Course Content

• Understanding the BizTalk ESB Toolkit
  • Review BizTalk and SOA
  • What is an Enterprise Service Bus?
• Installing and Configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.1
  • Identify pre-requisites for installation
  • Install the ESB Toolkit 2.1
  • Use the configuration tool to configure the installation
  • Use the UDDI Publisher tool to publish tmodels and sample services in UDDI 3.0
  • Install the ESB sample applications
  • Define the required install order of sample applications and identify installed components.
• Routing and Transforming Messages using an ESB Itinerary
  • Create an ESB itinerary using the Itinerary Designer
  • Add itinerary services to route a message to a file location and to Web Services
  • Configure an itinerary service to route a single message to multiple locations
  • Deploy itineraries to the Itinerary database and to a local file store
  • Test client-side itineraries using the Itinerary Test Client application
  • Create generic ESB on-ramps and resolve an itinerary using the Itinerary Selector pipeline component.
• Processing ESB Messages using Pipelines
  • Create a multi-step ESB itinerary
  • Determine when to use the Itinerary Forwarder pipeline component within an itinerary and modify a message namespace using a pipeline.
• Dynamically resolving Message Transformation and Routing requirements
  • Dynamically route messages using the UDDI resolver to perform key searches and category (tModel) searches and Dynamically transform messages using the BRE resolver.
• Calling ESB External Services from a console application
  • Create a client to call the ESB Transformation WCF service
  • Dynamically transform a message without sending the message through BizTalk
  • Create a client to call the ESB Resolution WCF service and dynamically resolve a map using the Resolution WCF service and a business rules policy.
• Exception Management with BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1
  • Submit a message from a custom .NET application
  • Generate fault messages in external applications
  • Repair and resubmit messages associated with a fault
  • View an audit trail of resubmitted messages
  • Create alerts associated with faults and subscribe to alerts.
• Modifying and extending BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1
  • Register a custom resolver, deploy a custom resolver extender
  • Register a custom messaging service
  • Create a custom orchestration-based itinerary service and register a custom orchestration-based itinerary service.