Windows Workflow Foundation, or WF, is oftentimes compared to BizTalk’s orchestration-underlying XLANG language. WF’s underlying XAML language, like the XLANG language, provides an extensible and declarative means to describe the execution of a business process. Within BizTalk, this business process is implemented in the form of an orchestration. Within WF, the business process is executed as either a sequential or a state machine workflow.
Since WF’s introduction and given the striking similarities to BizTalk orchestrations, BizTalk architects have wondered how WF is aligned with BizTalk, and whether that alignment takes advantage of the umbrella ...
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