Getting to Know BizTalk Server 2000
Now that you understand XML (refer to Day 12, "The Power of XML" ) and asynchronous message-based development models, we are ready to discuss BizTalk. BizTalk provides a framework that uses XML, XML schemas, and MIME to enable systems to communicate between applications and organizations in an open, independent format.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a standard way to encode binary data for transport across the Internet. MIME is used extensively by e-mail packages to encode attachments.
BizTalk is a message format that uses XML to represent the message content. BizTalk specifies a message container format, much like an envelope contains a letter.
The BizTalk framework relies upon ...
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