Introduction

BizTalk is a development platform and lends itself to a wide variety of implementation styles. After you’ve worked with the platform on a number of projects, however, you will find that there are really only a few patterns that meet the critical requirements of a welldeveloped solution. With every project, you must ask the following questions:

  1. Do I have all of the requirements, and is the business communicating the correct requirements to me?
  2. 2. Is there a way to architect this solution that will ensure I have the simplest set of components required to successfully deliver?
  3. Will I be able to easily communicate how to work with this to someone else?
  4. Is my solution maintainable and supportable?

The examples outlined in this book ...

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