XLANG Schedule Development

Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 delve into the runtime for XLANG schedules and into advanced use cases. This section augments the rest of the chapter and describes only the basic concepts and techniques to develop and run XLANG schedules.

The general sequence of developing an XLANG schedule is to design it using the XLANG designer, compile it, and finally run the schedule and optionally monitor it. The compiled form of the schedule uses an XML syntax for the file format. The compiled schedule is run by the XLANG Scheduler Engine.

The XLANG Scheduler Engine runs in a COM+ application, which is set up at BizTalk install time. You may create additional COM+ applications to host XLANG schedule instances, although the engine still ...

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