September 2004 Entries
The glossary in the help file describes role links as "The relationship between roles defined by the message and port types used in the interactions in both directions". Hmmm...that sort of hurts my head. What role links are useful for is to abstract your business process from your trading partner or a disparate system. For example, let's say that I have a feed that comes out of my backend system, and the business process is the same for 25 vendors. Some of the vendors need this feed in a flat file,...
A key part, and sometimes overlooked part of any integration project are the operational requirements. Everyone is very busy trying to figure out how the whole solution is going to work, but someone needs to determine how this thing is going to continue to operate. Keep in mind that there are all kinds of thing that can make your solution stop working such as passwords getting changed (a typical enterprise security requirement), software patches getting installed, etc. Additionally, things need to...
After reading so many of the other blogs out there on BizTalk, I thought I would take a stab at my own. I have read many of the blogs faithfully, and have even had a chance to work with some of you (IT is a small world, isn’t it??). I hope to post some useful content out here, and I encourage your feedback. Please return shortly as I’m currently working on ideas to begin with in the days to follow. Cheers, Todd...