CHAPTER 5

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Orchestrations

If publish/subscribe messaging capabilities are at the heart of BizTalk, then process orchestration capabilities are BizTalk’s brain. A BizTalk orchestration can define a complex integration process, coordinating the flow of information when simple data synchronization will not suffice. BizTalk provides a graphical design tool for defining these integration processes. These orchestration capabilities build upon the foundational publish/subscribe architecture of the BizTalk messaging runtime.

In the simplest cases, integration is strictly about receiving information from one system and delivering it to another. Accordingly, ...

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