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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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Author:   Brian Loesgen ,  Charles Young ,  Jan Eliasen ,  Scott Colestock
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Sams Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   1.296kg
ISBN:  

9780672331183

ISBN 10:   0672331187
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   29 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Foreword xxii Part I The Basics 1 What Is BizTalk Server? 3 A Brief History of Application Integration 3 BizTalk Server Capabilities 7 Adaptation 7 Mediation 8 Exception Handling 8 Orchestration and Choreography 9 Performance and Scalability 9 Security 10 Insight 10 Electronic Data Interchange 11 RFID Event Handling 11 What Is a “Typical” BizTalk Solution? 11 BizTalk Server, WCF, and WF 12 Summary 14 2 Schemas 15 BizTalk Schemas 16 XML Schema Definition 16 Properties 17 Internal Schemas 18 XML Schemas 20 Existing XSDs 20 Generating an XSD 21 Creating an XSD 21 Flat File Schemas 36 Add Existing Schemas 38 Creating by Hand 38 Flat File Schema Wizard 47 EDI Schemas 60 Messages That Are Not XML and Not Flat File 60 Pass-Through Pipeline 60 Custom Disassembler 61 Custom Editor Extensions 61 Third-Party Components 61 Property Promotion 61 Distinguished Fields 63 Promoted Properties 65 Property Demotion 66 When to Use What 67 Versioning of Schemas 69 No Long-Running Transactions and a Short Downtime Acceptable 69 Long-Running Transactions or a Short Downtime Is Unacceptable 70 Testing 71 Validate Schemas 71 Validate Instances 72 Generate Instances 74 Unit Testing of Schemas 75 Testing Using Pipeline Tools 80 Schemas for Scenario Used in This Book 81 FineFoods.Common.Schemas 81 FineFoods.CreditCheck.Schemas 82 FineFoods.Customers.C1701 82 FineFoods.Customers.C1702 83 FineFoods.Customers.Schemas 84 FineFoods.Inventory.Schemas 84 FineFoods.Orders.Schemas 84 FineFoods.PurchaseOrders.Schemas 87 Summary 88 3 Maps 89 The Mapper 90 Layout of Mapper 90 Initial Considerations 92 Creating a Simple Map 94 Functoids 108 String Functoids 111 Mathematical Functoids 112 Logical Functoids 113 Date/Time Functoids 115 Conversion Functoids 116 Scientific Functoids 116 Cumulative Functoids 117 Database Functoids 118 Advanced Functoids 120 Third-Party Functoids 122 Advanced Maps 123 Mapping Optional Fields 123 Looping Functoid 123 Index Functoid 125 Database Lookup 127 Scripting Functoid 129 Functoid Combination 131 Combination of Functoids for If-Then-Else 131 Create Separated List 132 Table Looping Functoid 132 Conditional Creation of Output Nodes 135 Custom XSLT 136 Cross Referencing 136 Building Custom Functoids 140 Initial Setup 141 Normal Functoid 146 Cumulative Functoid 151 Developing Advanced Functoids 155 Deployment of Custom Functoids 157 Debugging 161 Testing of Maps 163 Validating Maps 164 Testing Maps 164 Debugging a Map 167 Unit Testing 168 Summary 172 4 Orchestrations 173 Orchestration Designer 174 Defining Orchestrations 177 Building Orchestrations 178 Messages 182 Variables 186 Shapes 188 Delivery Notification and Handling Retries 217 Calling Pipelines 218 Web Services 221 Dehydration and Rehydration 228 Correlations 229 Convoys 234 Parallel Convoys 234 Sequential Convoys 235 Zombies 236 Transactions 237 Atomic 238 Long Running 240 Compensating Code 241 Persistence Points 246 Exception Handling 247 Debugging 250 Send Out Messages 250 Debug and Trace 250 Breakpoints in Orchestration Debugger 250 Summary 255 5 Pipelines 257 Stages in Pipelines 258 Stages in a Receive Pipeline 259 Stages in a Send Pipeline 261 Built-In Pipelines 262 Receive Pipelines 262 Send Pipelines 263 Built-In Pipeline Components 263 XML Components 264 Flat Files 268 Encoding, Encrypting, and Signing 272 BizTalk Framework 275 Validator and Party Resolution 280 Custom Pipelines 283 Using the Built-In Pipeline Templates 283 Creating Custom Pipeline Templates 284 Custom Pipeline Components 287 Resources, Attributes, and Constructors 288 Interfaces 292 Message and Context Interfaces 305 Miscellaneous Functionality 309 Streaming 314 Properties 317 Really Fast Pipeline Component Implementation 323 Deployment 324 Debugging 327 Pipeline Component Wizard 329 Testing 330 Pipeline exe 330 Unit Testing 331 Summary 334 6 Adapters 337 BizTalk Adapters 337 Native Adapters 338 Line-of-Business Adapters 339 BizTalk Adapter Pack 339 Host Adapters 339 Third-Party and Custom Adapters 339 Additional Microsoft Adapters 340 The Role of WCF Adapters 340 Adapter Characteristics 340 Direction 341 Push and Pull 341 Message Interchange Pattern 341 Hosting 342 Configuration 342 Batches 343 Transactions 344 Message Context 344 Metadata Harvesting 344 Registering Adapters 345 Creating Adapter Handlers 346 Port-Level Configuration 349 Configuring Receive Locations 350 Configuring Send Ports 352 Adapter Properties 355 Deploying Bindings 355 Native Adapters 357 File Adapter 357 Robust Interchange 357 Polling Locked Files 358 File Renaming 359 Reliable Messaging Issues 359 Path and File Names 359 Security 360 Additional Send Handler Issues 360 FTP Adapter 360 FTP Issues 361 Handling Duplicate Messages 362 Staging Files in Temporary Folders 362 Raw FTP Commands 363 Secure Messaging 363 HTTP Adapter 364 Using HTTP Receive Handlers 364 Using HTTP Send Handlers 366 Additional Configuration 366 MQ Series Adapter 367 Using MQ Series Receive Handlers 368 Using MQ Series Send Handlers 369 Managing Queues 369 Configuring MQSAgent 370 MSMQ Adapter 370 Using MSMQ Receive Handlers 371 Using MSMQ Send Handlers 372 Authenticating and Securing Messages 374 POP3 Adapter 375 Using POP3 Receive Handlers 376 Handling Encrypted Messages 377 SMTP Adapter 377 Using SMTP Send Handlers 378 Windows SharePoint Services Adapter 379 Using WSS Receive Handlers 380 Using WSS Send Handlers 381 Mapping SharePoint Columns 383 SOAP Adapter 383 WCF Adapters 384 Windows Communication Foundation 385 Comparing WCF to BizTalk Server 386 The Role of BizTalk Native WCF Adapters 388 Hosting Native WCF Adapters 389 The WCF Service Publishing Wizard 389 Publishing Orchestrations 392 Publishing Schemas 392 WCF Send Handlers 394 Importing MEX Endpoints 395 Importing Metadata Files 396 Dynamic Ports 397 Configuring WCF Adapters 397 Addresses and Identity 398 Bindings 399 Behavior 400 Security and Credentials 401 Message Handling 402 Using the SQL Server LoB Adapter 404 WCF LoB Framework and SDK 404 SQL Server Adapter 404 Polling and Notification 405 Performing Operations via a Send Handler 407 Additional Adapter Capabilities 408 Metadata Harvesting 409 Summary 412 Part II Advanced Topics 7 BizTalk 2010 and WCF: Extensibility 415 WCF Extensibility 416 The WCF Channel Stack 416 ABCs Reviewed 417 ServiceContract in BizTalk 418 WCF Behaviors 420 Example of WCF Extensibility in BizTalk 420 Summary 429 8 BizTalk and Windows Azure 431 Extending the Reach of BizTalk Applications 431 The AppFabric SDK 432 Receiving Messages 433 Sending Messages 434 Static Send Port 435 Dynamic Send Port 436 ESB Off-Ramp 436 Using InfoPath as a Client 438 Summary 439 9 Business Activity Monitoring with BizTalk BAM 441 BAM and Metrics 441 What Is BizTalk BAM? 442 Using BizTalk BAM 444 End-to-End, High-Level Walkthrough of the BAM Process 444 Real-Time Versus Scheduled Aggregations 446 Defining Activities and Views 447 Progress Dimension 450 Data Dimension 450 Numeric Range Dimension 450 Time Dimension 450 Using the Tracking Profile Editor 452 Using the BAM APIs 453 DirectEventStream (DES) 453 BufferedEventStream (BES) 453 OrchestrationEventStream (OES) 454 IPipelineContext Interface 454 Creating a Higher-Level API Specifically for Service Metrics 454 Working with the WCF and WF Interceptors 457 Using Notifications 460 Rapid Prototyping 460 REST and BAM 461 Managing BAM 461 BAM Database Considerations 461 Deployment and Management 461 Security 462 Scripting Deployment 462 Summary 465 10 The Business Rules Framework 467 The Importance of Rules 468 Processes and Policies 468 Business Policies 469 Policy Externalization 469 Policy Scenarios 471 Business Versus Executable Rules 472 Business Rule Management 473 BRMS and the BRF 475 Example Scenario: Order Processing 476 Incomplete and Implicit Business Rules 478 Indirect Policy Mapping 478 Technical Policy 479 Data Models 479 Programmatic Bindings 479 Priority 479 Traceability 479 Refactoring 480 Testing, Publishing, and Deployment 480 Managing Change 481 Real-World Rule-Processing 482 Using Vocabularies 483 What About Performance? 484 Inference and Reasoning 485 The Business Rules Framework 487 Introducing the BRF 487 Rule Storage and Administration 488 Rule Deployment 489 Rule Modeling 495 Rule Execution 497 Components and Tools 499 Microsoft Business Rule Language 499 Business Rules Database 499 Pub-Sub Adapter 504 Rule Store Components 505 SqlRuleStore 505 OleDbRuleStore 505 FileRuleStore 506 Rule Set Deployment Driver 507 Business Rules Language Converter 507 Business Rules Engine 507 Policy Class 507 Policy Tester Class 509 BizTalk Server 2010 Rule Engine Extensions 511 Rule Definition and Deployment 511 The Rule Composer 512 Loading Rule Stores 513 Using the Policy Explorer 516 Using the Facts Explorer 520 Composing Rule Conditions 525 Creating Rule Actions 530 Rule Engine Component Configuration 532 Testing Rule Sets 534 Vocabularies 538 Strategies for Vocabulary Versioning 543 Publishing and Deployment 545 The Rules Engine Deployment Wizard 546 Using Rules with BizTalk Server 547 ESB Toolkit 547 RFID Server 548 Using Rules in Custom Code 548 Policy Management in the Administration Console 548 The Call Rules Orchestration Shape 551 Policy-Driven Features of the ESB Toolkit 556 The RFID Server BRE Event Handler 558 Summary 561 11 Rule-Based Programming 563 The Roots of Confusion 563 Declarativity 564 Set-Based Programming 565 Recursive Processing 565 Blended Paradigms 566 Limits of Expressivity 567 Understanding the Rule Engine 568 Understanding Production Systems 568 Understanding Short-Circuiting 571 Using OR Connectives 573 Understanding Implicit Conditions 576 Common Rule Patterns 577 Implementing Quantification 577 Handling Negation-as-Failure 581 Using Strong Negation 583 Designing Rule Sets as State Machines 584 Exploiting Situated Reasoning 587 Rule Engine Mechanisms 589 Understanding Working Memory 589 The Match-Resolve-Act Cycle 590 Introducing the Rete Algorithm 593 Managing Conflict Resolution 594 Forward- and Backward-Chaining 595 Working with Facts 597 Using Typed Fact Classes 597 Handling XML Documents 598 Setting XPath Properties in the Rule Composer 599 XML Type Specifiers 600 Handling XML Namespaces 602 Reading and Writing XML Data 602 Managing Optional XML Nodes 603 Handling ADO NET DataTable and DataRow Objects 606 Handling Data Connections 607 Handling NET Types 609 Invoking Static Type Members 613 Optimizing Rule Sets 615 Controlling Side Effects 615 Optimizing the Rete Network 617 Programming with the Rule API 618 Using the Policy Class 618 Handling Long-Term Facts 623 Implementing Compensation Handlers 624 Using the RuleEngine Class 627 Implementing Custom Rule Store Components 628 Managing Deployment Programmatically 630 Creating Rules Programmatically 633 Summary 637 12 ESB with BizTalk Server 639 What Is an ESB? 639 Introducing the Enterprise Service Bus 639 What Problems Does an ESB Solve? 640 What Are the Components of an ESB? 641 Dynamic Routing 643 Dynamic Transformation 644 Message Validation 644 Message-Oriented Middleware 645 Is BizTalk a Fully Functional ESB? 645 What Is the ESB Toolkit? 645 History of the ESB Toolkit 646 What Is in the ESB Toolkit? 646 What’s the Difference Between Native BizTalk Server and BizTalk Server with the ESB Toolkit? 646 The Magic Behind an ESB 647 The ESB Toolkit Stack 649 Itineraries 650 Specifying Itineraries 651 The Itinerary Lifecycle 652 Dynamic Resolution: The Resolvers 653 Adapter Providers 655 Service Composition 656 Messaging-Only Implementations 657 Unified Exception Management 658 Exposing Core Services 660 Distributed ESBs 660 REST and BizTalk ESB 661 A Stylistic Comparison 661 Incorporating REST into the BizTalk ESB 662 Management 662 Provisioning and Runtime Governance 662 SLA Enforcement 663 Monitoring 663 Organizational Considerations 664 Ensuring a Smooth Transition 664 Gatekeeper Process 665 Summary 666 Part III Deployment and Administration 13 Administration Console Concepts 669 Introducing the Administration Console 669 BizTalk Group Properties 670 BizTalk Settings Dashboard 672 Group Hub and Query View 678 Applications Node 680 Platform Settings 681 Hosts 681 Host Instances 681 Servers 682 Message Boxes 683 Adapters 684 Summary 685 14 Deployment Concepts 687 The Work to Be Done 687 “Application” as a Formal Concept 689 Where Does It All Begin? (Inside Visual Studio) 691 Folder and Project Structure 691 Namespaces and Assembly Names 692 Applying Strong Names 693 Setting Deployment Properties 694 Fine Foods Solution 696 Deploying from Visual Studio 697 Binding and Starting the Application 698 Edit/Debug Cycle 700 Handling Binding Files During Development 703 Creating and Managing Deployable Packages 704 Other Types of Resources 707 Binding Files as Resources 708 Deployment Scripts as Resources 709 Exporting MSI Files 712 Handling MSI Export on a Build Server 713 Deploying MSI Packages to a BizTalk Group 715 Import/Install via Command Line 717 Handling Other Deployables 718 Business Activity Monitoring 718 Rule Vocabularies and Policies 719 Handling Upgrade and Versioning Scenarios 719 Summary 720 Part IV RFID 15 BizTalk RFID 723 RFID Overview 724 The BizTalk RFID Framework 725 Installation Notes for BizTalk RFID 727 Device Applications 731 Vendor Extensions and Extensibility 743 Tag Operations 749 Introducing RFID Processes 756 Exception Handling 771 Debugging (Process Hosting Model) 773 Integration and Deployment Considerations 773 Summary 778 16 BizTalk RFID Mobile 779 Mobile RFID Overview 779 The BizTalk RFID Mobile Framework 780 Installation Notes 781 Device Applications 782 Running Your First Mobile Application 787 Barcode Support 791 BizTalk RFID Mobile Connector Architecture (Store and Forward) 792 Remote Device Management 796 Summary 798 Closing notes 799 Index 803

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Brian Loesgen is a Principal Architect Evangelist with Microsoft on the Azure ISV team. Based in San Diego, Brian is a six-time Microsoft MVP and has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB, and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/ developer of the “Microsoft ESB Guidance,” initially released by Microsoft October 2006. He is a coauthor of the SOA Manifesto and is a coauthor of eight books, including SOA with .NET and Windows Azure, and is the lead author of BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed. He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft, and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a cofounder and pastpresident of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-president of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Architecture SIG, and is a member of the editorial board for the .NET Developer’s Journal. Brian has been blogging since 2003 at http://blog.BrianLoesgen.com, and you can find him on Twitter as @BrianLoesgen.   Charles Young, MVP, MCPD, is a principal consultant at Solidsoft, an independent integration specialist working with BizTalk Server and related technologies. He has been a professional developer for a quarter of a century, worked for several years as a technical trainer, and has more than a decade of experience as a consultant. Charles has worked extensively with BizTalk Server since joining Solidsoft in 2003. He architects, designs, and implements enterprise-level integration applications for public- and private-sector customers, delivers seminars and workshops, and maintains a blog site. In recent years he has specialized in the area of decision systems and business rule processing and is vicechair of Rules Fest, an annual technical conference for developers and researchers involved in the implementation of reasoning systems.   Jan Eliasen, MVP, MCTS, has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and has been in the IT industry since 2003, currently working at Logica as an IT architect, focusing on delivering solutions to customers that meet the customers’ needs. He started working with BizTalk 2002 just after graduation in 2003 and has been working with BizTalk ever since. He has passed the exams in BizTalk 2000, 2004, 2006, 2006R2, and 2010 and is a five-time MVP in BizTalk Server. He is a well-known contributor on the online MSDN forums and a blogger at http://blogs.eliasen.dk/technical/. You can follow him on Twitter as @jan_eliasen.   Scott Colestock lives and works in Minnesota. He has consulted on BizTalk, WCF, CQRS architecture, Agile methods, and general performance engineering. Recently, he has focused deeply on mobile and SaaS architectures using Windows Azure. He is an MVP and frequent speaker at conference events.   Anush Kumar is the chief technology officer at S3Edge (www.s3edge.com), a software solutions company focused on Auto-ID technologies, which he helped cofound following a distinguished career at Microsoft that spanned closed to a decade of working on multiple incubations from concept to shipping. In his last avatar at Microsoft, Anush was BizTalk RFID’s leading light from early incubation of the project to its recent productization efforts, and has been heavily involved in the design and architecture of the RFID product, with multiple patents to his name. His efforts have also resulted in the vibrant partner and customer ecosystem for the product, and he is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in this space. Prior to RFID, Anush worked on the business rules engine for BizTalk Server 2004, technology that has been deployed by several enterprise customers to improve agility and increase efficiency of their business processes. In his spare time, Anush enjoys backpacking off the beaten track; volunteers for organizations focused on education; and is a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, cricket, cooking, bungee jumping, and of course, All Things RTVS™ (http://rtvs.wordpress.com), his blog that spans RFID, and more! Anush holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from University of Madras and a Master degree in Engineering from Dartmouth College.   Jon Flanders is a member of the technical staff at MCW, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful .NET and ASP Internals, and was a coauthor of Mastering Visual Studio.NET. Jon’s current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST and how REST connects to products such as SharePoint 2010. You can read his blog at http://www.rest-ful.net/  

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