Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed

de Scott Woodgate

Learn how to use Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 as an Enterprise Application Integration tool, especially for rapid deployment B2B and B2C e-commerce applications. Developers learn how to exploit the key strengths of BizTalk Server: information flow design, integration interface tracking, and performance management.Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Developer's Guide covers the why and how of system integration; gives a technology roadmap for the future; covers system architecture, and explains how to develop and monitor messages within a BizTalk application. The authors explain how BizTalk Server Studio can work in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET to orchestrate business processes and create integrated business systems, as well as BizTalk Server management, monitoring and deployment. An entire section of the book is dedicated to real-world case studies of businesses using BizTalk Server on a daily basis, revealing dramatic success and the possible bumps along the way to full integration.