Enterprise Integration Solutions

122 Part II Message Endpoints

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Figure 5-11 Parallel processing in an orchestration.

Summary

In this section, you saw how BizTalk Server can connect with application end-

points. Limitless variations on the examples shown here exist. The concept of

separating business process from application activity and code is one of the key

ideas in EI. BizTalk Server offers a strong and compelling way to accomplish this.

Chapter Summary

Application endpoints are one of the newer concepts of EI. In addition, the

technologies and open standards that allow us to communicate easily with the

logic layers of systems are still relatively new, and they offer an exciting number

of options not available before. Furthermore, we can gain enormous benefits

from using these technologies and open standards effectively.

Although we have shown a handful of techniques in this chapter, applica-

tion endpoints can be created and exploited in many other ways.