Soap inbound & outbound for synchronous application integration.

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    • March 16, 2007 at 2:15 PM #18019
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        I am a java developer moving into the .NET world (being evangelized).  Please help me to make my moving experience smooth.

        I was commanded by upper management to use BizTalk for integrating all our applications (interoperability). I need to use Biztalk for Integrating my company applications running on disparate platforms (IBM OS/390 -Cobol, Siebel in Unix, Java in Linux as well as Windows).  That's why I want to use SOAP over HTTP for overcoming interoperability problems.

        SOAP call (inbound)  ->  Orchestration  ->  SOAP call (outbound). 
                                              |     |     |   |
                                        Other calls to 3rd.party.

        Problem: I cannot find any tutorial or sample that might help me on this task. 
        BTW, I found a lot of information (MSDN tutorials & samples)  about Web Services calls, BUT from -inside- the orchestration. Not inbound or outbound.

        Please I beg your help on this problem. BTW, on Biztalk Architectural docs, it says it supports these kind of inbound and outbound hooks but no detail info.
        Thanks so much in advance.
        DiegoUcedo

      • March 16, 2007 at 4:32 PM #18020
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          Hmm.  Not sure exactly what you're looking for, but I can point you to this (http://seroter.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/handling-and-throwing-soap-exceptions-from-biztalk/ – which shows calling a BizTalk workflow which calls another service and returns a sych response to initial caller) and this (http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/10/using-only-biztalk-messaging-with-request-response-on-both-ends.aspx – shows you how to do sync communication even without an orchestration).

          • March 21, 2007 at 6:35 PM #18090
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              Thanks Richard,
              I think my problem falls in the category of Service Oriented Scenario Architecture. By accident i run into your webcast "Biztalk Server 2006: End to End Scenarios" that gave some light to face this problem.

              Thanks so much guys for your help.  I am still wonder why MSDN does not provide detailed info about it. But having you guru guys supporting us is very,very helpful.

              -DiegoUcedo

               

          • March 16, 2007 at 11:04 PM #18021
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              I'm not sure what you mean by "inbound and outbound" SOAP calls. Are you talking about a request/response scenario?

              In either case, what you're looking for is called "exposing an orchestration as a web service" (searching for that will give you better results), which is done using the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard that you'll find in the Visual Studio Tools menu.

              Since it sounds like you're doing synchronous messaging, you'll probably want to read the low-latency tuning whitepaper (it was written for 2004, but it still applies in 2006).
               

               

               

              • March 19, 2007 at 7:44 AM #18032
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                  Yeah that is what he probably needs…exposing orchestrations as web service.

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