Getting Started with BizTalk Services
By Karthik Bharathy and Jon Fancey
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This book is intended for those who want to understand BizTalk Services, what it can do, and how to build integration solutions using it in their organizations. If you are a developer, architect, or project manager, this book will quickly get you acquainted with this powerful cloud integration technology. It would be helpful to have some experience with BizTalk Server; however, this is neither required nor assumed. It is recommended to have a subscription with Windows Azure to try out the examples in the book.
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Getting Started with BizTalk Services - Karthik Bharathy
Table of Contents
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Hello BizTalk Services
Background
Business drivers
Technical drivers
Core scenarios
Concepts
Life cycle and architecture
Personas and tools
Developer
IT Pro
Partner Administrator
Deployment considerations
Provisioning BizTalk Services
Certificates and ACS
Storage requirements
The BizTalk Services create wizard
BizTalk portal registration
Creating your first BizTalk Services solution
Scenario description
Prerequisites
Realizing the solution
Creating a BizTalk Services project
Creating the Order schema
Creating the BizTalk Services solution
Verifying the solution
Summary
2. Messages and Transforms
The problem
The mapper
The map designer
Schema
An example
Mapping operations
Testing
Configuring a bridge
Putting it all together
More on mapping
Dealing with failure
Summary
3. Bridges
Pipeline processing
Message processing
Messaging
Enrichment
Lookups
Routing
Trying it out
Brokered messaging
Summary
4. Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise application integration scenarios
EAI in BizTalk Services
Sources
Bridges and the VETER pattern
Destinations
Attributes of bridges
Hybrid connectivity
The BizTalk Adapter Service
The BAS architecture
BAS installation and configuration
Consuming BAS with bridges
Custom code in EAI
Message inspectors
Tracking
Scenario walk-through
Prerequisites
Solution
Creating a schema
Creating custom code
Configuring the bridge
Deploying the bridge
Sending messages
Viewing tracking data
Summary
5. Business-to-business Integration
Basic concepts of B2B
Common interaction models
Direct enterprise integration
Service provider integration
Industry standards and protocols
Concepts in BizTalk Services B2B
EDI message structure
Partners and agreements
Property promotion
Batching
Selection criteria
Release criteria
Tracking and archiving
Non-repudiation
Extensibility
Scenario walk-through
Ecosystem players
Provisioning BizTalk Services
Configuring partners – Fabrikam, Northwind, and Contoso
Configuring the AS2 agreement between Fabrikam and Contoso
Configuring the X12 agreement between Northwind and Contoso
Sending messages
Viewing tracking data
Summary
6. API
REST
Calling the API
Back up and restore
Using PowerShell
Summary
7. Tracking and Troubleshooting
Messages and errors
Data for troubleshooting
Tracking
Traces and logfiles
Performance counters
Troubleshooting sources and destinations
Troubleshooting schemas and transforms
Troubleshooting bridges
Troubleshooting agreements
Troubleshooting hybrid connectivity
Summary
8. Moving to BizTalk Services
Moving from BizTalk Server
Maps
Pipelines
Schema
Adapters
Trading Partner Management (TPM)
EDIFACT support
Business Rules Engine (BRE)
Orchestration
When not to move
The future
Summary
Index
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
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First published: March 2014
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Credits
Authors
Karthik Bharathy
Jon Fancey
Reviewers
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Kevin Smith
Tomas Restrepo
Daniel Bullington
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Content Development Editor
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Foreword
The cloud moves fast.
Welcome to Windows Azure BizTalk Services, a key part of Microsoft's cloud integration vision. With BizTalk Services, customers can connect their businesses through process automation and integrate the Web with their existing backend systems on premises; all from a flexible and scalable rock-solid platform managed using industry-leading tools.
With integration, it's not a cloud or on-premises decision, it's both. This book provides you with a great introduction to BizTalk Services, a fantastic new cloud service from Microsoft designed to help you get started quickly and productively in the shortest time possible. Jon and Karthik have done a great job in making the material easy to grasp for newcomers to the Microsoft stack as well as those experienced in BizTalk Server looking to start using BizTalk Services.
I really liked Karthik's and Jon's writing style and found this book an excellent introduction to BizTalk Services. Unlike other books, this doesn't attempt to be a huge reference full of extraneous details. Instead, it offers a relatively quick and concise read that details how to use the most important features. The result is a very approachable book that provides a great way to learn BizTalk Services and how to immediately take advantage of it.
Hold on and enjoy the ride!
Scott Guthrie
Corporate Vice President, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corporation
March 2014
Foreword
Karthik and I have worked together for over two years on Windows Azure BizTalk Services. It is a pleasure for me to introduce this book on Windows Azure BizTalk Services on behalf of Karthik and Jon.
BizTalk has been a leader in the integration space for many years now and is used by a majority of the world's largest companies for their mission-critical-systems integration. As cloud computing changes how enterprises run their business, it is important to bring this product to the cloud as a part of Windows Azure Platform. We started building Windows Azure BizTalk Services for cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises integration scenarios, targeting both enterprise and SMB customers. This new built from ground up for cloud
service will harness all the power of cloud and yet make it simple to use.
In the world of modern applications and services, there is a need for IT admins and developers to comprehensively understand a technology such as BizTalk Services and apply it in their own IT ecosystem. This book precisely fills this need. This book showcases many practical, real-world scenarios and provides detailed hands-on walkthroughs of cloud integration to allow the reader to quickly understand the material presented.
I invite you to join the integration journey with Karthik and Jon as they uncover the capabilities of BizTalk Services in a lucid, approachable manner. I hope you will enjoy the book as much as I did and that it helps you to leverage BizTalk Services more effectively in your organization.
Vivek Dalvi
Principal Group Program Manager, BizTalk Product Group
March 2014
About the Authors
Karthik Bharathy is a Lead Program Manager in the BizTalk product group with nearly a decade of software experience. He has been with the product group since the days when BizTalk Services started off as a set of ideas on the drawing board. He has also shipped releases of BizTalk Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio. In his current role, he oversees the B2B platform experience across industry verticals. He has presented at several Microsoft conferences, including BizTalk Summit US and Europe, TechEd EMEA and US, TechReady US, MVP Summit US, and TechDays India.
His passion for computers started at the age of 12 when he coded BASIC on the ZX Spectrum. He graduated from Bangalore University in Computer Science summa cum laude and also holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business. In his spare time, he is usually travelling and is a major foodie.
To all the members of the BizTalk family—the product group, CSS, DPE, CAT, Marketing, UE, and UX—thank you for building this awesome integration product called BizTalk. I truly appreciate the complexity of the middleware breathing BizTalk every day! I would like to thank Vivek Dalvi, Sandeep Prabhu, Shridhar Diwan, and Rajesh Ramamirtham for the discussions and support while writing this book.
I would like to thank the MVP community for their discussions on BizTalk. I learned a lot from you guys and I respect the level of commitment you inspire towards the product. I would like to thank Steef-Jan Wiggers, Richard Seroter, Michael Stephenson, Sarvana Kumar, Sandro Pereira, Kent Weare, Mick Badran, Rick Garibay, Stephen Thomas, Bill Chestnut, Sam Vanhoutte, Dwight Goins, Ben Cline, and Mikael Hakansson for their constant feedback on BizTalk.
Special thanks to Scott Guthrie for agreeing to write the foreword of this book, and thanks to our Content Development Editor Shaon Basu and Project Coordinator Aboli Ambardekar, whose reminders and feedback kept us on our toes and helped us land the book on time.
Above all, I would like to thank my wife, Thulasi and my parents who supported and encouraged me throughout this journey.
Jon Fancey is an integration veteran who has worked on the Microsoft stack for over 20 years. He is a nine-time Microsoft Integration MVP and has worked closely with both the BizTalk Server and Host Integration Server product groups for nearly a decade. He has presented at many major conferences including TechEd, DevWeek, and the 2014 London BizTalk Summit. He has also written numerous articles and whitepapers for MSDN on BizTalk, SharePoint, and other topics.
Jon co-founded Affinus, a UK-based Microsoft partner, with Kevin B. Smith, formerly from the BizTalk product group, shipping the first three versions of the BizTalk product. Affinus works closely with large enterprise customers on interesting integration challenges, helping them move to the cloud.
Jon lives in West Sussex, UK, with his wife Fiona and two children, Ben and Tom, and their dog, Dilly.
I would like to thank the following for their help and assistance: Kevin Smith, Tomas Restrepo, and Steef-Jan Wiggers for tirelessly reviewing every word of this book, especially Steef-Jan who turned it round in a weekend on very tight deadlines. You all made it a better book, and I am very grateful for that. I'd also like to thank other members of the Affinus family, Daniel Probert and Simon Poulter, who've put up with me discussing this project for a very long time and guided my thinking along the way.
A special thanks goes to Scott and Vivek for agreeing to write forewords for us, your support on this project has been very much appreciated. And of course thanks to everyone at Packt for their support and encouragement, and deadline management!
Finally, I'd like to thank my family for giving me the time and space to write my first book; I know it's tough sometimes and without your encouragement and support this project wouldn't have been possible.
About the Reviewers
Steef-Jan Wiggers has over 15 years of experience as a technical lead developer, application architect, and consultant, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), web services, and Windows Azure. He is very active in the BizTalk community (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7141.user-page-steef-jan-wiggers-microsoft-biztalk-server-consultant-and-mvp.aspx) as a blogger, Wiki author/editor, forums writer, and public speaker in the Netherlands and Europe. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him as a Microsoft MVP for the past four years. On his personal blog (http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/) and BizTalk Administrators blog (http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/), he shares his knowledge about SOA, Azure (Service Bus), BizTalk Services, and BizTalk.
In addition to consulting, he is also an author and has been a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing. He has written the book BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and has technically reviewed the following books:
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns by Dan Rosanova
(MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide by Johan