Auckland Connected Systems User Group

Thursday, 22 January 2009, 6:00p.m.

•Schedule•6 – 6:15 : Drinks•6:15-6:45~ : New Capabilities of BizTalk 2009 – Thiago Almeida•7:00-7:30~ : BizTalk ESB Guidance 2.0 – Kevin Gock•7:20-? – Giveaways, Pizza, drinks

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Auckland Connected Systems User Group

• What’s on with the user group?• Invite only OzTalk – shared mailing list with Sydney BTUG, Brisbane BTUG, South Africa BTUG, Phoenix CSDUG, and growing!• ‘CSD Bits’ folder on Live Mesh• Next meeting in February (Oslo? WCF?)•Wellington BTUG? - Ryan CrawCour•Email admin@acsug.co.nz for more info

http://www.acsug.co.nz

New Capabilities of

Thiago Almeidahttp://connectedthoughts.wordpress.com

Agenda

• BizTalk Roadmap• Platform Support• Developer and Team Productivity• SOA & Web Services• Business to Business Integration• Device Connectivity• Other Changes• Deprecated / Removed Features• Questions?

BizTalk Roadmap

• BizTalk Server 2009 RTM First Half of 2009 ~• Ship Rhythm of releases roughly every 2 years

BizTalk Server 2000

BizTalk Server 2002

BizTalk Server 2004

BizTalk Server 2006

BizTalk Server

2006 R2

BizTalk Server 2009

BizTalk Server

“7”

BizTalk Server

“8”

BizTalk Roadmap – Future releases

• Developer productivity enhancements. Will Eddie Churchill’s mapper and solution designer ever make it?

• LOB systems• legacy systems• smart devices (RFID)• B2B integration (SWIFT, EDI, etc.)• Low-latency messaging • ESB Guidance• Real-time business event visibility through BI/BAM

Enhancements• Integration with the latest new platform capabilities

• Inherited Benefits:– Modular, minimal installation– Improved network performance and control– Improved high availability features– Enhanced administration and management with Server Manager and

PowerShell• BizTalk WMI classes - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560069.aspx • Powershell Provider for BT -

http://biztalkmessages.vansplunteren.net/powershell-provider-for-biztalk/

– Enhanced Virtualization with Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/why-upgrade.aspx

Platform Support

– BizTalk and SQL fully supported– Enlightened guest O/S– 4 processor support in the guest OS– ~ 75% of a physical server performance – reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management

overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure– BizTalk Hyper-V guide and post:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768518.aspx• http://www.modhul.com/2008/12/17/hyper-v-dramatically-lowers-the-price-point-f

or-biztalk-2009/

Platform Support

Platform Support

– Better manageability and scalability– Enables an optimized virtual SQL Server

implementation– Improved performance (especially for 64bit) – BAM enhancements – SQL Server 2005 also supported– Notification Services only on SQL 2005

Developer and Team Productivity

– BizTalk project now a part of Team Foundation Server - no additional effort required to use the benefits of TFS (specially automated builds with MSBuild)• New “Project Build” component on BizTalk install to build

BT solutions without visual studio• No more “Build” project build type (only debug and

release)• All properties of maps and schemas are on the

properties windows (no extra windows necessary)

Developer and Team Productivity

• UnitTest support for BizTalk artifacts– Built in unit test functionality at a granular artifact

level (pipeline, map, schema). Pretty basic in Beta, hopefully will improve• See Michael Stephenson’s testing guidance for BT

including BT 2009 testing: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/12/12/127828.aspx

• Map debugging (XSLT debugger integration)

Developer and Team Productivity

• Easier access to generated sources for Orchestration debugging– Look under \obj\Debug\BizTalk\Xlang for

Orchestrations C# code• All new bindings in .NET 3.5 SP1 available in

WCF Custom Adapter– For example BasicHttpContextBinding to

communicate context to a WF service– Install Microsoft .NET Services and watch the list

grow

Agenda

• BizTalk Roadmap• Platform Support• Developer and Team Productivity• SOA & Web Services• Business to Business Integration• Device Connectivity• Other Changes• Deprecated / Removed Features• Questions?

SOA & Web Services

• Web Services Registry UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, Integration)– v3.0 now with BizTalk,

moving from Windows Server to BizTalk

• Check the ESB Guidance v2.0 for examples – Kevin to talk more abut UDDI

SOA & Web Services

• Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring– Support for SQL Server 2008 Analysis

Services Unified Dimensional Model cubes – Scalable real-time aggregations which

enhances support for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007.

• Enhanced Enterprise Service Bus Guidance (ESB) – Kevin will tell you all about it later tonight!

Business to Business Integration• EDI

– Control of envelope headers– Automatic rollover of control numbers– Configurable content delimiter character– Support for multiple batches per party– Updated reporting to cover all new features

• AS2– Support for multiple message attachments– Configurable message auto-resend– Filename is preserved end-to-end– Updated reporting to cover all new features– Drummond re-certification

• Updated SWIFT Support– SWIFTReady Financial EAI Gold certification

Business to Business Integration• WCF based Line of Business Adapters– LOB Adapters SDK upgraded to latest platform– Additional improvements have been made to the

existing set of adapters• Oracle DB/SAP/Siebel

– Two new adapters: • Oracle E-Business Suites • SQL Server (much improved over the existing

SQL adapter)

Business to Business Integration

• Host Integration Server 2009 & BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems (BAHS) 2.0– Currently beta on the Connect website

https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=66– New WCF WebSphere MQ channel to integrate directly with

WebSphere MQ – New WCF Service for Host Applications has been added to

expose the traditional Transaction Integrator to .NET Framework developers

– Support for the most recent versions of CICS, IMS, CICS HTTP transport, DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database, and WebSphere MQ

Device Connectivity

• RFID 1.1• BizTalk RFID extended to Mobile Devices

– For BT09 and BT06R2– Runs on handhelds and forklift readers– Integrates with BizTalk Server

• Support for key industry standards– Enables using new readers with LLRP (Low Level Reader

Protocol)– Machine readable tag data standards (TDT for EPC)– Web Services for device management and Discovery,

Configuration, Initialization (DCI)

Agenda

• BizTalk Roadmap• Platform Support• Developer and Team Productivity• SOA & Web Services• Business to Business Integration• Device Connectivity• Other Changes• Deprecated / Removed Features• Question?

Other Changes

• Messaging– Recoverable interchange (XMLValidator, map –

SuspendMessageOnMappingFailure property)– Choose the transaction isolation level in the WCF-

Custom Send Adapter

• Administration– Two new query types on HAT for tracked message

events and tracked service events

Deprecated Features

• VS ExplorerUI (BizTalk Explorer) –Web Services Publishing wizard (ASMX)– Line of Business Adapters for SAP/Oracle

DB/Siebel– SQL Server Adapter

Removed Features

• Base EDI Adapter (Covast) • BTS Accelerator for HIPAA (exists as EDI feature)• Web Services Enhancements adapter (WSE) • Human Workflow Services (HWS) • Business Activities Services (BAS) • Health and Activity Tracking Tool• MSMQt Adapter• BTSDeploy.exe Utility

Demo!

Questions?

Thank you!

Thiago Almeidahttp://connectedthoughts.wordpress.com