View the latest webcasts in the webcast series from BizTalk MVPs, including BizTalk 2010 and Windows Azure, BizTalk and AppFabric Cache Parts 1 and 2, Calling Business Rules from a .NET Application, Tracking Rules Execution in a .NET Application, Publishing
a Business Rules Policy as a Service, Better BizTalk Testing by Taking Advantage of the CAT Logging Framework, and Integration to SharePoint 2010 Parts 1 and 2.
As you may/may not know native Restful support is a little lacking in BizTalk 2010.
A ’little’ massaging is needed.
By plugging in a couple of classes into the WCF stack, BizTalk sits in the middle
quite nicely.
Netin
Mehrotra from MS has come to the rescue – he provides a great walk through
article and sample code to boot.
Here’s the REST
SAMPLE CODE
Here’s the REST
ARTICLE
Enjoy guys.
The alternative is to create your own WCF Service in Windows Server AppFabric hosted
in IIS and then you’ve still got the problem of ’how’ to talk to BizTalk.
Choiceschoices 🙂
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
It has been a long time since my last blog post. It certainly hasn’t been for a lack of content but it is amazing how fast time flies when you are busy. I have been spending a lot of time lately working on composite applications and will be posting a number of entries around this topic.
One of the first questions that people ask is what is a composite app?
Composite apps can take on many forms and use many differing technologies. Many times people will talk about composite Apps and will only be referring to the UI tier. While the concept of a UI composite can be compared to a mashup (a UI that combines publically available web based services to create a meaningful combination of information to a user) a UI composite is built to use business sources – in many scenarios these sources (assets) already exist within the organization from previous application development efforts.
A composite app can also refer to just the middle tier as well. Many companies have spend a lot of time and money over the past many years building out SOA services. A composite app can consist of orchestration services that draw on the functionality of these different services. One thing to keep in mind however, is that a composite app is not make a SOA architecture. Instead they they will build on top of the work that has already been done to create a SOA architecture.
The idea of a composite app is to build upon existing software assets to quickly bring data to consumers in new way.
Many of the articles and blogs on this subject talk a lot around the UI tier. While that is a very important part of a composite application, I am going to spend time over the next few posts talking about composites at the middle tier.
There is a very good all-up article titled What Are Composite Applications from Atanu Banerjee where he walks through the full composite application stack. In this article he outlines three steps that a solution architect must do to design a composite application. Those things are to:
Each of these things are required so that the consumer can get the most benefit. Over and above this, the organization should start to benefit by realizing faster time-to-benefit turnaround as well as faster time-to-deployment. These two, along with exposing existing LOB data are the three driving factors that are making the idea of composite applications so popular.
In my next several posts, I will cover some of the technical choices, how to bring bridge between services that live in BizTalk and services that live in AppFabric, and some of the lessons learned.
Blog Post by: Stephen Kaufman
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 17th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting.
The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437.
Andy Morrison will be presenting on a Lap Around BizTalk 2010 and the ESB Toolkit 2.1
Blog Post by: skaufman
Just a quick one this, but useful for mature BizTalk solutions, where over time the configuration settings can get confused, meaning Debug configurations building in Release mode, or Deployment configurations building in Development mode. That can cause issues in the build which aren’t obvious, so it’s good to fix up the configurations.
It’s time-consuming in VS or in a text editor, so this bit of PowerShell may come in useful – just substitute your own solution path in the $path variable:
$path = ‘C:\x\y\z\x.y.z.Integration.sln’
$backupPath = [System.String]::Format(‘{0}.bak’, $path)
[System.IO.File]::Copy($path, $backupPath, $True)
$sln = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($path)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Debug|.NET.Build.0 = Deployment|.NET’, ‘.Debug|.NET.Build.0 = Development|.NET’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Debug|.NET.Deploy.0 = Deployment|.NET’, ‘.Debug|.NET.Deploy.0 = Development|.NET’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Deployment|.NET’, ‘.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Development|.NET’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Deployment|.NET.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU’, ‘.Deployment|.NET.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Deployment|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU’, ‘.Deployment|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Deployment|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU’, ‘.Deployment|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Deployment|Mixed Platforms.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU’, ‘.Deployment|Mixed Platforms.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Deployment|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU’, ‘.Deployment|Mixed Platforms.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Deployment|.NET.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU’, ‘.Deployment|.NET.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU’)
$sln = $sln.Replace(‘.Debug|.NET.ActiveCfg = Deployment|.NET’, ‘.Debug|.NET.ActiveCfg = Development|.NET’)
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($path, $sln)
The script creates a backup of the solution file first, and then fixes up all the configs to use the correct builds. It’s a simple search and replace list, so if there are any patterns that need to be added let me know and I’ll update the script.
A RegEx replace would be neater, but when it comes to hacking solution files, I prefer the conservative approach of knowing exactly what you’re changing.
I’m excited to announce that my first novel, a cyber thriller entitled Zero Day , is now available at all major book retailers! Zero Day is a book in the style of Crichton and Clancy, weaving technical fact into the story. If you like the Sysinternals…(read more)
Blog Post by: Mark Russinovich
When working on real world WCF solutions, we become pretty aware of the performance implications of the binding and behavior configuration of WCF services. However, whether it’s a known fact the different binding and behavior configurations have direct…(read more)
Blog Post by: gsusx
This post continues in the malware hunting theme of the last couple of posts as Zero Day availability draws near (it’s available tomorrow!). It began when a friend of mine at Microsoft told me that a neighbor of hers had a laptop that malware had rendered…(read more)
Blog Post by: Mark Russinovich
“Good People talk plans.Great people talk logistics” 🙂
Thanks Rahul – had to write that one down.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
I received this message in BizTalk 2006 R2 when transmitting an AS2 message. The fix was to disable the “Enable chunked encoding” on the HTTP send port configuration.