Professional BizTalk (Programmer to Programmer) - Softcover

Mohr, Stephen; Woodgate, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861003293 ISBN 13: 9781861003294

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

The BizTalk(tm) Framework is an XML framework for application integration and electronic commerce. Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000 runs on Windows 2000 Server and is capable of integrating with delimited and positional flat file formats, EDI documents, and XML. It allows you to perform the three tasks critical in enterprise application integration: design the flow of information through a system, use BizTalk and its interfaces as the glue to perform the actual integration, then track the flow of information through the resulting system. It does this by providing the integration code in a central server, removing the need for writing integration code into programs, and does much of this by configuration of the server, reducing the amount of time you need to spend programming the integration code.

This book teaches you how to use BizTalk Server as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, to integrate applications into co-operating systems. It is especially suited to rapid deployment B2B and B2C e-commerce applications, where you need to integrate with legacy applications.

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Review

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 facilitates the exchange of information between business partners in more or less nonproprietary formats based on XML (Extensible Markup Language). Professional BizTalk documents the software and its related technologies for systems administrators and consultants. That's a fairly bleeding-edge thing to be doing, and in some ways this book reflects the authors' necessarily limited experience with real-life BizTalk implementation work. Still, they know the product well (one of them helped develop it) and the material in the book will be useful to anyone who needs to figure out how to make BizTalk work.

The approach in Professional BizTalk is typically Wroxian, in the sense that the presentation consists mainly of text, punctuated by lots of code listings and conceptual diagrams. A fictional case study threads throughout. Bob's Bolts serves as a recurring illustrative tool, providing a framework for specific instructions on what to do (in terms of interface manipulation and coding) to meet various requirements. The book emphasises that BizTalk is a tool for facilitating commerce, and business considerations are thoroughly discussed as engineering decisions are explained. It's the sort of reasoning that real-world BizTalk consultants will have to keep in mind. --David Wall

About the Author

Stephen Mohr is a system architect for an Internet and e-commerce consultancy. His work originally involved the programming of object oriented applications in C++ and COM. More recently, he has evolved to the specification and design of software systems using COM and Web development tools and languages. He is involved in the selection of XML for ongoing projects involving multimedia content over intranets.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861003293
• ISBN 13: 9781861003294
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 800