refresher on BizTalk and an introduction to the new 2010 features. This book definitely accomplished that goal for me.
Each chapter does a thorough job of hitting all the related points. For example the Adapter chapter discusses Native Adapters, Line-of-Business Adapters, BizTalk Adapter Pack, Host Adapters, and Third-Party and Custom Adapters. Coverage includes FTP Adapter, HTTP Adapter, MQ Series Adapter, MSMQ Adapter, POP3 Adapter, SMTP Adapter, SharePoint Services Adapter, WCF Adapters, and SQL Server Adapter.
The biggest let down with the book is that there is no accompanying download. With the amount if code samples throughout the book the authors should have put in the effort to provide one. In my search for one I saw one of the authors promised it, but there has been none produced to date.
The biggest highlight is the coverage of the Business Rules Engine. The book has 172 pages of premium Business Rules Engine coverage. This is not common. Most BizTalk books have a very little detail on the Business Rules Engine.
Although there are multiple authors on the book it doesn't read like it. All of them did a great job of writing in a style that makes the topics at hand easy to understand.
All in all I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants the complete picture of all the features BizTalk 2010 has to offer.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of BizTalk Server and covers all of the concepts that you need to know in a readable format. There is some overlap with the Microsoft product documentation (which has drastically improved since BizTalk 2004), but the authors frequently discuss best practices and offer tips, and some chapters go far beyond the documentation. For example, the chapter on schemas emphasizes the importance of getting schemas correct up front, defining namespaces, creating internal schemas and even manual editing of flat file schemas.
As I mentioned earlier, there is an extensive and detailed discussion of business rules and the business rules engine (BRE), probably more than in any other BizTalk book available.
Custom pipeline components can be very tricky to implement in a high-performance fashion (primarily due to streaming), but there isn't much detail in this area. That's an area that virtually every BizTalk reference neglects. I was surprised to find little or no mention of EDI and TPM, which are both significant and valuable features in BizTalk. Likewise, there was only light coverage of the ESB Toolkit and BAM. A chapter on the Admin Console doesn't provide any value to this book.
Overall, the core and most-used concepts of BizTalk Server as an engine (schemas, maps, orchestrations, rules, adapters and pipelines) are covered very well, with the features that build upon that foundation receiving less attention (BAM, EDI, TPM, ESB Toolkit). This book is of most value to newcomers to BizTalk, but experienced developers will definitely appreciate the great detail on the BRE.
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