Professional Biztalk Server 2006

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BizTalk is an incredibly complex technical product, and there are many ways to achieve a given solution, some of which result in poor performance and a bad developer experience. With this book, the author explains how best to solve a business problem using BizTalk. The BizTalk documentation and other books available focus too much on explaining "fluffy" concepts, not on real-world scenarios. They do not cover the crucial points, and can cause serious, and in some cases, catastrophic problems. Over the past two years, the author has worked extensively with the potential readership of this book, he feels that content like this is desperately needed - too many companies and developers fail to understand the BizTalk architecture fully, which leads to even bigger problems. This book covers all of aspects of the Server, and will be the reference for all BizTalk developers. About The Author Darren Jefford joined Microsoft UK in 2002, and has worked with BizTalk Server 2004 with various customers in the UK since 2003. He has been involved with the architecture design, development, testing and deployment of a number of large scale BizTalk Servers. He has a popular blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/darrenj/) that has allowed him to become one of the best known worldwide experts in this space. Table Of Contents 1. Technology Primer 2. BizTalk Architecture 3. Adapters 4. Pipelines 5. Orchestration 6. Business Activity Monitoring 7. Business Rules Engine 8. Testing 9. Performance and Scalability 10. Low Latency 11. Administration 12. End-to-End Scenarios 13. BizTalk Best Practices 14. Windows Workflow and BizTalk Index