As you may or may not have heard, a WCF adapter will be included in BizTalk Server 2006 R2! It won’t actually be a single adapter, but instead there will be multiple adapters with each one exposing one of the bindings that are included in WCF. Each adapter will also include a custom UI for configuring the most commonly used features of that particular binding. Do you have a custom binding? No Worries! There will also be a “Custom Binding” adapter that essentially opens the floodgates of WCF extensibility.
Here are some of the supported use cases for the WCF adapters:
- Exposing BizTalk orchestrations as a WCF web service
- Exposing BizTalk Content Based Routing applications as a WCF web service
- Consuming a WCF service from BizTalk orchestrations
- Consuming a WCF service from Content Based Routing applications
- Transactional message receive
- Transactional message send
- Using WS-* headers for routing and message processing
- Using custom headers for routing and message processing
- Using custom binding elements
- Using custom bindings
- Using BizTalk dynamic send ports
- Using BizTalk as SOAP intermediary
The WCF adapters will support the following WCF transports:
- HTTP / HTTPS
- SOAP
- MTOM
- TCP
- MSMQ
- Named Pipes
If you or your customers are interested in joining the Technical Adoption Program for this adapter, please email btsr2tap@microsoft.com.
Thanks,
Joe