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BizTalk 2009 beta shows off ALM support, failover clustering


By David Worthington


 David Worthington
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December 11, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
Microsoft says that the next version of BizTalk Server is on schedule, and a public beta indicates that the company will deliver promised functionality, an analyst says. With this release, Microsoft is building on its 2008 wave of server infrastructure products to provide for application life-cycle management, added connectivity, failover clustering and virtualization. BizTalk's support of RFID technologies has been expanded as well.

The public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 became generally available on Monday. The final version is due out in the first half of 2009, according to Microsoft.

BizTalk Server 2009 integrates with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server. Developers can now take the same practices and methodologies that they use for .NET development and apply them to BizTalk artifacts, said Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in the company’s Connected Systems Division.

Developers can use a single set of processes for automating builds, bug tracking, Project Server integration, source control and team development support, he explained.

BizTalk's host and mainframe integration capabilities were also upgraded to expose IBM Customer Information Control System and Information Management System mainframe applications as Windows Communication Foundation services. BizTalk also integrates with IBM's DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database and WebSphere MQ, in addition to Oracle’s E-Business Suite.

Further, Microsoft is updating BizTalk's Electronic Data Interchange and SWIFT protocol implementations, Kawasaki said. It has also added Universal Description, Discovery and Integration 3, a standard used for creating Web service registries.

Microsoft will bundle version of its ESB Guidance package with the release. The Guidance package plugs into Visual Studio 2008, taking advantage of its built-in designers to help developers define higher-level flows of events and how they should be delivered using an ESB configuration, Kawasaki said. Visual Studio implements the appropriate BizTalk and .NET artifacts underneath, he added.

Aside from adding new integrations, BizTalk 2009 also taps into the Microsoft server stack. It now has the same failover clustering capabilities as Windows Server 2008 for greater reliability, as well as Hyper-V support. Customers can now spin up virtual instances of BizTalk; Enterprise Edition customers may have unlimited instances, Kawasaki said. Microsoft applies the same support policies to virtualized BizTalk as it does with conventional installations.


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