Is it possible to use Biztalk internal functions to perform the following task, instead of writing a custom program?
Regularly extract XML from another website to the Biztalk receive location and further process by Biztalk.
Thanks.
BizTalk Server out of the box does not provide a way to poll http endpoints.
For that, you would use the Scheduled Task Adapter (http://biztalkscheduledtask.codeplex.com/).
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I am new to BizTalk development. I have an existing SOAP web service, which has around 50 different operations. I want to connect this service to another application, but use the BizTalk server as an intermediary in this communication. So service and application should not know each other directly, BizTalk should be able to log all messages going through etc etc.
What is the best approach to make this work in BizTalk Server 2013?
So far I tried to create a new BizTalk Application and import the SOAP web service there. Then however it seems that I need to create around 50 different orchestrations, each one just mapping the incoming message in BizTalk to the external service for each service operation. This seems very cumbersome. Also publishing all those orchestrations becomes painful, as BizTalk cannot merge those into a single endpoint again. Ideally I would like to publish a single endpoint for BizTalk server on IIS that is using the exact same WSDL as the target SOAP service, ideally without having to create any orchestrations at all. Is this possible?
Thanks!
So, yes, but...what you want is absolutely doable but there would be lots of answers for that. Once you learn how things in BizTalk are actually working, it's obvious how to do this.
For example, a single Receive Location (IIS endpoint) can receive any number of request types provided they are the same protocol/format, SOAP, REST/JSON for example. The only difference in the IIS site is any metadata, so just don't publish that. The Message differentiation is done in the Pipelines just like any other BizTalk Message.
You don't really need Orchestrations for Maps, you can apply those at the Port Level provided it's a 1-1 relationship between the SOAP call and Map.
Please try a few things. I'll become clear. You can always come back for any specific issues.
I am struggling to transfer my data in my itinerary in my Biztalk ESB solution, I'm using Message-based instead of Orchestration. My itinerary scenario in Biztalk ESB is:
Receive request CreatePayment with 2 parameters: Claim Object and
Payment Object
Send Claim Object to external service to Verify Claim
Receive result from step 2, then combine the result with Payment Object in request at step 1, then send it to external service to Create Task
My problem is at step 3, I don't know how to combine data from 2 resources. Is there any knowledge that I missing in Biztalk ESB. I just started learning Biztalk for a few weeks. Now I got trouble and I really wait for feedback from you.
Sorry I have to post my itinerary picture to OneDrive since I cannot post it to this: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=584F1A7DD6FCBF77!961&authkey=!ANQVuaTflyExPTo&v=3&ithint=photo%2cPNG
If you can switch to Orchestration, then setting some unique fields as correlationId will solve your problem.
If you are limited to use Message-based instead of Orchestration. below is 2 possible approach you may try.
If you can control the external service, change it to accept your payment object and return it as-is in its response.
If you cannot change the external service, what you can do is wrap the service such as an external assembly. then call this service in a mapping using script functoid.
Your problem seems like that of an Enrichment Scenario.
Check out the sample provided in ESB Toolkit samples:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/esb-toolkit/installing-and-running-the-message-enrichment-sample
You will have to use an Orchestration extender in your itinerary.
I'm a bit confused on what the biztalk wcf publishing wizard produces?
So for example, I have a simple biztalk project that takes a Input xml file, maps it, and outputs to another folder.
Can i use the wcf publishing wizard to create a webservice to pass in and out an xml to the solution?
Yes you can. WCF Publishing wizard is for this purpose. You can either expose your schema as a service or your Orchestration. It has few options to choose e.g. whether you want to use BasicHttpBinding, WSHttpBinding or custom. You should have a local IIS configured for this. It will also create a receive location in BizTalk to receive the message from IIS service and return the response.
More details about it can be found on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226547.aspx
To answer your specific question, yes, you would 'publish' the schemas.
To note, there is no difference in the output of either option. Publishing an Orchestration merely reads some metadata from the compiled Assembly. If you set the same values when publishing 'Schema', the output metadata will be the same.
Also note, the IIS endpoint is completely schema agnostic, meaning it makes no attempt to validate the messages it receives or sends, regardless of what Schemas or Orchestration Port you 'publish'.
I have the following itinerary:
A one way receive location passes a message to an orchestration where an inner message is extracted (unable to do this in a map).
The returned message from the orchestration is then mapped and the
result of that map, mapped again. Using the Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Services.Transform service.
This is then passed to a web service, via the Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Services.Routing service, which fires fine but I am not receiving the expected response which I want to write to file. The message that does get written to the file is the message passed to the web service rather than the expected response. Testing the web service using a simpler itinerary i.e. one without orchestration extenders shows that the web service works as expected.
The OffRamp is from the GlobalBank.ESB example application.
How can I get the required response from the web service?
So finally managed to find a solution to this for which I have to give full credit to this guy
The problem is Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Services.Routing Service only provides one way operation, so even if you mark your resolver with two-way message exchange pattern it wont work.
If you check Microsoft.Practices.ESB application in BizTalk Admin console, it has one one way dynamic send port Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Agents_2.1.0.0_Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Agents.Delivery_DeliveryPort_31bf3856ad364e35 which is bound to orchestration Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Agents.Delivery. When you use Orchestration extender and use Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Services.Routing service, this port is used to send any call and because this is one way port, you do not get response.
You need to use a Two-way orchestration in callwebservice shape. A sample Two-way orchestration is in MultipleWebServices ESB Sample. If you deploy that orchestration and register it as itinerary service and use it in callwebservice shape, it will work.
and it more or less did :) Deploy the orchestration and register it to the ESB as an itinerary service by adding an entry to the esb config between the itineraryServices node:
<itineraryService id="04BD6120-06E4-43D3-A56F-2FF061D59862" name="ESB.MultipleWebServices.Orchestrations.TwoWayRouting" type="ESB.MultipleWebServices.Orchestrations.TwoWayRouting, Biztalk.EsbGeneric.Orchestrations, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=140bc5dcbb9afcea" scope="Orchestration" stage="None"/>
Create an id using guidgen, the type is made up of the name and assembly of the orchestraiton (comma seperated) in the Admin Console and will vary depending on the application that you have deployed to. scope and stage are as shown above.
Initially I had an error on the send port Biztalk.HoopleEsbGeneric.Orchestrations_1.0.0.0_ESB.MultipleWebServices.Orchestrations.TwoWayRouting_RoutingPort_140bc5dcbb9afcea but changing the send and receive pipelines to PassThruTransmit and PassThruReceive respectively solved this.
If I need to build a specialized web app to be able to terminate messages processed by specific send ports, WMI is one option. Are there others? and are there pros/cons to each approach?
You should be able to terminate messages programmatically by referencing the Microsoft.BizTalk.Operations.dll assembly. That will allow you to use the TerminateInstance method of the BizTalkOperations Class, which allows you to reference a remote BizTalk instance (using this constructor) without enabling remote WMI administrative access.
You may also need to reference Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipeline.dll in Visual Studio to get IntelliSense to work.
The BizTalk SDK includes a sample app that you can review, as well, to see how to look up a message instance, which you'll need for the parameter to the TerminateInstance method:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg163868
For example:
BizTalkOperations _operations = new BizTalkOperations()
IEnumerable messages = _operations.GetMessages();
foreach (BizTalkMessage msg in messages)
…
Have you considered the "/null" Send Port Adapter? This allows you to send messages to a "null" port, where they effectively disappear. Source code can be found here, although it hasn't been updated since BizTalk 2006 R2.
If this isn't relevant to what you are trying to achieve, maybe some additional information regarding the use case would help.