BizTalk™ Unleashed

Serializer Design

In this section, we will design a custom serializer that we will implement in the next section. To this point, we have covered the architecture of the BizTalk channel in which custom functoids, parsers, and serializers have a role. The preceding few sections implemented a custom functoid and custom parser. The test driver for the custom parser accepted non-XML data and input XML data to the channel. In a real application, the XML data would exit the channel and provide input to an application such as an XLANG schedule. In our sample, the resultant XML exited the channel by e-mail or by file. In this section and the next, non-XML data will exit the channel.

A serializer operates generally as follows. It accepts from BizTalk a ...