BizTalkAdapters for WCF: Deep Dive
Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight
This session was very good, with Aaron having only a couple of slides on the WCF adapters that come with BizTalk Server 2006 R2. The first slide showing the WCF Runtime Architecture as shown below:
Aaron spoke about the runtime architecture and then went on to speak about the WCF Adapters, as shown in the following diagram:
Following the short PowerPoint presentation Aaron showed a few code demos of the adapters being used in BizTalk calling a WCF service. Most of the demos covered the whitepaper written him and available from MSDN – WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
In my view this was by far the best presentation that I’ve seen so far in this years conference.
Links: Service Station – Aaron Skonnard
Mission Critical BizTalk in Telecoms
Bruno Rodrigues, Oi/Telemar – Brazil
Bruno spoke about the integration challenges faced when integrating multiple Billing, CRM and network platforms while trying to provision services like land lines, mobile phones and data products. From a technical standpoint there wasn’t much in terms of design and code, but from a business value view, the presentation clearly identified the benefits of the solution – reducing operating costs and improving productivity.
Healthcare Enterprise Integration: SOA Solutions
Simon Chester & Jason Shantz, Senior Consultants, Knowledge Tech
I was looking forward to seeing Simon and Jason speak about this topic for a while. Both are past colleagues of mine while working at Sunaptic Solutions and then Visiphor. Their presentation covered a Healthcare BizTalk – HL7 implementation in British Columbia while working at Sunaptic Solutions. Simon led the first half of the presentation speaking about the implementation and issues that they ran into during the implementation, viz. issues with ordered delivery, using the canonical model and the number of artifacts created by the model, the challenges of the dependencies between these, deployment, scalability. He then came up with a wishlist of capabilities that would have made the solution design simpler and the implementation more manageable. Jason (a BizTalk Server Virtual Technical Specialist) then stepped up and addressed Simon’s wishlist and explained how with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 would help to meet these challenges.
Links: Simon Chester
Connections in the Cloud – BizTalk Services and WCF
Justin Smith, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
The presentation covered the Internet Service Bus hosted by Microsoft which has the following benefits:
- Firewall friendly messaging
- Scalability pub/sub engine for internet
- Standards based security
- Http/REST transformations
- Discoverability
Currently it is available in CTP (Community Technology Preview) at http://labs.biztalk.net. To get started download and install BizTalk Services SDK. Justin went on and spoke about getting started with samples.
The Internet Service Bus is integral to the “Oslo” vision of having composite applications spanning systems, evolving into Software + Services.
Microsoft, Microsoft SOA Conference, BizTalk, Oslo, Software + Services, Internet Service Bus, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF
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