Design patterns within the BizTalk architecture

In addition to being a great application server, BizTalk serves as a model in application architecture and design. The following sections explore some of the architectural features of the product itself ranging from core precepts to more subtle implementation details.

Messaging

Messaging has become an overloaded term in technical parlance these days. You can ask different parts of the technical (IT) community what messaging means and get very different answers. Almost all of them legitimate. To some, messaging represents e-mail and instant messenger or human communication. If this is the camp you find yourself in, I am afraid you have purchased the wrong book. Increasingly, messaging means an interaction ...

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