BizTalk Server Extensibility
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The document discusses the extensibility customizations of BizTalk Server, highlighting its complex integration capabilities and the power of .NET. It presents considerations for various tools such as custom pipelines, orchestration, and deployment strategies, along with a focus on community resources and productivity add-ins. The session aims to create awareness and provide insights into effectively leveraging BizTalk's extensibility features.
BizTalk Server Extensibility
- 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
- 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