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At TechEd: BizTalk rev includes wizard for SOA development
By Jack Vaughan
At TechEd in Orlando, Microsoft detailed updates to BizTalk Server that include an interface for connecting applications in a service oriented manner. The server provides a BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard that helps developers service-enable a work process, said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business, Microsoft, at TechEd.
Much of Microsoft’s effort to create what it describes as an “Internet Service Bus” for enterprises rests on this BizTalk rev, dubbed BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
In a keynote address, Muglia indicated that wizards like the WCF Service Publishing Wizard will be a key to implementing sometimes-difficult service-oriented architectures. Using BizTalk Services, Microsoft developers will be able to build new composite applications, including legacy systems, he said.
“What we see as the future is that applications will need to have a basis to reach out and work with consumer [applications] of many types, and, in that kind of environment, to use SOA [Service-Oriented Architecture] technology to create overall bus applications that wrap those things together,” said Microsoft’s Muglia.
Over several years, BizTalk Server has variously been described as an e-business engine, an XML server, as a workflow engine, and as a business process orchestrator.
The upcoming BizTalk Server 2006 R2 version extends the platform by improving support for EDI and RFID. The server is due to ship in Q3/'07.
It natively supports EDI and AS2 protocols and now includes a Base EDI adapter that handles X12 and EDIFACT messages. Meanwhile, the RFID enhancements provide fairly sophisticated event management, which is increasingly needed in emerging RFID applications. Such apps use electronic radio tags to act much as bar codes now do as identifiers for commercial inventory of all kinds.
Microsoft officials said BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is fashioned to work well with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista, as well as with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.
The company’s approach to BizTalk Server RFID implementations is interesting, as it takes into account the unique nature of emerging RFID apps, which can create large amounts of data for servers to aggregate and work on.
“We support both asynchronous and synchronous models,” said Anush Kumar, product manager, BizTalk RFID, Microsoft. In the asynchronous mode, you can enforce declarative rules-based policy using BizTalks’s rules engine.”
Kumar said developers are able to work with their models of incoming data to create the right mix of filtering, aggregation, and transformation.
“It lets you decrease the 'noise' and increase the business relevance across distributed streams of data so [the data] makes sense to the systems that are consuming it,” he said.
Microsoft used Dundas Software’s Data Visualization controls to provide some new drag-and-drop design capabilities within the BizTalk development platform. At the conference the company announced that it had acquired the Data Visualization product line from Dundas. While helping visual design in a number of ways, the acquired tools will likely be most first put to use improving the look and feel of SQL Server reporting applications.
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