Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

Juan Suero — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:03:39 GMT

only thing with that is you break up the transactionality ... one of the things that Biztalk has is transactionality from the port to the message box. what happens if your send port chokes on the message.

another hack could be using the SOAP adapter (he he)

you can have a XMLReceive dump it to the message box..

a solicit response send port with SOAP adapter would listen. the SOAP adapter would be configured to use a webservice proxy from some assembly lets say assembly "X".

inside assembly "X" you can inherit a class from the interface that gets implemented when you generate a proxy from a ASMX webservice.

i know you can receive XMLElement from the Adapter.

You can try to receive a Stream maybe more efficient i havent tried it.

Take this stream or XMLelement and pass it right back to the SOAP Adapter.

Use XMLReceive and XMLSend pipelines on the solicit response port

put your MapAtoMapB as an outbound map

put your MapBtoMapC as an inbound map

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

ChrisRomp — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:21:33 GMT

There's also the Transformation Web Service as a part of the ESB Guidance. It could be called twice in sequence before (or after) completing other actions.

Mostly I was curious to see if I could make it work. :)

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

Ben Cline — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:09:23 GMT

Couldn't you just tie a send port with an outbound map to the same location as a receive port with an inbound map to do the 2 map thing? Then you could stack it even more if you had another send port filter to match the namespace of the 2nd output schema.

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

ChrisRomp — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:28:13 GMT

Isn't that what I've done? The send port is pointing to a receive port on the same BizTalk machine.

It's not a particularly elegant solution, but it seems to work.

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

Fabio — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:38:28 GMT

Maybe this is stupid, but... How did you configure the two NetTCP Ports? What URI did you use?

Thanks.

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

ChrisRomp — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:59:48 GMT

The receive location is just a WCF-NetTCP binding with a net.tcp://localhost... URI. Then I pointed a send port with the same binding to that URI.

re: Stacking Maps in BizTalk Server

ChrisRomp — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:23:46 GMT

Richard Seroter has written a much better approach using itineraries in the ESB Toolkit for BizTalk Server: http://seroter.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/esb-toolkit-executing-multiple-maps-in-sequence