Chapter 1. What Is BizTalk Server?
In This Chapter
• A Brief History of Application Integration
• What Is a “Typical” BizTalk Solution?
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 is Microsoft’s seventh-generation integration server. The first incarnation was in 1999, when it was released to meet enterprise application integration (EAI) needs. There have been new releases on a fairly regular basis, roughly every 2 years. BizTalk Server 2004, the third release, was a rewrite, because the .NET Framework had appeared. As the platform has evolved, and as new standards such as the WS-* specifications have emerged, BizTalk Server has adopted them.
The reality is that as BizTalk Server, and the open standards ...
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