In this Integration Monday session, Steef-Jan Wiggers talks about the great deal of features that Microsoft BizTalk provides out of the box, and how you can customize those features depending on your requirement. During the session, Steef talks about custom adapters, behaviors, functoids, xslt, pipelines, and .NET code (helper classes, error handling).

1. BizTalk Server Extensibility
Customizations the integration solutions

2. Steef-Jan Wiggers
Microsoft Integration Consultant
• Microsoft Integration MVP
• Published Author
• (Inter)national Speaker
• TechNet Wiki Author
• Blogger
• Forums
• Runner
• 12th Man
DutchWorkz B.V.
www.dutchworkz.nl

3. Why this talk?

4. Take aways
• Awarness of divers extensibility capabilities
• Power of .NET
• BizTalk can handle a great deal of complexity
• Considerations

5. Extensibility
• What does that mean?

6. BizTalk Runtime
Receive Port
Business
Rules
Engine
Orchestration
Receive
Location
Receive
Location
Map A>Z Map B>Z
Send Port
Map Z>C
Trading
Partner
Management
RFID
EDI/B2B
Adapters &
Adapter SDK
Business
Activity
Monitoring
Accelerators
(SWIFT/HL7)
Enterprise
Service
Bus

7. Topics

8. Port
Port level Tools Considerations
Adapters Adapter Pack SDK Buy vs Build
Behaviours .NET (WCF) Design

9. Pipeline
Port level Tools Considerations
Custom Pipeline Visual Studio Extend pipeline
capabilities
Custom Pipeline
components
Pipeline
Component Wizard
Built from scratch
or retrieve online

10. Demo
Message Sender
Lastfm client BizTalk Server 2013 R2
Message Reciever
WCF-BasicHttp
WCF-WebHttp
REST
SOAP/XML
Json or XML LastFm API
Custom Pipeline

11. Mappings
Port- or
orchestration level
Tools Considerations
XSLT Altova Mapper vs XSLT
Custom Functoids Visual Studio Consolidate
functionality
Script functoid Visual Studio Enhance mapping
capabilities

12. Orchestrations
Orchestration level Tools Considerations
Helper classes Visual Studio Support process,
configuration
Expression shape Visual Studio Limitiations

13. Debugging
BizTalk solution level Tools Considerations
Port Visual Studio Run-time
Pipeline Visual Studio,
Pipeline.exe
Design vs Runtime
Map Visual Studio Design vs Runtime
Orchestration Orchestration
debugger, DebugView
Debug statements

14. Demo

15. BRE
Extension Considerations
Fact retriever Custom fact retrievers
Call from .NET Leverage BRE without BizTalk

16. BAM
Extension Considerations
API Custom BAM interceptor, write eventstream from a
pipeline.

17. Demo

18. Deployment
Extension Considerations
BTDF A complete, customizable framework
Script Leveraging MSBuild, time consuming
PowerShell More control, flexibility, automation

19. Logging
Extension Considerations
Log4NET Classic way of logging, easy to use.
Enterprise Library Leverage Microsoft building block
ETW Better performance

20. Operations
Extension Considerations
BizTalk Assemblies Roll your own solution(s)
Third Party Buy vs build

21. Demo
Client
Message Sender
Airport Application
BizTalk Server 2013 R2
Message Reciever
WCF-BasicHttp
WCF-WebHttp
http://www.faa.gov/airports/
REST
json
jsonxml
Archive Pipeline
ETW
Tracking

22. Overall considerations
• Buy vs Build
• From scratch or Online
• Instrumentation
• Use commmunity and free tools

23. Another extensibility: Community
• NoS addin: Productivity
• Pipeline Component Wizard: Productivity
• Benchmark Wizard: Performance/Tuning
• BizTalk Documenter: Documentation
• BizTalk Software Factory: Solution

24. Round up

25. Resources
• TN Wiki
• Blogs
• Books
• MSDN Code Gallery
• BizTalk Sample SDK
• Training Kit
• White paper Gallery
• Pluralsight

26. Contact
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Steef-Jan.Wiggers@msn.com
http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/
TN Wiki: UserPage

27. Thank you and have great day!

28. Q&A