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Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010

Vishal — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Architecture of PeopleSoft Adapter:

The BizTalk PeopleSoft Adapter is based on the BizTalk Server Adapter Framework. More info: How the Adapter Is Designed: The Adapter Framework. The PeopleSoft adapter basically communicates with the PeopleSoft Component Interfaces via the PeopleSoft JOLT protocol (over TCP/IP). The adapter communicates with PeopleSoft system by receiving a XML message which is later encapsulated into a SOAP request using the PeopleSoft psjoa classes. With this connection we can get the metadata to call into the existing Component Interfaces and generate the API schemas and use them within BizTalk Server for mapping, orchestrations at design time and runtime. According to Microsoft, if you need to have PeopleSoft Enterprise to initiate the call to BizTalk Server, they recommend using the HTTP adapter. More info : Creating a PeopleSoft HTTP Host and Port

More detailed information on PeopleSoft Adapter Architecture can be found on MSDN.

Requirements for PeopleSoft Adapter:

BizTalk Server Enterprise Adapters installed and configured and of course BizTalk Server 2010 installed and configured.
Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4.2 or later.
Access to the PeopleSoft Application Designer to deploy Component Interface. The PeopleSoft Application Designer does not have to be on the BizTalk server.

Installing BizTalk Server Enterprise Adapters:

Open the BizTalk Server 2010 setup and click Install Microsoft BizTalk Adapters.

Install Adapters packs for all the 4 Steps.

This concludes the installation the BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications. Don’t worry about the warning in Step1.

Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server:

Open BizTalk Server Administration Console –> Platform Settings –> Adapters –> Right Click –> New –> Adapter

In the new window, choose name as PeopleSoft and from the adapter dropdown choose PeopleSoft Enterprise. Click Apply –> OK and restart your Host Instances. Now you can see the PeopleSoft Adapter as the installed BizTalk Adapters.

This concludes the configuration of PeopleSoft adapter on the BizTalk side. Next is to create a Component Interface on the PeopleSoft side though which BizTalk PeopleSoft adapter can communicate.

Configuring a New Component Interface for PeopleSoft:

Environment

- PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52

- PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS 9.0

- Oracle Web Logic Server 10.3.4.0

- Tuxedo 10gR3

- JRockit JDK R28.1

Step1: Creating a New Component Interface:

Go to the Server where you have PeopleSoft Enterprise Application installed.
Go to Start –> All Programs –> PeopleSoft (can differ according to version you have installed) –> Application Designer. Log in with your PeopleSoft user ID.

On the File menu, click New. In the New dialog box, select Component Interface.

Click Select on the next window and it will show list of current CI. Select any Component Interface which does not have any keys. After you select the appropriate component, you see a message asking if you want the fields exposed in the selected component to become the default properties of the Component Interface.

Click Yes to confirm the Default Property Definitions or No if you don’t want any properties initially created.

On the File menu, click Save As. In File Name, enter GET_CI_INFO, and then click OK.

Right-click any method of your new Component Interfaces, and then click View PeopleCode. A new blank window will pop up.

Copy and paste the contents of <PeopleSoft installation directory>\PeopleSoft Enterprise\config\get_ci_info.pc into the window. Open the file in notepad and copy the contents of it.

On the File menu, click Save. You now have a new Component Interface.
Just to verify if you perfomed the steps correct. Close the Application Designer. Reopen Application Designer and Log in with your PeopleSoft user. Go to File –> Open –> Component Interface and browse to GET_CI_INFO and open it. You should see something similar as shown below.

Step2: Set the PeopleSoft Component Interface security:

In the below steps, the Permission lists, Roles and User Profile are just selected randomnly to display the steps. Please select the appropriate Permission List, Roles and User Profile according to your use and accessibility. Highly recommend setting up this security with a PeopleSoft Administrator person or a PeopleSoft expert.

Select PeopleTools, Security, Permissions & Roles, Permission Lists.

Click Search, select the relevant Permission List, and click the appropriate list hyperlink. The Permission List pane opens on the right.

Click the right arrow next to the Sign-on Times tab to display the Component Interfaces tab. Click the Component Interfaces tab.

Click the + button to add a new row to the Component Interfaces list.

Select the GET_CI_INFO component interface and click Edit.

Click Full Access (All) to set the methods to Full Access. Click OK.

Scroll down to the bottom of the Component Interfaces window and click Save.

Select PeopleTools, Security, Permissions & Roles, Roles. Click Search, select the relevant Role and click the appropriate list hyperlink.

The Role pane opens on the right. Click the Permission List tab.

Click the + button to add a new row to the Permission List.
Select the GET_CI_INFO Permission List.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Roles window and click Save. [Save as GET_CI_ROLE]

Select PeopleTools, Security, User Profiles, User Profiles.
Click Add New Value, type BizTalk into the text box, and click Add to display the General tab

Select a Symbolic ID in the drop-down box.
Type a Password and Confirm Password.
Choose an appropriate Navigator Homepage.
Choose an appropriate Process Profile.
Choose an appropriate Primary Permission List for the Primary field.
Choose an appropriate Row Security Permission List for the Row Security field.

Click the Roles tab.
Click the + button to add a new row to the Roles list.
Select the GET_CI_INFO Role.
Select the PeopleSoft User Role.
Select the Standard Non-Page Permissions Role.
Scroll down to the bottom of the User Profile window and click Save.

Step3: Testing the Component Interface:

Start PeopleSoft Application Designer. Click File, Open and select Definition = Component Interface.
Select GET_CI_INFO CI from the list of Component Interfaces.

After opening GET_CI_INFO, right-click anywhere in the right pane of your Component Interface definition and select Test Component Interface.

The Component Interface Tester dialog box appears.

GET_CI_INFO should not contain any keys. If keys are present, you need to return to Application Designer and remove them.

This concludes the set up of the GET_CI_INFO Component Interface needed to communicate with BizTalk Server.

In the next coming blog posts we will see how we can generate metadata with this GET_CI_INFO Component Interface.

Regards,

Vishal Mody

PS: Reference from MSDN article : Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for PeopleSoft

Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 – Part 3

Vishal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:20:02 GMT

Step 9: Completing the Database Setup:

This step is a very critical step and should performed with very much attention. Below mentioned steps are the ones which I thought were required for the environment I was building but I very highly recommend that you perform this step from the Oracle Installation document which can be found here. Look at Chapter 7 in this document.

Updating PeopleTools System Tables:

Here PS_HOME is the directory where you have installed your PeopleTools. In our case its C:\PT852 directory.
Got to PT852\scripts and run rel851u.sql and rel852u.sql sql scrips.
Edit and run the grant.sql script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory. This will grant permissions to the CONNECTID. Run the script as a user with Microsoft SQL Server system administrator privileges.
Invoke Data Mover by running PS_HOME\bin\client\winx86\psdmt.exe. The PeopleSoft Logon window appears.Log on using a valid PeopleSoft Operator ID, such as PS for HRMS.
Run the storeddl.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.
Invoke Data Mover by running PS_HOME\bin\client\winx86\psdmt.exe. The PeopleSoft Logon window appears. Log on using the ACCESSID you specified when you created your Data Mover scripts with the Database Setup program. This will start Data Mover in bootstrap mode.
Run the msgtlsupg.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory. This will update the PeopleSoft PeopleTools messages in your database.

Updating PeopleTools Database Objects

Launch Appplication Designer and sign on to your databse with a valid PeopleSoft UsedID.
Select Tools, Copy Project, From File.
In the resulting dialog box, change the import directory to PS_HOME\projects, select PPLTLS84CUR from the list of projects and click the Select button.

The Copy From File dialog box appears. Select all object types and then click the Copy button. When the progress window disappears, the project has been copied

Altering PeopleTools Tables:

Launch Application Designer with a valid PeopleSoft user ID and sign on to the installed database. Select File, Open. Select Project, enter PPLTLS84CUR in the name dialog box, and click OK.
Select Build, Project.

Select Create Tables and Alter Tables in the Build Options region.
Select Build script file in the Build Execute Options region.
Click Setting. The Build setting dialog box appears:

Click OK.The Build dialog box reappears. Click Build. Click Close when the process is completed.

Updating the PeopleTools System Data:

Invoke Data Mover by running PT852\bin\client\winx86\psdmt.exe. The peoplesoft logon window appears.
Log on with the AccessID and Password.
Run the DataMover scripts from the application database version. In our case run Pt851tls.dms and pt852tls.dms
Run the pslanguages.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.
Run the tlsupgnoncomp.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.
Open Data Mover using a valid PeopleSoft Operator ID, such as PS for HRMS
Run the msgtleng.dms Data Mover Script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.
Run the ptstreng.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.
Run the storept.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\src\cbl\base directory.
Run the ptdefnsec.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.
Run the createvw.dms Data Mover script in the PS_HOME\scripts directory.

This concludes post database configurations.

Step10: Configuring the Application Server on Windows:

Go to command prompt and go the the location C:\PT852\appserv
Type PSAdmin and click enter
Select 1 for Application Server and press enter.
Specit 2 to Create a domain and press enter.
Enter the domain name to create: say HR84
Specify 4 for small if this is your initial domain installation and press Enter.
After the system creates the domain, this prompt appears:
Would you like to configure this domain now? (y/n) [y] :

Enter y. The PeopleSoft Application Server Administration menu appears with a Quick-configure menu

similar to this:

---------------------------------------------------------

Quick-configure menu -- domain: HR84

---------------------------------------------------------

Features Settings

========== ==========

1) Pub/Sub Servers : No 15) DBNAME :[HR84]

2) Quick Server : No 16) DBTYPE :[MICROSFT]

3) Query Servers : No 17) UserId :[QEDMO]

4) Jolt : Yes 18) UserPswd :[QEDMO]

5) Jolt Relay : No 19) DomainID :[TESTSERV]

6) WSL : No 20) AddToPATH :[c:\Program FilesÞ

\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn]

7) PC Debugger : No 21) ConnectID :[people]

8) Event Notification : Yes 22) ConnectPswd :[peop1e]

9) MCF Servers : No 23) ServerName :[]

10) Perf Collator : No 24) WSL Port :[7000]

11) Analytic Servers : Yes 25) JSL Port :[9000]

12) Domains Gateway : No 26) JRAD Port :[9100]

13) Load config as shown

14) Custom configuration

h) Help for this menu

q) Return to previous menu

HINT: Enter 15 to edit DBNAME, then 13 to load

Enter selection (1-26, h, or q):

· Press 6 and Enter this is enable WSL

· Press 8 and Press Enter this will disable Event Notifications.

· Press 17 and type PS

· Press 18 and type PS

· Press 21 and Type PSCID ( This will be your connect ID)

· Press 22 and Type P@ssw0rd (This will be your connedID Password)

· Press 13 and this will Load the configuarations which we configured above.

In the next menu, select 1 to Boot this Domain
In the next menu, select 1 for Serial Boot and 2 for Parallel Boot. This will boot the domain which we created above.
Next we will be doing PIA installation so keep the App server up and running.
Check the screenshots for your references.

This concludes configuration of Application Server

Step11: Setting up the PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture(PIA):

Go to PS_HOME\setup\PsMpPIAInstall and run setup.bat.
Click Next on the Welcome to the Installation Wizard for PeopleSoft Internet Architecture window.
Next follow the instruction’s as shown in the screenshots below.

This will create a PIA domain. Next step is to start this Domain.
GO to Command Prompt and go to C:\PT852\appserv location
Type psadmin and Press Enter.
Specify 4 for Web PIA Server
Select 1 for Administer a domain.
Select the domain you want to administer by entering the appropriate number.
To start a web server domain, enter 1, Boot this domain.
The boot command invokes the startPIA.cmd script, and you see the progress and a status message on the console window.

Starting the domain..................

The domain has started.

Step12: Accessing the PeopleSoft Application:

Open your browser and go to the following URL : :8000/PS/signon.html">http://<MachineName>:8000/PS/signon.html .
In our case its http://WIN2K8:8000/PS/signon.html
In the user ID password, sign in with your PeopleSoft user and password. In our case it will be PS/PS

This concludes the installation and configuration of PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 Application.

Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 – Part 2

Vishal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:27:31 GMT

Step6: Installing People Tools 8.52:

After you download and extract the PeopleSoft PeopleTools installation files you can find the installer in PS_INSTALL/disk1. Launch the installer using setup.bat. Click Next when you see the Welcome screen for PeopleTools 8.52.
Follow the steps as shown in the screen shots below.

This concludes the installation of PeopleTools 8.52.

Step 7: Installation PeopleSoft Application Software (HRMS 9.0):

Download and extract the step up files at PS_APP_HOME location on C:\.
Launch the installer with Setup.bat.
Follow the instructions as shown in the screenshots below.

This concludes the installation of PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0

Step8: Installing and configuring PeopleSoft Databases:

Go to the location C:\PT853\setup\PsMpDbInstall, double click setup.exe
In the welcome screen click Next to continue and follow the instructions as shown in the screenshot below.

Next steps continued in Part 3.

Thanks,

Vishal Modi

Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 – Part 1

Vishal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:13:09 GMT

Environment what we are building consists of:

Operating System: Windows Server 2008 SP2.

Database Server: SQL Server 2008 with SP2.
PeopleSoft Application: PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System and Campus Solutions 9.0
PeopleTools: PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52
Web Server: Oracle Web Logic Server 10.3.4

The machine name given for this environment is WIN2K8 and currently only 1 user, the default one which is Administrator and it is the local admin.

The below steps are performed with reference to the installation document of PeopleTools 8.52 on Microsoft SQL Serer provided by Oracle which can be found here. This document is indeed very good and describes everything in very much details. Only drawback is that it is like 700 pages document and very tedious to go through and perform steps. Hence thought of writing same instruction set but in bit easy format and more screenshots. Although, if you are not short of time and you really want to understand the installation and how each piece of software goes hand in hand with other then I highly recommend performing the installation with the Oracle document.

Step1: Download and install SQL Server 2008 with SP2:

Minimum requirement is Service Pack 2. If you have SP2 installed then you should see the SQL Server Native Client version as 2007.100.4000.00 as shown below in the screenshot. As of date, the latest Service Pack out for SQL Server 2008 is SP3 so even if you install SP3 then it works.

Step2: Download all software required from Oracle

Go to Https://edelivery.oracle.com and sign in with your Oracle Account. If you do not have one, you can easily create one and its free registration.

On the Media Pack Search Page select Product Pack as PeopleSoft Enterprise and Platform as Microsoft Windows x64.

On the next page select PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System and Campus Solutions 9.0 Media Pack and select Continue.

On the next page download the following Softwares.

o PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System and Campus Solutions 9.0: Feature Pack - March 2011

o PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System and Campus Solutions 9.0 Supplemental Installation Information (Revision 3)

o PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 Disc 1 of 3

o PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 Disc 2 of 3

o PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 Disc 3 of 3

o Tuxedo 10gR3 for MS Windows Server 2008 w/MS VS 2008 x86 32-bit

o JRockit JDK R28.1 for Java SE 6 with JRockit Mission Control 4.0.1 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit x86)

o Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.4) Generic and Coherence

Step3: Installing JRockit for Microsoft Windows:

Unzip the downloaded file and double click the setup file. Click Next on the Welcome screen window.

Change the installation directory to C:\Program Files\Java\jrockit-jdk1.6.0_20-R28.1.0-4.0.1 and click next

Keep the default values on all other pages and as shown in below screen shots.

This concludes the installation of JRockit.

Step4: Installing Oracle WebLogic on Windows:

Save the installation file wls_generic.jar from Oracle EDelivery in the directory called WLS_Install on C:\
Open a command prompt and go to WLS_INSTALL.
Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to be the location where you installed the JRockit and Use the following command to launch the installer.

set JAVA_HOME=”C:\Program Files\Java\jrockit-jdk1.6.0_20-R28.1.0”

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -jar wls1034_generic.jar -mode=GUI -log=C:\WLS_Install\Wls1034Install.log

Wait for few seconds or also this might take few minutes and the Oracle WebLogic Installer Window will come up. Follow the instructionas as shown in the screenshots for next installation steps.

Remove the check box which says “I wish to receive security updates via My Oracle Support” . And click yes to remain uninformed for next 2 windows.

This concludes the Installation of Oracle Web Logic Server 10.3.4.0

Step5: Installing Oracle Tuxedo:

Save the zip file to a temporary directory on your local system, referred to in this documentation as TUX_INSTALL.. Extract the files into TUX_INSTALL.
First you need to designate an existing user or create a new user such as TUXADM to be the Application Server Administrator. The Application Server Administrator and not the Windows Administrator. This user will install Oracle Tuxedo. The designated user must be a local Microsoft Windows administrator and must have full system privileges. The PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 program for the Oracle Tuxedo installation creates a new service for Microsoft Windows called “ORACLE ProcMGR V10gR3 with VS2008” for which you need administrator privileges. Administrator rights are required since system registry settings are updated. Once this new service is created, you must reboot to start it.
To designate the Application Server Administrator:

1. To add the user, add the user ID by choosing Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Local Users and Groups.

2. Expand Local Users and Groups.

3. If the user ID does not yet exist, highlight the Users folder, and select Action, New User.

4. On the New User dialog box, specify the information for the new account. Make sure to deselect the User must change password at next logon check box.

5. Expand the Groups folder.

6. Right-click the Administrators group, and select All Tasks, Add to Group, Add.

7. Click Locations to select the local machine or the network domain in which you created the new user.

8. Enter the new user name you created in the object names box.

9. Click OK, and click Apply and OK again to accept the changes.

Double-click TUX_INSTALL\tuxedo10gR3_32_win_2k8_x86_VS2008.exe to begin the installation process. Click OK on the initial window.
Follow the steps shown in screenshots below.

Go to Windows –> Services

Instead of Administrator use the User account name which you created in the first few steps of Oracle Tuxedo Installation.

This concludes the installation and configuration of Oracle Tuxedo.

Next steps continued in Part 2.

Thanks,

Vishal Modi

HERMES : A pub/sub infrastructure over HTTP. Good News - It’s an Open Source Technology

Vishal — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:54:27 GMT

Today we are glad to announce HERMES, an Open Source Infrastructure for publish subscribe messaging model based on MongoDB and RESTful Services.

This is 8^th release of an open source project from TellagoDevLabs on Codeplex. Hermes is months of hard work by us, including Silvio Massari, Jose Romaniello and Gustavo Machado.

Hermes is not BizTalk Server. BizTalk Server has pub-sub mechanism in its infrastructure but in very traditional way and it hasn’t provided a foundation that can be seamlessly used by any .NET application. BizTalk pushes the message to its subscribers. If the subscribers are down, BizTalk retries it with the retry configurations. Even after all the retries, it suspends the message. In Hermes model, it not only pushes the message to the subscriber but also the Subscriber can come and poll for the message. Though, Hermes is not a message broker. Hermes does not care about what message it has been sent to what subscriber. Also, all the transformation are taken care by the subscriber and this removes that responsibility of the messaging engine of Hermes. Solely, Pub/Sub.

Hermes is over HTTP so it can be used by any Platform which makes everything really easy. Mostly all the platforms today have capability to communicate over HTTP. Hermes is very light weight and it can run easily on premise. Check, how to setup Hermes on your machine. Also we are looking forward to test Hermes on “The Cloud”.

Hermes uses MongoDB to store its messages. MongoDB, which itself is ridiculously fast and hence, Hermes is very very fast. Using MongoDB, it made it extremely easy to store, partition and index high volumes of messages for a large number of topics and subscriptions. Hermes also has an Admin Portal where you can administer Topics, Groups, Publishers, Subscribers and some statistics. You can even push messages through this portal. We are currently working on enhancing this portal.

We also provide a Client Library for C#. Using this library, it becomes fairly simple to create Groups, Topics, Subscriptions etc. You can find a sample on how to use this library with the source code.

Licensing: Hermes is using BSD license. Completely Open Source.

You can check the Hermes documentation here. Read more about Hermes annoucement on Jesus Rodriguez blog post.

What’s Next:

Enhance the Administration Portal of Hermes.
Provide more sample applications using Hermes.
Enhance the REST API.
Build a JavaScript Client Library.
Hermes deployment on the “Cloud”. (AmazonEC2 and Windows Azure)
Explore new Messaging patterns.

Give it a try with Hermes and we are looking forward to hear feedback from you.

Thanks,

Vishal Mody

Biztalk receive location polling RESTful Service. (HTTP GET)

Vishal — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:55:04 GMT

Hi there,

Recently we had a requirement to integrate a RESTful Service with BizTalk Server. Well no biggie. You can use WCF – Custom Adapter and use webHTTP binding and add a webHttp Endpoint behavior. Wala. Easy to say, little bit tricky to do.

You can look at some of these post by my company folks Jesus Rodriguez, Adrian & Leandro and also nice one on MSDN. Well there are bunch of other posts out there.

That all is fine, but what if you want to have a polling receive location which needs to go and do an HTTP GET to a RESTful Service. Aahh!! That’s even more trickier. Bunch of you reading this post would have already thought about some or other way of doing it.

1. Create a basic windows service which runs at scheduled time and drops a message into BizTalk and Biztalk picks up, a RESTful send port subscribes to that message and do the regular RESTful call.

2. Have a SQL Task to drop a message and have a RESTful SendPort to do the regular RESTful call.

3. Many more way..

But what if we can have a Receive Port itself polling at regular interval and make the RESTful Service call? This eliminates the need of unnecessary windows service or the SQL Task or any other triggering process you think of. Cool right..!!

So I came across the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter.

This is a task scheduling adapter which can execute a prescribed task at a configured time. It comes with few default scheduling tasks like XmlString, FileReader, HttpDownload. Also has few version of it out there which can work with almost all versions of BizTalk Server. Lot of people are using it without any issues.

How does it solve our scenario of invoking RESTful Service?

Well, I decided to write a custom Task for it which will be invoking the RESTful Service. I tried to make this component pretty generic so that anyone can use it but ofcourse, it also depends upon type of RESTful service you are invoking. Few might need authentication, keys etc. You can always extend it according to your needs. Anyways, below is how you can use it.

1. Download and install the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter. Here is a blog post on how you can use the defaults Tasks which comes with it.

2. Download and Open the RESTServiceAdapterProvider Project in Visual Studio. Compile the code and GAC the assembly if it does not do it by itself.

3. Open BizTalk Server Admin Console and create a new Receive Port, Receive Location under your application.

4. In the receive location properties, Adapter type = Scheduler. This is the name you give to the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter while configuring it. If you don’t see this make sure you go to the Platform Setting à Adapters à New Adapter and from the drop down select the Schedule Adapter and name it whatever you want. In my case, I named it as Scheduler.

5. Next click Configure next the Adapter Type. In the configuration window, type the name of Schedule Task you want to give. In this case “RESTfulScheduler”

6. Next click the Schedule tab on this window and specify the time you want this scheduler to run.

7. Next click the Task tab on the same window and under the Class, click Find Task and Click browse under Assembly Qualified Type Name and select the RESTServiceAdapterProvider.dll from the file location of the RESTServiceAdapterProvider project.

8. In the Assembly Qualified Type Name, select RESTProvider and click Select and its fully qualified name will appear at the bottom and click OK.

9. If you get Invalid Assembly class selected, make sure you Gac the RestProvider dll, close the BTS Admin Console, reopen it and restart the HostInstance and try again.

10. Next specify the URL, Content Type, WebMethod and click Apply, OK.

11. Once you are done configuring, you will see the URI as : schedule://TimeSpan/RESTfulScheduler

12. Next is according to your requirements for the message. You can have pipeline component doing bunch of stuff or have orchestration, schemas, maps, business rules for this message or have a send port subscribing to this message. Anything.

You can download the source code of the RESTfulAdapterProvider here

So, above you saw way of configuring a BizTalk Receive Location Polling a RESTful Service. Thanks for reading.

-Vishal Mody

Telesharp: An application metadata repository that enables true agility in enterprise .NET applications.

Vishal — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:07:18 GMT

Tellago Studios proudly announces its newest product, a third one within a year of time : TELESHARP

.NET Configuration Management has always been a nightmare for any enterprise. TeleSharp is an innovative product that addresses the most common challenges of .NET applications in the enterprise. After years of struggle developing and managing large .NET applications, we decided to create a tool that makes .NET applications truly agile.

You can read more about Telesharp and what difference it can make into your enterprise. Also if you want to see Telesharp in action, check the videos about it.

Click here to get more information about TeleSharp trial version!

Click here to register for the TeleSharp webinar on July 6th from 2PM - 3PM EST.

-Vishal

Tellago announces the montly webinar series : Tellago Technology Updates

Vishal — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:22:47 GMT

Hi there,

After the successful launch of the new website for Tellago, today we announce the new series of webinar’s called the Tellago Technology Updates. Today in the fast growing IT Industry it is very difficult to stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest Technologies out there in the market. Doesn’t matter if you are a Developer or an Architect or CTO for a company but you are every now and then challenged to evaluate new technologies and implement them.

Understanding that challenge, we at Tellago had started a weekly Tellago Technology Dojo where we have open discussion about the latest technologies out there. This Technology Dojo was a great success and today we are happy to announce a similar version of the Dojo as the Tellago Technology Updates. These are a montly series of webinars intended to help decision makers, developers and IT Professionals to understand the latest technology trends in the software industry as well as the strategies to leverage them in their organizations. These webinars will cover emerging technologies in the software industry from a practical standpoint that reflects the perspective of decision makers, developers and IT professionals.

We try to stay away from boring formal presentations and instead foment a practical dialog with the attendees in which we help them to understand the benefits and challenges of adopting specific technologies in their organizations.

UPCOMING WEBINARS:

NoSQL databases for the .NET developer: What’s the fuss all about?

Date: May 24 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

http://www.regonline.com/970013

NOSQL (Not Only SQL) databases are one of the hottest technology trends in the software industry. Ranging from web companies like Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter to IT power houses such as the US Federal Government, Banks or NASA; the number of companies that invest in the NOSQL paradigm as part of their infrastructure is growing exponentially. What is this NOSQL movement? What are the different types of NOSQL databases? What are the real advantages, challenges and ROIs? Can we leverage NOSQL databases from my .NET applications? This webinar will present an overview of the NOSQL movement from the perspectives of a .NET developer. We will explore the different types of NOSQL databases as well as their .NET interfaces. Finally, we will present a series of real world examples that illustrate how other companies have taken advantage of NOSQL databases as part of their infrastructure.

I like IPhone and Android but I am a .NET developer: Developing .NET applications for IPhone and Android

Date: Jun 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

https://www.regonline.com/developingnetapplicationsforiphoneandandroid

Do you have an investment in Microsoft technologies but are starting to develop mobile applications for the IPhone, IPad and Android devices?
Wouldn’t you love to be able to build IPhone, IPad and Android applications using the .NET framework? After years of working with Microsoft.NET-based solutions, your developers have become very proficient at delivering solutions using Microsoft technologies. Now your business and customers are looking to build applications that target the IPhone, IPad and Android ecosystems. Can you reuse your existing investment in .NET technologies? This session will highlight the strategies for developing IPhone, IPad and Android applications using the .NET Framework. The session will explore the existing technologies that make this possible as well as challenges and benefits compared to alternative approaches. Our practical viewpoint will help you to start strategizing how to extend your existing investment in .NET technologies to the IPhone, IPad and Android ecosystems. We will share real world stories of companies that already invested in this path and we will explore different ideas to get you started.

Thanks and looking forward to see you at the Tellago Technology Updates.

Vishal Mody

TellagoStudio's presenting SOA Governance on the Microsoft platform using SO-Aware at Microsoft TechReady.

Vishal — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:30:41 GMT

Hi there,

Microsoft is hosting the first edition of their annual TechReddy conference. TechReady is an internal Microsoft conference but Microsoft invited Tellago Studios to present a session about how to enable Agile SOA Governance on the Microsoft platform using our recently release product: SO-Aware.

As part of our session, we will take a look at the current challenges that organizations face when enabling SOA governance capabilities on the Microsoft platform and how organizations can benefit from more agile, lightweight and modern SOA governance models.

The session will provide a practical view to the role of Tellago Studios' SO-Aware as an essential technology to enable native SOA governance on the Microsoft platform. We will explore in detail important capabilities of SO-Aware such as

Centralized service repository
Centralized configuration management
Service testing
Monitoring
Transparent integration with technologies such as Visual Studio, BizTalk Server, Windows Server & Azure AppFabric among many others

But the fun doesn't stop there.....

As part of this session, we will showcase for the first time our upcoming SO-Aware Test Workbench product which enables load and functional web service testing capabilities on the Microsoft technology stack.

SO-Aware Test Workbench provides developers with a visually rich environment to model and control the execution of load and functional tests in a SOA infrastructure. This tool includes the first native WCF load testing engine allowing developers to transparently load test applications built on Microsoft's service oriented technologies such as WCF, BizTalk Server or the Windows Server or Azure AppFabric.

UDDI vs SO-Aware: Why SO-Aware is the More Efficient and Interoperable Alternative

Vishal — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:57:37 GMT

Hello folks,

If you are implementing a service oriented architecture, and are unsure of the best governance approach to follow, then this webinar is a must-attend event for you. We will discuss why SO-Aware is the more efficient and interoperable alternative to traditional UDDI-based SOA-governance.

Specifically, we will address the differences between UDDI and SO-Aware in terms of service discovery, configuration, and policy resolution. Finally, we will address why the REST/Odata based model implemented by SO-Aware enables the most efficient governance not only for WCF but for BizTalk, the Windows Server AppFabric and the Windows Azure AppFabric as well.

Join us on January 26^th at 2:00 ET - to register, click here

Thanks,

Vishal