- Using BizTalk Server 2006, you are able to publish an entire orchestration or a schema as a web service
In order to cosume a web service you need to:
- Call a web service from an orchestration
- Use the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) to access service information
- Specify if it will be a request-only (one-way) or a request-response (two-way) comsumption
- Add a web reference
- Create a web port
- Create needed message variables
- Construct a web message
- Add send and receive shapes
Message Variables:
- Used to store information sent and received by a web service
- By using a web service, the orchestration never deals with the actual schema but rather message instances
- Needed to construct a message whenever you introduce a message to the orchestration
Web message:
- Can be either simple or complex .NET types
Send and Receive shapes:
- Are used to send and receive requests to/from a web service
- Are created using the Ochestration Designer
- Are linked to a web port
