BizTalk Server, Schnittstellen, Workflows und Enterprise Application Integration.
Introduction BizTalk Server remains a cornerstone in enterprise integration, but deploying BizTalk applications across environments like Acceptance and Production can be complex and error-prone. In this post, we’ll walk through how to build a robust Azure DevOps pipeline for BizTalk deployments — complete with staged shutdowns, approvals, and PowerShell automation using the BizTalk Deployment Framework…
Introduction BizTalk Server 2020 remains a cornerstone for enterprise integration, offering robust capabilities for connecting disparate systems, automating workflows, and managing business processes. If you’re a developer working with BizTalk, chances are you’re using Visual Studio 2019. But out of the box, Visual Studio doesn’t support BizTalk projects—so how do you enable it? This guide…
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) remains a cornerstone of modern IT architecture, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 continues to be a robust platform for orchestrating complex workflows across disparate systems. When paired with Azure DevOps, BizTalk becomes a powerful engine for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), enabling seamless packaging, configuration, and deployment across environments like development,…
Introduction For over two decades, BizTalk Server has been the workhorse of enterprise integration—powering mission-critical workflows, EDI exchanges, and B2B integrations. With the release of BizTalk Server 2020, Microsoft provided a modernized, cloud-friendly version, but the shift toward cloud-native architectures has opened a new chapter in integration strategy. Today, organizations are increasingly complementing—or replacing—BizTalk with…
Step-by-step install checklist Before you begin: verify BizTalk 2020 + target SQL Server version support in your environment (apply the BizTalk 2020 platform-alignment CU if you plan to use Windows Server 2022 / SQL Server 2022). Microsoft published the platform alignment CU for BizTalk 2020 that adds SQL Server 2022 support — confirm you have…
Summary Microsoft BizTalk Server has been around for decades, quietly running mission-critical integrations for banks, hospitals, factories, and governments.While the product is stable and mature, one of the biggest challenges for solution architects is choosing the right implementation pattern for each scenario. In this post, we’ll explore three key BizTalk solution patterns: We’ll look at…
Introduction Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 remains one of the most mature and feature-rich integration platforms in the enterprise space. While on the surface BizTalk is a collection of services, pipelines, maps, and orchestrations, under the hood it is a carefully engineered framework that relies heavily on well-established software patterns—both for its own internal architecture and…
Nice brief: BizTalk is a database-heavy integration platform. the SQL tier is the backbone of your BizTalk environment — design it well and BizTalk runs smoothly; design it poorly and you’ll be firefighting IO and locking issues forever. below I walk you through a production-minded install approach for BizTalk Server 2020 (with platform alignment/CU notes),…
Introduction BizTalk is well-known for its persistence engine and ability to handle long-running, stateful workflows — from multi-day approval processes to complex supply chain transactions.But with great state comes great responsibility: if implemented carelessly, these workflows can turn into sluggish, resource-hogging monsters. In this post, we’ll walk through: 1. What “Highly Stateful” Means in BizTalk…
BizTalk 2020 ESB Toolkit Introduction While BizTalk Server 2020 is best known for orchestrating complex message flows and transforming data formats, one of its most powerful — yet sometimes underutilized — components is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Toolkit. The ESB Toolkit extends BizTalk’s core capabilities, allowing organizations to build loosely coupled, dynamically configurable integration…
Introduction Microsoft BizTalk Server has been a backbone for enterprise integration scenarios for more than two decades, enabling businesses to connect systems, orchestrate workflows, and manage complex data exchanges. The latest version, BizTalk Server 2020, is still supported today — but the clock is ticking. By 2030, BizTalk will move into extended support only, marking…
In modern distributed applications, asynchronous communication between services is crucial for scalability and reliability. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular message brokers for this purpose, and in this blog post, we’ll explore how it works under the hood and how you can integrate RabbitMQ with a C# .NET 9 application. We’ll cover: Let’s jump…
Introduction In this blog post, we will build a small Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) application using .NET 9. The backend will provide a flight data service running on a three-node Kubernetes cluster in Microsoft Azure. Additionally, we will develop a simple Blazor frontend that consumes the flight data and deploy it to a separate cluster node….
Introduction Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a powerful approach to designing modular, scalable applications. In this post, we will develop an airline booking system using SOA in C# with .NET 9. We will incorporate modern architecture patterns, including the Resolver, Repository, and Service patterns, along with Entity Framework for data access and Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)…
The Camunda Workflow Engine is a robust and flexible platform designed to automate and manage business processes. Whether it’s handling user input, running data-intensive tasks, or managing long-running workflows, Camunda provides a comprehensive set of features to streamline workflow execution and ensure reliability. In this blog post, we will delve into how Camunda handles incoming…
Introduction Camunda is a powerful, open-source workflow and decision automation platform designed to orchestrate processes. While it natively supports Java for scripting and execution, there are scenarios where integrating with other languages like C# becomes essential, especially in environments heavily invested in .NET. This blog post will walk you through the process of incorporating C#…
Introduction Camunda is a powerful workflow and decision automation platform. While it natively supports Java, many organizations have significant investments in .NET technologies. This guide will show you how to write a Camunda worker in C# and integrate it with a Camunda workflow. We will cover setting up the worker, configuring the workflow, and writing…
Introduction Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model. Camunda is a powerful open-source platform for workflow and business process automation. In this blog post, we will guide you through creating a simple BPMN workflow in Camunda and demonstrate how to access and interact…
Introduction ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes are fundamental in data management, enabling the integration and manipulation of data from various sources to provide meaningful insights. In this blog post, we will explore how to implement an ETL process for airline data using Java and the Camunda workflow engine. We’ll dive deep into the code, showcase…
In the modern airline industry, data management is critical for operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance. Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes are essential for consolidating data from various sources, transforming it into actionable insights, and loading it into databases or data warehouses. This blog post will demonstrate how to implement an ETL process for…
In today’s dynamic business environment, efficient workflow automation is crucial. Camunda, a powerful open-source Business Process Management (BPM) tool, integrates seamlessly with C# to help automate and optimize business processes. This blog post will guide you through building a simple BPM workflow using C# in cooperation with the Camunda backend. Getting Started Prerequisites Step 1:…
Introduction In our previous blog post, we explored how to create a Kafka example application in C# and using Confluent. Now, let’s take it a step further and host our Kafka solution on Microsoft Azure. Azure provides managed services that simplify the deployment and management of Kafka clusters, allowing us to focus on building our…
Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to develop a C# client application that produces and consumes messages from an Apache Kafka® cluster. Kafka is a powerful distributed streaming platform that allows you to build real-time data pipelines and event-driven applications. Prerequisites Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites: Getting Started 1….
After working with countless versions of Microsoft BizTalk server and in the decade of Cloud Computing I’d like to express my concerns in regard of the future of this great platform. Over the years, the architect who is involved with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) with this Microsoft product has the impression that he is standing…
Recently I came across a very strange behaviour when I was reviewing a fresh installed BizTalk 2016 environment using the EDI application that comes with BizTalk 2016. On that environment theres a customer applications that wants to write out EDI files. The testing of the application was stalled due to the fact that the EDI…
Recently we had an issue with some BizTalk receive location (WCF-Custom). They all went down with a specific error message: The Messaging Engine failed to add a receive location „abcdefg“ with URL „net.tcp://localhost:55555/xxxx/yyyy“ to the adapter „WCF-NetTcp“. Reason: „System.ServiceModel.AddressAlreadyInUseException: There is already a listener on IP endpoint 0.0.0.0:55555. This could happen if there is another…