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As all architects and developers know, the tenets of service-oriented architecture call for breaking large monolithic processes into more granular, purpose-specific blocks of functionality that solve specific needs, and exposing those as services. This is not really new thinking. Languages have long supported the notion of breaking logic into discrete units. If applied properly, this approach will yield a series of services that can potentially be aggregated in different ways to provide different solutions. In short, this building-the-building-blocks approach is a cornerstone of reuse. In contemporary development trends, these chunks of functionality are increasingly exposed as Web services. From a process-engineering standpoint, it makes sense to apply the same appro... (more)

BizTalk Orchestration Futures* Live from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference *

(October 30, 2003) - Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a friendly giant came down from the mountain with a gift for developers… Sorry, wrong audience. BizTalk Server 2004 was officially unveiled at Tech-Ed 2003 in Dallas, just a few short months ago. BizTalk Server 2004 is a phenomenal product. While most of the concepts from prior versions are still evident, everything from the core ... (more)

A Star Is Born

There comes a point in every viable product's life cycle when the stage is set for its debut. The design meetings are memories, the documentation's complete, construction is over, the beta is done, the product's been stabilized, and it's time to push it out into the world. That time has come for BizTalk Server 2004. I've been in this space a long time. I vaguely remember the initial ref... (more)

Tech·Ed 2005: What's New from Microsoft's Business Process and Integration Division?

The Business Process and Integration Division was out in full force at Tech·Ed this year, unveiling several new product releases.  What’s new for BizTalk 2006, Commerce Server 2006, and Host Integration Server 2006? We will take a high level look at what some of these changes are, and you can look for further coverage in future editions of the .NET Developer’s Journal. BizTal... (more)

Orchestrating Web Services

By the time you read this, BizTalk Server 2004, the third version of BizTalk, will have been released. As you can see by the articles in this special issue of .NET Developer's Journal, this is a very important product release, and it is poised to have a profound impact on how developers create enterprise applications. At the same time, 2004 is "The Year of Web Services" - again. Unlike th... (more)