Direct Communication with Enterprise Applications
Apress eBooks · 2009
Chapter 8 detailed how to communicate with BizTalk RFID by using BizTalk Server as the integration broker. Often, it is unnecessary to have orchestrations and ports sitting between BizTalk RFID and external applications, and the purpose of this chapter is to illustrate how to effectively implement more direct patterns of communication. This chapter uses two primary discussions to illustrate how to interact directly with BizTalk RFID throughout the enterprise. The first discussion centers on SQL Server Reporting Services, and making the BizTalk RFID SQL data accessible to external platforms and applications. The second discussion centers around calling BizTalk RFID from a SharePoint 2007 web part. By reading these discussions and working through the exercises, you will come to understand how to interact with BizTalk RFID across networks and platforms, and you should be able to apply this understanding to whatever distributed application model is needed.