BizTalk Components

Businees Rules EngineThe rules engine allows you to apply business process logic against message data. MS provides a full-featured tool for rules creation, called the Business Rule Composer.

Orchestrations
Provides a unique graphical interface for routing, evaluating, and manipulatiing incoming and outgoing messages
Orchestrations also provide a means by which you can communicate with web services, databases, and other corporate entities

Healthe and Activity Tracking(HAT)
monitoring the BizTalk

Business Activity Monitoring(BAM)
gives non technical personnel a portal to view the data

Business Activity Services
set providers functionality for managing and instantiating integration relationships with various trading partners.

Messaging
One could almost make the point that messaging is the core component of the BizTalk Server product. Messaging is not simply one particular application that you can start. It's a combination of adapters, pipelines, ports, and more that collaborate to effectively and efficiently manipulate and route your message data

Enterprise Single Sign-On
Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) is the process by which non-Windows authentication accounts can be granted or denied rights based on preferential mappings established by the BizTalk administrator. This allows you to take in a message that has established authentication through the trading partner's own criteria and correspondingly map that authentication to an internal account within your enterprise

BizTalk Server 2006

Adapters concepts:
File Adapter, Web Services Adapter
SQL Adapter, HTTP Adapter
these four collection of adapters that micorsoft has provided.

are the application-specific interfaces to the BizTalk messaging engine.


Web Services Adapter
Send and receive messages as SOAP packages over HTTP

File Adapter
Read and write files to the file system

MSMQ Adapter
Send and receive messages with Microsoft Message Queuing

HTTP Adapter
Send and receive messages via HTTP

WebSphere Adapter
Send and receive messages using WebSphere MQ by IBM

SMTP Adapter
Send messages via SMTP

POP3 Adapter
Receive e-mail messages and attachments

SharePoint Services Adapter
Access SharePoint document libraries

SQL Adapter
Interface with a SQL Server database

SQL dateTime, date

create function DateOnly(@DateTime DateTime)
-- Returns @DateTime at midnight; i.e., it removes the time portion of a DateTime value.
returns datetime
as
begin
return dateadd(dd,0, datediff(dd,0,@DateTime))
end
go

create function Date(@Year int, @Month int, @Day int)
-- returns a datetime value for the specified year, month and day
-- Thank you to Michael Valentine Jones for this formula (see comments).
returns datetime
as
begin
return dateadd(month,((@Year-1900)*12)+@Month-1,@Day-1)
end
go

create function Time(@Hour int, @Minute int, @Second int)
-- Returns a datetime value for the specified time at the "base" date (1/1/1900)
-- Many thanks to MVJ for providing this formula (see comments).
returns datetime
as
begin
return dateadd(ss,(@Hour*3600)+(@Minute*60)+@Second,0)
end
go

create function TimeOnly(@DateTime DateTime)
-- returns only the time portion of a DateTime, at the "base" date (1/1/1900)
returns datetime
as
begin
return @DateTime - dbo.DateOnly(@DateTime)
end
go

create function DateTime(@Year int, @Month int, @Day int, @Hour int, @Minute int, @Second int)
-- returns a dateTime value for the date and time specified.
returns datetime
as
begin
return dbo.Date(@Year,@Month,@Day) + dbo.Time(@Hour, @Minute,@Second)
end
go