• Order delivery using SSSB

    The messaging only version for MLLP adapter based order delivery scenario. See reference http://appfabriccat.com/2011/02/implementing-end-to-end-ordered-delivery-using-microsoft-biztalk-server-and-sql-server-service-broker-new-whitepaper-on-technet-wiki/ Read more

  • Send port subscribe to another send port

    Just a quick note, today I have to deal with a scenario to produce a message from the WCF-SQL response port, route it to another send port to send out to downstream. Everything has to be done using pure messaging. I did having some problems including BizTalk complaining ‘internal error’ while I tried to change […] Read more

  • BizTalk rewinds the interchange if exception is throw in send pipeline

    Found an very interesting problem today. It is about a scenario that, In the receive side, we disassemble an inbound interchange by wrapping FF disassembler component, perform some business logic In the send side, we wrap FF assemble component to serialize the message to text then call the middle tier, which will do the validation […] Read more

  • BizTalk 2010 Cert

    Passed today. Not a difficult exam, quite fundamental, with no prepare (actually nothing available yet), I got a score of 820. Quite sure I got all EDI and RFID questions wrong Read more

  • ESB Notes

    End to end integration problem: a set of autonomous services can quickly devolve into a spaghetti-code-like structure that becomes difficult to maintain. A change will be big impact ESB: moving the logic away from each individual set of endpoints into a logically centralized layer Benefit of ESB: software is easy to maintain What ESB provides: […] Read more

  • BRE: validating message with not presenting elements

    One of the business rule I am facing is to validate the message upon business rules. The problem being the rules engine when tries to evaluate the if a certain string from an element of the message, if that element is not presenting, the rule engine will get an error. i.e. if my element name […] Read more