Chapter 7. Leveraging Orchestration
Messaging only solutions can be made very powerful and complex, but some actions are best done with a more robust and feature-rich toolset. This is what orchestration was designed to address. This chapter introduces orchestration in BizTalk and refactors our current solution to incorporate orchestration. We will then see how to use orchestration for service composition including error and fault handling.
Introducing orchestration
Orchestration is the workflow engine of BizTalk. It allows developers to create sequential workflows similar to flowcharts commonly used by business analysts. The orchestration engine predates Workflow Foundation (WF), but was created by the same team and many of the concepts are similar. ...
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