Chapter 7. Orchestration Patterns
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.
-Walt Disney
So far, we've looked at how to use BizTalk Server to design both service endpoints and contracts, as well as exploit the powerful BizTalk messaging bus to support asynchronous messaging patterns. Now it's time to investigate how to incorporate service implementation patterns using BizTalk Server's orchestration engine. While an optional component of any BizTalk solution, orchestration enables a rich set of scenarios that pure messaging-only solutions are incapable of accommodating. Similar to the previous chapters in this book, this discussion will assume a base ...
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