Wednesday, April 25, 2007

BizTalk Services CTP

Today Microsoft released a CTP of BizTalk Services. BizTalk Services including four techologies, BizTalk Identity Services, BizTalk Connectivity Services, BizTalk ServiceBus Services and BizTalk Workflow Services.

  • Identity Services provides authentication and helps with access control requirements using Card-space.
  • Connectivity Services - "technologies to help developers securely expose a service from behind a firewall or NAT". vices facilitate traversal and bridging of physical networks, enabling high-fidelity interconnection between cooperating systems for cross-organizational messaging behind firewalls.
  • An Internet Service Bus is a technology for creating loosely coupled applications with eventing.
  • "Workflow Services let developers design applications graphically by drawing flowcharts, and they provide a hosted instance of Windows Workflow Foundation".

Read this article. Download the CTP here. Blogs here and here.

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