This document summarizes a presentation about BizTalk Server 2010 given by João Faneca. It discusses what BizTalk is, its architecture and main components like adapters, pipelines, data mapping, orchestrations, and the business rules engine. It also covers new features in BizTalk 2010, extensibility options, and demos of consuming files and services. Requirements for using BizTalk are listed. The presentation aims to explain what BizTalk is and how it can be used for system integration and automation of business interactions.
2. João Faneca Developing Internet applications since 1996, using at the time C and Perl supported by Apache and MySql over Unix systems 10 years of experience working with Microsoft platforms: SQL Server, Commerce Server, SharePoint Server, Project Server, Windows Media Server, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, BizTalk Server Experienced developer using ASP, ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net, producing DeskTop, Mobile and Web applications
3. Agenda What is BizTalk? BizTalk Architecture BizTalk Components Demo 1 – Consuming files What’s new in BizTalk 2010? Demo 2 – Consuming a WCF service Extensibility Features in BizTalk Server Demo 3 – Building a Custom Adapter What else do you need to know? Give it a try!
6. What is BizTalk? BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s Integration and connectivity server solution Allows organizations to more easily connect disparate systems Includes over 25 multi-platform adapters and a robust messaging infrastructure Provides strong durable messaging, a rules engine, EDI connectivity, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), RFID capabilities and IBM Host/Mainframe connectivity
7. Why BizTalk? One single tool and infra-structure for system integration Simplify and automate interoperability to reduce costs and errors Automate your business interactions with partners Gain critical insights on business processes and performance
9. BT Components: Adapters Used for sending and receiving messages, they will interoperate with “all kinds” of applications on “all kinds” of systems BT has a lot of them built-in: SAP, Siebel, IBM DB/2,SharePoint, JD Edwards, File, MSSQL, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, etc Third-party adapters exists in the Market Developers can build their own
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11. BT Components: Pipelines Applied on incoming and/or outgoing messages, they perform steps, that can change the message Used for translating xml to regular files, it can be used for authenticating the message and other features Developers can create custom pipelines using the Pipeline Designer, which runs inside Visual Studio, enabling whatever behavior is required
13. BT Components: Data Mapping Applied to a message (xml format), it can produce a different xml instance It is accomplish with XSLT transformation. BizTalk provides the BizTalk Editor (a xsd editor) and the BizTalk Mapper (a xslt editor) Developers can build schemas and Maps by hand or using the BizTalk tools
15. BT Components: Orchestrations Orchestrations are a set of actions that together meet some useful business need The Orchestration Designer (integrated in Visual Studio) lets a developer define these actions by connecting together a series of shapes in a logical way For an easy collaboration between software developers and business people, an orchestration created in Visual Studio can be imported into Visio and vice-versa
17. BT Components: Business Rule Engine BRE allows business analysts to change orchestration behavior without re-deploying the orchestration The Business Rule Composer allows the definition of a set of business rules. Rules are composed by terms (for example, Maximum Quantity of Items) . The value for each term might be a constant, a xml attribute retrieved from a message, a value coming from a SQL query or a value coming from a .Net component
18. BT Comps: Business Rule Engine (2) A rule uses the terms defined in some vocabulary together with logical operators such as Greater Than, Less Than, Is Equal To, and others to define how a business process operates To execute a business policy, an orchestration uses a CallRulesshape, passing in the information this policy needs, such as a received XML document
19. Consuming a flat file, inserting file records into a SQL Server database table Demo 1
20. What’s new in BizTalk 2010 (1)? BizTalk Server Settings Dashboard: addresses performance settings Improved Management Pack: Through System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), management is easier FTP Adapter Enhancements: Support for secure FTP, readonly locations and atomic file transfer in ASCII mode Enhanced Trading Partner Management: new approach on B2B communication
21. What’s new in BizTalk 2010 (2)? Enhanced support for HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) documents: support for 5010 version Enhanced BizTalk Mapper: Intellisense, Relevance View, Suggestive Matching, Optimized Display of links, Search support Support for .NET Framework 4, SQL Server Backup Compression in BizTalk Server and SQL Server Transparent data encryption, Hyper-V, SharePoint 2010 Monitoring known issues in BizTalk Server: new SQL Agent job for tracking known issues
22. Deprecated Features, Tools, and APIs EDI Pipeline: now available as part of the Trading Partner Management user interface EDI Context Properties: DestinationPartyID, DestinationPartyName SOAP Adapter: You should use the WCF-BasicHttp or WCF-WSHttp adapter BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard: you should instead use the BizTalk WCF Publishing Wizard with the WCF-BasicHttp
23. Extensibility Features in BizTalk Server “The presence of the code is often a symptom of not understanding the problem, not understanding BizTalk, or both”, by Erik Westermann
24. Extensibility Features in BizTalk Server Adapters: physical message delivery in and/or out of the system Pipelines: message tretatment and/or validation before and/or after message is sent and/or received Functoids: used in BizTalk maps
25. The Adapter framework Offers a stable, open mechanism for all adapters to implement or access work from the BizTalk Server Messaging Engine The interfaces described in the Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Framework namespace enable adapters to provide a means to modify configuration property pages. It also is a means to import services and schemas into the BizTalk project
26. Custom pipelines A pipeline component is a .NET or COM component that implements a set of predefined interfaces for interaction with the BizTalk Messaging Engine You can create three types of pipeline components: general, assembling, and disassembling (different interfaces for each)
27. Developing custom functioids Custom functoids provide a way for you to extend the range of operations available within the BizTalk Server mapping environment Each custom functoid is deployed as a .NET assembly using classes derived from Microsoft.BizTalk.BaseFunctoids
29. What else do you need to know? Transactions (Atomic and Long Running) Error handling and error recovery Debug tools Deployment tools Monitoring and Performance Analysis ToolsBizTalk resilience features (message Dehydration and Rehydration) BizTalk Correlation Sets BizTalk and the ESB tool kit BizTalk and Azure BizTalk and AppFabric
30. Give it a try! Go to http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/default.aspx (no credentials, no registration is required). Download the fully functional BizTalk Server 2010: free for 120 days.
31. System Requirements Microsoft Windows: Can be Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2 (SP2), 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) platforms SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2008 SP1 Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 [Required for selected features only] Microsoft Office Excel 2010 or 2007 [Required for selected features only] SQL Server 2005 Notification Service [Required for selected features only] SQLXML 4.0 with Service Pack 1 [Required for selected features only] Internet Information Services (IIS) Version 7.5 and 7.0 [Required for selected features only]
32. Quote “One Orchestration to rule them all, One Subscription to find them, One Port to bring them all and in the engine bind them” Charles Young
34. Referencias Microsoft BizTalk Server Homepage http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk BizTalk Server Developer Center (MSDN) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/default.aspx BizTalk Gurus http://www.biztalkgurus.com/blogs/ BizTalk Webcasts http://www.cloudcasts.net/Default.aspx?category=BizTalk