Professional BizTalk® Server 2006

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. About the Authors
3. Credits
4. Acknowledgments
5. Foreword
6. Introduction
7. Technology Primer
   1. XML Schema
   2. XML Namespaces
   3. XPath
   4. Serializable Classes
   5. Summary
8. BizTalk Architecture
   1. Why BizTalk?
   2. Architecture Overview
   3. Messages
   4. Adapters
   5. Pipelines
   6. Subscriptions
   7. MessageBox
   8. Orchestrations
   9. Enterprise Single Sign-On
   10. Business Activity Monitoring
   11. Rules Engine
   12. Hosts
   13. Summary
9. Adapters
   1. Overview
   2. In-Box Adapters
   3. Summary
10. Pipelines
    1. Architecture and Concepts
    2. Pipeline Stages
    3. Pipeline Configuration
    4. Developing a Custom Pipeline Component
    5. Creating a Pipeline Component
    6. Summary
11. Orchestrations
    1. The Orchestration Execution Environment
    2. Orchestration Development
    3. Summary
12. Business Activity Monitoring
    1. Overview
    2. BAM Fundamentals
    3. Tracking Profile Editor
    4. BAM API
    5. Applied BAM
    6. Summary
13. Business Rules Engine
    1. BRE Basics
    2. Business Rule Composer
    3. Hosting
    4. Testing
    5. Invoking Rules
    6. Short-Term/Long-Term Facts
    7. Tracking Interceptor
    8. Rule Store
    9. Updating and Caching Rules
    10. Custom Rules Editor
    11. Deploying Rules
    12. Summary
14. Testing
    1. Overview
    2. The Build Process
    3. Unit Testing
    4. Functional Testing
    5. Integration Testing
    6. Performance Testing and Tuning
    7. Stress Testing
    8. User Acceptance Testing
    9. Disaster Recovery Testing
    10. Production Support Testing
    11. Summary
15. Performance and Scalability
    1. Laying the Foundations
    2. Monitoring
    3. Common Symptoms
    4. Summary
16. Low Latency
    1. What Is Low Latency?
    2. The BizTalk Processing Model
    3. Measuring Latency
    4. Tuning BizTalk for Low Latency
    5. Orchestration Inline Sends
    6. Summary
17. Administration
    1. What to Manage
    2. The Administration Toolkit
    3. Regular Administration Tasks
    4. Troubleshooting BizTalk
    5. Essential ESSO Maintenance
    6. Tools to Assist You
    7. Troubleshooting DTC Problems
    8. Preventive Administration Tasks
    9. SQL Server — From a BizTalk Perspective
    10. BizTalk Monitoring
    11. Summary
18. End-to-End Scenarios
    1. The Scenarios
    2. The Business Process Management Scenario
    3. The Service-Oriented Scenario
    4. The Business-to-Business Scenario
    5. Summary
19. BizTalk Best Practices
    1. Processing Large Messages
    2. Looping/Storing Messages
    3. Storing Configuration Data
    4. Subscribing to Failure Messages
    5. No Suspended Messages/Orchestrations
    6. Loosely Coupling
    7. Process Manager Pattern
    8. Instrumenting Your Solution
    9. First In, First Out
    10. Summary
20. Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk
    1. Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation
    2. BizTalk Server and Windows Workflow
    3. Summary
21. Index