Re: Newbie : batching the input XML files

There's an impact on performance, but check out the idea of a "convoy pattern" by which you use a single orchestration instance to collect up the messages in your batch, combine them all together, and send out a single file.  Check out the whitepaper by the man himself, Stephen Thomas …. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bts_2004wp/html/956fd4cb-aacc-43ee-99b6-f6137a5a2914.asp?frame=true.