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Professional Biztalk (Programmer to Programmer)
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by Scott Woodgate and Stephen T Mohr
Sales Rank: 1241953
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$0.78
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Paperback: 800 pages
Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition January 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1861003293
ISBN-13: 978-1861003294
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
Product 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 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 emphasizes 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
Topics covered: - Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 and its related technologies
- XML
- Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
- Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
- The XLANG scheduling language
- Messaging
- Field mapping
- Functoid creation
- Application integration
- The routing and tracking of messages
Product Description
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.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is very informative, and complete on most core and advanced features offered by Biztalk. The sample codes work, and provide a very good guide to start on your own. The contents may not be very well organized, that's the only weakness I can think of. but, you really want this book for its information. By the way, currently that's the only Biztalk book that cover Orchestration.
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Professional Biztalk (Programmer to Programmer)
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