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What is BizTalk server?

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Use Application to Application integration to allow seamless communication.
Where does it belong? Member of the .Net Enterprise Server family.
What does it do? Helps to develop, deploy and configure integrating applications to establish communication using messaging model and follow certain standards such as SOAP, XML and HTTP.
What does it provide? Enterprise features such as scalability, transaction management, security and application communication co-ordination to streamline business.
BTS Architecture It consists of two types of services: Messaging Services and Orchestration Services.
Messaging Srevices Responsible for Receiving, Transforming, Routing and Delivery.
Orchestration Srevices Responsible for business processes.
Receive Receive documents in Push / Pull model and convert it to a Message. Two components are integral to Receive: Adapter and Pipeline.
Adapter Adapters are .Net components following specific protocols and based on the BAF 2.0 (BizTalk Adapter Framework).
Adapters are of the following types:
  • Based on source: Native (out of the box) and Custom.
  • Based on usage: Technology Wide (FTP, File etc) and Application Wide (SQL, MSMQT).
  • Based on communication: Asynchronous (File, FTP etc) and Synchronous (SQL, HTTP etc). Synchronous Adapters are also known as Generic / Solicit. When BTS acts as a service consumer then the Synchronous Adapter is called Solicit RaR (Request and Response). When it acts as a service provider then the Synchronous Adapter is called Generic RaR.
  • Based on transaction support: Transactional (SMTP, SQL etc) and Non Transactional (File, FTP etc). Transactional Adapters with DTC support are called Distributed Transactional Adapters.
  • Based on batch support: Batch (File, SQL, FTP etc) and Sequential (HTTP, EDI etc).
  • Based on behavior: Static and Dynamic.
Pipeline Pipeline components are used for pre and post Message processing. An Adapter can have only one Pipeline component. BTS by default comes with two Pipelines: XML Receive Pipeline and Pass Through Pipeline.
Transform Transform services are responsible for one to one (XML to XML) transformation of messages. It is used by Receive, Delivery and Orchestration.
Routing Routing services define the next action to be taken after a message is received. There are three types of Routing:
  • Declarative Routing: Demands explicit route configuration.
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  • Context Routing: Incoming message holds the route information.
  • PAS model: Loosely coupled Publish and Subscribe model.
Send Comprises of Delivery Adapters and Pipelines
Host Instance Messaging services and Orchestration Services together form a BTS Host Instance. Host Instance can be In Process or Isolated.
Port It is the logical gateway to Messaging Services.
Port Type It is a reusable entity which encapsulates the following information:
Message Type (the Schema information).
Communication Type (One way or RaR).
Port Type provides encapsulation by means of three port qualifiers: Private, Public and Internal.
X Lang Scheduler It is the business process execution engine to Create, Manage, Destroy and Persist X Lang /s instances.
How to develop BTS Application? BTS provides a number of tools tightly integrated with Visual Studio to design, build and deploy BTS applications. Some of them are:
  • BTS Explorer.
  • ODX. (Orchestration Designer).
  • BTS Project Templates.

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