Chapter 1: Building BizTalk Server 2009 Solutions
A brief walkthrough of creating a new BizTalk project from scratch.
Demonstrations: Building schemas, creating maps, configuring messaging, and incorporating orchestration.
Chapter 2: Windows Communication Foundation Primer
An overview of WCF with examples of developing, hosting, and consuming WCF services.
Demonstrations: Defining service contracts, adding data contracts, designing fault contracts, self-hosting of services, and consuming WCF services.
Chapter 3: Using WCF Services in BizTalk Server 2009
An explanation of the marriage between BizTalk and WCF and how to both expose and consume WCF services within BizTalk Server.
Demonstrations: Exposing WCF services from orchestrations, exposing WCF services from schemas, consuming WCF services from orchestrations, and consuming WCF services without orchestration.
Chapter 4: Planning Service Oriented BizTalk Solutions
A discussion of the core aspects of SOA, the types of services one can construct, available message exchange patterns, and how service-oriented principles apply to BizTalk solutions.
Chapter 5: Schema and Endpoint Patterns
How to build effective schemas and endpoints depending on the type of service constructed.
Demonstrations: Designing RPC, document and event schemas, building canonical schemas, reusing schemas, node feature mapping for service clients, building generic schemas, and constructing contract-first endpoints.
Chapter 6: Asynchronous Communication Patterns
A look at options for asynchronous communication and how to exploit this pattern in BizTalk solutions.
Demonstrations: Creating synchronous WCF services, building client-side asynchronous experiences, creating asynchronous WCF services, consuming asynchronous services in BizTalk Server, exposing asynchronous services from BizTalk Server, building WCF services that support client callback, BizTalk solutions for client callbacks, and using MSMQ for asynchronous solutions.
Chapter 7: Orchestration Patterns
We analyze the role of orchestration in service solutions and see how to build loosely coupled workflow processes.
Demonstrations: Dynamic consumption of WCF endpoints, supporting dual initiating message exchange patterns, chaining orchestrations using business rules, transactions in aggregate service orchestrations, and building a complex event processing solution.
Chapter 8: Versioning Patterns
We see here how to effectively version our SOA solutions and cleanly introduce updates to our BizTalk components.
Demonstrations: How to version schemas, how to version endpoints, exploiting user-defined WSDLs in BizTalk endpoints, versioning long-running orchestration solutions, and delaying change through the use of flexible schema fields and generic on-ramps.
Chapter 9: New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: WCF SQL Server Adapter
Using the WCF SQL Server Adapter to implement composite transactions, poll for data changes, receive query notification, consuming the adapter through its binding, auto-generating an HTTP endpoint for the adapter, and building a proxy service for the adapter.
Chapter 10: New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: UDDI Services
Adding services to the UDDI registry, performing dynamic endpoint resolution, and configuring the new subscription notification feature.
Chapter 11: New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: ESB Guidance 2.0
Using the ESB Guidance transformation service, resolver service and exception service, designing routing itineraries, transformation itineraries and complex itineraries that consume both the WCF SQL Server Adapter and a custom orchestration.
Chapter 12: What's Next
A brief wrap-up and discussion of upcoming technologies from Microsoft.
