Home > Blogs > matt

New BizTalk 2006 5 day Course -> Building BizTalk 2006 Solutions Best Practices

Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:35 PM by matt
Filed under: ,

I am in the process of writing a new BizTalk 2006 course as below:

Preamble

BizTalk is all about messaging and how messages are processed and routed between a companies internal applications (for example: Sap/Mainframe/Peoplesoft/ Database/JD Edwards/Web Services etc.) and how messages are exchanged with trading partners (B2B). BizTalk provides an excellent framework for implementing many common messaging patterns such as:
a) Scatter/Gatherer pattern
b) Splitter pattern
c) Aggregator pattern
d) Message Broker pattern
e) etc.
The objective of this course is to provide students with all the necessary tools to implement messaging patterns using BizTalk 2006.

Below are some of the topics with labs for the course:

a) Various methods to Create Schemas for XML and Flat files messages.
b) Mapping using the BizTalk Mapper, custom XSLT and other alternatives
will be discussed to perform complex transformations.
c) An introduction into building Custom Adapters
d) An introduction into building Custom Pipeline Components
e) Interacting with the BizTalk Messaging Engine
f) Creating and using Custom Pipelines
g) Orchestrations.
h) Using xpath in Orchestrations.
i) Web Services and BizTalk
j) Error Handling with BizTalk
k) Debugging BizTalk Solutions
l) Deploying BizTalk Solutions
m) Business Activity Monitoring and BizTalk
n) Business Rules Engine
o) Implementing Common Enterprise Integration Patterns with BizTalk.
Some of the patterns discussed and put into practice are:
Message Broker
Content Based Routing
Splitter Pattern
Normalizer Pattern
Aggregator Pattern
 
Additionally the new features of BizTalk 2006 will be highlighted and used in Labs.

It is quite a bit for a five day course (not sure if all of it will make it in). From my experience using the product and teaching a BTS 2004 course for the past year and a half, the above is what I would like to cover in the course.

If you have a suggestion for additional topics for the course, please reply to this entry. I would love to hear them.

Update: This course is available now. Building BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions Best Practices

 

Comments

  • matt December 7, 2005 6:28 AM

    Sounds great! Especially error handling & debugging. Where will this course be and how much?

  • matt December 7, 2005 8:36 PM

    Dylan

    Julie, our training manager, asked me to pass this on to you.

    Our new 5 day course “Building BizTalk 2006 Solutions Best Practices” will be available for custom and private delivery from January 2006. For public course dates or more info, contact our Training Manager, Julie James at 416-216-4603 ext. 1 or 1-877-So-Sharp ext. 1 or via email at Training@objectsharp.com

  • matt January 13, 2006 1:14 AM

    We would need a cutom subscription to the Course in India. Could you elucidate on the same?

  • matt January 16, 2006 11:13 AM

    Hello Arjun,

    ObjectSharp offers BizTalk training in a variety of formats including: public courses, onsite custom training and semester style training.

    For more information, please email training@objectsharp.com or call me directly at 416-216-4603 ext 1.

    Best Regards,

    Julie James
    ObjectSharp Training Manager

  • matt April 11, 2006 9:57 AM

    Introduction to BizTalk Server 2006

    Introduces the main artefacts of BizTalk Server 2006, the concept of Service Oriented Architecture and web services.

    Creating and Configuring Schemas

    shows you how to use the improved Schema Generation Wizard to create XML and flat file schemas. It also includes managing property schemas and distinguishing and promoting properties

    Creating a Schema Map

    shows you how to create maps and use standard and scripting functoids to perform mapping operations.

    Configuring Pipelines

    shows you how to implement standard pipelines that come with BizTalk 2006 .

    Configuring Adaptors

    shows you how to configure file and FTP adaptors to receive and send messages.

    Configuring BizTalk Messaging

    shows you how to implement a message integration solution.

    Deploying and Testing a BizTalk Solution

    shows you how to deploy the assemblies to BizTalk servers that will host the application.

    Tracking BizTalk Message Activity

    shows you use Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) and BizTalk Administration tool to monitor and debug message activity.

    Creating a BizTalk Orchestration

    shows you use the BizTalk Orchestration Designer to define business processes. Also includes introduction to orchestration debugger and mapping multiple messages.

    Creating Business Transactions

    shows you how to create orchestrations that include atomic and long-running transaction and exception handling capabilities. Also includes how to implement compensation and optimising orchestration.

    Consuming and Publishing Web Services

    shows you how to call a Web service from within and orchestration and how to publish an orchestration as a Web service.

    Integrating with SQL Server

    shows you how to send and receive messages from SQL server using SQL adaptor.

    Configuring SMTP and POP3

    adaptors show you how to send and receive email messages within BizTalk

    Integrating with Windows Share Point Server

    shows you how publish and consume files with WSS through WSS adaptor. It also includes introduction to InfoPath and creating custom pipelines.

  • matt April 22, 2006 8:59 PM

    Can we buy this course online?. I mean can we access the course online or download it?

  • matt April 22, 2006 11:45 PM

    Unfortunatly at this time no. The course at the moment is delivered in a class room setting. The course (labs) is on a Windows Server 2003 VPC image with Visual Studio 2005, BizTalk 2006, Sql 2005 etc. There are 24 labs.

  • matt August 9, 2006 1:18 AM

    Hi,
    Do you provide any training in Bangalore,Inida
    I need biztalk server training.
    Thanks
    Chidanand
    0091-9945422409

Leave a Comment

(required) 
(optional)
(required) 

Comment Notification

If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here

Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS