Professional Biz Talk

This is a an excellent primer/reference on Biztalk Server 2000 for developers new/old to B2B and EAI. The examples they use in the book are consistent and realistic; the explanations clear and thorough.One of the things I liked the most about this book is that the authors were not afraid to pop the hood open and show you the gory guts of the engine inside (i.e. their section on writing your own functoids is very cool, as well as routing, custom parsing and serializing).If you already know Biztalk and have worked with it since it was in beta (like I have), you'll still find lots of valuable nuggets of information and "here's why they did it this way" explanations.enjoy it, I sure did.-jason chahin, co-author "COM/DCOM Unleashed"

There are few books that I've had my hands in the last 30 years of computing that cover their appointed role as clearly, to-the-point, as indepth, and accurately as Professional BizTalk.Stephen and Scott have really assembled a superb collection of wisdom about this bold new product from Microsoft. It provides me counless examples but importanly explains in detail the intimidating teminology associated with BizTalk Server 2000 and the EAI/EDI industry in general.GREAT BOOK!

This book is very informative, and complete on most core and advanced features offered by Biztalk. The sample codes work, and provide a very good guide to start on your own.The contents may not be very well organized, that's the only weakness I can think of. but, you really want this book for its information. By the way, currently that's the only Biztalk book that cover Orchestration.

unlike other books that has Biztalk in their titles, this one actually talks about implementation of biztalk. I actually went to the Microsoft Training which was hosted by Scott Woodgate(one of the authors of the book), The book covers a lot of stuff taught in that training session. It is a good reference book on biztalk.

Finally, Wrox's complete BizTalk book. As complete as the product itself, nothing less! This book will take you, as either a developer or an administrator (or both!), through all facets that makes a successfull BizTalk Server installation.As with previous Stephen book, this one takes a case-study through most of the book and complement it with the new features or the chapter. You will learn to leverage each of those functionality in order to achieve our case-study project. Also usual, this book contains a lot of very technical knowledge, knowledge found deeply inside the BizTalk server with a big touch of experience, all given to the readers in this book!