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repository of published schemas submitted by participating companies
that is maintained on the http://www.biztalk.org/ site. Through this site,
the schema for any BizTalk message is universally accessible.
Note: We have provided a detailed coverage on BizTalk Framework in
the chapter on XML standards.
BizTalk Server
The BizTalk Server provides a development and execution environment
that integrates loosely coupled, long-running business processes and
applications both within and between companies. It acts as a standard
gateway for sending and receiving documents across the Internet, as
well as providing a range of services including BizTalk Orchestration
Service and BizTalk Messaging Service that ensure data integrity,
delivery, security and support for the BizTalk Framework and other key
document formats.
Integration of BizTalk Orchestration Services and BizTalk Messaging
Services enables the secured and controlled exchange of documents and
messages between trading partners and internal applications by using
multiple transport services.
BizTalk Messaging Services — The messaging services include sending,
receiving, parsing and tracking documents; receipt generation and
correlation; and data mapping, integrity and security.
BizTalk Orchestration Services — The orchestration services enable the
creation and orchestration of business processes that span time,
organizations, applications and people. The services include the
integration of long-running business processes with the applications that
run those business processes. An executable business process file called
an XLANG schedule provides the integration.
An XLANG schedule is a business process implemented by
connecting each step in the process to a technology component or
service that executes the step. An XLANG schedule is then run by a
service called the XLANG Scheduler Engine, which controls the
instantiation, execution, dehydration and rehydration of an XLANG
schedule, or multiple instances of one or more schedules.