BizTalk™ Unleashed

Chapter 18. Creating Custom Serializers, Parsers, and Functoids

By Bill Martschenko

In This Chapter

• Channel Extensibility by Example

• Functoid Design

• Functoid Implementation

• Parser Design

• Parser Implementation

• Serializer Design

• Serializer Implementation

In this chapter, we will extend how BizTalk handles data, one of BizTalk's cornerstones. In addition to a flexible design time for business processes, BizTalk offers unprecedented flexibility for rapid integration.

Our focus for extension, here, is the point where data flows between partner organizations and internal business processes. This flow of data falls in the purview of BizTalk Messaging Services. In contrast, the flow of data within a business process is handled by BizTalk Orchestration Services ...