Advantages
- Many solutions can be developed in a relatively short time
- Maintenance is easy to conduct
- It’s easy to update
- The Retry Mechanism feature allows the client to properly handle the case when a service is down
- It has support for multi-server environments
- BizTalk contains tools like SSO (Single Sign-On), BRE (Business Rules Engine) and BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
- It has a major release approximately each 18 months
- Supports the x.509 certificate
- It doesn’t require any third-party software as a prerequisite
Disadvantages
- It runs only on Microsoft / Intel platforms
- The repository is working only with Microsoft SQL Server
- In order to be used in servers with 8-32 processors, it requires an OEM purchase of Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter
- The recovery and backups must be done manually
- BizTalk doesn’t have integrated importing & exporting, so this must be done through SQL
Components
- Receive port
- Adapters
- Pipeline
- MessageBox
- Subscribers
- Send port
- Orchestration
Development tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio
