BizTalk™ Unleashed

Security

This section discusses security as it relates to ports and implementation technologies used in an XLANG schedule. As you already know, the schedule instance is created and managed by the XLANG Scheduler Engine. Both, the engine and the schedules are hosted as a COM+ application. Chapter 11 goes further into the details of this; however, the point is that, being COM+ applications, schedules abide by the native security mechanisms provided by Windows and COM+. These mechanisms consist of (among other things) access control based on role-based security and process identity. An application process that, for example, accesses a port on a running XLANG schedule must be appropriately authorized to do so. Chapter 11 describes these kinds of ...