Article Series on BizTalk and WCF: Part IX, BizTalk Adapter Pack BizTalk Patterns

Whew.  My 9th and final article for TopXML.com on integrating BizTalk Server and WCF is now published.  This one looks at the BizTalk Adapter Pack and how to consume the Oracle adapter from inside BizTalk Server.  I demonstrated how to insert multiple records at once, call stored procedures, build a database polling solution, and how to call the Adapter Pack from an orchestration using code.

20,500+ words and 178 screenshots later, I definitely learned a lot about WCF (and Oracle) by writing this series of articles.  I found the security and attachment topics to be challenging, the transaction topics to be quite interesting, and the BizTalk Adapter Pack to be quite compelling.  The WCF integration in BizTalk Server 2006 R2, while not as rich as it could be, is actually pretty darn well built and thought out.

When I started out on this series, I figured that writing about BizTalk/WCF and then the BizTalk Adapter Pack would be somewhat “niche” for the majority of developers, but, hopefully this helps people down the line as they begin to really investigate and evaluate these technologies together.

Series Summary
BizTalk and WCF: Part I, Operation Patterns	Get the source code!
BizTalk and WCF: Part II, Security Patterns
BizTalk and WCF: Part III, Transaction Patterns
BizTalk and WCF: Part IV, Attachment Patterns
BizTalk and WCF: Part V, Publishing Operations Patterns	Source code coming soon!
BizTalk and WCF: Part VI, Publishing Advanced Service Patterns
BizTalk and WCF: Part VII, About the BizTalk Adapter Pack
BizTalk and WCF: Part VIII, BizTalk Adapter Pack Service Model Patterns
BizTalk and WCF: Part IX, BizTalk Adapter Pack BizTalk Patterns

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