Recently I had the chance to review an excellent book called SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 by Richard Seroter who maintains a popular and appreciated blog on BizTalk. The book discusses the core principles of SOA and shows how to effectively apply them in a BizTalk solution. Richard provides a good insight in WCF Adapters and explains with clear samples how to exploit their functionalities to implement synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns. The author makes a superb introduction of technologies such as the new WCF SQL Adapter, UDDI and the ESB Guidance 2.0. SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 is definitely a must have book for all BizTalk developers, especially for those who intend to design and implement a complex SOA platform using BizTalk Server 2009. You can download for free the Chapter 9: New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: WCF SQL Server Adapter from the Packt website. This chapter covers the following topics:
I sincerely suggest this book to all BizTalkers. ;-)
Appreciate the comments. If the book can be useful to someone like yourself, then I've done my job right.
Hi Richard, I think that your book could be very helpful to every BizTalk developer/architect, me included. ;-)
Just ordered my company. Looks useful for a project I am about to work on for a customer where web services will feature a lot.
Cheers!
BTW I've made a review for this book too :)
geekswithblogs.net/.../book-soa-patterns-with-biztalk-server-2009-by-richard-seroter-again.aspx
with the same conclusion "Highly recommended"