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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 bleedingedge thing to be doing, and in some ways this book reflects the authors` necessarily limited experience with reallife 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 realworld BizTalk consultants will have to keep in mind.David WallTopics 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 messagesA text showing programmers using Microsoft Web solutions, showing how to use BizTalk Server as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, to integrate applications into cooperating systems. Shows how to design the flow of data through an enterprise application, how to translate between different document formats, and how to monitor and track messages in the application. Softcover. 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 cooperating systems. It is especially suited to rapid deployment B2B and B2C ecommerce applications, where you need to integrate with legacy applications.
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