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Feature List
Thomas F. Abraham edited this page Nov 8, 2017
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The Deployment Framework for BizTalk includes the following features:
- Support for BizTalk 2004 through 2016 (BizTalk 2004 is supported by v4.x, BizTalk 2006 and 2006 R2 are supported up to v5.5, BizTalk 2009 is supported up to v5.6)
- Automation of the entire BizTalk application deployment and updating processes
- Full and Quick application update modes to reduce development cycle time
- Detailed logging for informational and troubleshooting purposes
- Visual Studio add-in provides menu and output window integration and IntelliSense
- Support for deployment of various BizTalk artifacts including:
- Messaging bindings
- Orchestrations
- Schemas
- Maps
- Pipelines
- Custom components (DLL’s)
- Custom pipeline components
- Custom functoids
- Rules and vocabularies
- IIS virtual directories
- Single Sign-On (SSO) applications
- BAM activities and views
- ESB Toolkit 2.x itineraries
- Configuration settings infrastructure including user-friendly settings management spreadsheet and .NET object for settings access at runtime
- SSO Settings Editor GUI for viewing and editing settings stored in SSO on the fly
- Custom ESB Toolkit 2.x SSO Resolver that pulls settings data from SSO at runtime (settings data is centrally stored in settings mgmt. spreadsheet)
- Templated bindings file that automatically targets multiple runtime environments
- Enables use of un-encoded XML for easy maintenance of adapter and port configurations in binding files
- Single deployment script serves both development workstations and production servers
- Automated packaging of entire application into standard Windows Installer MSI file
- Support for side-by-side deployment of multiple versions of a single application
- Easily customizable installation wizard for server deployments
- Deployment verification via NUnit unit test tool
- Integrated deployment of Log4Net for runtime event logging
- Automated configuration of FILE adapter directories and security
- Automated configuration of BizTalk runtime settings including debugging features and .NET assembly-to-AppDomain mappings
- Automated restart of one or more BizTalk host instances and IIS services
- Automatic addition of cross-application references
- Automatic deployment of debugging PDB files to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
- Support for Windows x64
- Full source code
- Infinite extensibility through open-source license
Virtually all of these features may be selectively enabled or disabled, and easily customized to meet the particular requirements of your application.