Our BizTalk ESB Toolkit training course is aimed at giving experienced BizTalk developers intensive hands-on coverage of extending BizTalk 2010 with an Enterprise Service Bus.

The BizTalk ESB Toolkit (currently in version 2.1) is a selection of tools and libraries that  support a loosely-coupled, dynamic messaging architecture, allowing for robust and high-performance mediation between services and consumers.

Our BizTalk ESB Toolkit training course features extensive hands-on work with BizTalk 2010, and is delivered by highly experienced consultant instructors.

• BizTalk ESB Toolkit Uses and Capabilities
• Installing and Configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.1
• Routing and Transforming Messages using an ESB Itinerary
• Processing ESB Messages using Pipelines
• Dynamically resolving Message Transformation and Routing requirements
• Calling ESB External Services from a console application
• Modifying and extending BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1

This course is intended for developers who are responsible for developing ESB solutions.

1 – 2 years of experience developing BizTalk applications Background in SOA and BPM concepts and terminology Familiarity with Visual Studio 2010 No prior ESB development experience is required

This course contains a total of eight modules.

Module 1, “Understanding the BizTalk ESB Toolkit”, review BizTalk and SOA, what is an Enterprise Service Bus?

Module 2, “Installing and Configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.1”, identifies pre-requisites for installation, install the ESB Toolkit 2.1, use the configuration tool to configure the installation, use the UDDI Publisher tool to publish tmodels and sample services in UDDI 3.0, install the ESB sample applications, define the required install order of sample applications and identify installed components.

Module 3, “Routing and Transforming Messages using an ESB Itinerary”, create an ESB itinerary using the Itinerary Designer, add itinerary services to route a message to a file location and to Web Services, configure an itinerary service to route a single message to multiple locations, deploy itineraries to the Itinerary database and to a local file store, test client-side itineraries using the Itinerary Test Client application, create generic ESB on-ramps and resolve an itinerary using the Itinerary Selector pipeline component.

Module 4, “Processing ESB Messages using Pipelines”, create a multi-step ESB itinerary, Determine when to use the Itinerary Forwarder pipeline component within an itinerary and modify a message namespace using a pipeline.

Module 5, “Dynamically resolving Message Transformation and Routing requirements”, dynamically route messages using the UDDI resolver to perform key searches and category (tModel) searches and Dynamically transform messages using the BRE resolver.

Module 6, “Calling ESB External Services from a console application”, create a client to call the ESB Transformation WCF service, dynamically transform a message without sending the message through BizTalk, create a client to call the ESB Resolution WCF service and dynamically resolve a map using the Resolution WCF service and a business rules policy.

Module 7, “Exception Management with BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1”, submit a message from a custom .NET application, generate fault messages in external applications, repair and resubmit messages associated with a fault, view an audit trail of resubmitted messages, create alerts associated with faults and subscribe to alerts.

Module 8, “Modifying and extending BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1”, register a custom resolver, deploy a custom resolver extender, register a custom messaging service, create a custom orchestration-based itinerary service and register a custom orchestration-based itinerary service.

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