The Fundamentals of Messaging
It might be confusing for some to understand how BizTalk Messaging is different from, say, Microsoft Exchange or some other typical e-mail application. The primary difference between the two is that Microsoft BizTalk Server can send and receive documents using multiple protocols and almost any document type imaginable, whereas applications such as Exchange expect a particular type of document to be delivered over a predetermined protocol—for example, SMTP. BizTalk Server 2002 offers more flexibility in that it can wait for data to be delivered from the Internet “cloud” and then, based on information in the document itself, determine how to process it. This is not to say that BizTalk can't take advantage of direct ...
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